Mr. Alexander Plant
  Contact details:
Alexander.Plant@brunel.ac.uk
+44 (0) 1895 274000
Brunel University 
School of Engineering and Design
Cleaner Electronics Research Group
Uxbridge
UB8 3PH
United Kingdom

http://www.dzyn.co.uk

Design for Sustainability

Supervisors: Professor David Harrison, Dr. Peter Evans and Dr. Brian Griffiths


Alex studied Engineering Product Design B.Sc. (Hons) at the University of Westminster and Design Studies M.A. at the University of Hertfordshire.  He has worked as a professional draftsman and test engineer in industrial storage systems, an integration and human factors engineer for military vehicle mounted electronics, and as an interior design consultant.

In September 2007 Alex joined the Cleaner Electronics Research Group at Brunel University to study for a Ph.D.  His research will establish the state of the art within sustainable product design, and determine 'best practice’ within industry. This will be achieved with a combination of a conventional literature review and a research methods review followed by an extensive investigation into commercial practices through visiting manufacturers and recyclers.  As part of this work, key people within design, production and end of life product processing will be interviewed, and  industrial systems will be examined with the intention of discovering the most environmentally beneficial concepts, methods, product features and design management models. The conclusions developed from the resulting information should be suitable for incorporation within the British Standards for Manufacturing, Assembly, Disassembly and End of life processing (MADE).

Alex's work is a natural progression of several previous studies conducted by the Cleaner Electronics Research Group, including active disassembly for consumer electronics, active disassembly for end-of-life vehicles, and ecological footprint analysis of consumer electronics.

 

Electronics Manufacturing Renewables Design

 

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