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The formal remit of
the Steering Group is cast very much in terms of
‘advice’ rather than executive authority,
which is appropriate given the responsibility of
the University to comply with conditions of grant.
However, in practice the Management Group take the
advice of the Steering Group very seriously, and
have taken no significant decisions without their
positive support.
“The role of the HW-IMRC Steering Committee
is to provide independent advice to the Management
Group on the development of the HW-IMRC vision,
the alignment of its strategy, and progress towards
its objectives. The Steering Committee provides
guidance to help the IMRC maintain a balanced research
portfolio including an appropriate degree of more
speculative, high risk/high pay-off research. The
current committee members as at January 2010 are
listed below.”
External
Members of Steering Committee
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Professor
Geoff McFarland
Director of Group Engineering,
Renishaw plc
Chair of HW-IMRC Steering Committee
Professor McFarland is the Director of Group Engineering
at Renishaw and holds another 5 Directorships
in companies that span both industrial and healthcare
markets. He has a key interest in the applied
end of research and technology products and processes.
He joined the Renishaw research and development
facility in Edinburgh in 1994 and subsequently
became Director and General Manager of the CMM
products division. He was appointed to the board
in July 2002 and he is responsible for group engineering
and patents. He is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering
and is also Chair of the Steering Group for the
IMRC at Bath University, and a Governor of the
IeMRC at Loughborough University.
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Dr John
Barr
Chief Engineer
Selex Galileo plc
Dr Barr is the Chief Engineer for the Advanced
Targeting business sector at Selex Galileo plc
in Edinburgh and is therefore responsible for
engineering aspects of one third of the site’s
business. His current interests cover all aspects
of electro-optic systems and targeting lasers
and he has previous experience in solid state
lasers from pure to applied. He is particularly
interested in new product development and their
introduction to the market. His previous posts
include a academic post as Lecturer in The Department
of Physics and a member of the ORC at Southampton
University; Pilkington Optronics plc (Glasgow);
Nortel plc (Paignton Devon). He is an expert
in solid state laser device physics and technology
and applications – focussed recently on
defence – and on volume manufacture of
high performance lasers.
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Dr Peter Batchelor OBE
Managing Director
Goldphoton
Peter Batchelor is Managing Director of his consultancy company, Goldphoton. He was until April 2011 Head of Electronics & Photonics in the UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills where he led the development of the UK's strategy for these sectors, including emerging fields such as plastic electronics, and a vice president of the European technology platform, Photonics21. He has extensive experience in the direction and management of collaborative R&D programmes and investment projects in high technology fields. He is a fellow of the Institute of Physics.
Dr Katie
Blaney
Portfolio Manager
EPSRC
Dr Blaney is the primary EPSRC Contact for the
Heriot-Watt IMRC and Manager of the Photonic
Materials and Device Portfolio within the ICT
Programme at EPSRC.
Professor
Clive H Buckberry
Director of Research
and Development
Quanta Fluid Solutions
Professor Buckberry is Director of Research
and Development at Quanta Fluid Solutions, a
venture capital backed company developing novel
solutions in Haemodialysis devices. Clive trained
as a mechanical/design engineer and received
his PhD from Cranfield University for developments
in ESPI and its application to automotive development
within the BMW/Group group. He later spent time
with Melles Griot Ltd before joining the advanced
innovations group of IMI from which Quanta was
spun out in 2008.
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Dr Ken
Lipton
Managing Director
Rofin-Sinar UK Ltd
Dr Lipton is managing director of Rofin Sinar
UK Ltd. He graduated in Physics from Edinburgh
University and holds a doctorate in laser physics
from Strathclyde University. He has spent most
of his career designing and manufacturing lasers
for military, medical and industrial applications.
Over the past 30 years he has worked in Edinburgh
for Ferranti Ltd, Coherent Ltd , Lumonics Ltd
and Rofin-Sinar Ltd in capacities ranging from
senior design engineer to technical director
to managing director. Rofin-Sinar UK currently
services the industrial processing market and
exports 99% of its UK manufactured products
worldwide.
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Professor
Jim Murray
Senior Associate
MTM Associates
Professor Murray is a specialist in mechanical
engineering, technology management, product
design and manufacture with a wide knowledge
of UK, European, Far East and USA innovation
and manufacturing industries. A major part of
his career has been spent as a leading academic
collaborating closely with Scottish and international,
energy, design, manufacture, business management
companies with special emphasis on the effective
application of computer-based techniques and
commercialisation. His major interest is in
improving wealth and job creation through the
development of product and process based sectors;
particularly through the understanding of external
economic factors. He has been responsible for
the creation and management of a number of major
programmes to boost economic impact of SMEs
through the placement of professional and post-graduate
staff. He has been invited by UK and Scottish
government ministers to serve on a number of
major committees.
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Dr Bill
O’Neill
Reader in Laser Engineering,
Department of Engineering
Cambridge University
Dr O’Neill is a Reader in Laser Engineering
within the Cambridge University Engineering
Department. He has written over 140 scientific
papers on the subject of laser-matter interactions,
optical engineering and manufacturing process
technologies, he is a member of a number of
government and industrial advisory boards, a
member of EPSRC peer review college, and is
a non-executive director of Advanced Laser Solutions
Ltd.
