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Peter Dewhurst
Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
Office: Gilbreth Hall, Room 103C
Phone: (401) 874-5194
Education:
- Ph.D. University of Manchester, England, 1973
- M.Sc. University of Manchester, England, 1971
- B.Sc. University of Manchester, Institute of Science & Technology, 1970
Research Interests
- Theory of Metal Deformation
- Design for Efficient Manufacture
- Design and Manufacture of Minimum-weight Product Structures
Summary:
Dr. Dewhurst has been working in engineering practice, teaching and research for 30 years, and has spent 20 of those years as a Professor at URI. His career started as a student apprentice with Platt International in the UK, where he became a Graduate Member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers and worked as a design engineer. He then returned to College to study Mathematics and obtained the best-in-class prize for three years and a First-class Honors degree from the University of Manchester. He was awarded the Sir Charles Reynold Fellowship to continue Ph.D. studies and worked jointly with the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics on the theory of metal deformation.
Dr. Dewhurst has worked in three main areas of research. His first area, building on his Ph.D research, was in the metal deformation theory applied to metal deformation and machining processes. While maintaining an interest in applied mechanics, he then moved on to the area of Design for Manufacture, where he and his colleagues Drs. Boothroyd and Knight laid down the principles of manufacturing evaluation at the concept stage of product desing.
Since the start of the new Millennium, Dr. Dewhurst has been applying his research efforts to the design of absolute minimum-weight structures. In a series of papers in the Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids, the International Journal of Mechanical Sciences and the Journal of Applied Mechanics, he has laid down the analytical tools needed to establish optimal topologies and proceed from there to detailed structural design. The work has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation (2001-2005) and Sandia National Laboratories (2005- )
Recognition for Dr. Dewhurst's work has included:
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F.W. Taylor Medal, College International pour Research de Production
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Rhode Island Governor's Award for Science and Technology, 1988
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National Medal of Technology from President G.W. Bush, 1991
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Freeman Award from the Providence Engineering Society, 1992
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Society of Plastics Engineers President's Award (Fred. O. Conley Medal), 1992
- URI Carlotti Faculty Excellence Award, 2002
- URI Carlottie Faculty Excellence Award, 2005
He has approximately 300 citations of his work in the scientific literature, equally divided between his contributions to design and applied mechanics.
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