Professor Jim Scanlan

Professor Jim Scanlan

School of Engineering Sciences
University of Southampton
University Road
Southampton
SO17 1BJ

Position: Professor of Design
Research group: Computational Engineering and Design
Location: 25/2025
Extension: 22369
Telephone: (023) 8059 2369

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Research interests

  • aerospace design and design decision support systems
  • aerospace manufacturing and process optimisation
  • discrete-event simulation
  •  aerospace product life-cycle analysis and costing.

Biographical notes

Jim Scanlan received a materials science degree from Manchester University in 1977. He then spent over 12 years in the aerospace industry in a variety of roles, his final post being Head of Manufacturing Research at BAe regional aircraft. Whilst at BAe, Jim studied for an MSc at Salford University in aerospace design, and was sponsored by British Aerospace to study for a year at Cranfield University on a manufacturing management fellowship programme.

Jim joined the University of the West of England in 1990 and completed a PhD in 1995 in computer modelling of the Aerospace Design Process. Jim was appointed to Reader in 2004. In September 2004 Jim accepted a post at Southampton University as director of design within the Computational Engineering Design Centre (CEDC).

Jim manages a number of research programmes sponsored by BAE systems, Airbus, Rolls-Royce and the EPSRC. He has a particular interest in Design, Logistics, Simulation and Optimisation of organisations. He runs a number of MSc courses in these disciplines as part of the Aerospace IGDS MSc programme. Jim has recently created a spin-off business aimed at exploiting research into design process modelling

Teaching responsibilities for Professor Jim Scanlan
Module title Module code Discipline Role
Aerospace Design I SESA3002 Aerospace Engineering Course leader
Complex Systems Design SESG6030 Engineering Sciences Course leader
Design SESM1005 Mechanical Engineering Course leader
Engineering Design and Structural Analysis Methods SESG2005 Engineering Sciences Course leader
Design Search and Optimisation II: Case Studies SESG6019 Engineering Sciences Tutor

Publications

pdf Reed, N., Scanlan, J.P., Wills, G. and Halliday, S. (2009) Providing value to a business using a lightweight design system to support knowledge reuse by designers. In, International Conference on Engineering Design - ICED09, Stanford, USA, 24-27 Aug 2009. , 10pp, 1-10.
Tammineni, S.V., Rao, A.R., Scanlan, J.P., Reed, P.A.S. and Keane, A.J. (2009) A knowledge-based system for cost modelling of aircraft gas turbines. Journal of Engineering Design, 20, (3), 289-305. (doi:10.1080/09544820701870805)
Wong, James, Scanlan, James P. and Eres, Murat H. (2008) Modelling the life cycle cost of aero-engine maintenance. In, Curran, Richard, Chou, Shuo-Yan and Trappey, Amy (eds.) Collaborative Product and Service Life Cycle Management for a Sustainable World. London, UK, Springer, 233-240.
Cheung, Julie, Scanlan, James and Wiseall, Steve (2008) Value driven design: an initial study applied to novel aerospace components in Rolls-Royce plc. In, Curran, Richard, Chou, Shuo-Yan and Trappey, Amy (eds.) Collaborative Product and Service Life Cycle Management for a Sustainable World: Proceedings of the 15th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering (CE2008). London, UK, Springer, 241-248. (Advanced Concurrent Engineering Part 6).
Wong, James S., Scanlan, James P. and Eres, Murat H. (2008) Modelling the life cycle cost of aero-engine maintenance. In, 15th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 18-22 Aug 2008. UK, , 8pp.
Reed, N., Scanlan, J. and Halliday, S. (2008) Development of a lightweight knowledge based design system as a business asset to support advanced fixture and tooling design. Proceedings of the 15th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering (CE2008). In, Curran, R., Chou, S-Y. and Trappey, A. (eds.) Collaborative Product and Service Life Cycle Management for a Sustainable World. London, UK, Springer, 217-224.
Eres, Murat Hakki and Scanlan, James P. (2007) A hierarchical life cycle cost model for a set of aero-engine components. In, 7th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration and Operations Conference (ATIO 2007), Belfast, Northern Ireland, 18-20 Sep 2007. UK, , 6pp.
pdf Keane, A.J. and Scanlan, J.P. (2007) Design search and optimization in aerospace engineering. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 365, (1859), 2501-2529. (doi:10.1098/rsta.2007.2019)
Thokala, P., Scanlan, J.P. and Chipperfield, A. (2007) Simulation based life cycle cost modelling as a decision support tool. 7th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration and Operations Conference (ATIO) (AIAA 2007-7724)
msword Lawrence, Philip and Scanlan, James (2007) Planning in the dark: why major engineering projects fail to achieve key goals. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 19, (4), 509-525. (doi:10.1080/09537320701403508)
Thokala, Praveen, Scanlan, Jim and Chipperfield, Andy (2007) Life cycle cost modelling of unmanned air vehicles. In, 4th International Conference on Digital Enterprise Technology (DET2007), Bath, UK, 18-19 Sep 2007. , 6pp, 446-451.
Scanlan, James, Rao, Abhijit, Bru, Christophe, Hale, Peter and Marsh, Rob (2006) The DATUM project: a cost estimating environment for the support of aerospace design decision making. AIAA Journal of Aircraft, 43, (4), 1022-1029. (doi:10.2514/1.17362)
Rao, A.R., Keane, A.J. and Scanlan, J.P. (2005) A Cost based Methodology for Design Optimization. In, ASME 2005 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Long Beach, California, USA, September 24-28, 2005. , 1-10.
pdf Rao, A., Keane, A.J. and Scanlan, J.P. (2005) A cost based methodology for design optimization. In, Proceedings of the ASME 2005 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. New York, USA, American Society Of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1-10.
pdf Sóbester, András, Keane, A.J., Scanlan, James and Bressloff, Neil W. (2005) Conceptual design of UAV airframes using a generic geometry service. In, Infotech@Aerospace Online Proceedings., American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
pdf Bru, Christophe, Scanlan, James and Hale, Peter (2004) Visualisation of cost information. International Journal of Agile Manufacturing, 7, (1), 53-59.
Scanlan, J.P. (2004) Design analysis tool for unit cost modelling: a tool for unit cost estimation of gas turbine design within Rolls-Royce. Journal of the Association of Cost Engineers, 42, 8-10.
pdf Feneley, R.C.L., Parkin, J., Scanlan, J.P. and Woolley, M. (2003) Developing alternative devices to the long-term urinary catheter for draining urine from the bladder. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine, 217, (4), 293-303. (doi:10.1243/095441103322060758)
pdf Scanlan, James, Hill, Terry, Marsh, Rob, Bru, Christophe, Dunkley, Martin and Cleevely, Paul (2002) Cost modelling for aircraft design optimization. Journal of Engineering Design, 13, (3), 261-269. (doi:10.1080/09544820110108962)
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