Advanced Design and Manufacturing Engineering Centre (ADMEC)

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The Advanced Design and Manufacturing Engineering Centre (ADMEC) conducts research in product innovation and development supported by design, manufacture and multi-disciplinary engineering technologies. 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 circular economy, sustainable design, sustainable lighting products, sustainable consumption and production, waste recycling system, measurement of consumer ecological footprints, industrial ecology, renewable energy, social and environmental lifecycle assessment, 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 Bank
• Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
• Arts and Humanities Research Council
• Royal Society
• Higher Education Funding Council for England
• East Midlands Development Agency
• Sustainable Construction iNET
• Creating enterprise in universities programme and industry
• Ministry of Science and Technology, China.

ADMEC has a strong national and international reputation. Staff members 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 The Institution of Elecrtrical Engineers, The Institution of Mechanical Engineers, British Standards Institution, International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science, The Institute of Internal Auditors, Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society and JEA.

Members 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. They also work closely with industry on different research and consultancy schemes. Centre’s activities support research for the degrees of MPhil and PhD and input to postgraduate and undergraduate taught programmes as well as professional development training. The Centre has access to a Goniophotometer (supplied by Pro-Lite).

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Nottingham Trent University
50 Shakespeare St
Nottingham
NG1 4FQ