Overview
At a landmark event this June, the Royal Aeronautical Society will introduce The Brunel Challenge, how it can act as a catalyst for change, and how it will help define what The Future Aerospace Engineer will look like.
Why is the Society holding this event?
The application of the new technologies embraced in the Fourth Industrial Revolution will have a major impact on the aerospace sector. We will face increasing product complexity that will render impossible the current approach of extensive physical testing: it will simply become unaffordable. Rather, we will need to adopt digital product development. Equally, artificial intelligence, robotics and machine learning will transform the production process. Unless we embrace this new approach, advanced manufacturing in the UK will lose its competitiveness. To retain a competitive edge, advanced engineering business must transform. Nations that foster these new capabilities and support this transformation will attract investment from high-value global businesses.
The UK has the perfect blend of capabilities, not least in our extensive array of high-grade SMEs, to become a global centre of excellence and lead the transformation of engineering. But other nations are creeping ahead of us in the race. As part of accelerating this challenge, we need to understand how the role of the aerospace engineer of the future will change.
What is the Brunel Challenge?
The Brunel Challenge is a national, cross-sector initiative formulated to seek Government support under the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund for a collaborative programme with industry to deliver transformational change in UK engineering capabilities. It embraces a range of industry sectors, not just aerospace and thus aims to maximise collaboration, harness innovation and generate inspiration to create resilient, world-leading engineering capabilities in the UK’s advanced manufacturing industries.
Why should you attend this event?
The Conference participants will gain an understanding of how engineering will change in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. We will then collaborate in generating understanding over these key questions:
- What a future engineer’s career path would look like?
- How future engineering will attract young talent?
- What does this represent as the challenge for educational and professional qualification?
As such, this conference is aimed at a wide range of participants but will be of particular value to Engineering Managers, HR Specialists, Secondary School Teachers, University Academics, Government Officials involved in the advancement of STEM skills and Business Leaders from across the manufacturing sectors. In short, this is a national problem for which we have to find a national solution and we all have a part to play.
How to book:
Places are only £35+VAT, to register your place please visit http://bit.ly/2LPTk8Y