Educational Experience 
 

BA 1978 in Engineering Science from Christ's College, Cambridge University UK. http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk

MSc 1982 Cranfield Institute of Technology UK, School of Electronic Systems Design. Research project was to design and build a 5dof robot arm with vision and write software for its real-time control . 

PhD 1991 University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology UK. Research project was linked with Renishaw Research, a precision metrology UK company, (see below) and was to design and build a retrofittable, touch sensitive, precision boring head for CNC machine tools and write software for its real-time control.
 

Working Experience 

Royal Air Force apprenticeship and technician in aircraft electronics, covering areas such as navigational instruments, radar and flight control systems and weapon delivery computer systems.

Ford Motor Co., UK, as a mechanical designer. New technique developed for the extraction of aerodynamic drag (Cd) and tyre drag coefficients from simple coast down tests.

Lucas Microelectronic Control Systems, UK, as an automotive diesel engine fuel injection pump inductive displacement sensor designer and researcher. Terrific R&D lab at Cirencester in picturesque Gloucestershire. 

AMF, UK, as a mechatronic machine designer and researcher. 

Renishaw Research and Transducers, UK, as a mechatronic machine tool boring head and laser beam expander/detector designer and researcher. http://www.renishaw.co.uk Renishaw is a great company for innovative precision mechanical engineering (as well as other fields) and gives wonderful experience and challenges in R&D. 

Lecturer at University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology (UWIST) (now University of Wales, College of Cardiff), Cardiff, UK. http://www.engin.cf.ac.uk Research into mechatronic machine tool boring head. Lecture subjects:- mechanics, fluid mechanics. 

Danfoss Flowmetering, Stonehouse Gloucestershire, UK, http://www.flow.danfoss.com as an electromagnetic flowmeter designer and researcher. Mind-blowingly interesting R&D work here.

Since 1993 as a lecturer and researcher in Hong Kong and 1998 the same in Singapore at NTU. Lecture and tutorial subjects:- industrial electronics, microprocessor systems, control theory. Research into autonomous robots