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Personal Statement
Prof. William Ion is currently Deputy Head of the Department of Design, Manufacture and Engineering Management (DMEM) and was Head of Department from 2002 to 2008. He is also Vice Dean (Knowledge Exchange) for the Faculty of Engineering.
Following a period in industry Professor Ion joined the University in 1986 and throughout his academic career has focussed his research, knowledge exchange and teaching activities within the design and manufacturing field with a particular focus on forging and forming technologies, additive manufacture, design for manufacture and design processes. His portfolio of research projects includes funding from EPSRC, TSB, EU and industry addressing both fundamental and applied research as well as knowledge exchange, having been involved in and led projects totalling over £20m. He is the founding Director of the Advanced Forming Research Centre (established 2009) and was the Strathclyde lead on the UK wide team that secured the High Value Manufacturing Catapult (established 2011). He has been actively involved in the development of design and design management education at undergraduate and postgraduate levels since joining the University, having led the development and introduction of the Department's Product Design Engineering programmes (1991). He was chair of the of the Design Education Special Interest Group of the Design Society from 2002 to 2013 and a member of the core organising committee of the International Engineering and Product Design Education conference series since its inception in 1999 (organising 14 conferences). He was also the lead academic and director of the Erasmus Mundus funded International Masters in Global Innovation Management (2008 - 20130), taught jointly with the Universities of Aalborg and Hamburg Harburg.
His research interests include: knowledge information management; collaborative design environments; rapid and virtual prototyping; design for manufacture, advanced manufacturing and engineering design education. He has been an investigator on research and development projects totalling over £20m including the following: the JISC/NSF funded project with Stanford University “Distributed Innovative Design, Education and Teamworking” (DIDET); the EPSRC Grand Challenge project “Knowledge and Information Management Through Life’ led by University of Bath IMRC; SAMULET (Strategic Affordable Manufacturing in the UK through leading Environmental Technologies) and over 20 Knowledge Transfer Partnerships since 1995. In recognition of his contribution to KTP he was given the 2013 UK Academic Ambassador award by the Technology Strategy Board. He is also Director of the EPSRC supported Industrial Doctorate Centre in Advanced Forming and Forging and a member of the The Design Society Advisory Board.
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Projects
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Strathclyde CDT in Lightweighting and Design in Advanced Materials
Blackwell, P., Ion, W. & Evans, D.
1/01/19 → 30/09/22
Project: Internally funded project
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Research output
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Experimental investigation of plasma cutting two separate thin steel sheets simultaneously and parameters optimisation using Taguchi approach
Gani, A., Ion, W. & Yang, E., 30 Apr 2021, In: Journal of Manufacturing Processes. 64, p. 1013-1023 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The exploration of collaborative supply chain factors in the oil and gas industry
Olisah, M. C., Nwankpa, C., Whitfield, I. & Ion, W., 2 Sep 2020. 18 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
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Datasets
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Ultrasonic measurements made during incremental rotary forming.
Appleby, A. (Creator), Ion, W. (Supervisor) & Conway, A. (Supervisor), University of Strathclyde, 21 Mar 2019
DOI: 10.15129/dcf1b66c-0b1d-4cca-867f-cb90e30d5560
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New engineering design processes through humour
Hatcher, G. (Creator), Ion, W. (Data Manager), MacLachlan, R. (Contributor), Wodehouse, A. (Contributor), Simpson, B. (Contributor) & Marlow, M. (Contributor), University of Strathclyde, 31 Oct 2016
DOI: 10.15129/7a8c5e1e-988b-4f32-ba9a-0ad8c01c0dc6
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Prizes
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Best Poster (Application) Award
Chimaeze Onyeiwu (Recipient), Yang, Erfu (Recipient), Tony Rodden (Recipient), Yan, Xiu (Recipient), Zante, Remi Christophe (Recipient) & Ion, William (Recipient), 21 Jun 2017
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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KTP Academic Ambassador of the year 2013
Ion, William (Recipient), Jan 2013
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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Scottish Science Advisory Council (External organisation)
William Ion (Advisor)
Jun 2019 → Jun 2020Activity: Membership types › Membership of committee
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20th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education: Diversity or Conformity?
Ian Whitfield (Chair), Dorothy Evans (Organiser), William Ion (Organiser), Hilary Grierson (Organiser) & Ross Brisco (Organiser)
1 May 2018 → 13 Sep 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organiser of major conference