Steve Cayzer

Full Name:: Dr Steve Cayzer
Department:: Dept of Mechanical Engineering
Job Title:: Senior Teaching Fellow
Telephone:: +44 (0)1225 386533
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E-mail Address:: (sorry, not clickable)
Postal Address:: Dr Steve Cayzer
4 East 3.49
Dept of Mechanical Engineering
University of Bath
Bath
BA2 7AY
United Kingdom

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I am a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. I am the Director of Studies for all MSc programmes in the Department of Mechanical Engineering:

MSc in Automotive Engineering; suitable for engineering graduates seeking to work in the automotive industry.
MSc in Engineering Design; suitable for graduates in subjects such as engineering, physics and maths. This MSc covers both technical (hence the pre-requisites) and creative sides of engineering design.
MSc in Mechatronics; suitable for both mechanical and electrical engineering graduates. The obvious application of mechatronics is robotics, but the applications are wider than this including signal processing, control engineering and medical systems.
The Innovation and Technology Management MSc is our flagship programme for the collaboration between Engineering and Management. It is suitable for graduates from engineering backgrounds who wish to move to a managerial or strategic role. It is equally suitable for business and management graduates who wish to move into high technology areas (automotive, IT, biotech etc).

I teach a range of courses in innovation, product development, project management (the latter 2 available to industry professionals as CPD) and sustainability. I am particularly interested in sustainable development both from a strategic and operational view. To this end I am involved with:

Bath's MOOC titled "Make an impact: sustainability for professionals". I contribute to weeks 2 and 4 of this free, open access, online, 6 week course.
The Sustainable Energy Research Team; whose research includes: sustainable energy; life cycle assessment; and community renewables
Institute for Sustainable Energy and the Environment; a cross university research and public engagement network
Low Carbon South West; a network of businesses, universities and other institutions engaged with the growth agenda for the environmental sector in this region.
The Circular Economy foundation; an international network of universities and organisations engaged in exploring innovative new business models for circular (aka cradle to cradle) approaches to products, services, industries and the economy.

I also work with Easton Community Centre, the Centre for Sustainable Energy and DECC (the Department of Energy & Climate Change).

I am a Director of Low Carbon Gordano, a community energy company whose current (2014) project involves an 1.8MW solar array at Hallen.

My other research & teaching interests include agile software development, artificial intelligence and knowledge management

My PhD students include:

Maddy Stow, who I co-supervise with Marcelle McManus. Maddy is researching the lifecycle benefits of community energy
Mendy Memboshora, who I co-supervise with Elies Dekoninck. Mendy is researching the supply chain aspects of environmental new product development
Fahad Alazemi, who I co-supervise with Linda Newnes. Fahad is conducting economic and environmental analyses of renewable energy in Kuwait
Danish Mishra, who I co-supervise with Baris Yalabik. Danish is researching technology transfer of environmental innovations in the automotive industry, particularly in Formula 1

My pre-Bath background is in IT, particularly web information management, artificial intelligence and sustainability. I have worked for (among others) HP Labs, University of Bristol, and the University of the West of England (UWE).

Selected Publications

S. Cayzer and C. Preist. The Sustainability Hub: An Information Management Tool for Analysis and Decision Making Proceedings of the 2009 GreenMetrics workshop: ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review Volume 37, Issue 4 (March 2010)(PDF)
C. Torniai, S. Battle, and S. Cayzer. Sharing, discovering and browsing geotagged pictures on the web. In A. Scharl and K. Tochtermann, eds, The Geospatial Web: Springer, 2006 (PDF)
S. Cayzer and U. Aickelin. A recommender system based on idiotypic artificial immune networks. Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms, 4(2):181-198, 2005 (PDF)
S. Cayzer. Semantic blogging and decentralized knowledge management. Communications of the ACM, 47(12):47-52, December 2004 (PDF)