Engineering Innovative Products

Roger Woods, School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queen's University Belfast, UKRoger Woods is a Professor of Digital Systems at Queen's University Belfast. He is a Fellow of the IET, a senior member of IEEE and a fully chartered engineer. He has published over 160 scientific papers and holds a number of patents. He has collaborated extensively with industry and has founded a spin-off company Analytics Engines to commercialise this research. He has developed the 'Industrial Project' course at QUB on which this book is based. Karen Rafferty, School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queen's University Belfast, UKDr. Karen Rafferty is a senior lecturer in the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Queen's University Belfast. She researches into computer vision with associated camera calibration, position estimation, feature extraction and tracking, colour recognition and sensor fusion with application to the development of intelligent autonomous industrial and environmental inspection devices with a particular emphasis on lighting. She has developed a number of innovative teaching and assessment strategies for Higher Level Engineering. Julian Murphy, School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queen's University Belfast, UKDr. Julian Murphy is a lecturer in the School of Electronics, Electrical engineering and Computer Science at Queen's University Belfast. He researches into novel microelectronics solutions form a range of security applications and has had experience of forming companies. Paul Hermon, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Queen's University Belfast, UKMr. Hermon is a Senior Teaching Fellow in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Queen's University Belfast. He is Programme Director of the Product Design and Development (PDD) degrees offered in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at QUB. The PDD degrees were introduced in 2004 and developed in line with the syllabus and standards defined by the CDIO Initiative (est. 2000) is an international collaboration of universities aiming to improve the education of engineering students. The CDIO ethos is that students are taught in the context of conceiving, designing, implementing and operating a product or system. Fundamental to this is an integrated curriculum with multiple Design-Build-Test (DBT) experiences at the core. (QUB) was the first UK University to join the CDIO initiative.