Professor Winifred Ijomah
Design, Manufacturing and Engineering Management
Area of Expertise
- Remanufacturing
- Sustainable Engineering
- Product End-of-Life
- Process Modelling
Prize And Awards
- Senior Special Advisor on remanufacturing
- Recipient
- 7/7/2025
- €500.00 Sponsorship from CPI for Remanufacture Masterclass ( Invoice No: 8393231, invoice date 28/03/ 2025)te: v
- Recipient
- 9/4/2025
- University of Strathclyde SARD “Sustained Exceptional Performance at professorial level Award 2023-2024
- Recipient
- 8/1/2025
- Director Te Scottish Institute for Remanufacturing
- Recipient
- 30/5/2021
- Kelvin Medal
- Recipient
- 16/2/2020
- Rematec - ICoR partnrtship
- Recipient
- 10/1/2019
Publications
- Pathways to circular energy storage : a comparative analysis of end of life recovery approaches in flow batteries technologies
- Agbonrofo John, Ijomah Winifred, Brightman Edward
- 7th International conference on remanufacturing (ICoR 2025 ), pp. 1-17 (2025)
- An investigation on optimizing sustainable remanufacturing in developing countries : a novel application of Lean Six Sigma
- Goni Abdullahi, Ijomah Winifred
- 7th International conference on remanufacturing (ICoR 2025 ), pp. 1-10 (2025)
- Accelerating the Transition to a Functional Circular Economy by Mainstreaming Remanufacturing
- Ramchandra, Rajiv, Chalifoux John, Ijomah Winifred, Fitzsimons David
- (2024)
- Increased personal protective and medical equipment manufacturing to fight COVID-19 : an egregious approach for the environment
- Akano Damola Ikeoluwa, Ijomah Winifred, Windmill James
- EcoDesign for Sustainable Products, Services and Social Systems I (2024) (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3818-6_24
- Artificial Intelligence for process control in remanufacturing
- Nwankpa Chigozie Enyinna, Ijomah Winifred, Gachagan Anthony
- EcoDesign for Sustainable Products, Services and Social Systems I (2024) (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3818-6_15
- Risks in circular business models innovation : a cross‐industrial case study for composite materials
- Tuni Andrea, Gutteridge Fiona, Ijomah Winifred L, Mirpourian Maryam
- Business Strategy and the Environment Vol 33, pp. 2771-2787 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.3618
Teaching
My teaching interests primarily focus on the theory and practical implementation of sustainable design and manufacturing for the MEng and MSc courses in Design, Manufacture and Engineering Management. I am also involved in teaching design, design and engineering applications, mechatronics design and applications, and advanced materials and production technology. I also supervise a number of students in individual projects.
Research Interests
My research is interdisciplinary, spanning across engineering, business, to the social and applied sciences. The long term goal of my cross-disciplinary research is to continue furthering knowledge in sustainable production, specialising in developing concepts, tools and techniques to facilitate sustainable design and manufacture through remanufacture. Remanufacturing has recently become globally critical because of its great potential to address environmental concerns (need to reduce waste during the material extraction and manufacturing processes), legislation (international agreement to reduce products’ and manufacturing processes’ environmental impacts) and economics (remanufacture is often a quality and cost effective option). However, there is a paucity of remanufacturing understanding, information, publications, as well as tools and techniques. I currently lead the UK's largest remanufacturing research group, specialising in holistic, interdisciplinary, practitioner-based research. In the long term I intend to further develop, and build the capacity, of my research team in the area of sustainable design and manufacture through remanufacture.
Professional Activities
- 14th International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing
- Member of programme committee
- 12/11/2025
- Nigerian Society of Engineers as part of Nigeria's 2025 Engineering week
- Keynote/plenary speaker
- 24/7/2025
- Appointment as Senior special Adviser on re-manufacturing to the Nigerian Society of engineer, Oluytole, Ibadan, Nigeria (> 5000 members)
- Advisor
- 6/7/2025
- International Second supervisor and research reviewer
- Advisor
- 20/5/2025
- STEM activity at St Nicholas Primary Career fair
- Speaker
- 8/5/2025
- ReMake showcase
- Invited speaker
- 24/4/2025
Projects
- International conference on remanufacturing 2025 (ICoR 2025) with €15,000 Rematec sponsorship W
- Ijomah, Winifred (Principal Investigator) Windmill, James (Academic)
- €16K sponsorship from Rematec for hosting ICoR 2025;
- 08-Jan-2025 - 10-Jan-2025
- EPSRC Manufacturing Research Hub in Robotics, Automation & Smart Machine Enabled Sustainable Circular Manufacturing & Materials (RESCu-M2)
- Ijomah, Winifred (Principal Investigator) Luo, Xichun (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2031
- ReSTOR: Designing recyclable flow batteries for locally managed energy storage in developing countries
- Brightman, Edward (Principal Investigator) Eales, Aran (Academic) Galloway, Stuart (Co-investigator) Ijomah, Winifred (Co-investigator)
- 22-Jan-2024 - 28-Jan-2025
- UK-China Remanufacturing Forum in conjunction with China-Britain Business Council- £1,200.00K
- Ijomah, Winifred (Principal Investigator)
- Payment of £1,200.00 Plus VAT from China-Britain Business Council for organising the UK-China Remanufacturing Forum on 30th May 2024
- 15-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2024
- International conference on remanufacturing 2023 with €15.297,50 Rematec SDponsorship
- Ijomah, Winifred (Principal Investigator)
- Since 2019, I have had a partnership with Rematec, (the world’s largest remanufacturing Exhibition) for sponsorship of the ICoR conference series, at over €15,000 per ICoR occurrence. The sponsorship covers provision by Rematec for ICoR fully equipped conference accommodation for up to 250 persons plus associated marketing. This indicated in the attached agreement under “conference” and "Marketing" in the attached agreement which was signed in 2019.
The invoice for ICoR 2025, also attached indicated that this is worth €15.297,50 - 27-Jan-2023 - 29-Jan-2023
- ReMake Glasgow Innovation Accelerator
- Fitzpatrick, Stephen (Principal Investigator) Ijomah, Winifred (Research Co-investigator) Reimer, Andreas (Research Co-investigator) Adu-Amankwa, Kwaku (Researcher) Devine, Ryan (Researcher) Hicks, Calum (Researcher) Howie, Scott (Researcher) Pimentel Espirindio E Silva, Misael (Researcher)
- The ReMake Glasgow project is developing a first-of-its-kind national ReMake hub within the NMIS Digital Factory. The hub will provide the skills and technologies needed to support ambitious manufacturers of all sizes to adopt circularity and extend the life of products and parts.
The aim is to achieve a 99% reduction in CO2 compared to manufacturing from new through processes such as remanufacturing, refurbishing and repairs.
With under 2% of products manufactured in the UK currently designed and reused in this way, the ReMake hub is set to advance sustainable manufacturing by supporting companies to move towards a circular economy.
Partners in this project are:
- Boeing UK
- British Airways
- SSE Renewables
- James Howden & Company Ltd
- ATS
- Renewable Parts Ltd - 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2025
Contact
Professor
Winifred
Ijomah
Design, Manufacturing and Engineering Management
Email: w.l.ijomah@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4346