Face shield design and manufacture: an agile and flexible response in time of need | Brian Falzon | TEDxQueensUniversityBelfast
Brian Falzon |
TEDxQueensUniversityBelfast
• June 2020
Professor Falzon explains how a new reusable face shield for front-line workers was designed and put into production within 48 hours of taking the decision to place the school of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the service of the NHS.
Professor Brian G. Falzon joined Queen’s University Belfast in 2013 to take up the Royal Academy of Engineering – Bombardier Chair in Aerospace Composites and is currently the head of the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and director of the Advanced Composites Research Group.
Between 2008 and 2012, Professor Falzon was the Foundation Chair in Aerospace Engineering at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, where he was also director of research and head of the aerospace engineering programmes. Between 1996 and 2008, Professor Falzon was at Imperial College London where he joined as a postdoctoral research fellow before becoming an academic staff member. He is a chartered engineer and fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.
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