H.De Man/KULeuven/IMEC 1 TThe engineer of the 21 st century: a renaissance engineer? H.De Man...

H.De Man/KULeuven/IMEC1

TThe engineer of the 21st century:a renaissance engineer?

H.De ManEm.Prof. K.U.Leuven

Em. Senior Fellow [email protected]


Outline

1. The industry and the role of the Ph.D.

2. The 21st Century: a renaissance century?– Extreme changes in society-technology-science

3. The renaissance engineer of the 21st century– Profile– Skills and attitudes


1.‘The’ industry and role of engineer

Society

Market

Concept

ProductService=system

opportunity

Specify Design Manufacture

Technology, MethodologyBasic science

Social skills

What? How?

Sales

Time

Time =money, time to market = win or lose! Good enough > best

Bridge of innovation: knowledge -> know-how -> €€$$

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http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/24423/?mod=related


Many Engineering profiles…

Society

Marketopportunity

Concept SystemSpecify Design Manufacture

R&D. Eng

Market analyst

System Eng

Design Eng

one team

Process Eng

Service/application Eng

What? How?


System?

Natural Technical

“Set of interacting (sub)systems perceived as a whole, performing a useful function by interaction with human

or other environment.”

System System

Whole,Function

StructureArchitectureA-Levels

HierarchySynthesis

Abstract

Specific

Top-DownBottom-UpImplementation

MIM

Subsystem = component


Engineer ¹ Scientist!

Engineer Scientist

DesignsDiscovers

= analysisof

Natural Systems

Laws of NatureKnowledge

= synthesis of

Technical Systems

Product, Service,Process

CreativeMultiple Solutions

Contemplative Single valued


Synthesis: from abstract to specific (Top-down design)

Environment

System

Method to master complexity!

Boundary Conditions

1

2

3

1 2

3


Designing a Chip Designing a Bacterium

genoom DNA Design!

IN OUT

IN OUT

A remarkable parallel…

gaattcgcgg…10011000..

E-Engineer Bio-Engineer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Metabolism_790px_partly_labeled.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:4004_arch.svg


Organizing System Engineering

System Architect (senior)– Tall-Thin person, fought in all trenches, technical leadership– Generalist in technology, master in complexity and people

mgmt. & planning & system integration, non-tech comm. skills

Engineering teams (junior)– Short and Fat. Technical experts at AL. – Team and communication skills

Process design:– System level design: process architects– Process integration– Process engineering teams- > process flow, PERT planning – Communication and reporting protocol


Of projects,teams and testing

Project(Architecture)

Task at givenAbstraction level

Design trajectory#1 2 3 4

Vertical Design team (Waterfall)

ConcurrentDesign teams(ConcurrentEngineering)

SequentialDesign

Tv

T1

T2T3

Precedence 1 project, n teams Parallel teams

T1

T4

TEST

integrationtest

testtest test

CAE!


Industrial eco-system: also a system!

Ph.D. friendlySupport industry

CAE Parts

Materials

Design offices Research Institutes

Machines

Companies interact in a hierarchical ind. “eco-system”

Society

Market

Concept SystemSpecify Design Produce

What? How?

Outsourcing


Globalising Industrial Eco-systeem

SystemAssembly

CHIPfoundry

NetworkOperators

€€€

Internet Providers

InternetCommerce

SoftwareServices

Infotainment Industry

IP

Telecom Parts

Fabless Design

EmbeddedSoftware...

Consumer Products IP

Network of agile KNOWLEDGE intensive companies

Smart Fab. MechatronicsProcess Dev.

IP

IP=intellectual propertyTowards ‘open innovation’


virtual company 1

USB PRODUCT

=>Young entrepreneurship in virtual companies...

The industry of the 21st century = dynamic networkof knowledge based companies

that design and produce globally

agile Hi-Tech SME Core competence

ITCL

CHIPEXPRESS

INTEL

MICROSOFT

virtual company 2

Telecomswitch EASICSEASICS


Apple as a virtual global company

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPad-Wi-Fi-Teardown/2183/2

Samsung (Korea) ARM (UK) APSemi(US)TI (US)NXP (NL)Compeq (Taiwan)LG (Korea)Qualcomm (US-NL)Assembly/Battery (China)Touch screen(D, China)

System=Apple Calif.

