Advanced Design and Manufacturing Engineering
The Advanced Design and Manufacturing Engineering Centre (ADMEC) conducts research in product innovation and development supported by design, manufacture and multi-disciplinary engineering technologies. Our major research areas are:
Product design
Including design methods, integrated design and manufacture, design optimisation, industrial design, consumer product design, engineering product design, and product design pedagogy.
Technology for sustainability
Including sustainable design, sustainable lighting products, sustainable consumption and production, waste recycling system, measurement of consumer ecological footprints, industrial ecology, renewable energy, design for generation of clean power from tidal/ ocean/ solar energy, and eco-buildings.
Advanced manufacturing technology
Including condition monitoring, condition based maintenance, embedded systems, control, image processing, sensor fusion, industrial engineering and operations management.
Web and internet technologies
Including web-enabled collaboration in intelligent design and manufacture, mobile environment for collaborative product design, upperware for collaborative work environment, grid, web services, mobile technology and wireless computing.
Multi-disciplinary engineering technologies
Including computer aided design/ manufacturing/ engineering, materials, mechanics, artificial neural networks, knowledge based systems, genetic algorithms and evolutionary computing, rapid prototyping, mechanical transmission, gears and cam mechanisms, analogue and digital electronics, radio frequency identification and near field communication technologies.
The activities of the centre have been supported by grants from a variety of funding organisations including:
- EU
- Research Councils UK
- TSB
- EPSRC
- AHRC
- Royal Society
- HEFCE
- East Midlands Development Agency
- Sustainable Construction iNET
- Creating enterprise in universities programme and industry.
ADMEC has a strong national and international reputation. Our staff have acted as panel members and assessors for research grant applications for funding organisations. They are also actively involved with many national and international professional organisations including IEE, IMechE, BSI, IFToMM, IIA, CMES and JEA.
We have been involved in many international activities including a number of collaborative research projects, visiting professorships, conference keynote speeches, invited lectures, and invited international research visits.
We also work closely with industry on different research and consultancy schemes. Our activities support research for the degrees of MPhil and PhD and input to postgraduate and undergraduate taught programmes as well as professional development training.
