___________________________________________________________________________ Name: Steve Joseph email: ME1SHJ@UK.AC.SHEFFIELD.PRIMEA Postal Address: Dept Mech Eng Sheffield University Mappin St Sheffield S1 3JD My research interests are not centrally in design; they are in the automatic conversion of engineering drawings to CAD format. We use our own software developed over the last seven years, with some assistance from ACME grants. The software is written in C, on Suns, using a combination of yacc and object oriented programming. I am currently moving it on to C++. I teach design, particularly to first year students, and have managed to include more real design and less drawing in the course. I am particularly interested in design environments, graphical interfaces, and their construction using advanced software (or AI, to sound grand). ___________________________________________________________________________ Name: Mike Mead e-mail: mm@inf.rl.ac.uk Postal address: Informatics Department Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Chilton Didcot OXON OX11 0QX Work telephone no.: +44 235 446710 Research Interests: 1. Engineering Data Exchange 2. Standards (STEP) 3. Software tools Research Tools: _________________________________________________________________________ Name: Forster, Jorg K.W. e-mail: forster@uk.ac.abdn.csd Postal address: Department of Computing Science University of Aberdeen Old Aberdeen AB9 2UB Work telephone no.: 0224-272597 Research Interests: 1. Design Support Tools 2. Design Methodologies 3. Information Retrival in Engineering Applications Research Tools: HyperNeWS (Turing Institute's HyperText system) Mechanical Advantage ('Coneptual Design tool') Languages ('C', 'poplog', Lisp, Prolog) Nexpert _________________________________________________________________________ Name: David Steier e-mail: steier@cmu.edu Postal address: Engineering Design Research Center Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA Work telephone no.: (412) 268-7863 Research Interests: 1. Integrated intelligent architectures 2. Machine learning 3. Expert systems Research Tools: Soar _________________________________________________________________________ Name: Chris Jobling e-mail: eechris@uk.ac.swan.pyr Postal address: Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Wales, Swansea Singleton Park Swansea SA2 8PP Work telephone no.: +44-792-295580 Research Interests: 1. User interfaces for computer-aided control systems design. 2. Object-oriented programming and object-oriented databases and their application to engineering analysis and design environments 3. Open systems for computer-aided control engineering 4. Symbolic and rule-based programming for dynamic systems analysis Research Tools: ACSL, Matlab, Sicstus Prolog, Mathematica, Omola, C++. Other Stuff: Editor of the electronic newsletter OPEN CACSD described in the same issue of the Engineering Computing Newsletter as this mail group! _________________________________________________________________________ Name: Shu-Qiang Wang (Mr.) e-mail address: sqw@uk.ac.le Work telephone no.: (0533)522872 Postal address: Dept. of Engineering Univ. of Leicester Leicester LE1 7RH Research interests: 1. Digital signal and image processing; 2. Expert systenm; 3. Instrumentation. Research tools: 1. PC 386; 2. Sun workstation; 3. Vax/Vms system. _________________________________________________________________________ Name: Ahmed Habbas AL-ASHAAB e-mail: ahmed@mansun.lut.ac.uk Postal address: Manufacturing Eng. Dept., Loughborough University of Technology, Loughborough, Leics. LE11 3UT. Work telephone no.:0509-263171 Ext 2427 Research Interests: 1.Concurrent Engineering 2.Product & Manufacturing Modelling Research Tools: LOOPS (Lisp Object-Oriented Programming System) Hopfully in the near future wil change into CLOS (Common Lisp Object System) _________________________________________________________________________ Name: Nick Ajderian e-mail: ensnjsa@uk.ac.bath.gdr Postal address: School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY Work telephone no.: 0225 826 826 ext 5937 Research Interests: 1.Modelling of assemblies using features and components, 2.Optimisation, 3.Rotating power transmission systems Research Tools: Microsoft Windows 3, C, Visual Basic, SmalltalkV/Win _________________________________________________________________________ Name: Robert Ettinger e-mail: r.ettinger@uk.ac.ucl Postal address: Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering University College London Torrington Place London WC1E 7JE Work telephone no.: 071 387 7050 extn 3990 Research Interests: 1. Computational Electromagnetics 2. Finite Elements 3. Nonlinear Integrated Optics Research Tools: UNIGRAPH graphics (from UNIRAS) WW workstation