AppsMediaLocationGamesWeatherLifestyle…WORLD

Ipad


Want to be a manager? Which one?

ProductMarket

Concept SystemSpecify Design Produce

timecost

CEO

Board of Directors

Share Holders

CTO

COO

CFOBDO HRM

Ph.D. Eng

CTOCOOCEOBDOCFOHRMCLO

Mgmteam

BOD

€

General assembly

Stock Market


Where does the Ph.D. fit into this?

• Profile best suited for research oriented companies and research institutes

a) Research intensity of Belgian companies?

b) Hi-tech start-ups for the entrepreneurially minded

c) Research institutes offer career or a bridge to the industrial (hi tech) R&D world


a) Research intensity per sector (B)

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Econ. Weight

R&D-SpendingR&D-Personnel

http://www.pharma.be/assets/files/2177/2177_129356773597856484.pdf

13

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456


10% Ind. R&D personnel = Ph.D.

10%

48%

26%

16%

Ph.D.

Master Univ.

Master Hogeschool

Technici-Admin

http://www.belspo.be/belspo/home/publ/pub_ostc/ind/ind9_nl.pdf

R&D teamleader = CTOSystem architectExpert team member


R&D share vs. size of company

SME Country!

R&D share


+10%-9%



R&D cluster 1: DSP Valley: next door!

http://www.dspvalley.com/

NXP


Eindhoven-Leuven-AachenHi-Tech Area

http://www.elat.org/

Open Innovation concept NIHhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_innovation


R&D Cluster 2: Leuven Bio-Incubator: innovation shift!

Roche CHAthersys USA

J&J, Bayer, BASF…

R&D

Univ

€

http://www.bio-incubator.be/en/residents/current-residents/cmpg-vib/

http://www.bio-incubator.be/en/residents/current-residents/formac-pharmaceuticals-/

http://www.bio-incubator.be/en/residents/current-residents/fugeia/

http://www.bio-incubator.be/en/residents/current-residents/regenesys/

http://www.bio-incubator.be/en/residents/current-residents/remynd/

http://www.bio-incubator.be/en/residents/current-residents/thrombogenics/

http://www.bio-incubator.be/en/residents/current-residents/cmpg-vib/

http://www.bio-incubator.be/en/residents/current-residents/formac-pharmaceuticals-/

http://www.bio-incubator.be/en/residents/current-residents/fugeia/

http://www.bio-incubator.be/en/residents/current-residents/regenesys/

http://www.bio-incubator.be/en/residents/current-residents/remynd/

http://www.bio-incubator.be/en/residents/current-residents/thrombogenics/


Flanders Bio Cluster3

http://flandersbio.be/files/Activity_Report_FlandersBio_LowRes.pdf

http://flandersbio.be/files/BIOTECH_WEB.pdf


b) Start your own Hi-Tech SME?

Do you have a good concept with market value?Are you creative, entrepreneurial, flexible? Then:

• International Market study

• Business plan

• Financial plan

• Search for venture capital provider(s)

• Team : CEO, (COO), CTO, marketing, R&D team

Make use of starter’s coaching!!!TEST YOURSELF! www.sokwadraat.be/Page-online_START_UP_ready_tes-NL.htm


Starter’s coaching

lrd.kuleuven.be/spinoff/index

ACCO 10€

www.sokwadraat.be/

… …http://www.robtv.be/nieuws/leuven/so-kwadraat-wil-10000-jobs-creeren

http://www.biorics.com/

http://www.aristomusic.be/

http://www.better3fruit.com/

http://www.ansem.com/

http://www.cartagenia.com/

http://www.easics.com/

http://www.eyetronics.com/

http://www.icsense.com/

http://www.lmsintl.com/

http://www.remynd.be/

http://www.silicos.be/


Venture Capital Providers

www.allegroinvestmentfund.com lrd.kuleuven.be/spinoff/gff-informatie


Test your creativity and innovation skills…

www.flandersdc.be/view/nl/1397131


c) Research Institutes (RI)• Bridge between university and industry (worldwide)• From knowledge->know-how and transfer to industry• System oriented/multidisciplinary (demonstrators!)• Creation of industrial leadership (system thinking) • Generator, incubator and coaching of spin-offs

