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

Darren spent eight years working in the electronics industry in service, production and design roles. He designed the TD201 Digital Storage Adapter for Thandar Electronics Ltd (1987) and developed the TA320 Logic Analyser for TTi Ltd (1992). He received a B.Eng (Hons) and Dip.Eng (Hull) in Electronic Engineering from the University of Hull. His 15 year academic career has included roles for Bournemouth University, Bradford University (United Arab Emirates) and the University of Lincoln. He is currently Course Director for the BA in Industrial Design & Technology at Brunel University and a member of the Cleaner Electronics Research Group. He has been involved in the development of a number of successful undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes and the coordination of industrial placements for undergraduate students. He has also been responsible for the coordination and development of International and Erasmus exchange programmes. Teaching responsibilities have included module delivery to both engineering and design students. He has been an investigator on grants awarded by the EU, EPSRC and PARK. Darren’s primary research over the past four years has been the development of printed power sources and he has been PI on two EPSRC (IeMRC) grants in this area. Recent research outputs include two patents and four journal publications in printed electronics. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Circuit Technology (F.Inst.CT), a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and a member of the IET (MIET). He earned a PhD entitled ‘The Design And Fabrication of Printed Batteries and Low Power Indicator Displays Using The Offset Lithographic Printing Process’.

Grants
04/2005. 200,000 euro. (Brunel) Paperworks – Interweaving paper and digital documents. EU FP6 STREP Project with King’s College London, Acreo AB, Anoto AB, ArjoWiggins SAS, ETH Zurich, Malmo University. PI: David Harrison CI: Darren Southee
07/2005. £10,000 CLF Printed Smart Packaging Strain Sensors. PARK funded development project. Darren Southee, Gareth Hay
09/2005. £52,166 “Lithographically Printed Voltaic Cells”. IeMRC (EPSRC) funded feasibilty study”. PI: D. Southee, CI: P. Evans, D. Harrison RF: G. Hay. Industrial support from Rohm and Haas, Arjo Wiggins and Dupont Teijin
10/2006. £125,000 (FEC) “Integration of Printed Power Sources with Electronic Systems”. IeMRC (EPSRC) funded project. PI: D. Southee, CI: P. Evans, D. Harrison RF: G. Hay. Industrial support from Arjo Wiggins, Dupont Teijin, Hallmark Cards UK and Poly-Flex Circuits Ltd
08/2007. £8000 “Development and Commercialisation of Lithographically Printed Voltaic Cells”. PARK funded development project (BEC). PI: D. Southee CI: G. Hay
09/2007. £30000 Lithographically Printed Voltaic Cells Industry demonstrator development
HEIF 3 (BEC). Project Manager: Darren Southee.
 

Journals Publications

10/2005. “Characterisation of Lithographically-Printed Resistive Strain Gauges”. G. Hay, P. Evans, D. Harrison, D. Southee, G. Simpson, P. Harrey. IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL, VOL. 5, NO. 5, OCTOBER 2005, p864-871
Also available at: http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/1760
10/2006. "Examination of Silver-Graphite Lithographically Printed Resistive Strain Sensors". G. I. Hay, D. J. Southee, P. S. A. Evans, D. J. Harrison, G. Simpson, B. J. Ramsey. Elsevier Sensors and Actuators (A). 135 (2007), p534-546.
Also available at: http://dspace.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/2413
03/2007. “Lithographically Printed Voltaic Cells – A Feasibility Study”. D. Southee, G. Hay, P. Evans and D. Harrison. Emerald Circuit World, Vol. 33, No. 1, 2007,p 31 – 35.
Also available at: http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/1332
11/2007. "Characterisation of the Lithographic Printing of Conducting Films". B. Ramsey, D. Harrison, D. Southee. TAGA Journal of Graphic Technology, Vol. 4, November 2007, p25-34
09/2007. “Flexible dot-matrix display manufacture by offset lithography”. D. Southee, G. Hay, P. Evans and D. Harrison. Proc. IMechE, Part B: J. Engineering Manufacture, 2008, 222 (C8).
01/2008. "Wind farm and fauna interaction: detecting bird and bat wing beats through cyclic motion analysis". Ljubica Lazarevic, David Harrison, Darren Southee, Max Wade, John Osmond. International Journal of Sustainable Engineering Vol. 1 Issue 1, 2008 pp 60 - 68.
03/2008. "Electroluminescent Light Sources Via Soft Lithography". R. J. H. Young, P. S. A. Evans, G. I. Hay, D. J. Southee and D. J. Harrison. Emerald Circuit World, Vol. 34, No. 3, 2008, p 9 – 12.
Also available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2438/2699
01/2009. "A time–strain monitoring system fabricated via offset lithographic printing". G. I. Hay, D. J. Southee, P. S. A. Evans, D. J. Harrison, G. B. Simpson and J. Wood. Institute of Physics Smart Materials and Structures, Vol. 18 (2009) 015015.
Also available at: http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/3355
 

