Dr Emma L Carter MEng&Man(Hons), PhD, CEng, MIMechE, PGCertHE, FHEA

Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering

Department of Engineering and Mathematics

Summary

I am a Senior Lecturer in Solid Mechanics and the course leader for the Mechanical Engineering Technology (BEng) Degree Apprenticeship. My module leadership responsibilities include Level 7 Applied Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics and Level 4 Engineering Principles for Apprentices.

I am a Chartered Engineer and Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and spent 5 years working in the manufacturing industry before doing my PhD.

I have spent 20 years in academic research including multi-body dynamic modelling and vehicle design optimisation for pedestrian safety; MEMS; counter terrorism; blast modelling (FEA); auxetic materials.

About

I am a Chartered Engineer and Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and spent 5 years working in the manufacturing industry before doing my PhD. This included cold-drawn steel processing, starter ring-gear manufacture, CNC tube manipulation and lean manufacturing.

Since 2002 I have spent 20 years in academic research in some diverse fields: multi-body dynamic modelling and vehicle design optimisation for pedestrian safety; MEMS (fabrication and testing of resonators for investigating the Casimir force); counter terrorism, blast behaviour in urban environments and blast mitigation technology (FEA and public perception of counter-terrorism measures); auxetic materials (FEA of auxetic structures and analysis of the relationship between Poisson's ratio and hydrophobicity).

Specialist areas of interest

Automotive safety
Pedestrian injury mitigation
Blast injury mitigation
Finite Element Modelling
Multi-body dynamic modelling
Genetic Algorithm optimization
Quantitative data analysis

Teaching

Department of Engineering and Mathematics

College of Business, Technology and Engineering

Solid Mechanics and Dynamics

Mechanical Engineering Technology BEng (Degree Apprenticeship)

Mechanical Engineering BEng

Mechanical Engineering MEng

Aerospace Engineering MEng

Engineering Principles for Apprentices

Applied Structural Mechanics and FEA

Applied Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics

Research

Wetting of Auxetic Metamaterials (EPSRC)

Publications

Journal articles

McHale, G., Alderson, A., Armstrong, S., Mandhani, S., Meyari, M., Wells, G.G., ... Evans, K.E. (2024). Transforming Auxetic Metamaterials into Superhydrophobic Surfaces. Small Structures. http://doi.org/10.1002/sstr.202300458

Armstrong, S., McHale, G., Alderson, A., Mandhani, S., Meyari, M., Wells, G.G., ... Semprebon, C. (2023). Wetting transitions on superhydrophobic auxetic metamaterials. Applied Physics Letters, 123. http://doi.org/10.1063/5.0173464

Carter, E., Paragreen, J., Valfrè, G., & Fletcher, D. (2016). Passenger acceptance of counter‐terrorism security measures in stations. IET Intelligent Transport Systems, 10 (1), 2-9. http://doi.org/10.1049/iet-its.2015.0031

Carter, E.L., & Neal-Sturgess, C.E. (2009). MADYMO reconstruction of a real-world collision between a vehicle and cyclist. International Journal of Crashworthiness, 14 (4), 379-390. http://doi.org/10.1080/13588260902823999

Carter, E.L., Neal-Sturgess, C.E., & Hardy, R.N. (2008). APROSYS in-depth database of serious pedestrian and cyclist impacts with vehicles. International Journal of Crashworthiness, 13 (6), 629-642. http://doi.org/10.1080/13588260802411457

Anthony, C.J., Bowen, J., Torricelli, G., Carter, E.L., Ward, M.C.L., & Binns, C. (2008). AFM characterisation of silicon-on-insulator push-in plates for Casimir force measurements. Micro & Nano Letters, 3 (1), 7-11. http://doi.org/10.1049/mnl:20070067

Conference papers

Carter, E.L., Ward, M., & Anthony, C. (2009). Design and fabrication of novel devices using the Casimir force for non-contact actuation. 2009 IEEE Sensors, 229-233. http://doi.org/10.1109/icsens.2009.5398181

Carter, E., Ebdon, S., & Neal-Sturgess, C. (2005). Optimization of passenger car design for the mitigation of pedestrian head injury using a genetic algorithm. Proceedings of the 7th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation, 2113-2120. http://doi.org/10.1145/1068009.1068358

Reports

Carter, E., Rahbari, R., & Anthistle, T. (2015). Numerical modelling of mitigation technology. (D300.2).

Other activities

Athena SWAN champion

Media

Finalist in DocFest 'Specialist Factual New Talent' competition in 2013.

Emma Carter