DMEM's Studio has been upgraded. The new area has been developed into a number of different zones, to allow a variety of different types of work to be accommodated. Zone 1 allows team working; Zone 2 is a flexible learning environment, and is fitted with 2 wifi enabled projectors; Zone 3 is a social area and Zone 4 contains personal workstations.
Recently two Product Design Engineering students from the Department of Design Manufacture and Engineering Management were awarded Hammermen Awards by the Incorporation of Hammermen of Glasgow.
Euan Coutts (5th year) and Jonathan Gray (4th year) were winner and runner-up respectively.
The object of the Hammermen Competition is to encourage and assist engineering students and apprentices, who are studying for a qualification, with employment in any branch of the engineering industry related to the origins of the Hammermen craft in metalwork or its modern day equivalents. The prize-winners will apply their prize money towards the development of their careers and/or visits to companies associated with their career interests.
As winner of the Hammermen Award, Euan Coutts subsequently went on interview for the Prince Philip Prize, along with Hammermen Award winners from other universities. Euan was again successful, achieving runner-up and will be presented with prize money of £500 and a certificate.
DMEM's 4th and 5th year Product Development Partnership (PDP) projects provide a unique experience for student teams to work on real life industrial projects and provide solutions which will have a real impact in today's society. An example of one of this year's projects is for Oceanic Tuna Limited (OTL), a company based in Scotland who breed tuna fish. OTL has developed a modular transportable hatchery system designed so that it can be moved to another location if pollution or algae affect water quality. A 5th year project has been developing a robotic 'crash test tuna' to allow OTL to run replicable tests on equipment and systems and to better understand impacts as they would occur on live fish. The prototype is currently under construction and will be delivered to OTL in May.
For more information on Oceanic Tuna Limited visit www.oceanictuna.com
DMEM have made a major upgrade to their extensive and exciting range of rapid prototyping technology within their Digital Design & Manufacturing Studio. Students who already have access to the widest range of digital design and manufacturing tools in the country can now utilise the Objet Eden 350 advanced rapid prototyping system to support their design projects.
Objet utilises Polyjet™ technology to achieve ultra thin layers (0.016mm) enabling smooth, accurate and highly detailed models to be produced in a range of materials directly from CAD models. This 3D printing system has established itself within design-led organisations and DMEM joins leading industrial organisations using this premium-standard technology.
This major investment demonstrates DMEM’s commitment to excellence in ensuring students have unrivalled access to the latest tools and technology to prepare them for successful careers in industry.
A video of a machine using similar technology to ours is shown in action here
The 2008, UK wide, Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) rated both the "Design and Manufacturing" and "Engineering Management" activities of DMEM as top in Scotland.
The Department's academic staff were assessed in the RAE 2008 exercise under the headings of both "Business" and "Mechanical Engineering", with DMEM's manufacturing and operations management activities being incorporated as part of the "Strathclyde Institute for Operations Management" (SIOM) within Strathclyde Business School's submission and, similarly, DMEM's design and manufacturing researchers united with the staff of Mechanical Engineering to form a joint submission.
The management activity was assessed as clearly the best in Scotland and placed in the UK's top 10. See www.gsb.strath.ac.uk/news/rae.asp.
Similarly the department's "Design and Manufacturing" researchers (incorporated in the Mechanical Engineering submission) were placed first in Scotland, with some 50% of them being rated as 'world leading' or 'internationally excellent'.
Head of Department, Professor Jonathan Corney noted: "This is a great result for the Department, and correctly reflects the unique breadth and strength we have in fundamental Design, Manufacture and Engineering Management research."
In both areas these results show a significant improvement from the previous RAE and well exceed the intended target profile. See www.strath.ac.uk/press/newsreleases/headline_167533_en.html
Monday 8 September, 6 - 8 pm
Tuesday 9 September, 9.30 am - 3 pm
Interested in finding out more about our courses for '09 entry? Visit our stand in the Assembly Hall, James Weir Building and our exhibition in the Marquee, Rottenrow Gardens, when you will have the opportunity to speak to lecturers and students on our courses, take a tour of the department's facilities, including the Digital Design & Manufacture Studio.
Maneesh Kumar, a PhD researcher working with Prof. Jiju Antony within DMEM, was awarded best student paper in the empirical category at the International Conference on Quality & Productivity Research in Oulu, Finland, 24th - 26th June, 2008. The paper is entitled "Comparing the quality management practices between six sigma and ISO certified SMEs - a survey based approach" and has been conditionally accepted for publication in a journal.
Professor Jiju Antony has been nominated for the "Outstanding Reviewer" award by the International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, for his contribution throughout 2007. The Journal provides a forum for the international exchange of theoretical and practical aspects of quality and management in health care and helps to develop knowledge about continuous improvement and its implementation in health care organisations.
Fresh from the success of winning the top company award at the recent Scottish KTP (Knowledge Transfer Partnership) Awards, we are delighted to announce that one of our KTP projects has emerged as one of the top 3 companies at the UK awards. The winners were drawn from a field of 310 companies. The winning KTP is with Blairs, a bespoke windows and door manufacturing company, based in Greenock and employing 150 staff. DMEM Senior Research Fellow, Trevor Turner, was accompanied at the awards ceremony in London by Blair's KTP Associates David Giles and John Ritchie (both DMEM Manufacturing Science and Engineering graduates), together with Blair's Engineering Director, Allan French. Our congratulations to Allan , David, John, Trevor and all at Blairs . Trevor would like to thank everyone in the department that has contributed to the success of the KTP by their involvement in supporting the Associates, supervising student projects, and their involvement in Product Development Partnerships.