Emeritus Professor Lin Ma
Science and Engineering Faculty,Chemistry, Physics, Mechanical Engineering,
Chemistry, Physics and Mechanical Engineering
Personal details
- Name
- Emeritus Professor Lin Ma
- Position(s)
- Adjunct Professor
Science and Engineering Faculty,
Chemistry, Physics, Mechanical Engineering,
Chemistry, Physics and Mechanical Engineering - Emeritus Professor
Science and Engineering Faculty,
Chemistry, Physics, Mechanical Engineering,
Mechanical Systems and Asset Management - Discipline *
- Mechanical Engineering
- Phone
- +61 7 3138 5340
- Fax
- +61 7 3138 1469
- l.ma@qut.edu.au
- Location
- View location details (QUT staff and student access only)
- Qualifications
-
PhD (University of Queensland), BEng (Beijing University)
- Professional memberships
and associations - Chair of Maintenance Engineers Society Australia (MESA), Queensland Chapter and a MESA national council member from 2004-2006
- Member, International Standards Organisation’s (ISO) Technical Committee 108, Subcommittee 5, appointed 2004
- Australian Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS); 1993-2000
- Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME); 1993-2001
- Society of Industrial Engineering, Institution of Engineers (IIE) 1996-2000
- Keywords
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Asset health predition, Engineering asset management, Enterprise resources planning (ERP), Life Cycle Costing and engineering cost analysis, Production planning and control, Reliability modelling
Biography
Main area of research: Engineering Asset Management (EAM)
Grants
Prof Ma’s collaborative work with other colleagues both at QUT and at other institutions has attracted over $3.3 million in competitive research funding.
- 2008-2009: Integration and Feasibility Study – CIEAM (CRC fund) – 1st Chief Investigator & Project Leader ($200,000)
- 2006-2009: Asset Health Manager (ID206) – CIEAM (CRC fund) – 1st Chief Investigator & Project Leader ($903,000)
- 2006-2009: Multi-criteria Asset Management Decision Support (MD301) – CIEAM (CRC fund) – 1st Chief Investigator & Project Leader ($502,000)
- 2006-2009: Asset Management process modelling (PhD project) – Queensland Rail – Principal Supervisor ($30,000)
- 2005-2007: Open System Architecture and Web Services for Condition Based Maintenance – Mainpac/CIEAM – 1st Chief Investigator & Project Leader ($116,996)
- 2004-2009: CIEAM Post-graduate Research Projects – CIEAM PhD top-up scholarship Award – Principal Supervisor ($278,000)
- 2004-2006: Integrated Asset Decision for the Water Utility Industry (ID201) – CIEAM (CRC fund) – 1st Chief Investigator & Project Leader ($664,700)
- 2004-2006: Asset Management Process Modelling and Framework (MD102) – CIEAM – 1st Chief Investigator & Project Leader ($131,268)
- 2004-2005: Strategic Directions in Asset Management (MD103) – CIEAM – Chief Investigator ($14,450)
- 2003-2007: An Intelligent Maintenance Decision System for the Water Utility Industry – ARC Linkage – 1st Chief Investigator ($215,511)
- 2002-2003: An extended proportional hazard model using integrated condition monitoring and reliability data – ARC Small research Grant – 1st Chief Investigator ($14,000)
- 2001-2003: Predictive Maintenance in Aluminium Smelting Strategic – Industry Collaboration – 3rd Chief Investigator ($90,000)
Awards and recognitions
- Queensland’s Smart State-Smart Woman Award 2007
- QUT Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence – Research (2007)
Career history
2008 – Present: Professor (Engineering Management) School of Engineering Systems, Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering, Queensland University of Technology2005 – 2008: Associate Professor (Engineering Management) School of Engineering Systems, Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering, Queensland University of Technology2001 – 2005: Senior Lecturer (Engineering Management) School of Engineering Systems, Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering, Queensland University of Technology2000 – 2001: Lecturer (Engineering Management) School of Mechanical, Manufacturing and Medical Engineering, Queensland University of Technology1996 – 1999: Lecturer (Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management), Department of Mechanical Engineering, Monash University1995 – 1996: Lecturer (Manufacturing Systems), School of Mechanical, Manufacturing and Medical Engineering, Queensland University of Technology1993 – 1995: Associate Lecturer (Manufacturing Systems), School of Mechanical, Manufacturing and Medical Engineering, Queensland University of Technology1989 – 1992: Tutor (Part time, whilst enrolled as a PhD student), Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Queensland.
