CURRICULUM VITAE

HUGH  SHERCLIFF

Personal

Present positions: University Senior Lecturer, Director of Undergraduate Education

Education

Industrial training:

• 1980-1984: U.K. Atomic Energy Authority Sponsored Engineering Student

University education:

• 1981-1984: Undergraduate, Trinity College, Cambridge
  B.A. (Honours) in Engineering, 1st Class
• 1984-1987: Post-graduate, Trinity College (1984-1986) and Clare Hall (1986-1987)
  PhD in Materials Group, CUED (supervisor: Prof. M.F. Ashby).

Academic positions:

• 1987-1988: Research Assistant, CUED, with Dr. N.A. Fleck (funded by NASA Langley Research Centre, Virginia, USA).
• 1988-1990: Research Assistant, CUED, with Prof. K.L. Johnson (funded by SERC and CEGB).
• 1990-1991: Research Associate, CUED, with Prof. M.F. Ashby and Dr. P.W.R. Beaumont (funded by U.S. Air Force Office for Scientific Research)
• 1991-1994: Royal Society University Research Fellow, CUED.
• 1994-2000: University Lecturer, CUED.
• 2000-present: University Senior Lecturer in Materials, CUED.
• 2006-present: Director of Undergraduate Education, CUED.

College Positions:

• 1986-1989: Clare Hall: Research Fellow
• 1989-present: Girton College: Official Fellow, College Lecturer and Director of Studies in Engineering

Other Positions:

• 2002-present: Trustee, Donald Robertson Memorial Travel Fund (Trinity College)
• 2004-present: Trustee, Arthur Shercliff Memorial Trust (CUED Travel Scholarships)
• 2007-present: member of Cambridge University Admissions Committee
• 2005-2009: External Examiner, BEng/MEng, Mech. Eng., and Lead External Examiner (2006-09),
  Mech. and Aero. Eng. and Ship Science, University of Southampton
• 2007-2010: External Examiner, MSc Welding Engineering, University of Cranfield
• 2008-2012: External Examiner, BEng/MEng, Materials, University of Loughborough

Current Research

• Thermomechanical process modelling and knowledge management
• Design and manufacturing, sustainability and process selection
• Resources for materials and design teaching

Full Publications List

Teaching/research experience

Lecture courses:

• Materials (1st and 2nd year Engineering)
• Mechanical Engineering for Renewable Energy (2nd year Engineering Elective)
• Materials processing and design; Materials process modelling and failure analysis
  (3rd year Engineering/Manufacturing Engineering)
  
• Material selection (ISMM MPhil)
• Material and process selection (Material Modelling MPhil/CUED graduate module)
• Process modelling using finite elements (MPhil in Materials Modelling, 2000-2006)

Demonstrating and supervising:

• Demonstrating: Materials laboratories, bicycle design project, surveying field courses,
  structural design courses, drawing
• Supervising: Materials and Structures (years 1-3)
  25 final year Bachelors projects (up to 1994)
  40 final year Masters projects (1995-2011)

Graduate and industrial short courses:

• March 1993: Modelling Thermal Processing of Materials, Ontario Centre for Materials Research, Canada
• April 1993: Materials Selection in Design, Ontario Centre for Materials Research, Canada
• April 1995: Modelling Materials Processing, Ontario Centre for Materials Research, Canada
• April 1997: Materials Selection in Design, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
• Sept 1999: Materials Selection seminar: Cambridge University Institute for Manufacturing, Instrumentation Group
• June 2001: Microstructural Modelling in Metals Processing, Metals and Manufacturing Ontario, Canada
• November 2001: Selecting Materials for Industrial Applications: Evening workshop, Cambridge University Institute for Manufacturing
• June 2004: Selecting Materials and Processes, McMaster University, Canada
• April 2010: CES short course, Granta Design, Cambridge

UROP students:

• 2003: Graham McShane, Antonia Willoughby
• 2005: Nina Vaidya, Ming Liu

Post-graduate students:

