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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

Nano Engineering & Nanotechnology

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

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 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

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

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

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

Civil, Structural & Macro-Scale Systems

Advanced materials in infrastructure, and the durability question that decides whether they belong there.

Scale 10^-6 m to 10^3 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

Mechanical, Robotics & Multi-Scale Systems

What this division builds, who builds it, and the rule that a simulated part is never described as a tested one.

Scale 10^-9 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. + 4 more

Mechanical, Robotics & Multi-Scale Systems

The chain from nanoscale property to macroscopic performance, and where each link weakens.

Scale 10^-9 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

Civil, Structural & Macro-Scale Systems

The division's technical direction and the hardest problems in resilient large-scale systems.

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

Mechanical, Robotics & Multi-Scale Systems

The department's hardest problems in carrying behaviour across scales.

Scale 10^-9 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. + 4 more

Mechanical, Robotics & Multi-Scale Systems

Several mechanical programmes at once, and the analysis standard applied across them.

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. + 4 more

Civil, Structural & Macro-Scale Systems

Several structural programmes at once, and the checking discipline applied across them.

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

Instrumented structures: what to measure, where, and what the measurement is worth.

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

Civil, Structural & Macro-Scale Systems

Real sensor data from a structure analysed, including what the sensor placement cannot detect.

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

A structural analysis carried out and independently cross-checked by a second method.

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

Whole structural systems and their load paths, including the abnormal cases.

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

Computer Science, AI & Scientific Computing

Making the department's workloads run at scale, with measured scaling curves rather than claims.

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. + 9 more

Computer Science, AI & Scientific Computing

Parallelising one real workload and reporting the measured speed-up and where it stopped scaling.

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

Mechanical, Robotics & Multi-Scale Systems

Designs that get made: manufacturable, tolerated, and analysed against a written specification.

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. + 4 more

Mechanical, Robotics & Multi-Scale Systems

One mechanical analysis carried out with a mesh convergence study and an analytic cross-check.

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. + 4 more

Mechanical, Robotics & Multi-Scale Systems

Carrying one material property from the scale it is measured at up to a system-level prediction.

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^0 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. + 4 more

Semiconductors, Electronics & Micro/Nano Systems

Optical and photonic components, designed and characterised against an optical budget.

Scale 10^-6 m to 10^-3 m

Can derive or explain the current-voltage characteristic of a diode or a MOSFET from device physics. · Has simulated a circuit in SPICE and compared the result against a hand calculation. · Semiconductor physics: carriers, doping, band structure, junctions. · Can read a datasheet and identify the conditions a specification was measured under. + 7 more