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Professor Winifred Ijomah
Design, Manufacturing and Engineering Management
Area of Expertise
- Remanufacturing
- Sustainable Engineering
- Product End-of-Life
- Process Modelling
Prize And Awards
- Best doctoral thesis paper award
- Recipient
- 16/6/2015
- Best paper in conference award
- Recipient
- 2/12/2011
- Emerald Literati Network 2010 Awards for journal paper Excellencer
- Recipient
- 2010
- Royal Academy of Engineering Best paper in conference award
- Recipient
- 3/9/2004
Publications
- Evaluation and validation of Damage Assessment Tracking Criteria models within the sector of UK automotive remanufacturing
- Harris RS, Ijomah WL, Windmill J
- Journal of Cleaner Production Vol 414 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.137494
- Risk assessment for circular business models : a fuzzy Delphi study application for composite materials
- Tuni Andrea, Ijomah Winifred L, Gutteridge Fiona, Mirpourian Maryam, Pfeifer Sarah, Copani Giacomo
- Journal of Cleaner Production Vol 389 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.135722
- Non-destructive testing of composite fibre materials with hyperspectral imaging – evaluative studies in the EU H2020 FibreEUse project
- Yan Yijun, Ren Jinchang, Zhao Huan, Windmill James FC, Ijomah Winifred, Wit Jesper De, Freeden Justus Von
- IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement Vol 71, pp. 1-13 (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/TIM.2022.3155745
- Remanufacturing of single-use medical devices : a case study on cross-border collaboration between the UK and Nigeria
- Oturu Kingsley, Ijomah Winifred, Orr Andrew, Verpeaux Laura, Broadfoot Ben, Clark Stuart, Devine Ryan
- Health and Technology Vol 12, pp. 273-283 (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s12553-022-00641-2
- Exploring the application of lean best practices in remanufacturing : empirical insights into the benefits and barriers
- Pawlik Elzbieta, Ijomah Winifred, Corney Jonathan, Powell Daryl
- Sustainability Vol 14 (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.3390/su14010149
- Investigation of remanufacturing technologies for medical equipment in the UK and context in which technology can be exported in the developing world
- Oturu Kingsley, Ijomah WL, Broeksmit Alexander, Hernandez Reig Daniel, Millar Matthew, Peacock Craig, Rodger Jacob
- Journal of Remanufacturing Vol 11, pp. 227-242 (2021)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s13243-021-00102-5
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
- International Conference on Remanufacturing 2023
- Organiser
- 2023
- International Conference on Remanufacturing ICoR 2019
- Keynote speaker
- 23/6/2019
- International Conference on Remanufacturing 2019
- Chair
- 23/6/2019
- International Conference on Remanufacturing 2019
- Chair
- 19/6/2019
- Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow
- Speaker
- 2019
- Prof. Akinwale Coker
- Host
- 21/11/2018
Projects
- Sustainable Manufacturing enabling Net Zero – Opening up the conversation
- Ijomah, Winifred (Principal Investigator)
- 17-Jan-2022 - 30-Jan-2022
- Remanufacture: A Strategy to Enable Affordable Quality Healthcare in Developing Countries (International Collaboration Award)
- Ijomah, Winifred (Principal Investigator)
- Remanufacture: A Strategy to Enable Affordable Quality Healthcare in Developing Countries (International Collaboration Award)
- 03-Jan-2018 - 04-Jan-2023
- Large scale demonstration of new circular economy value-chains based on the reuse of end-of-life: FiberEUse (H2020-IND-CE-2016-17)
- Ijomah, Winifred (Principal Investigator) Ren, Jinchang (Co-investigator) Rentizelas, Athanasios (Co-investigator) Windmill, James (Co-investigator) Xirouchakis, Paul (Co-investigator)
- Large scale demonstration of the techno-economical feasibility of circular economy business cases based on the reuse of end-of-life fiber reinforced composites in new value chains
- 01-Jan-2017 - 31-Jan-2021
- Optimising the Value of Remanufactured Products (student: Mirena Isaeva RIZOVA)
- Wong, Andy TC (Principal Investigator) Ijomah, Winifred (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2016 - 01-Jan-2020
- Investigation of a Smart and Low-Cost Autonomous System for Early Detection and Monitoring of Mild Cognitive Impairment in the Elderly
- Yang, Erfu (Principal Investigator) Li, David (Co-investigator) Ijomah, Winifred (Co-investigator) Fei, Zixiang (Post Grad Student)
- As the number of the elderly people increase, there is an urgent need for the development of advanced assistative technology to ensure their mobility and independent living by early detection and monitoring of the MCI in the low-income community. The main objectives of this project are described as follows:
Scientific:
(1) To develop novel algorithms for facial recognition and body movement analyses to early detect and monitor the MCI condition in the elderly.
