City College succeeds in bid to establish prestigious Regional Resource Centre for advanced marine composites
Southampton City College has recently announced the launch a new Regional Resource Centre (RRC) for advanced marine composite technologies. The development follows a co-funded grant of £500,000 from the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) and the European Social Fund (ESF).
The centre, one of the first of its kind, will be based at City College’s Maritime Technology Centre (MTC) at Woolston, Southampton. It will initially focus on up-skilling pre-qualified design engineers with modern CAD/CAM techniques for resolving complex structural engineering design problems. It will also concentrate on the best practice for manufacturing processes using advanced composites.
The RRC will provide a practical and active knowledge resource that can be shared by marine businesses throughout the southeast region, from Hampshire and the Isle of Wight in the west to Kent in the east and on up to Oxfordshire in the north, including greater London.
Working in partnership with two other organisations - Solent University and the Milton-Keynes, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Engineering CoVE - the new resource centre will offer pioneering industry-driven training for companies, current students and tutors across the whole of the southeast region.
Kenneth Cast, Marine RRC Project Manager, said, “The RRC will boost the ability of marine manufacturers in the region that use composite materials to compete in international markets. Further, the location of the RRC at City College’s MTC will provide, for the first time, a continuous and progressive learning pathway from entry level at 16 through to degree level via the RRC partnership faculties in this critical sector of the marine industry”.
To find out more contact Ken Cast, RRC Project Manager on 023 8057 7606 or Richard Goldsbrough, Marketing Information on 023 8057 7214.
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