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David Allen | Emeritus Professor | Cranfield University | UK Photochemical Machining of Aerospace Materials
Emeritus 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.
He was appointed a Technical Liaison Member to PCMI in 1981 and is currently on the Board of Directors of PCMI responsible for education.
David became Professor of Microengineering at Cranfield University in 1998 and was elected as a Fellow of The International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP) in 2006.
David has published:
• Two PCM books: “The Principles and Practice of Photochemical Machining and Photoetching” (1986) and
“Photochemical Machining and Photoelectroforming” (2015, reprinted 2016 and 2017)
• Five book chapters on non-conventional machining and contributed the chapter on ‘Etching’ to the on-line CIRP
Encyclopedia of Production Engineering
• Seven confidential industrial PCM consortium reports
• 193 journal and conference papers and was awarded the higher doctoral degree of DSc from Cranfield University
in 2013 for his thesis entitled “Contributions to Photochemical Machining and Photoelectroforming”.
David retired from academia in 2011 and he now carries out consultancy and staff training in PCM companies across the world. He has worked with 20 different companies over the past 7 years.
The Photochemical Machining of Aerospace Materials
David Allen BSc, PhD, DSc, FCIRP Emeritus Professor of Microengineering Cranfield University, UK
d.allen@cranfield.ac.uk
Elite Grand Hotel Gävle Sweden
15th May 2018
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