Dr. Alison Griffiths
Associate Professor Electronics and Communication Engineering
Alison L Griffiths is a Chartered Engineer (CEng) and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) who is the taught post-graduate engineering award leader. She has over 25 years research, lecturing a wide portfolio of courses in electronics, signal processing and telecommunications at both under-graduate and post-graduate levels, in face-to-face and distance learning modes of study. These students are in the Ministry of Defence UK, Lyon France as well as in Xi'an China.
She has supervision experience of PhD/MSc/BEng & KTP Associates. She has successfully supervised 11 PhD students to completion, who now all work in Academia and Industry both nationally and internationally. She has published 58 research outputs to-date.
She is interested in industrial collaboration employing automation techniques with machine learning algorithms to improve industrial processes.
Her research interests include Industrial Automation, Robotics, Signal Processing, Wireless Sensor Network, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Smart Grids. She is also interested in using technology to improve learning and teaching experiences. She started her career as an apprentice in the electrical industry so has first hand experience of all aspects of an international engineering company. More recently she has worked with multiple Staffordshire industries on research projects, which have then lead to Innovate Funded Knowledge Transfer Partnerships.
She is also an active STEM ambassador and member of the local IET committee.
Latest Publications by Alison Griffiths
Influence of latent heat based passive cooling on the performance of EV battery under automotive drive cycles
Cited by 0 | Year 2024The utilisation of passive cooling techniques involving Phase change materials (PCMs) represents a promising approach in the realm of battery thermal management systems (BTMS). Specifically, this study delves into the examination of a single cylindrical Panasonic 18,650 battery cell, employing a circumferential Latent Heat (LH) jacket, under various real-world automotive drive cycles. The challenge addressed in this research revolves around understanding the impact of haphazard behaviour in the battery's performance and thermal stability in the presence of proposed passive cooling. While drive cycle data, encompassing aggressive to casual driving scenarios, has been collected, there remains a need to evaluate how these driving behaviours affect the battery's performance and longevity. To address this issue, this study uses conjugated thermo-chemical and electrical models of the battery. These models …
Performance management of EV battery coupled with latent heat jacket at cell level
Cited by 7 | Year 2023This numerical study evaluates the cell level performance management of an Electric Vehicle (EV) battery with Latent Heat (LH) jacket (as passive cooling). In this regard, a battery cell is conjugated with Phase Change Material (PCM) is assessed under continuous cycles of discharging and re-charging. This study is validated with numerical and experimental data with less than 1% deviation captured from literature for a Panasonic 18650 PF Lithium-ion (Li-ion cell). The thermal and electrical performance of key parameters is assessed with and without the existence of a PCM under various climatic conditions including extreme winter −20 °C, winter 0 °C, ambient 25 °C, hot summer 40 °C, and extreme hot/desert 55 °C temperatures. In addition, the choice of PCMs and circumferential jacket thicknesses around the battery (1 mm, 3 mm, 5 mm, and 7 mm) is evaluated in terms of thermal performance for multiple …
Interdisciplinary challenge led learning–a blueprint for the future
Cited by 0 | Year 2023Graduates of the future will be required to work in areas that transcend traditional academic disciplines and therefore new pedagogical approaches are needed to ensure they are equipped with the knowledge, skills, networks and attributes to thrive. A case-study is presented on The Creative Connection at Staffordshire University”. By using “challenge-based learning” we took students outside of their comfort zones by forming cross-discipline networks to co-create, generate knowledge, and ultimately develop 21st-century skills to work within an interdisciplinary context of uncertainty. The Creative Connection is presented as a best-practice framework, drawing on specific examples of interdisciplinary collaborative design challenges.