Brunel MSc Advanced Manufacturing Systems graduate currently studying an EngD at Brunel awarded the AMTRI Scholarship
Mitchell Howard was recruited by Mollart Engineering in March 2011 to head up new Research & Development projects at Mollart. Mitchell was tasked to champion and succeeded in achieving the winning of two grants for developing deep hole machining technology and abrasive flow machining worth £350,000. He has continued to co-ordinate, manage and control the advancement of both projects involving an investment budget of £720,000 by the company.
Mitchell has largely been responsible for managing two key projects inside Mollart, the first to develop Acubore, (steerable gundrill technology) that will break new ground in ensuring that drilling tools are capable of maintaining their direction over increasing lengths of penetration and in the course of the process be able to change the direction of the tool around other geometry in a component, and a second project to match and monitor advanced fluid dynamics simulation for abrasive flow machining. These grant funded development projects involve Mitchell’s co-ordination of different universities, equipment suppliers and the overall management.
Mitchell has proved himself to be a highly capable engineer and has succeeding in delivering excellent results. This, coupled with his commercial acumen in securing considerable grant funding to enable the projects viability, leads us to award him the AMTRI Scholarship. This special Scholarship is supported by a trust fund created by AMTRI and administered by the MTA. The winner can use the AMTRI Scholarship to drive his or her continuous professional development programme, pursue postgraduate study or to enhance an education led project.
Mitchell is currently enrolled and sponsored by Mollart Engineering on the Engineering Doctorate (EngD) programme administered by Brunel University. Completion of the programme will then enable direct application into the CEng process with the IMechE. He is a graduate of Brunel University’s MSc Advanced Manufacturing Systems (IMechE and IET accredited) programme.
