COMADEM 2012 hailed success
Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:19:00 BST
COMADEM Conference comes to Huddersfield
Pictured at the conference (l-r) Professor Jürgen Krahl, Professor Rakesh Mishra, Professor Andrew Ball, Professor Raj Rao and Graham Penning
The University of Huddersfield welcomed leading engineers and academics from around the world when it hosted the 2012 COMADEM (Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineering Management) Conference on its campus last week.
Keynote speakers included:
- Professor Jürgen Krahl from Coburg University (Biofuels – a contribution to sustainable development)
- Professor Rajkumar Roy from Cranfield University (Through-life engineering services – challenges and opportunities)
- John Amoore from Network Rail (A vision for intelligent railway infrastructure and operations for 2050)
- Professor Diego Galar from Luleå University of Technology (Integration of multiple data sources for diagnosis and prognosis – an information fusion approach)
Huddersfield expertise was represented by keynote addresses from the University of Huddersfield’s Professor Andrew Ball, who heads the Research Centre for Efficiency and Performance Engineering, and the Group Technology Director of global power transmission company David Brown Gears, Graham Penning, who spoke about the escalating need for condition monitoring in the mechanical power transmission industry.
Professor Andrew Ball opened the conference with an overview of the current state of diagnostics engineering illustrated by the work of the University’s Centre for Efficiency and Performance Engineering, which operates in over 50 research areas between its four research groups.
The 2012 conference was organised by Huddersfield’s Professor Rakesh Mishra, who gave his inaugural professorial lecture at the conference, entitled ‘Destined to flow’.
Professor Mishra’s main teaching area is thermo-fluids and his research interests are renewable energy, computational fluid dynamics, multiphase flow, instrumentation, aerodynamics and automotive brake cooling. He has published more than 120 research papers in top journals and conferences in the above areas.
“The conference was an immense success,” said Professor Mishra. “The feedback from both delegates and speakers was very positive and they were very impressed with the research facilities here at the University.”