library (from RAL) MA27, ME28 sparse matrix solvers (from HARWELL) APPLE electrostatics software (from RAL) POMME optical/microwave software (local) Sun FORTRAN compiler _________________________________________________________________________ Name: Mohammed A. SARKI e-mail: sarkima@uk.ac.aston.vax.kirk Postal address: Dept of mech & elect eng, Aston University, Birmingham, B4 7ET Work telephone no.: 021-359 3611 x4319 Research Interests: 1. Automated Fixture Design 2. Feature Based Design 3. Configuration Design Research Tools: POPLOG programming environment + BOXER solid modelling system both on Vax Cluster machine _________________________________________________________________________ Name: Brian J. King e-mail: JANET: B.J.King@uk.ac.ncl , Internet:B.J.King%newcastle.ac.uk@cunyvm.cuny.edu, UUCP : ...!mcvax!ukc!ncl.ac.uk!B.J.King Postal address: Engineering Design Centre The University Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU (UK) Work telephone no.: +44 91 222 8557 Research Interests: 1. product modelling (ISO 10303/STEP) 2. database systems 3. object-oriented systems 4. making "loadsa" $ Research Tools: 1. NIAM to Express parser 2. Express to SQL translator 3. Express compiler (RAL/N9) 4. Express file reader 5. Relational / Express file reader _________________________________________________________________________ Name : Liz Allan (Mrs), Librarian, e-mail: Janet : l_allan@uk.ac.edrc Internet : l_allan@edrc.ac.uk Postal address : EDRC ( Engineering Design Research Centre) 1 Todd Campus, West of Scotland Science Park, Maryhill Road, Glasgow G20 0XA. Work telephone no. : Tel :(041) 945 0908 Fax :(041) 946 5020 Research Interests : 1. Design methods 2. Design tools 3. Design infrastructure Research Tools : Computational Theoretical Bibliographic _________________________________________________________________________ Name: Dr Pravir K Chawdhry e-mail: P.K.Chawdhry@bath.ac.uk Postal address: School of Mechanical Engineering University of Bath Bath BA2 7AY (UK) Work telephone no.: + 44 - 225 - 826 956 / (0225) 826 956 Research Interests: 1. Integrated Design Environment 2. Product Modelling Techniques and Tools 3. Data Exchange in STEP/PDES (ISO 10903) 4. Concurrent Engineering 5. Features-based shape representation Research Tools: 1. Sun Workstations 2. Unix compiler tools YACC, BISON, LEX, FLEX 3. NIAM and EXPRESS compilers 4. Ingres and Versant DBMSs 5. Hypernews _________________________________________________________________________ Name: Dr Minaz Punjani e-mail: M.Punjani@uk.ac.ulcc Postal address: ULCC, 20 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1DZ Work telephone no.: 071-405-8400 ext 330 Research Interests: 1.Design and Analysis of Engineering Products and Structures using Finite Element Computing and associated Graphical Systems. 2. 3. Research Tools: Various FE programs (e.g. Dyna3d, Lusas, MSC/NASTRAN and AVS). The hardware consists of a Convex Supercomputer C3840 and a frontend C3240. _________________________________________________________________________ Name: Dr A. Berrais e-mail: cen5berr@uk.ac.leeds.sun Postal address: Civil Eng. Dept., Leeds University, Leeds LS2 9JT Work telephone no.: 0532 332315 Research Interests: 1. Application of AI and KBES to Civil Eng. Problems 2. Seismic Analysis and Design of RC Buildings 3. FEM and Inelastic Dynamic Analysis of Buildings Research Tools: Prolog Quintec-Prolog Quintec-Flex Fortran 77 _________________________________________________________________________ Name: Tim I.A. Ellis e-mail: tellis@mansun.lut.ac.uk Postal address: Manufacturing Department, Loughborough University of Technology, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU Work telephone no.: 0509 263171 X4248 Research Interests: 1. Manufacturing Modelling 2. CIM 3. Product Modelling Research Tools: _________________________________________________________________________ Name: Chris Guy e-mail: c.guy@uk.ac.rdg postal: Dept of Engineering University of Reading Whiteknights Reading RG6 2AY Research Interests (related to this group): 1. Fault-Tolerant Design 2. Design Teaching Research Tools: None, other than my (small) brain. PS. I am an electronic engineer, and would like to see 'design' encompass this field. Most postings imply a 'mechanical' emphasis. _________________________________________________________________________ Name: Neale Hall e-mail: hall@uk.ac.bangor.sees Postal address: rm320, SEES, Dean st, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 1UT Work telephone no.: 0248 351151 ex 2723 Research Interests: 1. Object Oriented Programming 2. VLSI Testing Research Tools: Objectworks a C++ development tool. _________________________________________________________________________ Name: J Alan Cassels email Address: TBZ507@uk.ac.napier.prime Postal Address: Colinton Rd Edinburgh EH105DT Research interest I.T & CMC & JANET use 2. Built envifrest 1 Building technology Research interest: built environment - the technical and social issues. 