On the 23 January 2025, UK Research and Innovation announced six new engineering networks to address the challenges identified in the 2022 Tomorrows Engineering Research Challenges (TERC) report
(https://www.ukri.org/publications/tomorrows-engineering-research-challenges/
We are delighted to share that our Professor Trevor Robinson will be leading the “The digital design network plus: designing faster and better with less (D2N+)” Team, working on exploiting digital design technologies to help UK engineering transition to net zero faster.
Trevor will be working closely with Ben Hicks and James Gopsill, University of Bristol; Ashutosh Tiwari and Yuri Mejia, The University of Sheffield and Anja Maier and Andrew Wodehouse, University of Strathclyde, and colleagues from QUB including the RIED PI Professor Mark Price who, through his EPSRC Fellowship in Engineering Design (DECIDE for Net Zero), who will play an important role in the core team and Lynda Mahon who will manage the network. The D2N+ Team will create an active digital design community that will define, set and prioritise key engineering design challenges and viable solution pathways that will exploit digital design technologies and help UK engineering transition to net zero faster. It will ensure industrial engineering design processes fully adopt and leverage emerging capabilities, such as generative design tools, to create faster, better and more environmentally-friendly systems.
This is great news as we are confident that this will build on the work underway now on RIED.
You can view the full announcement via Tackling tomorrow’s engineering research challenges – UKRI
Congratulations Trevor !