Mr Stuart Lambert

Working at CCCU since 2019 as a Senior Lecturer in Product Design and Course Director of Product Design Engineering. My research activities broadly cover Interdisciplinary design methods commonly with the Engineering & Product Design Education Conference (E&PDE) and academic industry colleagues. My professional membership is with the Chartered Society of Designers (CSD) and I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) . In addition to teaching responsibilities, I look after external Industrial liaison to explore student project and research potential for the university.

In Industry I worked as a Product Designer with an extensive list of commercial products in consumer, industrial products and contract furniture working in design consultancy in London & Milan and on an independent project; designing, productionising, marketing and selling a compact folding bike.

In 2011 I studied for an MBA which focused on ‘Design expertise at the Board’ considering how the creative thinking of designers provide commercial advantage and am now specifically researching ‘Design Skills at the interface of Design and Engineering’.

UCAP & PGCAP teacher training was undertaken via a part time course at CCCU during 2019-20 and I achieved Fellowship of the HEA in 2021.

As part of my 0.8 part time role I undertake Industrial liaison activities and meet with manufacturing and engineering companies to discuss potential CDIO lecturer / student, research or consultancy projects.

There is also a current discussion regarding a Phd researching; ‘Teaching product design to BEng engineering students: combining design with engineering skills in working as a Product Design Engineer’.

I attend an annual conference; the Engineering, Product Design & Education conference (EPDE) for which I have a paper to write titled; Sustainable living in a diverse habitat; A Product Design Engineering study from a Human Factors perspective.

My research field is:

Teaching product design to BEng engineering students: combining design with engineering skills towards working as a Product Design Engineer and lecture on ‘Fundamentals of Drawing’, ‘Introduction to Engineering’, ‘Human factors in Design Systems’ & ‘Rapid Prototyping’.

I maintain a level of professional design activity which sometimes relates to my previous design development project with the Crosshead folding bike.

I also maintain contact with my professional accreditation body for product & Industrial design, The Chartered Society of Designers.

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