Manufacturing, Materials and Design Alum

Both the daytime lectures and dinner are free. Please re-visit this page regularly for updates to the programme.

The day's programme:

11:00 – 12:30 Tour of Manufacturing Laboratories

12:30 – 14:00 Arrival, Registration and Lunch

14:00 – 14:30 Welcome and update on Cranfield Manufacturing - Professor Raj Roy

14:30 – 15:00 Lecture: Andrew Schofield, Head of Manufacturing and Materials, BAE Systems: The Evolution of Airframe Manufacturing Technology for Military Aircraft

Andy Schofield is the Head of Manufacturing & Materials Engineering in the Military Air & Information business within BAE Systems. He is responsible for the development, deployment and subsequent governance of all engineering processes, technology and capability used across a variety of military aircraft products. He has experience of the full lifecycle of the aircraft products ranging from conceptual studies for future aircraft projects through to providing support to aircraft in operational service. Andy is also Chair of the Advanced Manufacturing & Design National Technical Committee and represents BAE Systems on the boards of a number of High Value Manufacturing Catapult Technology Centres in the UK. He is member of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining and a Chartered Engineer.

15:00 - 15:30 Lecture: Dr Alexandros Skandalakis, Area Operations Director at Philip Morris International Management: The Continuous Improvement Dilemma:  Think or Click?

15:30 – 16:00 Alumni Relations & Development Office

16:00 – 16:30 National Apprenticeship Competition winner announcement

16:30 – 17:00 Break

17:00 – 17:45 Annual Alumni Lecture: Andrew Palmer (PhD 2005), CEO, Aston Martin: Responding to Changing Technology Needs in the Luxury Automotive Sector

19:00 for 19:30 Dinner

Please note reservations for dinner are now closed.