Professor Ian Jennions
Director, IVHM Centre
Location: IVHM Centre, Conway House, Cranfield Technology Park
E: i.jennions@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 758390
Manufacturing and Materials
Current activities
- Integrated Vehicle Health Management technologies: diagnostics, prognostics, life usage, sensors, integrated architectures and design system.
- Business: service models, business cases
- Links between IVHM and PSS (Product-Service System)
- Developing the new Research Centre
- Attracting more clients to the Centre
Clients
- Boeing
- BAe Systems
- Rolls-Royce
- Meggitt
- Thales
- EEDA
- EPSRC.
Background
Dr Ian K Jennions’ career spans over 30 years, working mostly for a variety of gas turbine companies. His PhD work at Imperial College, London, led to a significant improvement in modelling of missile exhausts for the UK Ministry of Defence. After his PhD, he moved to Rolls-Royce where he worked on improvement of the ‘classic’ aerodynamic design system for turbomachinery, the technique is still in routine use in the company today.
In 1985 he moved to General Electric Aircraft Engines and led the take-up of CFD for the aerodynamic design of turbomachinery. He formed a strong group working on all elements of the turbomachinery design system with the methods developed being used in a number of engine projects.
The move to ABB in 1994 broadened his role, becoming involved in heat transfer, air systems and proof of concept projects as well as CFD. He returned to Rolls-Royce in 1998 to be in charge of combustion and turbomachinery in their Energy Business, and was involved with some innovative methods of controlling combustion instabilities. A couple of roles in the R&T organisation led him to be EHM Global Capability Owner, a corporate role spanning all of Rolls-Royce’s businesses and main engineering sites.
He moved to Cranfield in July 2008 as Professor and Director of the Integrated Vehicle Health Management (IVHM) Centre. The Centre has attracted some £9m in funding from industry, EPSRC and EEDA. The EPSRC funding is via a joint mapping project with the IMRC PSS (Product Services Solutions) initiative; the mapping project attracts £500k in funding.
