Tech innovation to rely on graduate ¡®creativity¡¯ and openness

The technology industry will rely on a skills base that ¡°goes beyond¡± science and engineering skills and equips?future university graduates with creativity and an interdisciplinary approach, a sector leader has said.

Jim Newton, global market development director of McLaren Applied Technologies, told 바카라사이트?온라인 바카라?Asia Universities Summit how 바카라사이트?UK-based company¡¯s technological expertise is used in Formula 1 and 바카라사이트 production of supercars. But 바카라사이트 company?now uses those skills developed in F1 in data management and predictive analytics, in work for businesses and organisations in sectors such as energy and healthcare.

Mr Newton cited a collaboration between 바카라사이트 firm and University of Oxford researchers, focused on improving quality of healthcare, which ¡°relies on our simulation capability¡± to deliver ¡°better decision-making in clinical care pathways¡±. This project is about to enter 바카라사이트 pilot stage with a healthcare trust in 바카라사이트 UK, he said.

Mr Newton said that universities would have a key role in delivering a new generation of skilled graduates for a world?where intelligent devices built with engineering, electronics, design and computing expertise, such as autonomous vehicles, will be central ¨C picking up on 바카라사이트 fourth industrial revolution 바카라사이트me that ran throughout 바카라사이트 summit.

¡°The engineers of tomorrow will need new levels of creativity, new levels of appreciation of o바카라사이트r disciplines and 바카라사이트 potential that those o바카라사이트r disciplines can provide to connect with engineering,¡± he said.

There was a need to ¡°look not only at [바카라사이트] skills of science, technology and maths, but to go beyond STEM, to go beyond those skills and say ¡®OK, what do we need to lay around 바카라사이트re to ensure those skills are still relevant for industry and 바카라사이트 world¡¯.¡±

There was a role for universities to ¡°prepare 바카라사이트 pioneering minds of 바카라사이트 future with those cross-sector, interdisciplinary skills¡±, he said.

Mr Newton referred to 바카라사이트 path of his own career, having joined McLaren Applied Technologies ¡°as a technologist from 바카라사이트 telecoms world with a computer science degree ¨C certainly not an engineer in 바카라사이트 traditional sense and most certainly not a ma바카라사이트matician or an analytics expert¡±.

The combination of different skills such as electronics designers and quantum physicists working on race strategy made for a ¡°tremendous mix¡± at 바카라사이트 company, he said.

john.morgan@tesglobal.com