Teaching
Teaching areas
Professor Ma’s teaching covers a broad subject range in Engineering Management: from manufacturing systems, operations management and traditional industrial engineering to the relatively new disciplines of engineering management and asset management. The units/subjects developed and taught are as follows:
- Manufacturing Resources Planning (Enterprise Resources Planning) (for Master of Engineering Management students and Double degree – BE (Manufacturing Engineering)/BBusiness – 4th year)
- Manufacturing Practice – 1st year engineering coursers
- Manufacturing Engineering I – 2nd year mechanical based courses
- Design for Manufacturing II – 3rd year mechanical based courses
- Technology Management – 3rd year mechanical based courses
- Total Quality Management – Master of Engineering Management
- Cost Analysis and Asset Management – Master of Engineering Management
- Reliability and Maintenance Management – Master of Engineering Management
- Enterprise Resources Planning – Master of Engineering Management
- Engineering Asset Maintenance and Management – 4th year mechanical based course
- Professional Studies (General engineering management) – 4th year engineering systems courses.
Teaching innovation and engagement
- Experimented with the Total Quality Management (TQM) unit by involving students in the teaching process
- Designed a flexible web-based delivery site for teaching the Master of Engineering Management course before the implementation of QUT OLT
- Developed explicit links between the teaching and the profession, through my distinctive research network with industry
- Developed and experimented with innovative peer assessment methods for group-based projects in the Technology Management and Professional Studies units
Experience
External collaboration
- UniSA
- Queensland Rail (QR)
- Rio Tinto
- UWA
- DSTO
- SunWater
- Delta Electricity
- National TsingHua University, Taiwan
- ANSTO
- Pall Corp
- AIG
- ASC
- University of Cincinnati, USA
- Beijing Chemical University of Technology, China
- Shanghai JiaoTong University, China
Interests and community service
- Elected as the Chair for Maintenance Engineering Society Australia (MESA), Queensland Chapter, as the first academic and female individual for the position
- Councillor in MESA’s national council and contributed to strategic issues such as establishing the inaugural Asset Management Council (AMC)
- Active member of the International Standards Organisation’s (ISO) Technical Committee 108, Subcommittee 5, “Condition Monitoring and Diagnostics”
- Chairperson of the organising committee for the First World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM) in 2006.
Publications
- Zhou Y, Zhang Z, Lin TR, Ma L, (2013) Maintenance optimisation of a multi-state series-parallel system considering economic dependence and state-dependent inspection intervals, Reliability Engineering and System Safety p248-259
- Trappey AJ, Hsiao DW, Ma L, (2011) Maintenance chain integration using Petri-net enabled multiagent system modeling and implementation approach, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews p306-315
- Sikorska JZ, Hodkiewicz M, Ma L, (2011) Prognostic modelling options for remaining useful life estimation by industry, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing p1803-1836
- Zhou Y, Sun Y, Mathew J, Wolff RC, Ma L, (2011) Latent degradation indicators estimation and prediction: A Monte Carlo approach, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing p222-236
- Liu X, Ma L, Mathew J, (2009) Machinery fault diagnosis based on fuzzy measure and fuzzy integral data fusion techniques, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing p690-700
- Sun Y, Ma L, Morris J, (2009) A practical approach for reliability prediction of pipeline systems, European Journal of Operational Research p210-214
- Sun Y, Ma L, Mathew J, (2009) Failure analysis of engineering systems with preventive maintenance and failure interactions, Computers & Industrial Engineering p539-549
- Yang H, Mathew J, Ma L, (2007) Basis Pursuit-Based Intelligent Diagnosis of Bearing Faults, Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering p152-162
- Sun Y, Ma L, Mathew J, Wang W, Zhang S, (2006) Mechanical Systems Hazard Estimation Using Condition Monitoring, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing p1189-1201
- Sun Y, Ma L, Mathew J, Zhang S, (2006) An Analytical Model for Interactive Failures, Reliability Engineering and System Safety p495-504
For more publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.
Research projects
Grants and projects (Category 1: Australian Competitive Grants only)
- Title
- An Intelligent Maintenance Decision System for the Water Utility Industry
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP0349050
- Start year
- 2004
- Keywords
- Reliability Engineering and Modelling; Data mining; Condition monitoring; decision models; signal processing
Supervision
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Asset Management Data Warehouse Data Modelling (2008)
- Machinery Fault Diagnostics Based on Fuzzy Measure and Fuzzy Integral Data Fusion Techniques (2007)
- Reliability Prediction of Complex Repairable Systems: an engineering approach (2006)
- Automatic Fault Diagnosis of Rolling Element Bearings Using Wavelet Based Pursuit Features (2005)