Stephen Richard DUNCAN

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Education

1989   PhD in Control Systems, Imperial College, London.

1985   MSc in Control Systems, Imperial College, London.

1981   MA in Physics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

 

Qualifications and Affiliations

2007   Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.

1996        Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.

1993        Diploma in Engineering Management, specialising in the Management of Innovation.

1992   Chartered Engineer and Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.

1991   Chartered Physicist and Member of the Institute of Physics.

 

Employment

1998 to date  Professor, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford and Fellow of St Hugh’s College.

1993 – 1998   Reader, Control Systems Centre, UMIST.

1989 – 1993   Director, Greycon Consultants Limited.

1981 - 1984   Assistant Consultant, Coopers and Lybrand Associates Limited.

 

Honours and Awards

2008   Received Divisional Teaching Award from University of Oxford.

2005   Awarded Certificate of Merit for paper presented at 2006 International Thermal Spray Conference, Seattle, WA.

2002   Awarded Springer-Verlag, London Best Paper Award at the IEEE Conference on Control Applications, Glasgow, UK.

1999   Awarded IEE Kelvin Premium for the best applications paper in the field of control published in IEE Proceedings during 1998.

1998   Visiting Professor at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

1998   Engineering Foresight Award from the Royal Academy of Engineering, London.

1995   Senior Visiting EPSRC Research Fellowship at the Centre for Process Systems Engineering, Imperial College, London.

1993   Paper (Duncan, S.R. et al., (1993) Demography, 30, no. 3, pp. 405-423) cited by Professor R.W. Fogel during his acceptance lecture for the 1993 Nobel prize in Economic Science.

 

Professional Activities

·         Member Editorial Board of IET Proceedings of Control Theory and Applications

·         Presented plenary papers at:

-         6th International Tooling Conference, Karlstad, Sweden;

-         2nd World Congress on Industrial Process Tomography, Hannover, Germany;

-         SPIE International Symposium on Intelligent Systems for Advanced Manufacturing, Boston MA, USA.

·         Guest editor for special issues of journals:

-    Cross-directional Control for IEE Proceedings on Control Theory and Applications;

-    Control in Papermaking for Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control;

-    Rapid Tooling for Assembly Automation journal.

·         Member of Programme Committee for:

-    PAPTAC Control Systems 2004 Conference, Quebec City, QC, Canada;

-    STFI Control Systems 2002 Conference, Stockholm, Sweden;

-    SPIE International Symposium on Intelligent Systems for Advanced Manufacturing, Boston MA, USA;

-    PAPTAC Control Systems 2000 Conference, Victoria, BC, Canada.

Industrial Collaborations and Consulting

·         Diamond Light Source

·         Ford Motor Company

·         Astra Zeneca

·         DuPont Teijin Films (UK) Limited

·         Honeywell-Measurex

·         3M Inc.

·         UCB Films

·         NDC/Infrared Engineering

·         Pilkington Optonics

·         ICI

·         Corus

 

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