Dr Colin Burvill
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teaching
Engineering Design and Materials, Major Project and Professional Practice, Research and Design Projects, Engineering Communications. Teaching
biography
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the University of Melbourne. Joined the Department after an early career as a project and design engineer in local engineering and manufacturing companies. Coordinator of second year undergraduate mechanical design subjects and final year major project subjects which includes administration and supervision of 70 projects in 2005, many with industry collaborators.
research
Research interests principally associated with issues associated with “design for manufacturability”, encompassing issues ranging from human cognition and creativity to system automation and self-replication. Have successfully integrated research outcomes with company needs on a series of post-graduate and post-doctoral research and development projects. Current projects and postgraduate supervision
curriculum vitae
selected publications
Bruce Field, Colin Burvill and John Weir, The impact of spatial abilities on the comprehension of design drawings, 15th International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED’05, Melbourne, Australia,15-18 August 2005, paper 531.61 (15 pp.)
Burvill, C., Dagher, C., Hughes, P. and Hughes, R. (2004) “Enhancing Work-Cell Productivity Using A System–Based Design Approach”, DETC2004-57629, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, International Design Engineering technical Conferences 2004 (ASME DETC 2004) Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, 28 September to 2 October
Juniper, L. Ozarska, B. and Burvill, C (2004). Experimental and theoretical mechanical performance of wood bending using microwave softening techniques; III International Conference of the Euopean Society for Wood Mechanics; 3-8 September
Leary, M. and Burvill, C. (2001) "Optimal Material Selection for Finite Life Automotive Suspension Applications", 2nd International Conference on Light Materials for Transportation Systems (LiMAT 2001) (Ed. N.J. Kim), Pusan, Korea, 6-10 May, pp. 287-294
Burvill, C.R. and Leary, M.J., An Australian technology transfer scheme, Journal of Industry and Higher Education, V15 N1 February 2001: 48–54
full list of publications [pdf]