(2) To propose a smart tool that can compute the attentional focus of the elderly and determine communication counterparts.
(3) To investigate a decision making tool to manage and integrate all the sensory resources of the mobile devices for efficiently executing multiple tasks.
Long-term:
(1) To improve the performance and scalability of the developed system for the purpose of collective care in the low-income community.
(2) To widen the scope of the applicability of the developed system.
(3) To lay the foundation for improving the interaction between the elderly and other assistive healthcare device/systems in different environments and chronic conditions.
(4) To associate healthcare applications with smart cities, robotics and autonomous systems, signal processing, computer vision and machine learning communities. - 01-Jan-2016 - 30-Jan-2019
- iNEED (including Nondestructive Evaluation in Engineered Design)
- Mulholland, Anthony (Principal Investigator) Ijomah, Winifred (Co-investigator) Illes, Tibor (Co-investigator) Windmill, James (Co-investigator)
- "Many high-value manufactured components that are made in the UK are used in safety critical structures such as nuclear plants and aircraft engines. Such components must be checked periodically for the presence of flaws and other precursors to the component failing. This is performed at various stages in the lifetime of the component: at the manufacturing stage, periodically while the component is in service, and to assess the component for remanufacturing at the end of its lifetime.
Components must be checked non-destructively, which is challenging; normally the component's design is not optimised to maximise the probability of detecting a flaw using non-destructive evaluation (NDE). The Engineering Design Challenge is to bring NDE considerations into the design engineer's virtual design toolbox.
This project aims to enable design engineers to optimise the design of a given component such that they maximise their ability thereafter to test this component non-destructively for the presence of any flaws. Thus flaw-detectability will used as an additional design criterion. This will also help in remanufacturing as we will be more able to assess the integrity of used components. In this way we will improve society by having safer aircraft, nuclear plants and oil pipelines, improve the environment by having fewer wasted components and using less energy, and improve the UK economy by developing the UK's expertise in these high value sectors.
The most common modality in non-destructive evaluation of these safety critical structures is ultrasound transducer imaging. The Centre for Ultrasonic Engineering (CUE) at the University of Strathclyde has extensive experience in the computer simulation and mathematical modelling of ultrasonic transducers and in their use in NDE. They are ideally placed to develop such a software platform. The University of Strathclyde also hosts the Scottish Institute for Remanufacture (SIR), so the project will utilise the research expertise in this area in conjunction with that of CUE. This project will enable CUE and SIR to form a new alliance with experimental design and tomographic imaging experts from the School of Geosciences at the University of Edinburgh. In the Geosciences, sophisticated imaging methods are used to image the Earth's subsurface, and design theory is developed to optimise imaging array geometries and methods. This combined capability will enable the joint project team to develop a virtual environment where techniques for designing and imaging the internal structures of safety critical components can be assessed and optimised." - 01-Jan-2016 - 31-Jan-2021
Contact
Professor
Winifred
Ijomah
Design, Manufacturing and Engineering Management
Email: w.l.ijomah@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4346