Application is now open for the Boeing – UQ Research Alliance PhD Scholarships at the University of Queensland. Interested candidates are encouraged to send in their applications before the deadline date.
About the University of Queensland and Scholarship
The University of Queensland was the first university in the state and was formally founded on April 16, 1910, with the gazette of nominations to the first UQ Senate. It was launched by a 1909 Act of the State Parliament.
PhD applicants with an interest in AI, computer vision, or robotics are needed for a cutting-edge Boeing Defense aerospace project. This is a chance to collaborate with UQ and Boeing supervisors in a cutting-edge Ph.D. program at a top research university on research that will influence the business world. This Research Alliance program provides students with a large financial package as well as an advisory committee made up of UQ and Boeing Supervisors.
The largest aerospace corporation in the world, Boeing produces commercial aircraft as well as defense, space, and security equipment. If you have a passion for contemporary aviation and spacecraft and are motivated to create the next wave of such machines, you might want to think about joining them.
Join the team that is advancing Boeing Australia’s collaboration with the Queensland Government to establish a new aerospace capability and advanced manufacturing in Queensland.
Following the partnership’s announcement in October 2020, Queensland could end up serving as the main location for the MQ-28A Ghost Bat final assembly. The first military combat aircraft to be designed, developed, and manufactured in Australia in 50 years is one of the most exciting aircraft projects in modern Australian aerospace history. Imagine your PhD work assisting in these initiatives.
For genuinely exceptional individuals, The University of Queensland (UQ) is offering three fully funded Ph.D. Scholarships to collaborate on a project with Boeing Defence Australia. The goal of this PhD thesis is to examine task distribution for humans and robots.
Working title: Design for AI and Human/Robotics Task allocation
Project 1
This subject encompasses the real-time, immediate, ongoing, cumulative evaluation of ergonomics throughout the engineering lifecycle through three potential stages of advancement: 1) Making use of the digital thread, the evaluation will involve looping actual manufacturing results into AI-enhanced design rules, tools, and models; 2) The methods of capturing live data will also be developed and evaluated as an integrated system, including remote and operator-integrated (clothing, belts, exoskeletons, etc.) sensors; and 3) the system will enable and perform design and activity update recommendations in a real-time and model-based manner.
Advisory Team
The members of your advisory group may include:
Professor Pauline Pounds (The University of Queensland), and Dr Phillip Crothers (Boeing).
About you
These projects are appropriate for those who are interested in academic or industrial-based research in the fields of artificial intelligence, computer sciences, digital twins, virtual world modeling, software, and system engineering for creating synthetic data, mechatronics, model-based systems engineering, robotics, or other relevant areas.
Project 2
This subject covers two separate technological facets that can work together to form a production control system. The first component (system A) focuses on the development of logistics, quality, safety, and production equipment/systems control utilizing a network of sensors, with computer vision acting as the capability’s pivot. The construction of a digital twin, coupled with techniques for creating synthetic data, real-time data input from production (system A), and future activity optimization planning, is the subject of the second element (system B).
Advisory Team
The members of your advisory group may include:
Professor Pauline Pound, Professor Brian Lovell (The University of Queensland), and Dr Phillip Crothers (Boeing).
About you
These projects are appropriate for those who are interested in academic or industrial-based research in the fields of artificial intelligence, computer sciences, digital twins, virtual world modeling, software, and system engineering for creating synthetic data, mechatronics, model-based systems engineering, robotics, or other relevant areas.
Project 3
The theoretical systems needed to enable precise, quick, and compliant pick and place of fiber-reinforced composite materials will be defined using AI methodologies in this area. The system will be able to take desired model-based engineering designs of composite parts and create the gripper, kinematic, and motion profiles to successfully, fully automate lay-up for complex curvatures, and/or make recommendations for design to improve robustness of operation by developing model characteristics for all individual components (grippers, fabrics/materials, kinematics). builds on reinforcement learning methods that have been successfully tested by BR&T-A. Multiple-stage forming (such as 2.5D forming, followed by fine-tuned automated forming to final shape) and the limitations of “universal” vs. “semi-dedicated” technologies will be studied.
Advisory Group
Members of your advisory group may include:
Professor Pauline Pound (The University of Queensland), and Dr Phillip Crothers (Boeing).
About you
These projects are appropriate for those who are interested in academic or industrial-based research in the fields of artificial intelligence, computer sciences, digital twins, virtual world modeling, software, and system engineering for creating synthetic data, mechatronics, model-based systems engineering, robotics, or other relevant areas.
Details about Boeing – UQ Research Alliance PhD Scholarships at the University of Queensland:
Scholarship Sponsor: Boeing Defence Australia/University of Queensland
Scholarship Value: Total $43,005 per annum (tax-free), full tuition fees, Boeing-funded travel expenses, and work experience program.
Number of awards: 3
Study level: Postgraduate
Host Institution(s): University of Queensland, Australia
Enrolment Status: Future UQ student
Eligibility Criteria for Boeing – UQ Research Alliance PhD Scholarships
Applicants are advised to meet the following conditions to be qualified for Boeing – UQ Research Alliance PhD Scholarships at the University of Queensland:
- To enroll in a UQ school or institution after being recommended by the advisory team
- Be evaluated as conditions for admission by the Graduate School for admission to the higher degree by research program and be eligible for financial aid.
- As part of the application process, receive security clearance from Boeing.
- Indigenous candidates are invited to submit their applications and may be qualified.
Note: They are devoted to diversity and equity. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals, as well as female candidates, are encouraged to apply. Indigenous candidates may qualify for the base living stipend rate of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research Scholarship.
Selection Criteria
Your application will be evaluated based on competition. The school will consider each applicant:
- prior academic record
- publication record
- honors and awards
- employment record
Application Process for Boeing – UQ Research Alliance PhD Scholarships
Interested and qualified candidates should apply for this scholarship when they apply for a higher degree in the research program at UQ.
Before you submit an application you should:
- check your eligibility
- prepare your documentation
Please ensure the following is included in the section on scholarships and group study when you apply:
- Select ‘My higher degree is not collaborative’
- Choose ‘I am applying for, or have been awarded a scholarship or sponsorship’.
- Choose ‘Boeing – UQ Research Alliance Ph.D. Scholarship’.
Rules
Read the terms and conditions for UQ Research Scholarships. If chosen, you will also need to sign a confidentiality and intellectual property agreement poll.
Information from your application is gathered for three reasons: to decide if you qualify for the scholarship, to choose the recipients of the award, and to administer the scholarship. The information you give Boeing will be disclosed by the University of Queensland for the specified goals. Please refer to the University’s Privacy Management Policy for further details.
The Submission Deadline is: 16 October 2023
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