• 1990-1993: Daniel Kaute (assistant supervisor) (PhD)
• 1990-1994: Ron Dimant (assistant supervisor) (PhD)
• 1992-1993: Manuel Athenes (CPGS)
• 1992-1996: Ulrike Wegst (PhD)
• 1995-1998: Andrew Lovatt (PhD)
• 1996-2000: Michael Russell (PhD)
• 1998-1999: Mihirinie Wijayawardene (MSc)
• 1998-1999: Ryo Miyamoto (MPhil)
• 1998-2000: Robin Preston (PhD)
• 1999-2002: Stefanie Feih (PhD)
• 1999-2002: Kara Johnson (PhD)
• 1999-2003: Yolanda Kennish (MPhil/PhD)
• 1999-2004: Christelle Royer (PhD)
• 2001-2004: Paul Colegrove (PhD)
• 2001-2004: Takehiro Hyoe (MSc)
• 2002-2006: Walter Rentzsch (PhD)
• 2009-2012: Aidan Reilly (PhD)

Post-doctoral/graduate research staff:

• 1993-94: Dr Dominique Duly (EPSRC funded RA)
• 1995-96: Dr Trond Furu (EPSRC funded SRA)
• 1996-97: Dr Qiang Zhu (EPSRC funded SRA)
• 1998-2000: Dr Andrew Lovatt (EPSRC/Newton Trust/Koerber Foundation funded RA)
• 2000-2001: Dr Z.Yue (with P.I. Dr. M. Sutcliffe, Alcan funded RA)
• 2001-2004: Dr H. Utsunomiya (with P.I. Dr. M. Sutcliffe, Alcan funded RA)
• 2001-present: Dr Terry Dickerson (EU 5th framework funded RA)
• 2001-present: Dr Qing-yu Shi (EU 5th framework funded RA)
• 2004-2006: Dr Paul Colegrove (Isaac Newton Trust and Airbus UK funded RA)
• 2006-2008: Mr Aidan Reilly (with Dr H. Hunt, CMI funded RA)
• 2010: Dr David Delamore, Dr Alex MacDonald (CARET-funded TAs)

Academic visitors:

• 1993-94: Dr Warren Poole, Canadian NSERC Post-doctoral Fellow
• 1993-94: Ms Jessie Newell, Junior Visitor, funded by Ontario Centre for Materials Research, Canada, and Hydro Aluminium, Norway
• 1994-95: Dr Ole Runar Myhr, Research Scientist, Hydro Aluminium
• 1995-97: Mr Yannick Kerhervé, Junior Visitor supported by Pechiney Centre de Recherches de Voreppe, France
• 1998-99: Mr Christophe Lebacq, Junior Visitor supported by CETIM, France
• 1998: Mr Christian Sauvage, Junior Visitor from Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France
• 1999-2000: Prof Yves Brechet, EPSRC Visiting Fellow from INPG, France (with Prof MF Ashby)
• 2004-05: Ms Inès Ferrer Real, Junior Visitor from University of Girona, Spain

Conference organisation:

• Organising committee, poster co-ordinator and invited speaker for Royal Society Discussion Meeting: "Deformation Processing of Metals", October 1998
• Workshop organiser, "Constitutive Modelling for Materials Processing", Cambridge, September 1999
• Symposium Chairman, "Modelling of Mechanical Properties", Euromat 99, Munich, September 1999
• Symposium Chairman, "Modelling of Microstructural Evolution in Industrial Metals Processing", MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, December 1999
• Symposium organiser, "Materials Engineering - A Forward Look", Cambridge, June 2000.
• Technical Committee, "10th International Conference on Aluminium Alloys", Vancouver, Canada, July 9–13, 2006.

Contact Information:

[ Cambridge University | CUED | Micromechanics and Materials Group]

hrs@eng.cam.ac.uk
Last Updated September 2010