Professional/Short Course Big Data Skills & Training Course (DETI)

In line with fulfilling the needs of the Digital Skills requirements in the Engineering sector, UWE-DETI with its partner companies are organising a free, virtual/online skills and training CPD course. This is to help manufacturing companies and workers visualize the possibilities of the future with digital tools and skills alongside the career pathways required. Thereby creating pathways for training and education to enable digital skills application in the manufacturing sector.

Bringing these future jobs to life can help business leaders, workers, educators, and policymakers shape their vision and inspire conversations around the changes needed to adopt digital technology.

This course supports the learning and the development of skills to breach the huge skills and employment gap in the UK for current and future Engineers of the workforce through DETI delivery programmes.

The digital skills enable quick adoption of digital technology to deliver remote productions and monitoring systems to keep important production lines working effectively. 

The Big Data course will introduce Big data concepts and its applications.

Big Data refers to the analysis of large datasets to discover trends, correlations, or other insights not easily visible with smaller datasets or the conventional processing methods. With the high rate of adoption of sensors and connected devices with the internet of things, there has been a huge increase in the data points created in the manufacturing industry with the rise in data availability.  

Big data in manufacturing can discover new information and identify patterns that enable businesses to improve processes, increase supply chain efficiency and identify variables that affect production.

Who is it for?

The skills and training course is open to all applicants seeking a pathway to a digital career.

This course is designed for learners with a technology, computer science or engineering background, who are in their early career looking to specialise into digital engineering, or those currently working in these sectors and looking to develop their existing skills. That includes, students, graduates, apprentices, technicians, engineers, operators, and anyone interested in upskilling or reskilling their knowledge in the subject area.

We'd particularly like to encourage those who are recently unemployed, self-employed, looking to move into a new job role, or coming out of furlough to sign up.

Entry requirements

Participants will be required to have a good knowledge of basic computer literacy skills, be committed to completing the modules and assessment and be able to take part in the course delivery format and subject matter. In addition:

Be aged from 19 years of age and above.

Agree to provide mandatory personal data and supplementary information on their jobs, education and give feedback on the course delivery.