IMEC (micro-nano-neuro-solar energy tech)VIB (bio-tech)VITO (energy, environment)IBBT (societal apps for broadband communication)ENERGYVILLE (smart grids)FMTC (mechatronics)SCK (nuclear tech, 4th gen nuclear)


Universities

Role of research institutes…

Industry

System levelIntegrative R&D

Exploratory Research

0

5

10

Time Fram

e (years)

2010

2020

Ph.D

Society

Transfer-Spin-off

R&D teams

Demonstrators

Integrating research into solutions…


RI: Meeting place of academy and industry

professor Ph.D.M.Sc

AffiliatedUniversities

AffiliatedCompanies Thematic ‘vertical’

system projects

Start-ups

ValorisationCoachingContracting

ind. resident IP

investments

Ph.D.ind. M.Sc

Methods, prototypes, IPFundamental hor. problems

Ph.D, academia

Research Institute

L.T. M.L.T.


Websites

IMEC: www2.imec.be/be_nl/home.htmlVITO : www.vito.be/VITO/NL/HomePageAdmin/HomeVIB: www.vib.be/nl/Pages/default.aspxIBBT: http://www.ibbt.be/nlENERGYVILLE: www.energyville.be/indexeng.htmlFMTC: www.fmtc.be/en/getpage.php?i=1SCK: www.sckcen.be/

http://www2.imec.be/be_nl/home.html

http://www.vito.be/VITO/NL/HomePageAdmin/Home

http://www.vib.be/nl/Pages/default.aspx

http://www.ibbt.be/nl

http://www.energyville.be/indexeng.html

http://www.fmtc.be/en/getpage.php?i=1

http://www.sckcen.be/


Outline





A century of ‘Megashocks’

See: Econoshock, Geert Noels, Hautekiet ‘Hoe 6 economische schokken uw leven

fundamenteel zullen veranderen’

• Demography: towards 9B in 2050, aging of society• Center of gravity moves east (multipolar world)• ICT driven globalisation, social media, revolutions• End of fossil fuels, scarsity of raw materials• Towards ‘post-capitalist’ society?*• Towards a green economy

Simultaneous Megashocks…

*www.tedxbrussels.eu/2011/speakers/marc-luyckx-ghisi/


PersonalisedServices, products Lifestyle Health Care

ComputerChips, DNA, tech at nano-scale

21 Information+

Communication(ICT)

+

Bio-Neuro-en Nanotech

III BrainsKnowledge

IV

Technological Shocks

Labour

Capital

Fossil Fuel EnergyMachines

Electrical EnergyManufacturing

Mat. GoodsCars, Planes

20Century Technology Production factor Product

I

II

Sustainability !


Science and Technologyare merging into Techno-Science!

1800 1900 2000

Phys.Sc.Th

At

QuLife

Sciences

Scale Macro Micro

Technology

Energy Mfg. Goods Information

Era Science

MEl

NeuroScience

Intelligent systems?

+Bio+Nano+Energy

ConvergenceIntelligenceComplexity

Techno-Science

Nano


=> Converging Technologies

‘Creativity is connecting things’ Steve JobsVan Santen et al.: 2030 Technology that will change the world (Oxford)http://ec.europa.eu/research/conferences/2004/ntw/pdf/final_report_en.pdf

Innovation will emerge from synergyof techno-science disciplines rather than from

individual disciplines e.g.

Ambient IntelligenceMechatronics / Nanoelectronics /NanomaterialsSmart MobilitySmart Grids + PVSynthetic biology Nano-medicinePersonalized (tele)medicine…


Ambient Intelligence

HARDWARE

“Embedded” SOFTWARE

A/D D/A

Components Sensors Actuators

Machine, Building Biosystem, Man, Animal…observation control

p,T,x’’...

v(t)

“Environment”

Signal Processing

0110101..

SignalConditioning

transmission

ActuatorPowering

ICT-Cw-Bio-Nano-Intelligence


AmI changes the way peopleexperiences his surroundings

Requires holistic approach:Society driven technology i.o.tech driven society.(social innovation)

Renaissance ingenieurs needed!