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Dr
Michael Pointer
Consultant
Quality Colour Management
Dr Pointer received his PhD from Imperial
College, London and then worked in the Research
Division of Kodak Limited on fundamental issues
of colour science applied to the photographic
system. After a period working at the National
Physical Laboratory, he now runs his own colour science consultancy working with a number of companies in the UK and overseas. He has academic links that include the University of the Arts in London, KaHo St Lieven University in Gent, Belgium, and the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. He has authored over
110 scientific papers, is co-author of the book Measuring Colour, is a Fellow of The Royal
Photographic Society and the Institute of
Physics, Secretary of CIE Division 1 Vision
& Colour, and UK editor of the journal Color Research and Application. In 2004 he received the Progress Medal from the Society of Dyers and Colourists for contrbutions to the advancement of colour science.
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Dr
Phil Rumsby
Chief Executive Officer
M-Solv Ltd
Dr Rumsby is Chief Executive Officer of M-Solv Ltd which develops novel additive and subtractive manufacturing processes based on ink-jet and laser technology and builds mass production tools based on these processes. He has worked with lasers and industrial applications of lasers for over 40 years. Initially he worked with ultra high power lasers for scientific research at the UK Atomic Energy Authority and the Rutherford Appleton Lab where he was Deputy Head of the Laser Division and Head of the High Power Laser Group, supervising development and scientific use of the VULCAN high power laser facility. He founded Exitech Ltd in 1984 and concentrated on the development of novel industrial laser micromachining applications and the design and manufacture of industrial laser micro-machining tools. After a short period as Business Development Manager for Oerlikon Optics UK, he founded M-Solv in 2007.
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Professor
Rob Santilli
CEO
Applied Microengineering Ltd. (AML)
Professor Santilli is the founder and Chief executive Office of Applied Microengineering Ltd, a privately owned company established in 1992, the first company in the world specifically formed to commercial exploit micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS). AML specialises in Wafer Bonding providing equipment & services based around wafer bonding. Applications include MEMS and Wafer level packaging and 3D integration for MEMS, III-V and mainstream Semiconductor industry.
Rob is also visiting Professor at Imperial college, London
He started his wide industrial experience in the chemical industry with Johnson Matthey, (who sponsored a B.Sc in Applied Chemistry) he then moved to engineering at Aston Martin and the TRRL research laboratory, after an M.Sc at Cranfield in Automotive & Aeronautical engineering. He then moved to a commercial role as Marketing Manager with Fulmer Research during which he obtained a Diploma in Marketing. Here he was involved in a team developing nano tipped field emitters and silicon capacitive pressure sensors. It was here that Rob foresaw the commercial potential of micro-nanotechnology and co-founded AML in 1992. He has been an expert advisor to the European Commission and UK Government, on the Industrial Advisory board of the IEE Professional Network for Nanotechnology, on the Industrial advisory board of the UK’s KTN for Nanotechnology, Industrial board member, of the ‘MEAD’ MOD MEMS consortium. Rob was also the Founder and Chairman of “MUST”, a UK group of SME’s involved in exploiting MNT.
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Professor
Paul Shore
McKeown Professor
of Ultra Precision Technologies
Cranfield University
Professor Shore is the director of the EPSRC
funded Integrated Knowledge Centre for Ultra
Precision and Structured Surfaces. The UPS2
IKC develops near market research into new
products, processes and services. It develops
disruptive technologies in markets such as:
displays, semicon, solar concentrators, medical
devices, ground and space based telescopes.
It also develops processing methods for the
wear components that will enable fusion energy.
He holds the McKeown Chair of Ultra Precision
Technologies at Cranfield and is the elected
Vice President of the European Society for
Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology
(euspen). He trained as an apprentice in
the machine tool industry in the UK prior
to working internationally within the bearing
industry. He was a senior engineer at SKF’s
research centre in the Netherlands. Later
he became the Technical Director of Sweden’s
largest machine tool company, Liköping
Machine Tools AB. Subsequently he moved
to SKF AB headquarters in Gothenburg taking
responsibility for the group’s Precision
Production Engineering Research. He took
up his academic role at Cranfield in 2002.
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Dr
Mark Turner
Rolls Royce Engineering Fellow
Rolls Royce plc
Dr Turner joined Rolls-Royce in 1977 after
graduating from UMIST in chemistry. He worked
as a member of the team developing the manufacture
of the hollow fan blade. In 1987 he acquired
an MSc in Manufacturing Systems Engineering
from Warwick University, becoming laboratory
manager. He led technical teams working on
novel manufacturing technologies including
the second generation Diffusion bonded, and
Superplastically formed hollow fan blade.
He became Technical manager of RR Barnoldswick
in 1995, and Chief of Manufacturing Engineering
for Fan Systems in 1998. He became Chief of
manufacturing technology for Compression Systems
in 2003. In 2006 he transferred to RR Inchinnan
(Glasgow) as Manufacturing Engineering Executive
for Compressor systems. In 2009 he joined
RR Rotatives as Head of Manufacturing Engineering.
He completed a company sponsored PhD by research
from The University of Manchester, in Laser
cleaning of components for critical joining
applications. His specialisms are Machining
and Manufacturing processes for critical component
manufacture. Mark is a Rolls-Royce Engineering
Fellow. He is a member of the Royal Society
of Chemistry, Chartered Scientist and Chartered
Chemist, he is a Fellow of the Institute of
Materials, Minerals & Mining, and a Chartered
Engineer and Fellow of the Royal Society of
Arts.
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