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The CDT in Sustainable Infrastructure Systems will deliver the next generation of world leading engineers and scientists needed to supply critical Energy, Water, and Transport infrastructure to maintain UK competitiveness. The CDT will bridge the skills gap in the identified areas by training engineers to meet this challenge. Legacies lasting beyond the life-time of the CDT will be built in relation to the cohort, training, inspiration, and research.

Five cohorts of 12 highly talented graduates will enter the job market having been equipped with the skills required to meet the challenge posed. Transferable skills will include leadership, innovation and creativity, high level communication, broad understanding of sustainable infrastructure systems, and the ability to work as part of a network to solve problems defined at the interdisciplinary interface. Each graduate will exhibit a suite of technical competencies which when aggregated across the entire cohort will represent an internationally-leading cutting-edge skill base to rival the best in the world. The strength of the network formed will be greater than the sum of the individual parts and will provide the capability needed to meet "Big Challenges" that are difficult to address by individuals or small isolated groupings. The formation of the community represents the cohort legacy of the CDT.

The CDT, in collaboration with industry partners, Creativity@Home, and international training partners will provide a test-bed for innovation in training. Best practice will be developed and efforts made to constantly reflect on training needs and methods of provision as part of an incremental process of training advancement throughout the life-time of the Centre. Best practice will be passed on to the wider student community through influencing and enhancing the overall educational culture. Similarly, the industry sectors and international collaborators will benefit as the current staff base of the partners will learn new skills from our students during industry placement, and may also attend elements of the training programmes to upgrade their skills. The influence of the CDT will continue for years to come, and represents the training legacy.

Through outreach and public / political engagement the CDT is not only intended to inform and transfer knowledge (in both directions), but also inspire the wider community beyond the University of Southampton, while simultaneously influencing research direction and providing reality checks. Undergraduates mentored by dynamic and talented researchers will be more likely to follow a career path in engineering or science. The interests of school children, especially girls, currently under-represented in engineering and science, will be captured through participation in outreach events led by the cohort. Alumni engineers and scientists and industrial partners working on the ground will be enthused and excited by the new skills developed and transferred from academia to application. This will be the legacy of inspiration.

The CDT will produce 180 man years of cutting-edge research. Students will be supervised by internationally recognised research leaders, and international training partners, in an enhanced student training environment using state-of-the-art experimental infrastructure and techniques at a new Engineering campus. The research projects will aim to solve real life problems identified in collaboration with industry. Based on past success rates, the CDTs legacy in research will be immense. Impact will be achieved through publication of ~240 high impact articles (on average four per project authored by students and supervisory staff) in internationally respected journals, technical reports to industry, conference papers, influencing technical design guidelines and standards, publication on CDT and University web-sites, and dissemination through blogs, twitter, etc. This will be the CDT's research legacy.