2. Information technology. Research tools: - in the furure - use of the JANET network. _________________________________________________________________________ Name: Shoulong Chen e-mail: umeca96@uk.ac.ic.ps Postal address: IRC in Process Engineering, Dept. of Chemical Eng., Imperial College, SW7 2BY telephone no.: 071 225 8119 Research Interests: 1. Object-Oriented Design 2. KnowledgeBase and Relational Database 3. Hypermedia Research Tools: Sun Sparc and Intergraph machine; Tools:- Lispworks, Concept Modelar, Oracle Database, etc... _________________________________________________________________________ Name: Philip M. Sargent e-mail: pms@eng.cam.ac.uk Postal address: Cambridge University Engineering Dept., Trumpington Street, CAMBRIDGE CB2 1PZ, fax. +44 (223) 332662 Work telephone no.: (0223) 245249 or 332627 Research Interests: 1. Materials information in design decisions 2. Multi-agent design teams 3. Materials agents in design environments 4. Design theory 5. Materials data models and data exchange formats Research Tools: paper and pencil thesauri and concept hierarchies design decision precedence matrices self-describing materials data repository design (data models) I mostly work in editable ascii text for compatibility and transportability reasons. also Ullmans new book beats P&B and Suh hollow. I'll do a proper review when I get back from AI Design'92. _________________________________________________________________________ Name: Dr Peter R Wilson Email: pdes01@vms.ecs.rpi.edu or pwilson@rdrc.rpi.edu Postal Address: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute CII 7015 110 8th Street Troy, NY 12180-3590 USA Telephone: +1 (518) 276-2968 Fax: +1 (518) 276-2702 Research Interests: 1) Information modeling, particularly as it pertains to product descriptions. 2) Development of the EXPRESS family of information modeling languages. 3) Product data exchange standards (e.g. PDES/STEP, VHDL, EDIF, CFI, POSC) 4) Topology, Solid modeling, Design by Feature Research Tools: Compilers and objectbases for EXPRESS _________________________________________________________________________ Name: Wiedmer Hans Ulrich e-mail: wiedmer@iwf.mabp.ethz.ch Postal address: Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technology, LEO D3, ETH Zentrum, CH-8092 Zuerich Work telephone no.: +41 1 256 4819 Research Interests: 1. (Standard) Parts Libraries 2. CAD/CAM Data Exchange, especially STEP, EXPRESS 3. Computer Languages Research Tools: _________________________________________________________________________ Name: Patric Timmermans E-mail: bdbipt@urc.tue.nl Postal address: Eindhoven University of Technology Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management Science P.O.Box 513 NL-5600 MB eindhoven Tel.: +31 40 473703 Research interests: 1. (modular) information systems design 2. CIM modelling 3. Shop Floor Control _________________________________________________________________________ Name: Prof Kevin Edge e-mail: K.A.Edge@uk.ac.bath.gdr Postal address: Fluid Power Centre, School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY. Research interests in the area of DESIGN: 1. Fluid Power Systems, with particular reference to System Design and Performance evaluation through Simulation; performance-related component selection; hydraulic circuit design for low noise (work to be undertaken as part of a new SERC-funded Engineering Design Centre). 2. Development of Software for mechanical actuation allowing DIRECT comparison of performance of hydraulic, pneumatic and electrical drives and their controls. 3. Hydraulic component design. Research tools: Bathfp simulation package, developed at Bath Fluid Power Centre, running on UNIX workstations & PCs. Fully equiped hydraulics laboratory. _________________________________________________________________________ Name: Rodolphe L. (Rudy) Motard e-mail: motard@cape1.wustl.edu Post: Department of Chemical Engineering Washington University Campus Box 1198 One Brookings Drive St. Louis, Missouri 63130-4899 Telephone: 314-935-6072 FAX: 314-935-4434 Research Interests: 1. Process engineering database 2. Object-oriented modeling in process engineering 3. Process synthesis, expert and knowledge based systems Research tools: OMTools, Kappa-pc, in-house OO environment and RDBMS _________________________________________________________________________ Name: Tan DU e-mail: dut@uk.ac.bham Postal address: Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Birmingham PO Box 363 Birmingham B15 2TT Work telephone no.: +021-414-4795 Research