Keynote Speaker Ⅰ

Essam Shehab

FIET, FACostE, FHEA

Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan & Cranfield University, UK 

 

Speech Title: Industrial Digitalization Applications in World-Class Aerospace Companies

Abstract: This plenary presentation will provide an overview of a number of research projects on digital manufacturing which were carried out within world-class aerospace companies such as Airbus and Rolls-Royce. The research projects include digital mock-up, model-based definition and digital workflow in manufacturing. Digital Mock-Up (DMU) project focused on integrating design and manufacturing teams during different phases of aircraft design to reduce concession time. Model-Based Definition (MBD) is based upon the shift to 3D CAD models as a single source of product definition encompassing all the product information and thus eliminating the need for 2D representation.  It is a digital-product model that defines the requirements and specifications of the product. A Model-Based Enterprise (MBE) uses MBD to define the product requirements and specifications instead of paper-based documents as the data source for all engineering activities throughout the product lifecycle. The presentation will provide an outline on digital workflow of complex aerospace manufacturing engineering processes.

Brief: Professor Essam Shehab is the Head of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. He is also a Visiting Professor at Cranfield University, UK. Professor Shehab has sustained his strong research leadership with world-leading aerospace companies including Airbus and Rolls-Royce by collaborating consistently with both companies over the past 16 years and has generated an impressive over 100 research projects with both companies. He secured £16m research funding in cash from Government grants (UK, EU, KZ and overseas) and industry. 
Professor Shehab was invited to provide plenary and keynote presentations in international conferences. He generated 326 research publications which have received over 11,500 Citations. His i10-index of 116 and h-index of 29, 40 and 35 by Scopus, Google Scholar and Research Gate respectively. He has successfully completed the supervision of 34 PhD researchers and 132 MSc theses. He acted as the External Examiner for MEng/BEng mechanical and manufacturing engineering programmes at Queen’s University Belfast and Teesside University, Leicester University and University of Greenwich. He also served as the external examiner for over 30 PhD theses at UK, UAE, Singapore, and Ireland universities. Professor Shehab is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (HEA), the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) and the Association of Cost Engineers (ACostE).

 

Keynote Speaker Ⅱ

Feiping Du

Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

 

 

 

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