PECA Program
Product Engineering Capability Accelerator
Industry Challenge
Engineering has evolved.
Engineering has evolved.
The way we develop engineering capability must too.
Products are becoming more integrated. Development cycles are getting faster. Systems thinking, cross-disciplinary collaboration, digital engineering and AI are changing the way products are developed.
Yet too often, engineers are still developed in silos.
of aerospace and defence projects experience schedule delays.
of aerospace and defence projects experience cost overruns.
average budget overrun in aerospace and defence development programmes.
The Solution
PECA develops Engineers, by enabling them to develop products.
Giving engineers real experience across the entire product development lifecycle - from requirements and concept development, to design, simulation, and physical prototyping, to integration, testing and validation.
They don’t just learn the process. They experience it.
Hands-on product development
Engineers learn by building — across the full product lifecycle, concept to validation.
Systems engineering
Requirements, architecture, and cross-discipline integration — the way real programmes run.
Simulation-driven design
Decisions backed by CFD, FEA, and multiphysics — not guesswork.
Digital validation
Verify and validate against mission objectives using digital twins and formal gates.
The Approach
Real challenges. Real deliverables. Real rigor.
Every PECA cohort works on a real engineering challenge - a product, a subsystem, or a defined problem statement - from requirements to detailed design, through testing, integration, and validation.
Decomposition
Verification & Validation
Discovery
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Requirements
Define the mission requirements, objectives, constraints, and measurable outcomes.
Customer Success Story
Cohorts build a real, working product.
One integrated engineering mission carries the cohort from concept to a validated prototype — across mechanical, electrical, software, simulation and AI. The product is chosen to mirror your domain: a UAV, a subsystem, a test rig, an instrument — whatever reflects your real engineering work.
- Requirements & architecture
- Multiphysics simulation
- Electronics & controls integration
- Embedded software
- Physical prototyping & test
- AI-enabled capability
engineers per cohort
engineering disciplines
UAVs designed, built & validated
average growth in technical competency
Talk to us
If you’re looking to strengthen engineering capability within your organization, talk to us
Let’s identify the gaps, define the challenge, and build the capability to solve it.
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