Manufacturing and Management Group
In recent years, the nature of manufacturing research has shifted in response to new drivers resulting in paradigms such as Micro/Nano Manufacturing, Sustainable Manufacturing, Digital Manufacturing and Innovative Material Processing (IMP) technologies.
The Manchester manufacturing group is not only active in these fields but takes a leading role in many of them at an international level.
The manufacturing research group collaborates with over 70 companies in the UK and abroad.
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Group members
Group Leader: Prof Lin Li
Membership: Dr Alaa Abdul-Ameer, Dr Ampara Aramcharoen, Dr John Atkinson, Mr Gregoire Chabrol, Dr Paul Chan, Dr Margaret Emsley, Dr Peter Fenn, Dr John Francis, Prof Andrew W Gale, Mr Paul Gardiner, Prof David R Hayhurst, Dr Robert Heinemann, Mrs Anna Hiley, Prof Sri Hinduja, Dr Alhaji M Kamara, Dr Moray Kidd, Dr Richard Kirkham, Prof Konstantinos Kontis, Dr Therese Lawlor-Wright, Mr David Ling, Mr Mark R Long, Dr Paul Mativenga, Dr James Methven, Dr Kassandra Papadopoulou, Dr Jamshid Parvar, Dr Andrew Pinkerton, Dr Joao Quariguasi, Mrs Fiona Saunders, Dr Huseyin K Sezer, Dr Mohammad Sheikh, Dr Wei Wang, Dr Zengbo Wang, Prof Stephen Wearne, Prof Robert Whalley, Mr David Whitehead, Dr Daxu Zhang
The 37th International MATADOR Conference
Manchester on 25th - 27th July, 2012
The MATADOR Conference was established in 1959, which makes it one of the longest running conferences in the field of manufacturing.
Research centre
Reserach themes
The group's main reserach themes are:
- Micro/Nano Manufacturing
- Green/Sustainable Manufacturing
- High Speed Machining
- Materials Modelling
- Rapid Prototyping and Additive Manufacturing
- Bio-medical Manufacturing
- Composite Manufacturing and Materials Modelling
- Digital Manufacturing
- Micro/Nano Metrology
- High Precision, Micro/nano Machine Design
- Non-conventional Manufacturing Technology (Macro-scale)
Postgraduate research
The group provides quality education based on the innovative research, which is carried out to meet the ever-changing needs of the Manufacturing Industry. To this end, the group continually seeks high calibre students to carry out PhD research in all aspects of Manufacturing Engineering.
Generally students require external funding and visitors a bench fee. However, in some cases specific projects have funding for PhD Studentships.