Dr Essam Shehab
Senior Lecturer in Decision Engineering
Location: Building 50, Cranfield campus
E: e.shehab@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 750111 x5241
Manufacturing and Materials
Current activities
Dr Essam Shehab has developed a strong reputation in research and teaching activities. He has contributed heavily in establishing Cranfield as one of the centres of excellence in Cost Engineering and knowledge-based decision support systems. He is leading the research in both areas within the Product and Service Innovation Centre, and has developed new research areas in the application of Knowledge Management to product and service design.
Dr Shehab has published over 100 journal and conference papers and edited two books. He has successfully completed the supervision of more than 60 PhD/MSc Theses and one Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) project. He is currently supervising 17 PhD/EngD researchers jointly with other colleagues. He has secured over 50 research projects from Government grants (UK, EU and overseas) and industry income. He is the Principal Investigator of a € 12 million EU-FP7 project with other partners including IBM and three EPSRC/EngD research projects with Rolls-Royce. He is the co-investigator of five research EPSRC/IMRC projects in the area of product-service systems and one EU project on lean product and process development.
Dr Shehab is currently serving on the technical reviewing committees of a number of journals. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), the Association of Cost Engineers (ACostE) and the Engineering Manufacturing Committee (EMC) of ACostE.
Key competencies
- Cost Modelling for Innovative Product/Service Development
- Knowledge Management for Product/Service Development
- System Design
- Enterprise Resource Planning
Clients
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Background
Dr Essam Shehab joined the School of Applied Sciences in 2004. Prior to this, he was a Research Fellow in the Medway School of Engineering, University of Greenwich, working for a number of years in industry before he joined academia. Dr Shehab obtained both his first class honours degree and his Master by Research in Engineering. He was awarded his PhD from De Montfort University, Leicester. The industrial collaborator was Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications.
Dr Shehab’s research interests cover multi-disciplinary areas including cost modelling, system design, knowledge management for product and service development and intelligent systems in manufacturing. He has developed an intelligent knowledge-based cost modelling system for innovative product development at an early design stage.
Selected research grants:
- Principal Investigator of EU/FP7 project (2011-2014) ‘ENSURE - Enabling knowledge Sustainability, Usability and Recovery for Economic value’ (Jointly with Dr P Baguley) 13 Partners including IBM, Philips Health Care, Fraunhofer-Institut Biomedizinische Technik Germany.
Total Budget for the project: € 12,049,756 - Co-investigator of EU/FP7 project (2009-2013) ‘Lean Product and Process Development’ (Principal Investigator: Dr A Al-Ashaab) 8 Industrial Partners including Visteon Engineering Services UK, Rolls-Royce UK, and Volkswagen, Germany.
Total funding for the project: € 5,266,842 - Principal Investigator of EPSRC funded Enhanced Engineering Doctorate (EngD) project (2009-2013) on ‘Adaptive and Lean Design Systems Architecture Framework in Aerospace Industry’.
Industrial Sponsor: Rolls-Royce. Total funding: £133,000 (£85,000 from EPSRC and £48,000 from Rolls-Royce) - Principal Investigator of EPSRC funded PhD project (2009-2012) on ‘Semantic Knowledge Based Framework for Aerospace Design Engineering Process’.
Industrial Sponsor: Rolls-Royce. Total funding: £95,000 (£65,000 from EPSRC and £30,000 from Rolls-Royce) - Principal Investigator of EPSRC funded Enhanced Engineering Doctorate (EngD.) project (2009-2013) on ‘Integrated New Product Introduction in Aerospace Manufacturing Engineering’.
Industrial Sponsor: Rolls-Royce. Total funding: £120,000 (£86,000 from EPSRC and £34,000 from Rolls-Royce) - Co-investigator of EPSRC/IMRC project (2008-2011) ‘Service Delivery Systems (internal) for Strategies Competitive PSS’ (Principal Investigator: Professor T Baines).
Total funding: £368,213 - Co-investigator of EPSRC/IMRC project (2008-2011) 'Capability based PSS Conceptual Design' (Principal Investigator: Professor R Roy). Total funding: £430,734. Industrial Collaborators: ASTRIUM and PSS Research Club.
Total funding: £415,734 from EPSRC/IMRC and £15,000 from industry - Co-investigator and member of the core team of EPSRC/IMRC project, ‘Stage00: A Multi-disciplinary Exploratory Research Programme on Real-life Product-Service Systems’ (Principal Investigator: Professor S Evans). Industrial Collaborators: Rolls-Royce.
Total funding: £430,726 - Co-investigator of EPSRC/IMRC project, Grant Number 113, ‘Whole Life Costing Modelling for Product-Service Systems (PSS-Cost)’ (Principal Investigator: Professor R Roy). Industrial Collaborators: BAE Systems, Smiths Aerospace, Lockheed Martin Insys UK, MoD, Rolls Royce, Galorath, Cognition, APMP and SBAC.
Total funding: £480,595. Financial Contributions: £395,595 from EPSRC/IMRC and £85,000 from industry.
Selected PhD supervision:
- Mohammed Darwish, Adaptive and Lean Design Systems Architecture Framework in Aerospace Industry (2009-20013), EPSRC/Enhanced Engineering Doctorate (EngD) Industrial sponsor: Rolls-Royce (Supervisor: Dr Essam Shehab)
- Malachy Maginness, Integrated New Product Introduction in Aerospace Manufacturing Engineering’, (2009-20013), EPSRC/Enhanced Engineering Doctorate (EngD) Industrial sponsor: Rolls-Royce (Supervisor: Dr Essam Shehab)
- Isaac Sanya, Semantic Knowledge Based Framework for Aerospace Design Engineering Process (2009-20012), EPSRC/PhD, Industrial sponsor: Rolls-Royce (Supervisor: Dr Essam Shehab)
- Fran Romero Rojo, The development of a methodology to predict whole life cost of a product-service system with obsolescence (2007 – 2010), PSS-Cost (IMRC project) (BAE Systems, MoD, GE Aviation), (Supervisors: Professor R Roy and Dr Essam Shehab)
- John Erkoyuncu, The development of a framework to incorporate uncertainties and risks in service and support costs within a product-service system (2007 – 2010), PSS-Cost (IMRC project) (BAE Systems, MoD, GE Aviation), (Supervisors: Professor R Roy and Dr Essam Shehab)
- Maksim Maksimovic, A Novel Lean Knowledge Life Cycle Approach for Lean Product and Process Development (2009-2012), sponsored by EU FP7 project with Visteon Engineering Services UK, Rolls-Royce UK, and VolksWagen, Germany, Indesit Italy, Sitech Germany (Supervisors: Dr Essam Shehab and Dr Ahmed Al-Ashaab).
