The new £32m+ Institute for Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering (AME) took another major step forward this week, when the final part of the roof was put into place at its dedicated manufacturing hub in the West Midlands.
Director Carl Perrin joined Coventry University graduates, who trialled a project designed on the AME experience, to mark the next stage of construction and reaffirmed his commitment to ensuring a new higher education model for manufacturing degrees.
The Chartered Engineer believes the UKs first Faculty on the Factory Floor has the potential to revolutionise STEM education by utilising closer links between academia and industry and allowing students to apply their learning direct to live manufacturing projects.
The first cohort of 30 undergraduate and postgraduate students will arrive later this year and benefit from a unique blend of innovative Activity-led learning in core engineering skills and product development.
They will also have access to R&D projects focused on delivering the next generation of powertrain technologies for aerospace, automotive, energy, oil & gas and rail.