Chinese engineer becomes Research Student of the Year
Thu, 04 Oct 2012 11:41:00 BST
The award comes just as Dong, has completed his PhD thesis, supervised by Professor Andrew Ball and Dr Fengshou Gu. But he continues to work as a research fellow within the University’s Centre for Efficiency and Performance Engineering, which undertakes projects in tandem with major industrial partners. For the next two years Dong will be working on a collaborative R&D project with world-leading gearbox manufacturer David Brown Gears.
Dong has previously studied and carried out research in his native China, at Shandong University of Science and Technology and at the Chinese Academy of Science’s flagship Institute of Acoustics in Beijing.
Having developed a profound interest in the use of acoustics and non-stationary signal processing as techniques for monitoring the condition of machinery – leading to important gains in efficiency for industrial users – he decided to take his research to a new level and came to the University of Huddersfield in 2009 for his PhD.
Three years later he has made a sequence of significant contributions to his field, such as developing a new algorithm that applies acoustic 
Professor Ball – who heads the multi-disciplinary Centre for Efficiency and Performance Engineering – praised Dong’s research: “Dong is an extremely able and hugely-dedicated young research engineer. The developments that he’s made during his PhD are quite remarkable and there is no doubt that they will have significant impact in the fields of non-stationary signal processing and the condition and performance monitoring of diesel engines.
“I’m delighted that Dong has opted to remain in the UK as a research fellow and I am sure that he will continue to push forwards the bounds of capability in the vitally-important field of machinery performance and efficiency engineering.”
At the Research Festival the public had a chance to attend sessions on a fascinating variety of topics – and hearing guest lectures by leading broadcasters and politicians.
Science was the keynote towards the start of the festival covering topics that included the origin of humanity, the impact of modern chemistry and the work of the University’s EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Advanced Metrology.
The emphasis switched to art, design and music later on covering topics that included the Beefeaters of the Tower of London, battlefield archaeology plus a fascinating project to recreate the viol, a musical instrument heard at the court of Henry VIII.
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