Newcastle University

Background

Professor Bruce had a thirty year industrial career prior to joining the School. He worked in Shipbuilding companies in facilities development and also in research and innovation. He has acted as a consultant to shipbuilders and other marine companies in many countries around the World.

Roles and Responsibilities

Chairman of Business Development and Recruitment Committee
Member of School Executive Committee

Qualifications

MBA Newcastle 1983
BSc Newcastle 1970

Previous Positions

Technical Director A & P Appledore
Research and Development Manager, British Shipbuilders

Memberships

Fellow Royal Institution of Naval Architects (UK)
Member Socielty of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (USA)

Research Interests

Integration of Production Systems and Product Design
Management Information and Project Management Systems
Performance Measurement and Productivity Improvement

Overall, the management of marine production in uncertain conditions, with a particular focus on marine repair and conversion.

Current Work

EU Projects recently completed

SYRIOS - Small Shiprepair Yard INtegrated Operating System
INTERMAR - Intelligent Supply Chain Management for the Extended Maritime Enterprise

Current EU Project

SHIPMATES - Ship Maintenance Technology for Environmental Sustainability

EPSRC, Predicting and managing weld induced distortion of thin walled steel structures

Recent Projects in SSA LINK Programme

SHOOT - Ship Outfitting Optimisation Tool
PREDICTOR - Prediction of Weld Distortion

Knowledge Transfer Partnerships

Development of Management Information Systems for a manufacturing SME

E commerce for a marine SME

Waste Recycling Applications Project (WRAP). Trialling the use of recycled glass for blasting ship hulls, with SSA

Future Research

Recycling of redundant marine vehicles

Prediction of welding distortion

Postgraduate Supervision

Optimisation of Ship Maintenance
Prediction and control of Welding Distortion
Decision support for ship outfitting
Simulation of the shiprepair process
Management of engineering change
Development of shipyard facilities
Prediction of the market for ship and marine vehicle disposals

Esteem Indicators

Past chairman of International Ship Structure Congress (ISSC) Specialist Committee for Inspection and Monitoring of Ship Structures.
Memeber of ISSC Specialist Committee on Production
Member CESA Shiprepair and Maintenance Group
Member of the RINA Publications committee,
Past Chair of the North East Joint Branch of RINA/IMarEST
Member Management Council, Shipbuilders' and Shiprepairs' Association
Member of DTI Marine Industries Forum
Member of Marine Industry working group on careers. “Sea Vision

Industrial Relevance

All of the research is with industrial partners and several research outputs are in use in the companies.

Projects

• SHIPMATES
  Project Leader(s): Professor George Bruce

Undergraduate Teaching

MAR 1005 Marine Production Management I
MAR 2013 Marine Production Management II
MAR 2012 Engineering Applications
SFY 0008 IT and Communications

Postgraduate Teaching

MAR 8007 Marine Production Technology
MAR 8022 Marine Management Technology II

MAR 8035 Management and Communications
MAR 8015 Marine Project Management (MTEC Module B2)

• Lightfoot MP, McPherson NA, Woods K, Bruce GJ. Artificial neural networks as an aid to steel plate distortion reduction. Journal of Materials Processing Technology 2006, 172(2), 238-242.
• Bruce G, Lightfoot M. The use of artificial neural networks to model distortion caused by welding. International Journal of Modelling and Simulation 2007, 27(1), 32-37.
• Bruce GJ. A review of the use of compensated gross tonnes for shipbuilding performance measurement. Journal of Ship Production 2006, 22(2), 99-104.
• Lightfoot MP, Bruce GJ, McPherson NA, Woods K. Artificial neural networks - An aid to welding induced ship plate distortion?. Science and Technology of Welding and Joining 2005, 10(2), 187-189.
• Bruce GJ, Storch RI, Bell M, Sukapanpotharam S. Design for Production: Principles and Implementation. In: 14th Ship Production Symposium & Expo. 2000, Williamsburg, Virginia: Journal of Ship Production.
• Bruce GJ, Hills W, Grainger N. The Skills Crisis in Shipbuilding and Shiprepairing. . Trans RINA, 141 (A), 67-82 1999.
• Bruce GJ, Evans M, Hills W, Brewster A. Development of Cost-Effective Computer Management Information Systems for Small Shipyards. . J Ship Production (SNAME), 13 (2) , 125-137 1997.
• Othman MR, Bruce GJ, Hamid SA. The strength of Malaysian maritime cluster: The development of maritime policy. Ocean & Coastal Management 2011, 54(8), 557-568.
• Bruce GJ, Lightfoot MP. The use of artificial neural networks to reduce welding distortion. In: 11th International Congress of the International Maritime Association of the Mediterranean (IMAM). 2005, Lisbon, Portugal: Taylor & Francis.
• Bruce GJ. Efficient welding: A key feature of modern shipbuilding. Naval Architect 2001, 58-63.
• Newell F, Bruce G. The Economics of Implementing ISO 14001. Journal of Ship Production 2001, 17(3), 135-144.
• Bruce GJ, Yuliadi MZ, Shahab A. Towards a Practical Means of Predicting Weld Distortion. Journal of Ship Production 2001, 17(2), 62-68.