Proceedings Publications

10/2003. "Conductive lithographic film fabricated resistive strain gauges". Hay, G.I., Evans, P.S.A., Harrison, D.J., Southee, D., Simpson, G., Harrey, P.M. Sensors, 2003. Proceedings of IEEE. Publication Date: 22-24 Oct. 2003. Vol. 1, pp. 248- 252. ISBN: 0-7803-8133-5
Also available at: http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/1765
06/2006. “Low Cost, Flexible Electroluminescent Displays with a Novel Electrode Architecture Printed by Offset Lithography”. Evans, P. S. A. Southee, D. J. Hay, G. I. Harrison, D. J.. et al, SID INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM DIGEST OF TECHNICAL PAPERS, 2006, VOL 37; BOOK 2, pages 1491-1494.
Also available at: http://dspace.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/2096
09/2006. "Development and Characterisation of Lithographically Printed Voltaic Cells". Southee, D.; Hay, G.I.; Evans, P.S.A.; Harrison, D.J., IEEE proceedings ESTC, 2006, vol.2, pp.1286-1291
Also available at: http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/1703
 

Patents Publications

24/08/2004. “Humidity Monitoring System”. D. Southee, G. Hay, D. Harrison, P. Harrey, P. Evans. UK Patent Application No:0418882.7
05/2006. “Lithographically Printed Voltaic Cells”. D. Southee, G. Hay, P. Evans, D. Harrison. UK Patent Application No. 0610237.0
05/2007. “Lithographically Printed Cells”. D. Southee, G. Hay, P. Evans, D. Harrison. International (PCT) Patent Application No. GB2007/001915
 

Books Publications

11/2005. Book: “Crossing Design Boundaries” Paperback: 604 pages. Edited by Paul Rodgers, Libby Broadhurst, Duncan Hepburn, Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-10: 0415391180 ISBN-13: 978-0415391184. “Single-point design in the context of higher education” (half chapter). Author: Darren Southee (from the 3rd Engineering & Product Design Education International Conference dedicated to the subject of exploring novel approaches in product design education)
 

