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Dr. Carmen Torres-Sanchez

MEng, PhD, PGCert, FHEA

Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering

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EH14 4AS Edinburgh
United Kingdom

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Personal information

Haves

Edit Expertise in the manufacture of porosity graded materials, porosity control and adjustment for 'ad-hoc' applications. High performance teams skills, a business and scientific research profile, an interest in Science Communication, Materials Engineering expertise, general administration skills, project management skills, teaching and mentoring
Wants

Edit Academic and Business contacts, partnership opportunities, Academia|Industry interface connections
Interests

Edit Biomimicry and Biomimetics. Find out what Academia can do in order to turn the economic situation up side down, help SMEs with their R&D interests/needs, be in touch with people who has hope: things always get better.
Organizations

Edit Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK), JADE - European Confederation of Junior Enterprises (Brussels), Mentor SET for Women in Engineering (UK), Member of the Watt Club, Scottish Crucible Alumna
Groups

Professional experience

Jul 2010 - present
(2 years, 11 months)

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Aug 2009 - Jun 2010
(11 months)

Shadow Coordinator for the Product Development Partnership

University of Strathclyde - DMEM Department

Industry: Academia
Sep 2008 - Jun 2010
(1 year, 10 months)

Research Fellow

University of Strathclyde, http://www.strath.ac.uk/dmem

Industry: Research
Apr 2009 - Jul 2009
(4 months)

Fellow

Scottish Crucible Labs Programme

Industry: Civil Service
Sep 2006 - Aug 2008
(2 years)

Teaching Fellow

Heriot-Watt University, http://www.hw.ac.uk

Industry: Academia
Nov 2003 - Mar 2008
(4 years, 5 months)

PhD student

Heriot-Watt University, http://www.dtmg.hw.ac.uk

Industry: Mechanical/Industrial Engineering
Oct 2002 - Sep 2003
(1 year)

Vice president

JADE- European Confederation of Junior Enterprises, http://www.jadenet.org

Industry: Non-Profit Organization
Mar 2001 - Jul 2002
(1 year, 5 months)

Vice President

CEJE- Spanish Confederation of Junior Enterprises, http://www.ceje.org

Industry: Non-Profit Organization
Oct 1999 - Mar 2001
(1 year, 6 months)

President

CENET Consulting JE, http://www.cenetconsulting.es

Industry: Others
President

FAJE- Andalusian FEderation of Junior Enterprises, http://www.ceje.org/faje

Industry:

Educational background

Oct 1996 - Jun 2002

University of Granada (Spain)
Chemical Engineering, Master in Engineering

Relevant modules, among others, Project Engineering, Process Simulation, Industrial Design, Waste Treatment Technologies, Food Technology and Polymers. International Environmental Law. Final Year Project “Experimental Pilot Scale Facility for non-wood manufacture”: R&D project in Paper Industry an

Languages

English, Spanish

About me

Recent Academic Publications and Research Conferences:

Torres-Sanchez C., Corney J.R., “Porosity tailoring mechanisms in sonicated polymeric foams”, the IOP Journal of Smart Materials and Structures, 2009, 18 No. 10, pp. 104001 (13pp). Featured Article in the October 2009 Issue.

Torres-Sanchez C., Corney J.R., “Towards Functionally Graded Cellular Microstructures”, the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, Volume 131, Issue 9, 091011 (7 pages)

Jagadeesan P., Wenzel J., Corney J.R., Yan X.T., Sherlock A., Torres-Sanchez C., Regli W., “Geometric Reasoning via Internet CrowdSourcing”, paper submitted to the 2009 SIAM/ACM Joint Conference on Geometric and Physical Modeling, 5th – 8th October, San Francisco, California, CA

Torres-Sanchez C., Corney J.R., “Identification of formation stages via electrical resistivity measurements in a polymeric foam customised by sonication”, DOI: 10.1007/s10965-008-9249-4. Journal of Polymer Research

Jagadeesan P., Wenzel J., Corney J.R., Yan X.T., Sherlock A., Torres-Sanchez C., Regli W., “Towards Content-based Indexing of 3D CAD data with Internet Crowdsourcing”, paper submitted to the PLM 09, 6th International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management, 6th -8th July 2009, Bath, UK

Torres-Sanchez C., Corney J.R., “Simulation of the Acoustic Environment for the Manufacture of Graded Porosity Materials by Sonication”, Proceedings of the COMSOL Conference, 4th - 6th November 2008, Hannover, Germany, ISBN: 978-0-9766792-3-3, COMSOL AB.

Torres-Sanchez C., Corney J.R., “Towards Functionally Graded Cellular Microstructures”, SMASIS2008-414, Procs of the ASME Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptative Structures and Intelligent Systems, SMASIS2008, 28th - 30th October 2008, Ellicott City, Maryland, USA , ISBN: 978-0-7918-3839-6, ASME Publications

Torres-Sánchez C. and Corney J.R, “Effects of ultrasound on polymeric foam porosity”, Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 2008, 15, p. 408-415. ISSN: 1350-4177

Torres-Sánchez C. and Corney J.R, “Porosity engineering of polymeric foams by localised sonication”, in Proceedings of the 19th International Congress on Acoustics (ICA 2007), p.384, ISBN: 84-87985-12-2

Torres-Sánchez C, Corney J.R. and Clark, D.E.R, “CAD representations and CAM methods for porous ceramic materials”, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Porous Ceramic Materials (PCM 2005), p.25-33, ISBN: 90-5857-006-1

Torres-Sánchez C, Corney J.R and Lim T, “Manufacture of Heterogeneous materials with variable porosity: an application of sonochemistry in porous ceramic materials”, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Porous Ceramic Materials (PCM 2005), p.50, ISBN: 90-5857-006-1

Torres-Sánchez C, Corney J.R, Lim T, and Clark, D.E.R, “A survey of CAD representations and CAM methods for heterogeneous materials”, for the MC7 Conference: Functional Materials for the 21st Century, by the Royal Society of Chemistry, Edinburgh, 5-8 July 2005, UK

Torres-Sánchez C, Corney J.R and Clark, D.E.R, (Invited) “Generation of controlled porous structures by sonication”, in the workshop Proceedings of the International Workshops on Interfaces: Interfaces by Design, organised by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, CA, p.76, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, June 2005

Lim T, Medellin H, Torres-Sánchez C, Corney J.R, Ritchie J.M. and Davies J.B.C, “Edge-based identification of DP-features on Free-Form solids (Object Modelling)”, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2005, 27 (6), p. 851-860. ISSN: 0162-8828