Dr Suphunnika Ibbotson

 

 

Research Associate
Contact details 

Research Priority Area:

Advanced Manufacturing

Teaching Areas:

Manufacturing Engineering
Management for Engineers
Engineering Mechanics
Life Cycle Engineering
Life Cycle Assessment
Concurrent Product and Process Design
Solid Mechanics

Qualifications

1997       BE: Mechanical Engineering, Mahanakorn University of Technology (MUT), Thailand
1999       MSc and Diploma: Advanced Mechanical Engineering, University of London and the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, UK
2007       PhD: Manufacturing Engineering, The University of New South Wales

Employment

1995–1997     Teacher Assistant, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MUT, Thailand
1997–2003     Lecturer
2000–2002     Programme Director and coordinator for Master of Engineering International Programme in Manufacturing Management, MUT, Thailand
2005–2007     Tutor, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, The University of New South Wales
2007–2009     Postdoctoral Fellow
2009–present     Research Associate

Visiting appointments

2011 Visiting Researcher, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany

awards, honours and distinctions

1998       British-Thailand Scholarship Scheme, British Council, Thailand
2000       Distinction publication research work in Mechanics and Materials Award for paper “Dynamic Fractures in PMMA” by Vongsarnpigoon, L., Manmek, S., Ivankovic, A., and Hillmansen, S., presented in the 14th National Mechanical Engineering Conference, Chiang-Mai, Thailand
2003       Australia-Asia Awards 2003, PhD scholarship, Australian Government

Professional SOCIETIES

  • ALCAS (Australian Life Cycle Assessment Society)
  • CIRP (International Academy for Production Engineering Research)

Research Interests

  • Life Cycle Engineering and Management
  • Design for Product Life Cycle
  • Concurrent Product and Process Design
  • Green Supply Chain Management
  • Activity-based Life Cycle Costing
  • Environmental Impact Assessment
  • Economic Environment
    • Sustainable Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

    Visit the Life Cycle Engineering & Management Research Group website.

Professional interests and consulting

Professional Commitments

  • AUSLCI Committee, Australian Life Cycle Assessment Society
  • Member, Joint German-Australian Research Group in Sustainable Manufacturing and Life Cycle Management

Consulting Areas

  • Eco-design
  • Carbon and water footprint assessment
  • Energy and resource efficiency
  • Life cycle assessment
  • Life cycle costing
  • Sustainable manufacturing

Selected Consulting Projects

  • JOINT GERMAN-AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH GROUP IN SUSTAINABLE MANUFACTURING AND LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT, “Lifecycle assessment for single-use surgical instruments in comparison with multi-use surgical instruments”, AESCULAP AG & CO.KG, Germany (2010).
  • KARA S. and MANMEK S., “Composites: Calculating their embodied energy”, Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation, the Queensland Government (2010).
  • KARA S. and MANMEK S., “Life cycle assessment of park furniture for conservation areas report”, Gold Coast City Council (2009).

SELECTED Publications

Journal Papers

  • KARA S and IBBOTSON S., “Embodied energy of manufacturing supply chains”, CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology, Vol 4(3) (2011).
  • KARA S. and MANMEK S., “Global manufacturing and the embodied energy of products”, Annals of the CIRP, Vol 59(1) (2010).
  • MANMEK S., KAEBERNICK H. and KARA S., “Simplified environmental impact assessment of product life cycle at the conceptual design stage”, International Journal of Sustainable Manufacturing, Vol 2(1) (2010).
  • KARA S., MANMEK S., KAEBERNICK H. and IBBOTSON S., “Assessment of products for optimal lifetime”, Annals of the CIRP, Vol 57(1) (2008).
  • KARA S., MANMEK S. and KAEBERNICK H., “An integrated methodology to estimate the external environmental costs of products”, Annals of the CIRP, Vol 56(1) (2007).

Conference Papers

  • IBBOTSON, S. and KARA, S., "Environmental footprint of magnetite nanoparticle application: iron oxide case", Proceedings of the 19th CIRP Seminar on Life Cycle Engineering, California, USA (2012).
  • BOONSOTHONSATIT, K., KARA, S. and IBBOTSON, S., ”A generic simulation model for green supplier selection”, Proceedings of the 19th CIRP Seminar on Life Cycle Engineering, California, USA (2012).
  • IBBOTSON, S. and KARA, S., "Carbon footprint analysis of products – cradle to gate and manufacturing supply chains ", Proceedings of the 7th Australian Life Cycle Assessment, Melbourne, Australia (2011).
  • KHUMBOON, R., KARA, S. and IBBOTSON, S., “A decision making model for employing product service system in industry”, Proceedings of the 3rd CIRP International Conference on Industrial Product Service Systems, Braunschweig, Germany (2011).
  • ZWONLINSKI, P., KARA, S. and MANMEK, S., “Comparison of eco-design tools for the conceptual design phase”, Proceedings of the 17th CIRP Seminar on Life Cycle Engineering, Anhui, China (2010).