Lecturer Profiles
Short Course Lecturers
Pat McKeown, OBE, FREng
Professor Emeritus at Cranfield, previously
the Director of CUPE and the Chairman of
Cranfield Precision Engineering Group of
companies. Presently he is a Director of
euspen Ltd.
Dave Allen
Professor of Microengineering, he is the author
of the book entitled "Principles and Practice of
Photochemical Machining and Photoetching".
Liam Blunt (Lecturer video >>>)
Taylor Hobson Professor of Surface Metrology
at the University of Huddersfield. He has
been heavily involved in the development of
3D surface measurement and is the Director
of the Centre for Precision Technology at
Huddersfield.
Martin Culpepper
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
He is also the Associate Director of the MIT
Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity.
Carlo Fanara
Senior Research Officer at Cranfield having
in-depth expertise of Plasma Physics.
Tan Jin
An experienced Research Fellow at Cranfield
heavily engaged in developing research
into high efficiency grinding of aerospace,
automotive and optical materials.
Richard May-Miller
Project Engineer at Cranfield Precision with
particular experience in control software and
metrology for high precision machines.
Paul Morantz
Senior Research Fellow at Cranfield. He has
considerable industrial experience in precision
machine tool development.
Paul Shore (Lecturer video >>>)
Professor of Ultra Precision Technologies at
Cranfield and previously SKF Group Research
and Development Manager of Precision
Production Engineering.
David Walker (Lecturer video >>>)
Director of the Optical Sciences Laboratory at
University College London and the Technical
Director of Zeeko Ltd.
Ian Walton
An experienced Research Officer at Cranfield,
leading the development of high performance
grinding processes for aerospace, automotive
and optical components. He is also the
Research Manager for the Cranfield Innovative
Manufacturing Research Centre.