Research Assistant - Glasgow, United Kingdom - University of Strathclyde

University of Strathclyde

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Glasgow, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Salary range:
£31,396 - £34,980 per annum

FTE: 1

Term:
Fixed (to February 2025)

Closing Date: 10 September 2023

The new Made Smarter Research Centre for Smart, Collaborative Industrial Robotics is a national new digital manufacturing research centre funded by UKRI.

The Robotics and Autonomous System (RAS) Laboratory in the department of Design, Manufacturing and Engineering Management of Strathclyde is one of the six academic partners of the centre led by Loughborough University.

The RAS lab offers three Research Associate posts and this post focus on Software Engineering for design and simulation to meet the challenging manufacturing automation requirements of multiple industrial sectors.

You will join our project as a key researcher and work along with a team of researchers and PhD students to design next generation smart manufacturing factory solutions, working in collaboration with other academic institutions and many industrial companies from multiple sectors.

You will develop frontier research ideas in ensuring the design solutions to smart manufacturing factory systems comply with functional and legal requirements and implement these ideas in collaborating industrial partner's manufacturing sites or at the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland, hosted at the University of Strathclyde.

The post involves implementing a functional and legal framework for smart manufacturing system architectures, new approaches to configuring and reconfiguring manufacturing systems involving collaborative robotics for new tasks, feasibility study and demonstrator implementation, coordination and integration developed by a research team, and final prototype system testing and delivery.

As a Research Assistant, under the general guidance of the Director of the RAS Group, you will develop research objectives of the centre, play a development role in relation to design studio for smart human robot collaboration design for the centre projects, conduct individual and/or collaborative research, contribute to the development of new research methods and implementation, identify sources of funding, and contribute to the securing of funds for research.

You will write up research work for publication, individually or in collaboration with colleagues, and disseminate the results via peer reviewed journal publications and presentation at conferences.

You will join external networks to share information and ideas, inform the development of research objectives and to identify potential sources of funding.

You will collaborate with colleagues to ensure that research advances inform teaching effort and you will collaborate with colleagues on the development of knowledge exchange activities.

You will supervise student projects, provide advice to students and contribute to teaching as required by. You will engage in continuous professional development.

To be considered for the role, you will be educated to a minimum of Master level in either software engineering, artificial intelligence, engineering design or Laws for new technologies, including Automation, Robotics or relevant engineering discipline, preferably have significant relevant experience.

You will have sufficient breadth or depth of knowledge in design and simulation, e.g.

design for manufacturing automation, leading to design for legality for smart factory design, manufacturing automation, systems, to disseminate results and to prepare research proposals.

You will have an ability to plan and organise your own workload effectively and work within a team environment.

You will have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to listen, engage and persuade, and to present complex information in an accessible way to a range of audiences.

Research Assistant

Department:
Design, Manufacture and Engineering Management

Posted:09/08/2023

Closing date:10/09/2023

Closing time:23:59