Yudhi Ariadi

Yudhi holds a Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering from Brawijaya University, Indonesia. After graduating in 1996, he worked in the automotive industry with ISUZU Astra Motor Indonesia for 5 years, first as a Product Planner (1997-1999) and later as a Product Design Engineering Coordinator (1999-2002). He then moved to the next step of product development, and worked at an automotive tool manufacturing as a Tool and Die Design Section Head (2002-2008) at FUJI Technica Indonesia for more than 6 years.

From 2003 to 2004, he acquired the skills of automotive dies design and manufacturing in FUJI Technica Inc., at Mishima, Japan, funded by the Association for Overseas Technical Scholarship (AOTS) and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) of Japan.

In 2008-2009, Yudhi became a researcher with the Lancaster Product Development Unit, Lancaster University, UK. His research was part of Rapid Manufacturing North West (RMNW) project funded by the European Union (EU) and the Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF). After completing the project, he gained his MSc in Engineering by Research. Transferring to Indonesia in 2009, Yudhi obtained a lectureship in the Mechanical Engineering Department of Polytechnic of Jakarta, Indonesia along with some part time teaching at Astra Manufacturing Polytechnic.

He has been awarded a full-funded research studentship from the Loughborough Design School undertaking PhD research from December 2010 and expects to complete in 2015.

From October 2014 to March 2015, he was a CAD tutor and responsible for delivering tutorials and problem-solving for BSc Product Design final year student projects at Nottingham Trent University.

In June 2014, he has been appointed as a part-time Research Assistant at the Institute for Innovation in Sustainable Engineering (IISE), University of Derby and working on developing VR laboratory, creating 3D models, virtual environments and implementing for Industrial experiments & applications.