Research Interests & Areas

The Faculty is engaged in cutting-edge innovation driven theoretical and practical research, a significant proportion of which is carried out via collaborative development partnership schemes with the private sector and or institutions or through collaborative research networks. To progress your research and development interests, you may contact the relevant faculty member directly.

 

George Toworfe

Dr. Toworfe's research field includes biomaterials science, bioengineering, Physics, course and curriculum development.

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Xuefeng BI Dr. Bi's research focus is on tool wear and plastic deformation in metal cutting, tool wear modelling within the confines of high speed machining; profiling crater wear; application of streamline model in machining; determination of velocity, strain and strain rate field using streamline modelling; and determination of optimal tooling conditions.

Joseph Adonu A lecturer in psychology and a consultant in social psychology, Dr. Adonu's research interests include personal relationships across cultures, the psychology of culture and socio-economic development, research methods, history and philosophy of psychology.

David Ako Odoi David's research fields covers English and Literature, Ghanaian languages, autobiography, and advanced composition.

Roland Crnogorac A sought-after and leading authority in engineering designs and development, Roland is an inventor whose expertise covers an excellence in theoretical and practical aerodyna-mics and structural engineering. His research and development interest lie in structural engineering, automotive design and development, aircraft component developments, engineering analysis and related.

Elton Owusu Elton research is focused on human resource practices, strategic human resource initiatives, effficient policies and procedures development, policy planning and management audit, government policies, strategic development, general administration management, public administration, and development of performance management system.

Veronica Fynn Veronica's areas of research include public health, sexual and gender-based violence in war-ravaged states, interdisciplinary African studies, human trafficking

Michael Flowers Michael's research interests cover systems engineering, global manufacturing, BPR, innovation and technology, dynamics of manufacturing and operations complexity, enterprise engineering, theoretical and complexity analysis, quality engineering, agile manufacturing and entrepreneurship.

Mark Spijkers Mark's research interest fielss include industrial engineering operations, business projects management, and software manage-ment, technical and commercial management.

Academic Research Publications

Dr. George Toworfe

*Confocal microscopy images showing qualitative comparison between spreading of MC3T3-E1 cells on (a) non-coated and (b) 7 days Ca-P-coated –OH-terminated substrates after 36 h incubation in cell medium. Spreading of the cells on Ca-P-coated surface depicts enhanced actin filament formation and cytoskeleton organization, while cell spreading was inhibited on the non-coated Ca-P surface.


*GK Toworfe, S Bhattacharyya, RJ Composto, et al. Effect of functional end groups of silane self-assembled monolayer surfaces on apatite formation, fibronectin adsorption and osteoblast cell function. J Tissue Eng Med 2009; 3: 26-36.

Toworfe GK, Composto RJ, Shapiro IM, et al. 2006; Nucleation and growth of calcium phosphate on amine-, carboxyl- and hydroxylsilane self-assembled monolayers. Biomaterials 27: 631–642.

Toworfe GK, Composto RJ, Adams CS, et al. 2004; Fibronectin adsorption on surface-activated poly(dimethylsiloxane) and its effect on cellular function. J Biomed Mater Res A 71A: 449–461.

Uttayarat P, Toworfe GK, Dietrich F, Lelkes PI and Composto RJ, 2005; Topographic guidance of endothelial cells on silicone surfaces with micro- to nanogrooves: orientation of action filaments and focal adhesions, Journal of Biomedical Materials Research, Vol. 75A, Issue 3, pp. 668-680.

Roland Crnogorac CEO, KLK GmbH

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Dr. Joseph Adonu

Dr Adonu's Strategic Achievement Model (SAM) is a logical definition and arrangement of familiar achievement mechanisms of purposes, dreams, goals and plans in a way that would result in the highest achievement. At the personal and the corporate levels, you can apply this model to capture your personal and organizational resources towards maximum achievement. If the correct ordering of the processes is arranged, achievement follows logical sequences.


Journal articles and conferences

Dr. Xuefeng BI

*Crater Wear Profile

BI Xuefeng, LIST Gautier and LIU Yongxian, Calculation of material flow in orthogonal cutting by using streamline model, Key Engineering Materials, Vol. 407-408, 2009, pp. 490-493.

BI Xuefeng, LIST Gautier, SUTTER Guy, MOLINARI Alain and LIU Yongxian, Determination of chip velocity field in metal cutting, Applied Mechanics and Materials, Vol. 16-19, 2009, pp. 471-474.

BI Xuefeng, SUTTER Guy, LIST Gautier and LIU Yongxian, Influence of chip curl on tool-chip contact length in high speed machining, Materials Science Forum, Vol. 626-627, 2009, pp. 71-74.

LIST Gautier, SUTTER Guy and BI Xuefeng, Morphologie des copeaux a grande vitesse, 15eme Colloque National de la Recherche en IUT(CNRIUT), June 8-10, 2009, Lille, France.

SUTTER Guy, LIST Gautier and BI Xuefeng, Investigation of tool wear in high speed machining by using a ballistic set-up, WEAR, Vol. 267, 2009, pp. 1673-1679.

*BI Xuefeng, LIST Gautier, SUTTER Guy, MOLINARI Alain and LIU Yongxian, Crater wear modeling in conventional speed machining, International Conference on Manufacturing Science and Engineering, December 26-28, 2009, Zhuhai, PR China (Accepted).

Y. Liu, Y. Lu, X.F. Bi, G.Q. Cai, Research on the influence of shields to thermal equilibrium of CNC mechine tool, Materials Science Forum, Vol. 626-627 (2009), pp. 71-74.

Michael Flowers

*Analysis of the characteristics of a blanking process shows that the part edge of a steelsheet blank contains four distinct zones—rollover, shear, fracture, and burrs—resulting from the strain hardening of sheared edges due to elastic and plastic deformations at the beginning of the blanking process. A distinction between poorly machined surface and smooth surface is demonstrated by the degree of roughness expressed by the fracture and the shear zones. Ideally, a part edge would rather exhibit 100% shear.


Flowers M and Cheng K (2008), Theoretical model in measuring global manufacturing complexity and its potential applications, 4th International Conference on Innovative Production Machines and Systems, 1-14 July, Cardiff, United Kingdom, pp. 40-45.

Flowers M and Cheng K (2009), Global manufacturing: reconfiguration of machines in addressing changing customer requirement scenarios, 7th International Conference on e-Engineering and Digital Technology, 3-5 September, Shenyang, PR China.

*Flowers M and Cheng K (2009), Global manufacturing: reconfiguration of machines in addressing changing customer requirement scenarios, Journal of Applied Mechanics and Materials, Vol. 16-19, pp. 15-19.

Flowers M and Cheng K (2009), Reconfiguration as a responsive tool for the agile-centric global manufacturing domain, International Journal of Internet Manufacturing and Services, (Pending).

Flowers M and Cheng K (2010), Heuristics for stochastic modelling of manufacturing systems, (Working Paper).