Collaborate
Good engineering rarely happens in isolation.
We are particularly interested in collaborations that shorten the path from a useful idea to a validated system.
Conceptual visualisation
Why we collaborate
Many of the problems we are working on require expertise across materials, simulation, manufacturing, testing and application engineering. No single organisation holds all of it, and pretending otherwise slows the work down.
ACE brings composite and structural engineering, a practical manufacturing background and a clear development route. We look for partners who bring something the programme needs — a material, a test capability, a piece of analysis, a route to the end user — and who share the aim of getting to evidence.
We are open to working with
- Universities
- Research laboratories
- Material suppliers
- Testing organisations
- Technology companies
- System integrators
- Manufacturing partners
- Government and industry programmes
If your organisation does not fit neatly into one of these categories but has something relevant to offer, we would still like to hear from you.
What a collaboration can look like
Useful ideas, moved towards validated systems.
Collaborations take different forms depending on the programme and its stage. The common thread is that each one should move a concept measurably closer to a validated system.
- Joint research and analysis
- Working with universities and laboratories on the questions a programme cannot yet answer alone — material behaviour, impact response, structural methods.
- Materials and process development
- Working with suppliers to assess how a material performs inside a real structure and a real manufacturing route.
- Testing and validation
- Working with testing organisations to plan and run the evaluation a concept needs before it can be offered as a product.
- Application and integration
- Working with integrators, operators and programmes to make sure the system being developed fits the way it will actually be used.
Propose a collaboration.
Tell us who you are, what you bring and which area of our work it relates to. Please keep the first message non-confidential; we can put agreements in place before any detailed exchange.