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Computer Science, AI & Scientific Computing

What this division builds for the others, who builds it, and the rule that no model ships without its baseline.

Scale 10^-100 m to 10^100 m

Fluent in Python, and able to write code somebody else can read, test and extend. · Data structures and algorithms to the level of choosing correctly and justifying the choice. · Comfortable on Linux, and with Git as a working tool rather than a save button. · Has written tests for numerical code and can explain what a tolerance in a test means. + 6 more

Aerospace, Space & Extreme Environment Engineering

Aerospace systems analysed and designed against requirements with traceable margins.

Scale 10^3 m to 10^13 m

Orbital mechanics: can propagate a two-body orbit and explain what perturbs it. · Has run an engineering analysis for a system with mass, power and thermal constraints that trade against each other. · Understands the space environment: vacuum, radiation, thermal cycling, and what each does to hardware. · Python for mission and systems analysis. + 4 more

Aerospace, Space & Extreme Environment Engineering

How one material behaves under an extreme-environment exposure, and what the data does not cover.

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^0 m

Orbital mechanics: can propagate a two-body orbit and explain what perturbs it. · Has run an engineering analysis for a system with mass, power and thermal constraints that trade against each other. · Understands the space environment: vacuum, radiation, thermal cycling, and what each does to hardware. · Python for mission and systems analysis. + 4 more

Aerospace, Space & Extreme Environment Engineering

Orbits, constellations and the operational consequences of each design choice.

Scale 10^6 m to 10^9 m

Orbital mechanics: can propagate a two-body orbit and explain what perturbs it. · Has run an engineering analysis for a system with mass, power and thermal constraints that trade against each other. · Understands the space environment: vacuum, radiation, thermal cycling, and what each does to hardware. · Python for mission and systems analysis. + 6 more

Aerospace, Space & Extreme Environment Engineering

The division's technical direction and its hardest system-level problems.

Scale 10^3 m to 10^13 m

Orbital mechanics: can propagate a two-body orbit and explain what perturbs it. · Has run an engineering analysis for a system with mass, power and thermal constraints that trade against each other. · Understands the space environment: vacuum, radiation, thermal cycling, and what each does to hardware. · Python for mission and systems analysis. + 4 more

Aerospace, Space & Extreme Environment Engineering

Several aerospace programmes at once, and the margin discipline applied across them.

Scale 10^3 m to 10^13 m

Orbital mechanics: can propagate a two-body orbit and explain what perturbs it. · Has run an engineering analysis for a system with mass, power and thermal constraints that trade against each other. · Understands the space environment: vacuum, radiation, thermal cycling, and what each does to hardware. · Python for mission and systems analysis. + 4 more

Aerospace, Space & Extreme Environment Engineering

What this division works on, who works on it, and the rule that maturity is stated in every outward claim.

Scale 10^3 m to 10^13 m

Orbital mechanics: can propagate a two-body orbit and explain what perturbs it. · Has run an engineering analysis for a system with mass, power and thermal constraints that trade against each other. · Understands the space environment: vacuum, radiation, thermal cycling, and what each does to hardware. · Python for mission and systems analysis. + 4 more

Aerospace, Space & Extreme Environment Engineering

Materials for vacuum, radiation and thermal cycling, and the qualification evidence they would need.

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^0 m

Orbital mechanics: can propagate a two-body orbit and explain what perturbs it. · Has run an engineering analysis for a system with mass, power and thermal constraints that trade against each other. · Understands the space environment: vacuum, radiation, thermal cycling, and what each does to hardware. · Python for mission and systems analysis. + 4 more

Aerospace, Space & Extreme Environment Engineering

Robotic systems for environments where nobody can intervene, and the autonomy that requires.

Scale 10^0 m to 10^3 m

Orbital mechanics: can propagate a two-body orbit and explain what perturbs it. · Has run an engineering analysis for a system with mass, power and thermal constraints that trade against each other. · Understands the space environment: vacuum, radiation, thermal cycling, and what each does to hardware. · Python for mission and systems analysis. + 6 more

Aerospace, Space & Extreme Environment Engineering

Whole spacecraft systems: budgets, interfaces, and the subsystem that ends up driving everything.

Scale 10^3 m to 10^13 m

Orbital mechanics: can propagate a two-body orbit and explain what perturbs it. · Has run an engineering analysis for a system with mass, power and thermal constraints that trade against each other. · Understands the space environment: vacuum, radiation, thermal cycling, and what each does to hardware. · Python for mission and systems analysis. + 5 more

Mechanical, Robotics & Multi-Scale Systems

Turning a design into a repeatable process, and reporting the yield that process actually achieves.

Scale 10^-3 m to 10^3 m

Can draw a free-body diagram for a real assembly and derive its governing equations. · Solid mechanics: stress, strain, failure criteria, and which criterion applies to which material. · Has run a finite element analysis and carried out a mesh convergence study on it. · CAD to the level of producing a manufacturable part, not just a picture. + 5 more

Aerospace, Space & Extreme Environment Engineering

One aerospace analysis carried out under real constraints that trade against each other.

