Professor David Allen

Professor of Microengineering
Location: Building 70, Cranfield campus
E: d.allen@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 754058
Materials

Current activities

EPSRC Research Grant “The Design and Manufacture of 3D Miniaturised Integrated Products” (3D Mintegration)
FP7 large scale integrating project “New Production Technologies of Complex 3D Micro-devices through Multi-process Integration of Ultra Precision Engineering Techniques” (Integ-micro)
Research, Consultancy and Short Course Teaching in Photochemical Machining.

Clients

Unipath, Tecan, Battenfeld, Epigem (EPSRC Grand Challenge winning project; 3D Mintegration)
Swatch (Switzerland)
Datum Alloys (UK)
7 Precompetitive Consortia of UK, USA and Asian Photochemical Machining Companies
Consultancy with over 50 SMEs

Background

Professor David Allen started his career as a chemist (BSc, 1968) and moved into photochemistry research (PhD, 1972) while studying at Cardiff University. Following post-doctoral research at Warwick University and imaging technology development in industry, David joined Cranfield University in 1976 and was appointed as a Technical Liaison Member to the USA-based Photo Chemical Machining Institute (PCMI) in 1981. He is currently on the Board of Directors of PCMI. David became Professor of Microengineering in 1998 and was elected as a Fellow of The International Academy for Production Engineering in 2006.

Selected publications

D.M. Allen, The Principles and Practice of Photochemical Machining and Photoetching, Institute of Physics, Bristol, 1986 [ISBN 0-85274-443-9]
D.M. Allen, “Photochemical Machining: from ‘manufacturing’s best kept secret’ to a $6 billion per annum, rapid manufacturing process”, Annals of the CIRP, 53/2, 559-572, 2004.
E.T.F. Chau, C.M. Friend, D.M. Allen, J.Hora and J.R. Webster, A Technical and Economic Appraisal of Shape Memory Alloys for Aerospace Applications, Materials Science and Engineering, A438-440, 589-592, 2006.
L. Uriarte, A. Herrero, A. Ivanov, H. Oosterling, L. Staemmler, P. T. Tang, and D. Allen, Comparison between microfabrication technologies for metal tooling, Proceedings of Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Vol. 220 Part C: J. Mechanical Engineering Science, 1665-1676, 2006.
D.F. Chowdhury and D.M. Allen, Enhancement of transdermal drug delivery using MEMS technologies; Proceedings of the 7^th euspen International Conference – Bremen, May 2007, Volume 1, 49-52, 2007
S. Marson, R. Evans and D.M. Allen, Replication of polymer microcomponents: the economics of hot embossing versus injection moulding; Proceedings of the 20^th International Conference on Computer-Aided Production Engineering (CAPE 2007), Glasgow, 6^th-8^th June 2007, Keynote paper, 2-11.

Further publications