Amin has been appointed as Professor of Intelligent Engineering Systems within the Product Design team at Nottingham Trent University since August 2014. He is also the Director of DTA-Energy (Doctoral Training Alliance) . His research and teaching activities focus on several multi-disciplinary topics in the broad area of product design, automation, energy and artificial intelligence. Amin is currently leading the Innovative and Sustainable Built Environment Technologies research group (iSBET) and co-founder of the Advance Design and Manufacturing Engineering Centre (ADMEC). Amin holds a BSc degree from the University of Jordan in Industrial Engineering (Manufacturing and Design), an MSc degree from University of Nottingham in Manufacturing Systems and a PhD degree in Advanced Manufacturing Technologies from the University of Nottingham. Amin has strong links and collaboration with industry including eight years as the industrial placement adviser and over 20 years of industrial research and collaboration. He worked previously at the University of Nottingham (Rolls-Royce UTC) and Loughborough University (Mechatronics Research Centre) before joining NTU in 2004. Amin is a Chartered Engineer and member of the Institution of Engineering and Technologies (The IET) and past chairman of the IET for the East Midlands Region and Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire local network panel.
