Boeing - UQ Research Alliance PhD Scholarships

This scholarship is closed.

  
      Enrolment status
      
            Future UQ student
      
      Student type
      
            Domestic
      
      Study level
      
            Postgraduate research (HDR)
      
      Study area
      
            Computer science and IT, Engineering, Science and mathematics
      
      Scholarship focus
      
            Academic excellence
      
      Funding type
      
            Living stipend,
                Top-up,
                Tuition fees
      
      Scholarship value
      
            Total $50,551 per annum (tax free), full tuition fees, Boeing funded travel expenses and work experience program.
      
      Scholarship duration
      
            The living scholarship is for 3.5 years with the possibility of 1 extension in line with UQ and RTP Scholarship Policy, the Boeing top up is for 3.5 years, but may be extended at Boeing's discretion.
      
      Number awarded
      
            May vary
      
      Applications open
      
            27 February 2025
      
      Applications close
      
            13 March 2025

About this scholarship

Innovative Boeing Defence aerospace project seeks PhD candidates interested in Software / AI / Computer Vision / Robotics / Materials

This is an opportunity to be part of an innovative PhD program at a leading research institution, working collaboratively with UQ and Boeing supervisors on research with commercial impact.

This Research Alliance scheme pairs students with an Advisory team that includes UQ and Boeing Supervisors, as well as a generous scholarship package.

Boeing is the world's largest aerospace company and manufacturer of commercial airplanes and defence, space and security systems. If you love modern flying and space machines and are inspired to build the next generation of air and space vehicles, you should consider joining us!

UQ is ranked #43 in the World according to QS World University Rankings, so your UQ PhD will be highly regarded wherever your career takes you.

Join the team working to advance Boeing Australia’s partnership with the Queensland Government to create an advanced manufacturing and new aerospace capability in Queensland. Announced in October 2020, the partnership could culminate in Queensland becoming the primary final assembly facility for the MQ-28A Ghost Bat. Imagine, your PhD work contributing towards a range of aerospace manufacturing programs, including one of most exciting aircraft projects in recent Australian aerospace history – the first military combat aircraft in 50 years to be designed, built and manufactured in Australia.

There are three fully funded PhD Scholarships available for truly outstanding candidates to work on a project at The University of Queensland (UQ) in collaboration with Boeing Defence Australia. This PhD project aims to use Machine Learning / AI in the qualification of composite materials for aerospace.

Projects

Improved Safety and Optimise Productivity with AI in a Manufacturing Environment

This PhD project aims to use large language visual models or other AI to improve human motion accuracy in digital modelling for aerospace manufacturing activities. The PhD candidate will be requested to integrate other health monitoring technologies to provide a more complete picture in the digital model of the human while tasks are performed in the manufacturing environment. The project will require the PhD candidate to develop/use vision or other motion tracking methods to automatically identify specific motions (for example, drilling, lifting, etc).

Through the sub-tasks proposed above, the PhD Candidate is expected to:

be able to optimise manufacturing activities, factory fixtures, and shop-aid combinations (shop-aids may be tooling, cobots, and/or exo-skeletons) to produce the highest productivity (cost vs output) with improved safety; and
Use the above to design new cobots, shop-aids, or exo-skeletons automatically (using some restricted library of parts or technologies, such modular motors, certified springs, 3D printer dimensions, etc.).

Advisory Team

Members of your advisory team may include:

Associate Professor Mehmet Kizil (The University of Queensland), and Dr Phillip Crothers (Boeing).

About you

These projects would suit someone interested in academic/industry-based research in the areas of Artificial intelligence, Computer Sciences, Digital twins, Virtual world modelling, Synthetic data creation software and system engineering, Materials, Mechatronics, Model-based systems engineering, or other relevant fields.

Eligibility

To be eligible, you must:

be nominated by the Advisory team and enrolling school or institute at UQ
be assessed by the Graduate School as meeting all conditions for admission to the higher degree by research program and be competitive for scholarship.
Must be an Australian Citizen to obtain security clearance from Boeing as part of the application process

We are committed to equity and diversity. Female applicants and people of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Island descent are encouraged to apply. Indigenous applicants may be eligible for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research Scholarship base living stipend rate.

How to apply

Apply for this scholarship when you apply for a higher degree by research program at UQ.

Before submitting an application you should:

check your eligibility
prepare your documentation

When you apply, please ensure that under the scholarships and collaborative study section you:

Select ‘My higher degree is not collaborative’
Select 'I am applying for, or have been awarded a scholarship or sponsorship'.
Select 'Boeing - UQ Research Alliance PhD Scholarship'.

Start your application

Selection criteria

Your application will be assessed on a competitive basis.

We take into account your:

previous academic record
publication record
honours and awards
employment history

Rules

Read the UQ Research Scholarships terms and conditions. If selected, you will also be required to sign an intellectual property and confidentiality deed poll.

The information you provide in your application is collected for the purposes of (1) assessing your eligibility for this scholarship, (2) selecting scholarship recipients, and (3) administration of the scholarship. The University of Queensland will disclose the information you provide to Boeing for the stated purposes. The University will not otherwise disclose the information to a third party without your consent, unless such disclosure is authorised or required by law. For further information, please refer to the University’s Privacy Management Policy.