Industrial Doctorate Centre for Offshore Renewable Energy (IDCORE)

Reference Number

ETI-MA2003

Title

Industrial Doctorate Centre for Offshore Renewable Energy (IDCORE)

Status

Completed

Energy Categories

Renewable Energy Sources(Ocean Energy)
Renewable Energy Sources(Wind Energy)

Research Types

Basic and strategic applied research

Science and Technology Fields

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Civil Engineering)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering)
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES (Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences)

UKERC Cross Cutting Characterisation

Not Cross-cutting

Principal Investigator

Prof DM Ingram
Energy Systems
University of Edinburgh

Award Type

Standard

Funding Source

ETI

Start Date

01 July 2011

End Date

31 March 2020

Duration

105 months

Total Grant Value

£5,100,000

Industrial Sectors

Power

Region

Scotland

Programme

Offshore Wind

Investigators

Principal Investigator

Prof DM Ingram, Energy Systems, University of Edinburgh

Other Investigator

Project Contact, H R Wallingford Ltd
Project Contact, Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Strathclyde
Project Contact, Scottish Association For Marine Science
Project Contact, University of Exeter

Web Site

Objectives

linked to EPSRC Grant EP/J500847/1 (ETI 5.1M. EPSRC 1.5M)

An Industrial Doctorate Centre in renewable energy technologies, funded by the ETI and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), will take its first intake of students in January 2012. The Centre will train up to 50 students in the research and skills needed to accelerate the development of renewable energy technologies. Each will spend part of their training with the three universities in the consortium. The students will spend most of their training time in ETI Member companies, as part of the ETIs major project delivery teams, as well as in other renewable industry organisations. The students will each gain an internationally-leading engineering doctorate. The drive to meet the UKs ambitious deployment targets for offshore renewable energy technologies requires a steady supply of highly trained engineers, scientists and leaders. We anticipate that this new Industrial Doctorate Centre will contribute significantly to that requirement.

Abstract

The Industrial Doctorate Centre for Offshore Renewable Energy (IDCORE) trains research engineers whose work in conjunction with sponsoring companies aims to accelerate the deployment of offshore wind, wave and tidal-current technologies. This is to help meet the UK’s ambitious renewable energy targets. Students undertake a four year full time course including time with a sponsoring company working on “real world” applications and research initiatives to obtain their doctorates.

The centre is funded by the ETI and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

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