Scale 10^3 m to 10^13 m

Orbital mechanics: can propagate a two-body orbit and explain what perturbs it. · Has run an engineering analysis for a system with mass, power and thermal constraints that trade against each other. · Understands the space environment: vacuum, radiation, thermal cycling, and what each does to hardware. · Python for mission and systems analysis. + 4 more

Energy, Environment & Climate Materials

Cells and their real behaviour over life, including the failure mode that ends them.

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^6 m

Can relate an electrochemical measurement to the underlying process, and say what the measurement cannot distinguish. · Thermodynamics to the level of an energy balance over a real system. · Has analysed cycling or performance data and reported degradation rather than a best cycle. · Python for analysis of experimental or simulated energy data. + 5 more

Energy, Environment & Climate Materials

Cycling data analysed for degradation, reporting the trend rather than the best cycle.

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^6 m

Can relate an electrochemical measurement to the underlying process, and say what the measurement cannot distinguish. · Thermodynamics to the level of an energy balance over a real system. · Has analysed cycling or performance data and reported degradation rather than a best cycle. · Python for analysis of experimental or simulated energy data. + 4 more

Energy, Environment & Climate Materials

Catalysts modelled and assessed, including deactivation rather than initial activity alone.

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^6 m

Can relate an electrochemical measurement to the underlying process, and say what the measurement cannot distinguish. · Thermodynamics to the level of an energy balance over a real system. · Has analysed cycling or performance data and reported degradation rather than a best cycle. · Python for analysis of experimental or simulated energy data. + 6 more

Civil, Structural & Macro-Scale Systems

One infrastructure system modelled, with the hazard it is being assessed against stated up front.

Scale 10^0 m to 10^6 m

Can analyse a statically indeterminate structure and check the result by an independent method. · Structural analysis: load paths, limit states, and why a code has both. · Has run a structural finite element model and validated it against hand calculation. · Construction materials: concrete, steel, and the time-dependent behaviour of each. + 4 more

Civil, Structural & Macro-Scale Systems

Infrastructure against stated climate hazards, with the hazard model and its uncertainty named.

Scale 10^0 m to 10^6 m

Can analyse a statically indeterminate structure and check the result by an independent method. · Structural analysis: load paths, limit states, and why a code has both. · Has run a structural finite element model and validated it against hand calculation. · Construction materials: concrete, steel, and the time-dependent behaviour of each. + 5 more

Energy, Environment & Climate Materials

A material for a climate application assessed against a stated environmental requirement.

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^6 m

Can relate an electrochemical measurement to the underlying process, and say what the measurement cannot distinguish. · Thermodynamics to the level of an energy balance over a real system. · Has analysed cycling or performance data and reported degradation rather than a best cycle. · Python for analysis of experimental or simulated energy data. + 4 more

Civil, Structural & Macro-Scale Systems

Structural and system models at infrastructure scale, with their validation evidence.

Scale 10^0 m to 10^6 m

Can analyse a statically indeterminate structure and check the result by an independent method. · Structural analysis: load paths, limit states, and why a code has both. · Has run a structural finite element model and validated it against hand calculation. · Construction materials: concrete, steel, and the time-dependent behaviour of each. + 4 more

Energy, Environment & Climate Materials

The modelling the division's energy claims rest on, and the honest accounting of losses.

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^6 m

Can relate an electrochemical measurement to the underlying process, and say what the measurement cannot distinguish. · Thermodynamics to the level of an energy balance over a real system. · Has analysed cycling or performance data and reported degradation rather than a best cycle. · Python for analysis of experimental or simulated energy data. + 4 more

Energy, Environment & Climate Materials

What this division works on, who works on it, and the rule that a laboratory result is not a deployable technology.

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^6 m

Can relate an electrochemical measurement to the underlying process, and say what the measurement cannot distinguish. · Thermodynamics to the level of an energy balance over a real system. · Has analysed cycling or performance data and reported degradation rather than a best cycle. · Python for analysis of experimental or simulated energy data. + 4 more

Energy, Environment & Climate Materials

Materials for energy applications, developed against a requirement and reported with conditions.

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^6 m

Can relate an electrochemical measurement to the underlying process, and say what the measurement cannot distinguish. · Thermodynamics to the level of an energy balance over a real system. · Has analysed cycling or performance data and reported degradation rather than a best cycle. · Python for analysis of experimental or simulated energy data. + 4 more

Energy, Environment & Climate Materials

One energy material or system analysed with its performance conditions stated throughout.

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^6 m

Can relate an electrochemical measurement to the underlying process, and say what the measurement cannot distinguish. · Thermodynamics to the level of an energy balance over a real system. · Has analysed cycling or performance data and reported degradation rather than a best cycle. · Python for analysis of experimental or simulated energy data. + 4 more

Civil, Structural & Macro-Scale Systems

What this division works on, who works on it, and the rule about where research stops and licensed design begins.

Scale 10^0 m to 10^6 m

Can analyse a statically indeterminate structure and check the result by an independent method. · Structural analysis: load paths, limit states, and why a code has both. · Has run a structural finite element model and validated it against hand calculation. · Construction materials: concrete, steel, and the time-dependent behaviour of each. + 4 more