Dr Scott Millen is a Lecturer in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Queen’s University Belfast. Scott joined the staff of Queen's in 2019 and again in 2021. He has a masters degree in Mechanical Engineering and a PhD in computational modelling of composite materials.

After completing his PhD, Scott took up a research fellow role working with local industrial collaborators from the aerospace industry (Collins Aerospace and Spirit Aerosystems, Belfast). Scott has also worked within the Belfast Maritime Consortium UKRI Strength in Places project led by Artemis Technologies Ltd.

Scott has significant experience in Finite Element Analysis (FEA) in particular developing high-fidelity models of extreme events. Scott has a significant publication record in lightning strike and thermal modelling simulation. These models have been developed with ABAQUS, Python and Fortran.

Scott’s research interests are focused on numerical modelling, in particular:

• Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and numerical methods,
• Low velocity impact (LVI) and compression after impact (CAI)
• Lightning strike modelling,
• Extreme event modelling (battery fires),
• Composite materials and computational modelling.

Scott has been involved in a number of national and international research collaborations with both academic and industry partners;

Academic collaborations:

• University of Bristol,
• Utah State University,
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Knoxville/The University of Tokyo.

Industrial collaborations:

• Spirit AeroSystems (Belfast) and Collins Aerospace (UK),
• WAE Technologies Ltd.
• Artemis Technologies Ltd.

• Manufacturing Technology 2 (MEE2034)
• Manufacturing Technology MSc (MEE7028)
• BEng/MEng/MSc Individual Projects

Two of Scott's former students have won prizes for their final year projects in the NAFEMS/IMechE Engineering Simulation Techniques Outstanding Project Award:

• 2021/22 - Aimee Bridges 1st Prize,
• 2022/23 - James Sterling 2nd Prize.

Past Module Responsibilities:

• Mechanics of Aerospace Materials 4 (Composites Manufacturing, AER4016)
• Design and Manufacturing 2 (MEE2012)

Scott received a QUB Teaching Award for Excellence in Teaching or Learning Support by a Team in 2023/24. He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA, 2024).

Scott is the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Research Culture & Community Champion responsible for delivering activities to enhance the researcher experience, to support student completion rates and research quality.

Scott is also a Chartered Engineer (Dec, 2024) and MIMechE.