 Roland Crnogorac
Roland holds Diplom-Ingeniur in Aeronau-tic Engineering from Germany's University of Stuttgart. He is the CEO of KLK GmbH, a German engineering services company. A leading authority in engineering designs and development, Roland is an inventor whose expertise covers an excellence in theoretical and practical aerodynamics and structural engineering. He is a sought-after aircraft engineering consultant.
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 Joseph Adonu
Dr. Adonu holds PhD in Social Psychology from Brunel University, UK; BA Psychology from the University of Ghana; and Motor Vehicle Technicians Part II (MVTII) in Automotive Engineering. He is also Fellow of the Higher Education Academy of England. An authority and consultant in social psychology, Dr. Adonu's research lecturing and interests include personal relationships across cultures, the psychology of culture and socio-economic development, research methods, history and philosophy of psychology. He currently lectures and researches at the University of Bedfordshire, England. |
 David Ako Odoi
Odoi holds MPhil and BA in English and Literature from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. A lecturer, consultant and motivational speaker, his research interests include autobiography, advanced composition and study of Ghanaian languages. |
 Mark Spijkers
Spijkers holds Dip.-Ing Industrial Engi-neering from the Technical Faculty of Hogeschool Mid-den Brabant, Net-herlands. He is a consultant in industrial engineering operations, business pro-ject management, technical and com-mercial management. He is CEO of a software applications Dutch company, DueTT Benelux.
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 Elton Owusu
A Human Resource Practitioner with proven ability to implement strategic human resource initiatives and help executive management develop credible guidelines and efficient policies and procedures, Elton focused his Master of Arts on Human Resources Management at the University of Cape Coast (UCC), Ghana. He holds a Bachelor degree in Education from UCC. Elton's expertise covers management audit, policy planning monitoring and evaluation, evaluation of impact of government policies on the populace to output models to help shape policies, strategic development, general administration management, public administration, and development of performance management system.
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Michael Flowers
Michael holds a Master in Systems Engineering from Brunel University, UK, and a BSc (Hons) Physics from the University of Ghana. He offers consultancy in innovation and technology. His research interests cover systems engineering and global manufacturing. He has published engineering science articles in journals and conferences such as the Journal of Applied Mechanics and Materials and the International Conference on Innovative Production Machines and Systems.
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Xuefeng BI
A PhD Candidate at Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, Ms Bi holds a Master of Science in Mechanical Electronic Engineering from Northeastern University and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Design and Theory from Shenyang Ligong University, China. With a research focus on Tool Wear and Plastic Deformation in Metal Cutting, she spent one year of her doctoral research at the Metz University in France. Ms Bi's research interests include 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.
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 Veronica Fynn
Ms Fynn holds a BSc (University of Ghana), BA (University of British Columbia, Canada), MPH (University of Nottingham, United Kingdom), LLM (Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada), and is currently doing her PhD in Law at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Cadana, with research focus on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Post-War Liberia: The Role of National Human Rights Institutions. At the University of British Columbia, she founded Africa Awareness, a student-driven initiative responsible for the establishment of the first ever interdisciplinary African Studies Program. Before law school she worked as a Program/Research Analyst with the British Columbia Office toCombat Trafficking in Persons. Ms Fynn also worked with the Migration in Geneva where she developed an information / policy document on Health Consequences of Human Trafficking. She is the co-founder and Executive Director of EV Research Inc. and the founder of the first ever academic Journal of Internal Displacement. In her spare time, Ms Fynn blogs on the rights of women in war.
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Academic 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
A focus on multi-purpose aircrafts.
Indicators of success in aircraft business
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
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 HSS 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 (2009), 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, Evolvable systems theory: implications and promises for multinational manufacturing organisations, 29th Chinese Control Conference, 29-31 July 2010, Beijing, PR China (Pending).
Flowers M and Cheng K (2009), Reconfiguration as a responsive tool for the agile-centric global manufacturing domain, International Journal Internet Manufacturing and Services (Submitted).
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