Anoush Poursartip, PhD, P.Eng.

FCAE Director, Composites Research Network Professor, Department of Materials Engineering, The University of British Columbia and Director of Research
Convergent Manufacturing Technologies

Poursartip has worked in digital manufacturing for over thirty years. He has focused on the manufacturing of advanced composites structures, primarily for the aerospace sector. Initially, his digital focus was the development of computer simulations of the manufacturing process to reduce risk, cost, and time for product development. This work led to the founding of Convergent Manufacturing Technologies in 1998, and the 2012 founding of the Composites Research Network at UBC. As Industry 4.0 technologies have become more available, Poursartip’s interests have broadened into the bigger concept of the digital twin – identifying the manufacturing conditions in a factory which should be measured, how to measure them, and how to relate them to the quality of the product and the efficiency and robustness of the factory.

Poursartip is a recipient of the Medal of Excellence in Composites from the University of Delaware and the ASTM Wayne Stinchcomb Award. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, ICCM, and SAMPE.