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Prof A Tiwari Applications accepted all year round Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Sheffield United Kingdom Electrical Engineering Electronic Engineering Software Engineering

Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield

About the Project

This project will focus on new digital approaches to improve the design and operations of factories.

These will support the technology developments and research projects carried out under the Airbus / Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) Research Chair in Digitisation for Manufacturing based at the University of Sheffield. This project theme will be undertaken in collaboration with Airbus UK and the internationally renowned University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) including the AMRC’s £43 million state-of-the-art ‘Factory 2050’ - the UK’s first fully reconfigurable assembly and component manufacturing research facility.

Funding Notes

This is a self-funded research project.
We require applicants to have either an undergraduate honours degree (1st) or MSc (Merit or Distinction) in a relevant science or engineering subject from a reputable institution.
Prospective candidates for this project should have excellent engineering and computational skills. It will be an advantage if the candidates have familiarity with sensor fusion, machine vision, and/or hardware/software integration.
Full details of how to apply can be found at the following link:
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/acse/research-degrees/applyphd
Applicants can apply for a Scholarship from the University of Sheffield but should note that competition for these Scholarships is highly competitive: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/postgraduate/phd/scholarships

Where will I study?

University of Sheffield

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