The Department of Industrial Engineering (DIME) at the University of Malta, in collaboration with the Malta Branch of the Institution of Engineering Designers (IED) UK, is inviting you to attend the public lecture:
Experiences from a Research Project on the Design of a System for Rapid Analysis of Finger Prints
speaker: Prof. Dr Ing. Peter Leibl, Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany
date: Thursday 19 November 2015
time: 17:30 – 18:30
venue: CAD/CAM Systems Lab, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malta
Attendance is free of charge.
Attendance is free of charge.
Abstract
Universities and police are normally two different worlds with specific points of interest, knowledge and abilities. But there can be some synergy, in order to bring both strengths together. Close to ten years ago, the Department of Applied Sciences and Mechatronics, at the Munich University of Applied Sciences (HM), started to think about setting up a research collaboration with the Bavarian police. In 2009, there was the start to collaborate with the Strategic Innovation Centre at the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office, with the launch of the masters course of mechatronics offered at the same university. As a result of this collaboration, which is still running, an unmanned ground vehicle for use, with a high degree of security was developed. In 2012, the Faculty for applied sciences and mechatronics at HM, started a research project called HUSSA (Human tracing and analysis). This project involves a number of partners, namely, the Bavarian police, federal police and a company. The overall research aim of this project is to design a system to find and fix finger prints in very specific situations. This presentation will give an outlook at this research collaboration and the activities thereafter to potentially commercialise the product.
Universities and police are normally two different worlds with specific points of interest, knowledge and abilities. But there can be some synergy, in order to bring both strengths together. Close to ten years ago, the Department of Applied Sciences and Mechatronics, at the Munich University of Applied Sciences (HM), started to think about setting up a research collaboration with the Bavarian police. In 2009, there was the start to collaborate with the Strategic Innovation Centre at the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office, with the launch of the masters course of mechatronics offered at the same university. As a result of this collaboration, which is still running, an unmanned ground vehicle for use, with a high degree of security was developed. In 2012, the Faculty for applied sciences and mechatronics at HM, started a research project called HUSSA (Human tracing and analysis). This project involves a number of partners, namely, the Bavarian police, federal police and a company. The overall research aim of this project is to design a system to find and fix finger prints in very specific situations. This presentation will give an outlook at this research collaboration and the activities thereafter to potentially commercialise the product.
Prof. Dr Ing. Peter Leibl is a professor at the Faculty for Applied Sciences and Mechatronics, at the Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany. His research interests are Product Design, Design to Cost, Machine Elements and Innovation management. Prof. Leibl has industrial experience in various areas of design and is responsible for a number of research projects. Peter has various publications in the design field in various international journals and conference proceedings. Prof. Leibl is the inventor of five patents.