Horst Complex

dr.ir. P.K. Chemweno (Peter)

Assistant Professor in Advanced Manufacturing || Humanitarian Engineering
ET-DPM-AMSPES
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Horst Complex W260
p.k.chemweno@utwente.nl
+31534895856
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Peter is an Assistant Professor in Advanced Manufacturing, University of Twente. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, from KU Leuven, Belgium in 2016. His doctoral work focused on developing maintenance decision support models for managing failure risks of thermal power plants. For recognition of his Ph.D. work, Peter emerged as the Belgium winner and nominee for the Ph.D. thesis excellence award. He was eventually awarded the 2018 Laureate of the European Federation of Maintenance Society and Salvelti Foundation. This award goes to the best European Ph.D. thesis in the field of Maintenance Engineering.

After his Ph.D., Peter worked as a postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven and diversified his research to focus on the assessment of safety hazards of collaborative robots. During his post-doc stay, he developed innovative generic models for anticipating safety hazards of collaborative robots. His research was part of the YVES project for Augmenting Human Workers with Collaborative Robots for Manufacturing, a collaboration between several universities in Belgium and Flanders Make (Belgium).

Peter's research expertise extends to developing robust simulation models for optimizing clinical care pathways for stroke patients. His models are validated for practical application cases, for stroke patient care in Belgium. 

Peter's current research focuses on organization and management aspects influencing the transition from traditional manufacturing setups, to the ‘Industry of the Future’. Automation and robotics are here expected to perform greater roles within the organization. His work is published in leading journals and can be accessed below:

‪peter chemweno‬ - ‪Google Scholar‬

Together with Alberto Martinetti and Jelle Ferwerda, Peter is a co-founder of the Humanitarian Engineering Action, which seeks to improve the well-being of the disadvantaged by leveraging appropriate technologies. He is also coordinating several projects with his colleagues, in diverse countries, including Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Jordan, and Lebanon.

The projects can be visualized in the link below:

Humanitarian Engineering - eradicating poverty is not an act of charity, it is an engineering and scientific task (utwente.nl)

Expertise

  • Computer Science

    • Robot
    • Case Study
    • Standards
    • Design
    • Education
    • Risk Assessment

  • Social Sciences

    • Maintenance
    • Mobile Educational Services

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Publications

2024

Automation feasibility assessment tool (2024)[Thesis › EngD Thesis]. University of Twente. Karamipour, E.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036563451More than 10 years of industry 4.0 in the Netherlands: an opinion on promises, achievements, and emerging challenges (2024)International Journal of Sustainable Engineering, 17(1), 1-12. Martinetti, A., Nizamis, K., Chemweno, P. K., Goulas, C., van Dongen, L. A. M., Gibson, I., Thiede, S., Lutters, E., Vaneker, T. H. J. & Bonnema, G. M.https://doi.org/10.1080/19397038.2024.2327380Learning from strangers: transferability of current principles for designing inclusive area-based settlements to learning factories in resource-limited settings (2024)Procedia CIRP, 128, 215-220. Martinetti, A., Trauernicht, N. & Chemweno, P. K.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2024.07.048Comparative judgment: Assessing competence development in the context of humanitarian engineering education (2024)[Contribution to conference › Paper] 52nd SEFI Annual Conference 2024. Nizamis, N., van Mensvoort, W. S. H., Chemweno, P. K. & Martinetti, A.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14254734Learning Factory Concept Tailored for Engineering Programmes for Underserved Communities (2024)In Learning Factories of the Future - Proceedings of the 14th Conference on Learning Factories 2024 (pp. 75-82) (Lecture notes in networks and systems; Vol. 1060). Springer. Chemweno, P. K., Ghafoorpoor Yazdi, P., Berends, M., Bruijnjé, M., Martinetti, A. & Trauernicht, N.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65400-8_9EDUBox: finding suitable locations for offgrid mobile classrooms in the context of underserved communities (2024)Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 9(7). Article 7. Martinetti, A., Trauernicht, N., Dietrich, M. & Chemweno, P. K.https://doi.org/10.1186/s41018-024-00149-6

2023

Educating for integrity: Blending the liberal arts and humanitarian engineering (2023)In Proceedings of the 19th International CDIO Conference. Frank, J., Petrová, N., Chemweno, P. K. & Martinetti, A.Integrating challenge-based learning into a mobile classroom environment for Jordanian camp refugees: a position paper (2023)In The refugees in Jordan: A future vision. Jakubeit, N., Petrová, N., Chemweno, P. K. & Martinetti, A.Quantifying injury risks of collaborative robots in a manufacturing cell using a simulation approach (2023)Procedia CIRP, 120, 607-612. Chemweno, P. & Arastehfar, S.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2023.09.046

2022

EDUBOX: A Self-Contained Engineering Learning Environment for Underserved Communities (2022)In Proceedings of the 18th International CDIO Conference (pp. 703-713) (Proceedings of the International CDIO Conference; Vol. 2022). CDIO. Martinetti, A., Chemweno, P., de Wit, E., Steendam, J. & Nashwan, A.http://www.cdio.org/knowledge-library/documents/edubox-self-contained-engineering-learning-environment-underserved

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7522 LW Enschede
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