Interests: 1. High-performance a.c motor drive design 2. Nonlinear observer design 3. Computer-aided Power electronic system analysis and design Research Tools: Compaq 386, IBM3090, Sun station, TMSC30 Matlab, Nag, Gino, Windows, C++, Saber _________________________________________________________________________ Name: Hermann Ruess e-mail: hr@hpbbn.bbn.hp.com Postal adress: Herrenberger Str. 130 D-7030 Boeblingen Hewlett-Packard GmbH, MDD R&D Germany Reaseach interest: We are developing prototypes for products for product data exchange. No explicit research Are interested in EXPRESS compilers, EXPRESS based data generation, data access function generation etc. Tools: Express, Lex, Yacc, CADEX tools Comment: I'm not sure if I'm in the right forum here, since we are product oriented. _________________________________________________________________________ Name: Nigel Ball e-mail: nrb@uk.ac.cam.eng Postal address: Cambridge Engineering Design Centre Department of Engineering University of Cambridge Trumpington Street Cambridge, CB2 1PZ, U.K. Work telephone no.: (0223) 332702 Research Interests: 1. Design Tool Integration 2. Product Modelling 3. Machine Learning - ANNs / GAs Research Tools: CAD Tools - DUCT, ME10, ME30, Mechanica (FEM) AI Tools - KnowledgeWorks, Genesis (GA) Languages - C, C++ _________________________________________________________________________ Name: Alastair Watson e-mail: cen6aw@uk.ac.leeds.sun Postal address: CAE Group Civil Engineering Department The University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT Work telephone no.: 0532-332314 Research Interests: 1. The application of computers to structural design and the impact of IT on construction and the construction industry. 2. The development of product models and their use in information exchange and integration. 3. Knowledge-based systems and engineering databases. 4. Design standards : KBS + Hypertext + PMs Research Tools: Sun workstations & PCs Island Write & Draw IDEF1X (+0) Various EXPRESS tools Prolog & Flex etc etc _________________________________________________________________________ Name: David Jenkins e-mail: dgj@uk.ac.paisley.cs OR d_jenkin@uk.ac.edrc Postal address: 1 Todd Campus, GLASCOW G20 0XA (until July 1993), then Department of Computing Science, University of Paisley, PA1 2BE Work telephone no.: +44-41-945-0908 (EDRC) +44-41-945-3000 (UoP) Research Interests: 1. Information technology to support design research. 2. Distributed, multi-seat Design History Editor. 3. Open blackboard architecture with STEP AP. (!!) Research Tools: Extension of J Bebbington's DHE to use HERMES Object Manger to get OO, opportunistic behaviour from knowledge sources using both new and existing information in relational databases. Testing of ideas in a specific domain, eg Safety Critical/mechatronic design via Design Challenges, requiring development of Petri-net based behaviour modelling for HCI, software, electronic and mechanical elements. Tools, DHE, all operate in X11R5+PEX NFS distributed WAN environment. Attention is also being paid to eg Khoros and ITHACA developments. _________________________________________________________________________ Name: Dr M.P.Cartmell e-mail: cartmell@uk.ac.aberdeen.computing-science Postal address: Department of mechanical Engineering, U.C.Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea, SA2 8PP. Work 'phone No.: 0792 295215 (Direct) Work fax No.: 0792 295701 Research Interests: Nonlinear Dynamics (not relevant here perhaps) Vibrations Mechanical Design Methodologies Research Tools: Hepernews based system devised by this group. It's called Design Brief Expansion (DBE) and is for generic expansion work of Design Briefs to get to the Requirements Specification stage. Work to date has been funded by SERC ACME Directorate. Research Group: Pat Fothergill, Snr Lecturer, Computing Science, Aberdeen. Jorg Forster, RA, Computing Science, Aberdeen. Matthew Cartmell, Lecturer, Mech.Eng., U.C.Swansea. _________________________________________________________________________ Name: Richard Clark e-mail: r_clark@uk.ac.edrc Postal address: 1 Todd campus, West of Scotland Science Park, Mary hill rd, Glasgow G20-0XA. Work telephone no.: 041-945 0908 ext 215 Research Interests: 1. Systems and Data Analysis applied to Engineering. 2. Hypertext applied to Engineering. 