Dr. Ing. Philip Farrugia
 
Date Venue/Country  Purpose of Visit

July 1999

Clausthal, Germany

Attended an academic programme (as part of the undergraduate engineering course), consisting of formal lectures and practical sessions.

August 2001

Glasgow, UK

Attended on own initiative the International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED01).

Feb-March 2002

 Singapore

Attended a one-month scholarship on CAD/CAM entitled 'Art-To-Part Factory on Personal Computers'.

August 2002

Trondheim, Norway

Presented the paper 'Paper Sketch' based 'Design For Multi-X' during the NordDesign 2002 Conference poster sessions. The paper won the Best Poster Award.

December 2002

Genoa, Italy

Attended a research visit during which, a questionnaire related to the M.Phil was conducted at the University of Genoa, various industrial firms. During his visit, Philip delivered a public lecture entitled "Towards Intelligent Early Shape Design and Rapid Prototyping" at IMATI-CNR.

March, June 2003

Brussels, Belgium

Attended two Programme Committee Meetings for the EU FP6 NanoMatPro at the EU Commission, as a temporary representative of the Maltese delegation.

August 2003

Stockholm, Sweden

Presented the paper "Why CAD tools benefit from a sketching language" during the poster sessions of the 14th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED03).

 August 2004  Grenoble, France  Attended the Eurographics 2004 Workshop on Sketch-based Interfaces and Modelling, in
 Grenbole, France. The paper "A Cameraphone-Based Approach for the Generation of 3D Models
 from Paper Sketches” was presented.
 December  
 2004
 Trieste, Italy   Delivered a lecture on "Conceptual Modelling for e-Manufacturing" to participants attending a three-day training
  course and expert group meeting on 'Advances in Computer-Aided Materials Engineering' (Rapid Prototyping and
  Remote Manufacturing)
 August 2005  Melbourne, Australia   Attended the 15th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED05).  The paper "Experiments with a
 Cameraphone-Aided Design (CpAD) System" was presented.
 August 2006  Reykjavik, Iceland   Attended the 7th NordDesign 2006 Conference in Reykjavik, Iceland.  The paper "Evaluation of a
  Language for Paper-based Form Sketching" was presented.
 November
 2006
 Shrewsbury, UK   Attended a two-day training course on plastic injection mould design and manufacture at RAPRA
  training centre.
 August 2007  Paris, France   Attended the 16th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED07).  The paper "Drawing Standard for Form
 Design: Where do we stand?
"
was presented.
May 2008 Dubrovnik, Croatia Attended the 10th International Design Conference (Design 2008).
September 2008 Boston, US Attended the 14th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems, Special Track on Sketch Computing.  The paper "A visual language for paper-based computer-aided form sketching" was presented.

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