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Professor Trevor Robinson

School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Professor Trevor Robinson

Professor Trevor Robinson

School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

My research interests are in Digital Design tools and processes. Researchers who do their PhDs under my supervision will create and explore new methods and approaches for developing digital design capability, and how it is used to support leading industrial design processes. All PhDs work collaboratively with other research students.

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  • t.robinson@qub.ac.uk

Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in:

  • Digital Design
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Generative Design
  • Mesh Generation
  • Certification by analysis
  • Digital Thread

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Current Research Opportunities

  • Rolls-Royce Partnership PhD: Finding patterns in geometry to speed up design and simulation
  • Rolls-Royce Partnership PhD: Creating Viable Cyber Assemblies for Vecta
  • Rolls-Royce Partnership PhD: Designing the future using historical intelligence
  • Rolls-Royce Partnership PhD: Finding patterns in geometry to speed up design and simulation
  • Rolls-Royce Partnership PhD: Creating Viable Cyber Assemblies for Vecta
  • Rolls-Royce Partnership PhD: Designing the future using historical intelligence

Public outreach & key achievements

I am PI on the EPSRC Digital Design Network Plus: https://digitaldesignnetwork.org/ 


Research students

PhD area Graph based Digital Thread
Name Aoife O'Neill
Years of study 2023-2026
Country Ireland
   
PhD area Meshing for Certification
Name Dylan Jones
Years of study 2024-2027
Country Northern Ireland
   
PhD area Meshing extremely large assembly models
Name Sarah Trouton
Years of study 2025-2028
Country Northern Ireland

  


Alumni: Where are they now

PhD area Advanced simulation methods for light-weighting of large automotive vehicles
Name Michelle Barr
Years of study 2017-2021
Current Position Structural Engineering Manager at Wrightbus
   
PhD area A Method for Identifying Structural Load Share Opportunities in Aircraft Powerplant Configurations
Name Carrie Martin
Years of study 2017-2020
Current Position Senior Structural Analysis Engineer, Archer
   
PhD area Virtual Topology-based decomposition workflow for automatic hex-dominant mesh generation and update of aero-structures
Name Benoit Lecallard
Years of study 2016-2019
Current Position Artemis

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