Dr Bruce Kakimpa is a Chartered Engineer and Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (MIMechE) with over 15 years’ experience in consultancy and research into the application of digital technology to innovation across a range of safety-critical and high-hazard industries.

Highlights

• Bruce has extensive expertise in physics-based simulation across a range of domains including fluid flow, heat transfer, structural stress, multiphase flow, acoustics and vibration.

• He has gained this while working with clients from a diverse range of sectors including offshore oil & gas, aerospace, nuclear, advanced manufacturing, food processing, and chemical processing.

• His unique career experience spans both applied academic research roles working in collaboration with large OEMs to advance predictive capabilities, as well as industrial technical and commercial leadership roles supporting innovation in design, safety, performance improvement and fitness-for-service.

Experience

Bruce holds a Doctorate in Computational Fluid Dynamics from the University of Nottingham, along with Master's and Bachelor’s degrees in engineering, both achieved with distinction.

He began his career as an engineering consultant with a focus on using fluid, structural and thermal simulation to provide insights supporting safety, performance improvement and regulatory compliance in the offshore oil & gas industry.

In 2013 he took up a research fellowship at the Rolls-Royce UTC in gas turbine transmissions at the University of Nottingham. His applied research work helped leading aerospace OEMs advance simulation capabilities for predicting the complex multiscale and mixed regime flows that occur in critical gas turbine transmission components such as bearing chambers, seals and power gearboxes.

Since rejoining industry as an engineering consultant, Bruce has continued to operate in various roles demonstrating his industrial technical leadership in multiphysics simulation problems—such as fluid-structure interaction, conjugate heat transfer & phase change, multiphase flow and vibration fatigue. He has led the successful exploitation of these simulation technologies to deliver value to customers across a range of sectors, while also managing large multidisciplinary engineering teams in a consultancy context.

Qualifications

• CEng MIMechE, Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, International Lean Six Sigma Institute.

• Executive MBA, Cranfield University (2024 - Ongoing).

• PhD in Civil Engineering – Computational Fluid Dynamics, University of Nottingham.

• MSc in Civil Engineering – Fluids & Structures, University of Nottingham.

• BSc in Civil Engineering, Makerere University, Uganda.