Lecture-Manufacturing Research at Cambridge

Campus A 7-342

208 Oct. 24, 9:00am

Manufacturing Research at Cambridge

Title：Manufacturing Research at Cambridge
Time：9:00 am, Oct.24, 2018 Place：Campus A 7-342 

Speaker：Prof. Stephen Evans
Host：Huajun Cao, Professor

Biography
Stephen Evans, Professor of Cambridge, Director of the EPSRC Centre for Industrial Sustainability, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Business, Fellow of the British Institute of Engineering Technology, Expert to the House of Lords on Waste Reduction, Expert on Low Carbon Technology Applications and Energy Efficiency, Chairman of the Manufacturing Policy Committee and the Design and Production Committee, British Institute of Engineering and Technology. Prof. Evans has been committed to the multidisciplinary cross the forefront of sustainable development, cooperation, innovation, and technology research, main research direction includes sustainable factory, sustainable urban regeneration design, sustainable design, and operation, etc., has published five monographs, participated in 14 monographs, drafting 3 United Nations industrial development organization documents, more than 200 academic papers published articles.

Abstract
Manufacturing research at Cambridge is based at the Institute for Manufacturing. With a focus on manufacturing industries, it creates, develops, and deploys new insights into management, technology, and policy. Its mission is scholarship, world-leading research, and education that creates knowledge, insights, and technologies of value to established and emerging manufacturing industries and the associated policy community. The research is intended to have an impact on industry and government through knowledge transfer and application, as well as by influencing the direction of future research. This talk will describe the challenges of delivering research that is relevant to the industry and academically excellent.