Dr Shaun McFadden

Overview

Dr Shaun McFadden is a Senior lecturer in Mechanical Engineering within the School of Computing, Engineering, and Intelligent Systems. Shaun is the current programme director for the BEng (Hons) Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering and BEng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering with Enterprise Development undergraduate Engineering programmes. He has responsibility for all full-time and part-time students (not the degree apprentices) on these programs.

He is the research team lead for the Computational Materials Engineering (CME) team within the Intelligent Systems Research Centre (ISRC).
Shaun’s major research interest relates to the understanding and application of material science that underpins manufacturing processes. He is especially interested in Computational Materials Science and engineering applications of modelling with experimental validation.

He has a publication track record in modelling solidification and phase change in metallic alloy systems (incorporating additive manufacturing in metals, casting technology, welding, etc.). In addition, he has had significant industry experience in off-road automotive engineering in both design and manufacturing related fields.

Shaun was educated at University College Dublin: BE (1997), MEngSc (1999), PhD (2007); and at the Dublin Institute of Technology: PG Cert in third level teaching and Learning (2012). He has held previous academic positions at the Technological University of Dublin (formerly DIT, 2009-2012) and Trinity College Dublin (full time 2012-2015 and adjunct assistant professor from 2015 to 2023). Since 2008, he has been a chartered member of Engineers Ireland (CEng).

He holds Fellowship of the HEA (FHEA) and was conference chair and editor for the 39th International Manufacturing Conference – IMC39 held at Ulster University over two days in August 2023. He is an editor for the Elsevier Journal Results in Materials.