The Director of the Process Engineering and Light Metals (PELM) Centre at CQUniversity in Gladstone, Professor Richard Clegg, has been appointed the new Editor-in-Chief of the internationally renowned scientific journal Engineering Failure Analysis. 

This highly acclaimed scientific journal is produced by one of the largest publishers of scientific sand health related journals in the world, Elsevier.

Professor Clegg is the only Editor-in-Chief of an Elsevier Engineering journal who is based in Australia, as editorial positions are usually dominated by staff from major universities in the US and Europe. 

Professor Richard CleggThis appointment highlights the quality and depth of engineering expertise in the Central Queensland region and puts Gladstone at the forefront of international research in this area.

Pro-Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean of Sciences, Engineering and Health at CQUniversity, Professor Elizabeth Taylor, said: "This is international recognition of the work that is being done at the PELM Centre and the calibre of our staff.  I am very pleased Professor Clegg has taken on this role and it puts the PELM Centre, CQUniversity and Gladstone firmly on the international engineering and academic map." 

Professor Clegg is a metallurgist who holds degrees from the University of Queensland and the University of Cambridge.

His main research interests are in developing understandings of failure mechanisms operating the mining and mineral processing industries and the role of engineering failure analysis in plant reliability engineering. 

He has worked as a consultant and expert witness on several major engineering failures in the Queensland minerals industry, as well as in a wide range of other forensic engineering activities. 

He currently heads a group of materials engineers and reliability specialists at PELM working on reliability engineering and engineering failure analysis issues.