Mr Mike Veveris
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Job title: Senior Lecturer Product Design
Email: m.veveris@derby.ac.uk
Personal website: productdesign.uniblogs.org/
Phone No: 01332593138
Room: MS104
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Department: Product Design Engineering and Ecological Design
Faculty: Arts, Design and Technology
School: School of Technology
Subject Area: Product Design
Mike graduated from Loughborough University in 1980 from their B.Tech (Hons) Metallurgical Engineering and Management. He spent ten years working as a Design and Development Engineer with Qualcast Lawnmowers in Derby, and during this time designed and developed the UK's best selling electric rotary lawnmower for two consecutive years. He also developed the patented Lawn Edge Trimming device. He subsequently worked in hygiene product development with PHS at Tamworth and industrial cleaning product development with Diversey-Johnson in North Derbyshire, before joining the University to initiate their Product Design programmes in 1993.
He has a number of international conference papers and patents to his name and, since joining the University, has undertaken consultancy work in design for Boots, Pennine Healthcare and Abru, and gained a Masters degree in Computing (Vision and Visualisation), in addition to his teaching duties. He is strongly committed to industrial involvement in the development of assignments for Product Design students.
His interests include squash, creative writing and computing.
Teaching responsibilities
Product Design, Ecodesign, Innovation
Professional interests
Consumer product design; environmental product design; and engineering design.
Membership of professional bodies and advisory committees
Chartered Engineer, Member of the Institution of Engineering Designers, Fellow of the Higher EDucation Academy
Undergraduate qualifications
- B.Tech (Hons) Metallurgical Engineering and Management, Loughborough University
Postgraduate qualifications
- MSc Computing (Vision and Visualisation), University of Derby
