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Panchalingam Suntharalingam

Panchalingam Suntharalingam is the Associate Professor for International Partnerships and Recruitment for the Birmingham School of Architecture and Design at Birmingham City University. He is also the Course Director for MA Design and Visualisation at Birmingham City University. Dr Suntharalingam has developed and taught both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Design and Visualisation, Product Design, Interior Architecture and Design in the UK, India, Hong Kong and China. Dr Suntharalingam’s areas of expertise and interests include Design and Visualisation, Engineering Product Design, Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) programmes, Software Programming, Medical Product Design, Interior Products, applied Research, Rapid Prototyping, and Computer-Aided Design (CAD). Dr Suntharalingam has extensive design and scientific knowledge in interdisciplinary fields and holds a patent for a medical product that has sold over 50,000 in the USA and over 8000 in the UK. He has published numerous international papers on medical products and is well known for opening computer-generated imagery (CGI) title sequences featured on BBC and ITV networks such as 'Top Gear'. His wealth of experience with the manufacturing industry includes ‘Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP)’, with blue chip companies such as AGA Rangemaster, gaining four ‘Outstanding’ Innovate UK awards for achievement in innovation. In 2020, one of his KTPs was shortlisted for the Best of the Best KTPs in the United Kingdom. He is also an external examiner at various national and international universities at the undergraduate, postgraduate, and PhD levels.
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