The future of designing and making
The Design and Manufacturing Futures laboratory is researching and creating the tools and technologies of tomorrow, providing game-changing capability for the design, manufacture, operation and disposal of next generation products and machines.
Projects
People
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Ben Hicks
Professor, Director
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Aydin Nassehi
Reader, Codirector
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Chris Snider
Lecturer
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Jason Yon
Lecturer
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James Gopsill
Lecturer
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David Jones
Research Associate
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Reza Imani Asrai
Research Associate
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Owen Freeman Gebler
Research Engineer
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Mark Goudswaard
Research Engineer
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David Mathias
Research Engineer
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Peter Rosso
Research Engineer
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Andrew Ma
Research Engineer
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Harry Felton
Research Engineer
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Lee Kent
Research Engineer
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Denis Plavljanić
Research Engineer
Recent Posts
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As well as being the opponent for a PhD defence in Trondheim Ben also visited the TrollLAB in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The research activities of the TrollLAB focus on investigating and improving the process of the early fuzzy front end in engineering design, […]
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I’ve started work on my first sprint looking at coupling additive and subtractive manufacturing (termed hybrid manufacturing) for use within digital twinning. Using the research group’s new lab space – the digital manufacturing lab at the University of Bristol – I’m going to be investigating the machining of FDM produced parts with the aim of […]
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In December I visited current and potential research partners in Colombia. The main purpose of the visit was to explore research overlap between the DMF lab and La Universidad de los Andes in Bogota in areas related to the democratisation of design (the theme of my doctoral research) and also wider research areas for future […]