3. Computer Aided Production Management and Design Support. Research Tools: Design/IDEF, CK Modeller, HyperRez, Hyplus, Hyglos, Internet, The ubiquitous Sparc II's & pc's (w and w/o windows) _________________________________________________________________________ Name: Mr Micheal W. Dobson e-mail: m.w.dobson@uk.ac.liverpool.compsci Postal address: Dept.Comp.Sci. Chadwick Tower Liverpool University Work telephone no.: 44-051-794-3706 Research Interests: 1. Computer Supported Learning 2. Computer Supported Collaborative Work 3. Collaborative Design Research Tools: MUCH system "Multiple Users Changing HyperMedia" X Window tool sets AutoCad __________________________________________________________________________ Name: Richard Birmingham e-mail: R.W.Birmingham@newcastle.ac.uk Postal address: Engineering Design Centre Armstrong Building The University of Newcastle Newcastle upon Tyne England NE1 7RU Work telephone no.: 091 222 8777 Research Interests: 1. Approaches to innovation in structural design. 2. Integrating selection of material and form in structural design. 3. Design methodologies. Research Tools: __________________________________________________________________________ Name: David C. Brown e-mail: dcb@cs.wpi.edu Postal address: Prof. D. C. Brown, CS dept., WPI, Worcester, MA 01609, USA. Work telephone no.: USA: (508) 831-5618 Research Interests: 1. KB design systems 2. AI in engineering & manufacturing Research Tools: DSPL (routine design ES building tool). _________________________________________________________________________ Name: David W. Edwards e-mail: D.W.EDWARDS@UK.AC.LUT Postal address: Chemical Engineering Dept., Loughborough University, Loughborough, LE11 3TU Work telephone no.: 0509 222515 Research Interests: 1. Techno-economic feasibility assessment 2. Inherent plant safety 3. Cost estimation Research Tools: PRODABAS, spreadsheets, micro databases (relational) __________________________________________________________________________ Name: Professor Ken MacCallum e-mail: ken@uk.ac.strath.cad Postal address: University of Strathclyde CAD Centre 75 Montrose Street Glasgow G1 1XJ Work telephone no.: 041-552-4400 x3134 Research Interests: 1. Applications of AI to Design 2. Engineering (conceptual) Design 3. Intelligent Design Assistance Research Tools: Software development based on POPLOG, Lisp Conceptual modelling Functional reasoning Configuration design _________________________________________________________________________ Name : Jonathan A.D. Wilcox e-mail: J.Wilcox@newcastle.ac.uk Postal Address : Engineering Design Centre, Armstrong Building, The University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, NE15 9EX. Telephone : (+44) 91-222-8777 Reasearch Topics: 1). Materials selection. 2). Materials databases. 3). Relationships between material, design and manufacture. 4). Composite materials for offshore use. 5). Fire performance of GRP. Research Tools : Databases, C, books. _________________________________________________________________________ Name: Cornelia Boldyreff e-mail: Cornelia.Boldyreff@durham.ac.uk Postal address: School of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Durham, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, U.K. Work telephone no.: +44 91 374 2638 in UK - (091) 384 2638 Work fax: +44 91 374 3741 in UK - (091) 374 374Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at E:\listplex\SYSTEM\SCRIPTS\filearea.cgi line 455, line 867. 1 Research Interests: 1. Design Reuse (primarily in the phase of conceptual design (Pahl and Beitz)) 2. Design Theory - Process Modelling applying Pahl and Beitz to Software Engineering etc 3. Design as a case of Computer Supported Co-operative Working (CSCW) Research Tools: I participated in the development of the Practitioner REuse Support System (PRESS) - ESPRIT project P1094. This is a CASE tool built using Oracle to hold a design concept database and a thesaurus used for indexing and on-line retrieval of concepts during design. The PRESS has an X-Windows interface. The major population of the PRESS is for design of process control systems in the domain of Steel Production. I have developed quite an extensive domain model for a steel mill's control systems. This experience, led me to develop what I have called: the design framework method to support both design-for-reuse and design-with-reuse. _________________________________________________________________________ Name: Tim Short e-mail: ag538@city.ac.uk Postal address: Engineering Surveying Research Centre, Department of Civil Engineering, City University, Northampton Square, London, United Kingdom, EC1V 0HB Work telephone nr: 071 - 477 8000 x3673 Fax nr: 071 - 477 8570 Research Interests: 1. Airborne GPS kinematic positioning and orientation of remote 3D measurement. 2. Photogrammetry, especially close range industrial, architectural and deformation work. 3. Numerical analysis and software development (ANSI 'C' or K&R 'C'). 4. Digital Image Processing Research Tools: Intergraph Analytical Stereo Plotter SunSPARC 1 & SunSPARC IPX NERC Research Aircraft Metric photogrammetric cameras _________________________________________________________________________