Host
Sponsors
Robotics & Automation Committee of CWS
Melted Welding & Equipments Committee of CWS
Editorial Board of Transactions on Intelligent Welding Manufacturing
Co-sponsors
Chinese Welding Society (CWS)
Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society (CMES)
Chinese Welding Association (CWA)
Shanghai Welding Society (SWS)
State Key Laboratory of AWJ，HIT
State Key Laboratory of APRNM，LUT
OMETBAM Laboratory，BIPT
Key Laboratory of LAWJT，DLUT
Shanghai Key Laboratory of MLPM (SJTU)
Prof. John Norrish, University of Wollongong, AUS
Director of the Defence Materials Technology Centre Ltd. Australia.
Vice Chairman, International Institute of Welding (IIW) Commission XII
Director of the Australian Welded Structures Foundation
John Norrish, a Bachelors Degree in Metallurgy Before Completing Post Graduate studies in Welding Technology at the University of Aston, Birmingham, UK. He has worked in the welding research area since 1969.
From 1969 to 1981 he was employed by the BOC group in the UK where he later became Technical Manager of BOC ARC Equipment, with responsibility for process and equipment research and development. During this time he was responsible for the introduction of some of the first electronically regulated, computer controlled welding power supplies and associated process developments. In 1981 John joined BOC's associate company (CIG) in Australia and became Consultant Welding Engineer for CIG in Queensland. He returned to the UK in 1985, where he became Head of the Welding Group at Cranfield University In this role he was responsible for post-graduate education and research in welding processes and during his 10 years at Cranfield he was responsible for the supervision of more than 50 Masters and Doctoral research students. He also instigated the work on Rapid Prototyping or Additive Manufacture at Cranfield in the 1990’s. John moved to the University of Wollongong in November 1995 to take up the Chair in Materials Welding and Joining. At Wollongong he was responsible for coordinating welding research and education activities. His research interests included automation and mechanisation, robotic welding, additive manufacture, GMAW process and power source optimisation, , weldability of HSLA and coated steels , welding fume control and welders health.
John has more than two hundred publications in refereed journals and international conferences. He was co-inventor of 7 international patents. He is also the author of a Book - Advanced Welding Processes, originally published by The Institute of Physics in 1992 and revised and republished by Woodhead Publishing/Elsevier in 2006.
He has been the recipient of several awards; these include the Australian Ramsay Moon and Sir William Hudson Medals for several publications. In 2005 he was awarded the prestigious International Institute of Welding E.O.Paton award for a lifetime contribution to welding research. In 2016 he was made a Fellow of the International Institute of Welding