【10月27日】贝法女王大学机械学院院长讲座

——工程科学前沿讲坛第95讲

讲座题目：Making Automation Pay: Trading Off Material, Value, Cost & Throughput in The Manufacture Of Large Composite Components

主 讲 人：Prof. Mark Price, Queen's University Belfast

讲座时间：2014年10月27日（星期一）下午2：30

讲座地点：A区机械工程学院七教7325会议室

讲座内容：

The automation of complex manufacturing operations can provide significant savings over manual processes, and there remains much scope for increasing automation in the production of large scale structural composites. However the relationships between driving variables are complex, and the achievable throughput rate and corresponding cost for a given design are often not apparent. This research will address the following question: When needing to go into production how does the design of the panel (i.e. the volume , geometry and properties of material) and the manufacturing process proposed interact, and therefore what resource produces the maximum output for that design?

主讲人介绍：

Mark Price graduated in 1987 with a 1st Class Honours degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Queen’s University Belfast and a Masters in Engineering Computation in 1988 before taking up a post in industry as a stress engineer in Short Brothers (now Bombardier Aerospace). He returned later to QUB to undertake a PhD in the department of Mechanical Engineering on hexahedral finite element mesh generation which was completed in 1993. Mark then joined FEGS Ltd (now Transcendata Europe) as a software engineer and project manager to implement his research work in their CAE application CADFix. He then made a brief career change moving into a Financial Derivatives company to develop advanced software systems for financial forecasting and derivatives pricing.

In 1998 he returned to QUB Aeronautical Engineering lecturing in aircraft structures. With a strong focus on design applications and integrated cost models including manufacturing processing effects in design simulations. He has built a solid body of work and methods in the design of airframes and design automation for airframes. He received the 2006 Thomas Hawksley medal from the IMechE for his work on friction stir welding in airframe design. He has published over 170 articles, supervised 16 PhDs to completion and has obtained grant funding of over £3M including prestigious major national and international collaborative programmes. In addition he has held key administrative roles including Head of Teaching for Aeronautical Engineering and was a university auditor for the quality assurance of degree programmes.

Mark is the Head of the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Queens. His current projects include value driven design, airframe design methods, life cycle costing and structural design of metallic and composite airframes. He is a member of the AIAA Aircraft Design Technical Committee, and was Technical Chair for the ATIO conference for 2007 & 2009. Mark is also a Director of the QUB Institute for the Sustainable World (ISW) where sustainability and whole life costs of engineering products is his key focus.

主办单位：重庆大学工程学部

承办单位：重庆大学机械工程学院

欢迎各单位老师同学参加，并针对有关问题现场提问。