Background

Paul J Palmer is a Senior Research Fellow within the Interconnection Group and Director for the Electronics Enabled Products KTN (formerly PRIME Faraday partnership) at Loughborough University. His industrial career has been based in both electronic design and manufacture, working for a number of companies including GEC, Plessey, Hawker Siddeley and Molins. He ran a technical consultancy, ITB, for four years before joining the PRIME Faraday Partnership in 1998. He also spent three years forging links between industry and academia as a Senior Teaching Company Associate with the University of Salford. He graduated from University of London in 1977, and gained MSc from Cranfield Institute of Technology in 1985.

Research Groups

Manufacturing Proceses

Research Interests and Activities

Design for Manufacture of Electrical/Electronic products
Encapsulation and recycling of electronic assemblies
Cost Modelling
Technology Trends and Roadmapping
Internet Base Tools

External Activities

• IEEE TC-17 MEMS Packaging committee
• Panel Member RSA Design Directions Awards 2008
• Invited Lecture on Technology Roadmapping: 1st French-UK Workshop in Micro- and Nanotechnologies, Bedford Feb 2003
• Invited Lecture on Technology Roadmapping: EC Virtual Institute Project, NPL April 2003
• Invited paper E-FLEX (Efficient Urban Delivery): JSAE 2005 Japan (May 2005)
• Session Chair, Scientific committee member: MicroSystem Technologies October 2005 Munich
• Invited Lecture on Technology Roadmapping: Cranfield University, 2005
• Specialist consultancy to µ-Sapient NoE on technology roadmapping results contributed to Manufuture (http://www.manufuture.org) 2006
• Invited speaker “Is the supply pipeline broken?) Microsystems Conference, IMAPS 2007

Publications

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Links

http://www.lboro.ac.uk/icg
http://www.integratedproductsktn.org.uk/