Professor Winifred Ijomah
Design, Manufacturing and Engineering Management
Area of Expertise
- Remanufacturing
- Sustainable Engineering
- Product End-of-Life
- Process Modelling
Prize And Awards
- Best doctoral thesis paper award
- Recipient
- 16/6/2015
- Best paper in conference award
- Recipient
- 2/12/2011
- Emerald Literati Network 2010 Awards for journal paper Excellencer
- Recipient
- 2010
- Royal Academy of Engineering Best paper in conference award
- Recipient
- 3/9/2004
Publications
- Increased Personal Protective and Medical Equipment Manufacturing to Fight COVID-19: An Egregious Approach for the Environment
- Akano Damola, Ijomah Winifred
- EcoDesign for Sustainable Products, Services and Social Systems I , pp. 349-363 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3818-6_24
- Risks in circular business models innovation : a cross‐industrial case study for composite materials
- Tuni Andrea, Gutteridge Fiona, Ijomah Winifred L, Mirpourian Maryam
- Business Strategy and the Environment Vol 33, pp. 2771-2787 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.3618
- Evaluation and validation of Damage Assessment Tracking Criteria models within the sector of UK automotive remanufacturing
- Harris RS, Ijomah WL, Windmill J
- Journal of Cleaner Production Vol 414 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.137494
- Risk assessment for circular business models : a fuzzy Delphi study application for composite materials
- Tuni Andrea, Ijomah Winifred L, Gutteridge Fiona, Mirpourian Maryam, Pfeifer Sarah, Copani Giacomo
- Journal of Cleaner Production Vol 389 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.135722
- Non-destructive testing of composite fibre materials with hyperspectral imaging – evaluative studies in the EU H2020 FibreEUse project
- Yan Yijun, Ren Jinchang, Zhao Huan, Windmill James FC, Ijomah Winifred, Wit Jesper De, Freeden Justus Von
- IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement Vol 71, pp. 1-13 (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/TIM.2022.3155745
- Remanufacturing of single-use medical devices : a case study on cross-border collaboration between the UK and Nigeria
- Oturu Kingsley, Ijomah Winifred, Orr Andrew, Verpeaux Laura, Broadfoot Ben, Clark Stuart, Devine Ryan
- Health and Technology Vol 12, pp. 273-283 (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s12553-022-00641-2
Teaching
My teaching interests primarily focus on the theory and practical implementation of sustainable design and manufacturing for the MEng and MSc courses in Design, Manufacture and Engineering Management. I am also involved in teaching design, design and engineering applications, mechatronics design and applications, and advanced materials and production technology. I also supervise a number of students in individual projects.
Research Interests
My research is interdisciplinary, spanning across engineering, business, to the social and applied sciences. The long term goal of my cross-disciplinary research is to continue furthering knowledge in sustainable production, specialising in developing concepts, tools and techniques to facilitate sustainable design and manufacture through remanufacture. Remanufacturing has recently become globally critical because of its great potential to address environmental concerns (need to reduce waste during the material extraction and manufacturing processes), legislation (international agreement to reduce products’ and manufacturing processes’ environmental impacts) and economics (remanufacture is often a quality and cost effective option). However, there is a paucity of remanufacturing understanding, information, publications, as well as tools and techniques. I currently lead the UK's largest remanufacturing research group, specialising in holistic, interdisciplinary, practitioner-based research. In the long term I intend to further develop, and build the capacity, of my research team in the area of sustainable design and manufacture through remanufacture.
Professional Activities
- Strategic Themes: EPSRC Critical Mass Programmes to Drive a Sustainable Future
- Participant
- 30/1/2025
- UK-China Remanufacturing Forum
- Organiser
- 30/6/2024
- UK-China Remanufacturing Forum
- Chair
- 30/5/2024
- UCH assures of collaboration on medical equipment remanufacture project
- Recipient
- 16/5/2024
- Remanufacturing Master Class Seminar for CIRCULÉIRE
- Speaker
- 10/5/2024
- Addressing job creation and skills gap via remanufacturing
- Contributor
- 30/4/2024
Projects
- EPSRC Manufacturing Research Hub in Robotics, Automation & Smart Machine Enabled Sustainable Circular Manufacturing & Materials (RESCu-M2)
- Ijomah, Winifred (Principal Investigator) Luo, Xichun (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2031
- ReSTOR: Designing recyclable flow batteries for locally managed energy storage in developing countries
- Brightman, Edward (Principal Investigator) Eales, Aran (Academic) Galloway, Stuart (Co-investigator) Ijomah, Winifred (Co-investigator)
- 22-Jan-2024 - 28-Jan-2025
- ReMake Glasgow Innovation Accelerator
- Fitzpatrick, Stephen (Principal Investigator) Ijomah, Winifred (Research Co-investigator) Reimer, Andreas (Research Co-investigator) Devine, Ryan (Researcher) Hicks, Calum (Researcher)
- The ReMake Glasgow project is developing a first-of-its-kind national ReMake hub within the NMIS Digital Factory. The hub will provide the skills and technologies needed to support ambitious manufacturers of all sizes to adopt circularity and extend the life of products and parts.
The aim is to achieve a 99% reduction in CO2 compared to manufacturing from new through processes such as remanufacturing, refurbishing and repairs.
With under 2% of products manufactured in the UK currently designed and reused in this way, the ReMake hub is set to advance sustainable manufacturing by supporting companies to move towards a circular economy.
Partners in this project are:
- Boeing UK
- British Airways
- SSE Renewables
- James Howden & Company Ltd
- ATS
- Renewable Parts Ltd - 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2025
- Sustainable Manufacturing enabling Net Zero – Opening up the conversation
- Ijomah, Winifred (Principal Investigator)
- 17-Jan-2022 - 30-Jan-2022
- Remanufacture: A Strategy to Enable Affordable Quality Healthcare in Developing Countries (International Collaboration Award)
- Ijomah, Winifred (Principal Investigator)
- Remanufacture: A Strategy to Enable Affordable Quality Healthcare in Developing Countries (International Collaboration Award)
- 03-Jan-2018 - 02-Jan-2024
- Large scale demonstration of new circular economy value-chains based on the reuse of end-of-life: FiberEUse (H2020-IND-CE-2016-17)
- Ijomah, Winifred (Principal Investigator) Ren, Jinchang (Co-investigator) Rentizelas, Athanasios (Co-investigator) Windmill, James (Co-investigator) Xirouchakis, Paul (Co-investigator)
- Large scale demonstration of the techno-economical feasibility of circular economy business cases based on the reuse of end-of-life fiber reinforced composites in new value chains
- 01-Jan-2017 - 31-Jan-2021
Contact
Professor
Winifred
Ijomah
Design, Manufacturing and Engineering Management
Email: w.l.ijomah@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4346