Bron: E. Aarts, Philips

Impacts whole society


Mechatronics

http://www.edn.com/article/509476-Complexity_demands_a_new_engineering_mindset.php

Ambient Intelligence applied to mech systems

http://www.edn.com/article/509476-Complexity_demands_a_new_engineering_mindset.php


Smart Grid: El.Net + ICTEnergyville (Waterschei EIT)

Bron: VITO

VITOKULIBBTIMECEandisInfraxSPETelenetBelgacomAlcatelLaborelecFifthplay…

Nuclear Gas

Solar Roofs

Wind turbines

mWKK

ICT forSmart E-control

E-Storage

TelecomEV


Synthetic Biology= Where Bio meets Engineering

SYNBIO

Biology Engineering

Specifications

Product

Chemistry

Standardized BioPartsDNASeqSyn

System Design Methodology

Simulation-Modeling ToolsBioInformatics

bioethics

genoom DNA Ontwerp!

UIT

gaattcgcgg…

IN

BioBrick

http://partsregistry.org/Main_Page













H.De Man/KULeuven/IMEC46Bio-Nano-ICT convergence at all stages!

Gene Chip

BioSensors

LoC, Mol. Imaging

BioSensorsTelemed.

Targeted Drug Delivery

Bio-informatics


Biotope of today’s engineer (scientist)

• Information explosion: *3/10y, 6000p/day…

• Unprecedented rate of Change: half-life product < 5y

• Converging disciplines: broad-depth conflict

• Globalised markets, virtual companies

• Towards flat, agile company structures

• Sustainable manufacturing crucial (cradle-to-cradle, recycling)

• More societal responsibility imposed by law

• Trend towards ‘open innovation’ eco-systems (sharing cost)


So…


Remember..

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, or the most intelligent; it is the one most capable of change

Darwin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1878_Darwin_photo_by_Leonard_from_Woodall_1884_-_cropped_grayed_partially_cleaned.jpg


Outline





‘Renaissance Engineer’ ?

Renaissance = system oriented merging of disciplines in the fast changing biotope of the 21st century…

• Engineer oriented towards social innovation =

• Innovation driven by the grand societal needs of the 21st century and in an economic- ecologic win-win scenario

• Operating in agile, dynamic and virtual company structures


Renaissance Engineer?

This one?

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or that one?

Not Really!

Individualists

Omniscientists

Slideware designers


But renaissance engineer is:

M/W oriented towards social innovation:– Teamplayer techno nerd– With cross-disciplinary communication skills– Trained in system thinking (sees the whole)– Independent and interpersonal lifelong learning skills– Able to cope with diversity and change – World citizen (language, culture…)

Co-architect of future society– From societal vision to customer solutions– With sustainable economic value: entrepreneur!– An eye for moral and ethical values– Willing to to participate to the public debate!

http://www.newproductdynamics.com/FldGd1998/FldGd1998.pdf


Are our universities ready for that?

Today Tomorrow

Sciences Engineering Social Sciences

Hyperspecialized publication fever

Mono-disciplinary research funding

Publication oriented Eng. Ph.D.

⇒ Academic career

Techno-science for Social Innovation

Cross-disciplinary research and education

Cross-disciplinary funding

Innovation oriented Eng. Ph.D.

⇒ Technical leadership

Entrepreneurial thinking


Perception of Ph.D. in industry

This…

Independent problem solving

Deep specialisation (peephole)

Research skills

Peer-to-peer communication

But also that?

Too solitary?

Not enough eye for context?

Innovation skills?

Social skills?

Market aware, economic skills?

Open up your mind!

IQ ok! EQ?


What can you do about it?

• Be open for teamwork (leadership – membership)

• Coaching of team-based project education

• Contact companies at international conferences

• Test yourself for creativity and entrepreneurship

• Take the ‘Initiatie tot ondernemen’ course

• Go for industrial internalships

• Get language and cultural skills: explore the world!

• Confront your research with public opinion…

• …


Dismantled mythes…

www.ugent.be/nl/onderzoek/doctoreren/visie/rapportdoctoreren/survey2006.pdf

Doctoreren in Vlaanderen (3695 ondervraagden)

1. Ph.D. presents no added value at recruitment- 73% yes to added value, 10% neutral, 17% no

- After that counts WHO you are (EQ!)

2. Ph.D. has no impact on salary- Not so. On average 248€ more, after 10-15y 496€

- But that’s not what you do it for, I suppose?

3. Professional experience at university is crucial- Only 33% thinks yes…rest thinks other skills count

more


“The mind is like a parachute: It only functions when open” (Frank Zappa)

HAVE FUN!!!

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