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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James Gopsill
Lecturer
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Jason Yon
Lecturer
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Mike Harvey
Industrial Fellow
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David Jones
Research Associate
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Mark Goudswaard
Research Associate
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Reza Imani Asrai
Research Associate
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Peter Rosso
Research Engineer
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Harry Felton
Research Engineer
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Lee Kent
Research Engineer
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Ric Real
Research Engineer
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Chris Cox
Research Engineer
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Harry White
Research Engineer
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Owen Freeman Gebler
Research Associate (Alumni)
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Andrew Ma
Research Engineer (Alumni)
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David Mathias
Research Engineer (Alumni)
Recent Posts
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Version 1 of the PCA toolkit is shown in the picture below. It contains a first set of products and initiatives designed to contribute towards a safe transition out of lockdown. For more information about each entry please see below the picture. A PDF version of the toolkit can be downloaded with this link. Reducing […]
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Through the winter semester this year 2nd year students at the University have completed PCA projects as part of their core teaching. Focusing on developing designs that anyone can build at home to reduce their risk of transmission, Students were tasked to develop devices that removed the need for contact with surfaces and buttons on […]
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Negligible-cost microfluidic device fabrication using 3D-printed interconnecting channel scaffolds Available open access via PLOS One: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0245206 Harry, Robert Hughes and Andrea Diaz Gaxiola have together published work that demonstrates a fabrication method to produce negligible-cost microfluidic devices that can be combined using a system of inter-connecting joints. The method uses 3D printed scaffolds – produced […]
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Introduced as a measure to prevent the transmission of contagious disease, social distancing, or the act of maintaining a physical distance from others has inadvertently remained a restriction on society throughout this COVID-19 pandemic. Whilst many have followed guidance such as keeping 2m apart or complying with new and occasionally unclear distanced shopping systems, it’s […]
