Ultra-precision engineering – from physics to manufacturing

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Organised by Professor Xiangqian Jiang, Professor Paul Shore, Professor Pat McKeown OBE and Professor David Whitehouse

Ultra-precision engineering is a multi-disciplinary subject facilitating the transfer of fundamental physics into technology solutions. Numerous life-enhancing technologies, which harness the basic principles of physics, demand extreme levels of accuracy to enable practical realisation. This meeting will bring together scientists and engineers to review the evolution of ultra-precision engineering, to discuss scientific advances/challenges and set out a roadmap for the future.

Audio recordings of the meeting are now available below.

The proceedings of this meeting have been published in a dedicated issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.

Professor David Whitehouse, Professor Emeritus, Warwick University, UK

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Professor David Whitehouse, Professor Emeritus, Warwick University, UK
Professor David Whitehouse, Professor Emeritus, Warwick University, UK
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Professor Whitehouse graduated in Physics from Bristol University in 1958 and was awarded a PhD in Tribology by Leicester University in 1971, then a DSc in Metrology by the University of Warwick in 1986.

He began his professional career in 1958 as a development engineer becoming Chief Research Engineer (Taylor Hobson) the protégé of Dr R E Reason FRS. After 20 years in industry he moved to the University of Warwick first as Professor of Engineering Science later becoming Chief Scientist in the School of Engineering. He is regarded as the world authority on surface and nanometrology having lectured in 37 countries on these subjects. He holds 22 patents, has written more than 250 technical papers, and 5 books including the “Handbook of Surface Metrology”, now widely considered the classic in the field and more recently the “Handbook of Surface and Nanotechnology”( new edition). In 1990 he initiated the world’s first journal on Nanotechnology for the Institute of Physics. Whitehouse is a charter member of the American Society for Precision Engineering, a Fellow of the International Academy of Production Engineering (CIRP), and a past President of the Committee for Surface Roughness. He is a Fellow of the UK Institute of Physics, the Institute of Measurement and Control, the Institution of Production Engineers, and the Institution of Electrical Engineers. He is an Honorary Member of The Japanese Institution of Precision Engineers and a Senior Member of the Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineers.

He has received many prizes and honors throughout the world including a lifetime achievement award from, the American Society of Precision Engineers in which he is described as the ‘Father of digital metrology’.

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Schedule of talks

Session 1

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