Conferences and other dissemination

22–24/10/2003. “Conductive Lithographic Film Fabricated Resistive Strain gauges”. G. Hay, P. Evans, D. Harrison, D. Southee, G. Simpson, P. Harrey. IEEE Sensors 2003, Sheraton Centre, Toronto
20–21/01/2004. “Printed Sensors for Packaging”. P. Evans, D. Southee, G. Hay, S. Duby, B. Ramsey, D. Harrison. PIRA International Latest Technology and Applications for Printed Electronics. Impact on Printing and Packaging, Leatherhead
01–02/07/2004. “Reducing the Cost of Diagnostic Packaging with Offset Lithography”. D. Southee, G. Hay, P. Evans. PIRA International, Diagnostic Packaging Impact Forum, Leatherhead
12–15/04/2005. “Osama Seeker”. D. Southee, J. Henry, G. Perry. Robotics, Mechatronics and Animatronics in the Creative and Entertainment Industries, and Arts, The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour, AISB 2005
27/04/2006. “Lithographically Printed Voltaic Cells”. D. Southee, G. Hay, P. Evans, D. Harrison. IeMRC Community Meeting, Holywell Park, Loughborough, UK. 4th-9th June 2006.
04-09/06/2006. “Low-cost Flexible Electroluminescent Displays with a Novel Architecture Printed via Offset Lithography”. Society for Information Display Conference (SID 2006), San Francisco, USA. Evans P. S. A, Southee D. J., Hay G. I., Harrison D. J., Breen K. F. B., Withnall R., Silver J., Fern G. R., Marsh P. J. and Ireland T. J.
20/06/2006. Paper Institute Research Association 2nd Annual Conference on Printed RFID, (2006). London. Half day post-conference workshop, "Printed RFID Printed Power Sources Workshop". D. Southee - Invited Chair, G. Hay, P. Evans.
04/07/2006. “Lithographically Printed Voltaic Cells”. Institute of Circuit Technology “Annual Symposium on Printed Electronics”. National Physical Laboratory (NPL), Teddington. D. Harrison, D. Southee, G. Hay.
05–07/09/2006. “Development and Characterisation of Lithographically Printed Voltaic Cells”. ESTC 2006, Dresden, Germany. D. Southee, G. I. Hay, P. S. A. Evans and D. J. Harrison. Invited Paper
15/09/2006. How Smart Are We? Symposium by Designplus at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), London. Invited to exhibit printed electronics by Designplus. D. Southee.
18–22/09/2006. “Fabrication of Miniaturised Electrode Circuitry by Conductive Lithographic Film Printing For Novel Electroluminescent Diaplays”. 2006 Conference on the Science and Technology of Emissive Displays and Lighting. Jeju, Korea. Evans P. S. A, Southee D. J., Hay G. I., Harrison D. J., Breen K. F. B., Withnall R., Silver J., Fern G. R., Marsh P. J. and Ireland T. J.
19–20/09/2006. Smart Materials Bazaar. Dana Centre, Science Museum London. Invited to exhibit printed electronics by IOM3. D. Southee.
30-31/01/2007. “Printed interconnect and batteries”. Rapra Polymers in Electronics 2007, Munich, Germany. D. Southee, G. Hay, P. Evans and D. Harrison.
17-18/06/2008. “Lithographically Printed Integrated Electronics”. IDTechEx “Photovoltaics – beyond silicon, USA 2008”. Hyatt Tech Centre, Denver, USA.  D. Southee, G. Hay, P. Evans, D. Harrison.
 

Invited Paper

12–16/03/2007. “The Fabrication of Miniaturised Electrode Circuitry by Offset Lithographic Printing for Novel Electroluminescent Displays”. Asia Display 2007 - Shanghai International Conference Centre. J. Silver et al. P. Evans, D. Southee, G. Hay, D. Harrison, K. Breen
19/04/2007. ‘Printed Electronics and Offset Lithography’. Printed Electronics Europe 2007- University of Cambridge. IDTechEx. Prepared and delivered invited Master Class. D. Southee, (G. Hay)
26/06/2007. “Printed Electronics and Offset lithography”. IeMRC and Electronics Yorkshire seminar on Innovative Electronics Manufacturing Manufacturing, Electronics Yorkshire, Leeds. D. Southee, G. Hay, P. Evans, D. Harrison
05/09/2007. “Developments in Printed Electronics with Integrated Power Sources”. IeMRC 2nd Annual Conference, Henry Ford College, Loughborough University. D. Southee, G. Hay
18-19/09/2007. “Printed interconnect, batteries & indicator displays by offset lithography”. D. Southee, G. Hay, P. Evans, D. Harrison. UKDL 2-day Seminar, Printed Plastic Power, Vale Hotel, Cardiff
09/11/2007. “Augmented Paper Applications: Initial User Tests Of A Wireless Pattern Reader”. K. Jenkins, J. Wood, D. Southee, D. Harrison, N. Stanton. CoPADD (Collaborating over Paper and Digital Documents). Institute of Physics, London.
10/07/2007. “Approaches to measure wing beat frequency with computer vision”. L. Lazarevic, D. Southee, D. Frost, D. Harrison, M. Wade. Sustain ’07 -The 5th International Conference on Design and Manufacture for Sustainable Development. Loughborough University, UK.

 

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