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NMITE opens for business and inviting applications
The NMITE Academics Group look forward to welcoming the rst students
The New Model Institute for
Technology and Engineering
(NMITE) is now open for business
and is inviting applications to ll 50
places in its ‘Pioneer Cohort’ - who
will be the rst graduates of
NMITE’s Master’s Degree in
Integrated Engineering in just over
three years’ time.
Successful applicants will have
their academic fees and
accommodation costs covered in
full for their rst year thanks to a
host of funders who, with other
partners, have together provided a
PTC SIGNS IOT DEAL
Internet of Things (IoT) specialist
PTC has signed a deal with the
Materials Processing Institute to
play a crucial role in a £10m
project that will explore how
digital technologies can be
implemented in brown eld
manufacturing sites.
The Farnborough-based rm
will work with the North Eastbased
research and innovation
centre to implement its ThingWorx
Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
platform at three steel plants
across the region.
The institute will undertake
an initial pilot project using its
Normanton Steel Plant to assess
and improve the Industry 4.0
technology, before applying it to
production processes operated
by Liberty Steel Group’s
Hartlepool Pipes Mill and
Stocksbridge plant.
The IIoT capability will capture
and analyse data in real-time,
giving operators critical
information to be used to help
make changes to processes and
potentially save rms millions of
pounds every year.
David Grammer, general
manager for UK and Ireland at
PTC, said: “Digital technologies
are commonplace in new build,
modern factories, but
implementation in older plants in
more traditional sectors is a lot
more dif cult.
“This £10m digitisation
project with the Materials
Processing Institute is so
important for UK industry and we
are delighted that ThingWorx has
been chosen to help it execute a
critical element of the work.”
The two-year project is worth
£2m to the institute, is being
funded by Innovate UK, via its
Manufacturing Made Smarter
Challenge, part of the Industrial
Strategy Challenge Fund.
valuable contribution and investment
in NMITE’s future success. The news
comes as the institution has received
validation by The Open University
(OU) - which enables it to start
student recruitment.
NMITE exists to address the UK’s
shortage of work-ready graduate
engineers and will focus on an
integrated engineering programme to
train and nurture learners ready to
tackle global challenges - such as
sustainable food production, access
to safe water and clean energy -
which do not fall neatly into
traditional mechanical, electrical or
materials engineering boxes. NMITE
believes that engineering is an
exciting and varied career path, its
students will learn what an engineer
does and how she or he can make
life better and plans to develop
graduates who will make a positive
impact on quality of life, the
environment and industry.
Professor Elena Rodriguez-Falcon,
president and chief executive of
NMITE, said: “Thank you to everyone
who has played a part in getting us
to today including those who had the
inspirational vision and tenacity to
push forwards, all my colleagues,
funders and industry partners who
have shared this vision and
supported us.
“Our attention now turns to the
exciting task of inviting applications
and meeting prospective learners.
What 2020 has shown more than
ever is that we need more work-ready
engineers, and we are delighted that
NMITE will be playing a role in
educating engineers equipped to
tackle global challenges.”
The Marches Local Enterprise
Partnership has provided £10m
funding for NMITE to date.
Boom signs deal with Amazon for its supersonic aircraft
Boom Technololgy – an aviation
company bringing commercial
supersonic ight back to the skies
– has signed an agreement with
Amazon Web Services (AWS).
The company will leverage the
AWS cloud to provide it with the
virtually unlimited compute power,
storage, security, and
comprehensive set of services
that it will take to reinvent
supersonic commercial travel.
The company is designing the
rst supersonic airliner in
decades, called Overture, which
will roll-out in 2025 and y more
than 500 transoceanic routes in
half the time, taking passengers
from Tokyo to Seattle in
four and a half hours.
Since its inception,
Boom has leveraged
AWS’s portfolio of
services to accelerate
the design and
construction of its
aircraft, including XB-1
– the demonstrator
airplane for Overture.
“Boom is committed
Overture will take-off in 2025
to making supersonic ight
mainstream by leveraging
improvements in technology,
sustainability, and passenger
experience,” said Blake Scholl,
founder and CEO of Boom
Supersonic.
To support this development,
Boom is exploring how AWS IoT
and machine learning solutions
can be used inside the cabin to
reimagine the on-board experience
for both passengers and crew.
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