Nottingham Based Machine Learning and A.I. Business – Cognitive - Partners with Nottingham Trent University to Shape Physics Degree That Supports Work Skills and Helps Secure Employment
One of the UK’s leading machine learning and applied A.I. Innovators specialising in the energy sector – Nottingham based Cognitive Business – has partnered with Nottingham Trent University to shape a new Physics degree that will support real work skills and helps students move into jobs.
The business which was formed in 2018 by Nottingham Trent University Alumni and Physics graduate, Ty Burridge Oakland has – in five years – established itself as an industry leader in machine learning and applied A.I, developing a wide range of decision support, performance monitoring, and predictive maintenance solutions for a broad range of energy operations and maintenance applications.
The Cognitive Team will be working with the University to shape a new Physics degree that will start next year, and which will find space amongst some of the more traditional physics content for more project management and work-based learning.
Speaking about the partnership, Ed Breeds, Undergraduate Course Manager of Physics at Nottingham Trent University said: “We are very excited about our partnership with Cognitive Business. All Nottingham Trent University Alumni and physics graduates, the team has an excellent reputation for delivering highly specialised big data projects across the energy sector and is particularly recognised for its innovation, driving products and solutions that meet market need.
“Physics needs to lean more into this innovation, creativity and open thinking and to do that we need to shape degrees where students learn to adapt to and assess the marketplace, proposing, developing and project managing solutions that solve problems and where time spent working in businesses forms an integral part of this.”
With part of the new degree described as a ‘Dragon’s Den’ type programme, students will be required to form a mock business and devise a product designed to plug a specific gap in the market. As part of this module, students will spend 80 hours over a year - including one day per week spent working with an employer – building these skills, and will benefit from industry expertise and input on their specific project. Projects will culminate in a mini conference where students across the degree programme will be required to present their project outputs and potentially launch these as new business ventures.
As well as helping shape the degree content, Cognitive Business will be the main employer providing students with the one day per week work-based experience. The business is already heavily involved with the University sitting on the Industrial Laision Committee which specialises in providing students with the required skills to move into jobs.
Speaking about Cognitive’s involvement in shaping the course and providing the work-based learning element, Ty said: “Physics is inherently a creative subject, and we need to make sure courses provide students with the very best opportunities to learn the skills demanded by the workplace, designing and proposing solutions outside the box and which reflect what the marketplace requires.
“We are excited about shaping the content of this new degree and being the employer who provides the industry expertise to support students into the workplace.”
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