Industrial Liaison Committee
The School of Engineering’s Industrial Liaison Committee plays a vital role in shaping the degree programmes and improving the students’ experience.
The aim of the committee is simply to:
“ Help the University of Glasgow to graduate outstanding Engineers”
The committee has a broad remit. It is currently working across all the degree programmes to:
- Place students in industry and deliver industry led projects.
- Implement cross-school interdisciplinary design projects.
- Deliver industry relevant MSc degrees.
Committee Members
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Bill Sloan, Committee Chair Professor of Environmental Engineering
Bill contributes to teaching on the Civil Engineering degree programmes and the MSc in Sustainable Water Resource. His research is in mathematical modelling of both biological and physical environmental systems.
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Vinny O’Holloran BEng (Hons) CEng FICE, Laing O’Rourke.
Laing O’Rourke is the UK’s largest privately owned Construction company, delivering engineering solutions to clients throughout the industry. Vinny is a Project Leader, with more than 20 years experience of major infrastructure development projects like The National Gallery for Scotland, the Cardiff Bay Barrage and Public Private Partnership schools development for Edinburgh.
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John Marsh, Head of School of Engineering Professor of Optoelectronics |
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William Alexander, Thales UK
William Alexander BSc CEng FIET is the Optronics Design Authority at the Thales UK site in Glasgow. Thales in Glasgow specialise in the design, development, manufacture and support of sophisticated electro-optics systems for worldwide defence and security applications.
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Liz Tanner, Professor of Biomedical Materials
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Derek Beattie, Freescale Semiconductor Freescale is a global leader in embedded processors for the automotive, industrial, networking and consumer markets. Derek is Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Freescale with over 25 years experience in the semiconductor industry. His expertise is in Automotive Systems Engineering and the definition of Microcontroller products for the major automotive manufacturers worldwide. |
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Tim Drysdale Lecturer in Electronics and Nanoscale Engineering
Tim contributes to teaching on the Electronics and Aeronautical Engineering degree programmes. His research is in development of electromagnetic modelling tools, and the design and characterisation of components at microwave, millimetre, terahertz and visible wavelengths.
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Donald Bell, Halcrow
Halcrow, a CH2M Hill company, is a leading infrastructure consultancy, delivering projects for clients around the world. Donald is Client Director for highways and bridges projects in Scotland and has over 25 years international experience ranging, from Hong Kong airport to the current A9 Dualling Programme. |
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Andrew Knox, Electronics & Electrical Engineering Teaching, Professor of Power Electronics and Renewable Energy Systems.
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Cameron Grieve, Doosan Power Systems
Doosan Power Systems are part of the Doosan Group providing Boiler & APC, Turbogenerator, Nuclear and Service products to the energy industry on a global basis. Cameron is currently Deputy Director of General Engineering with over 20 years experience in major energy related projects covering CCGT, emissions improvement retrofits, and Nuclear retrofit and maintenance. |
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Jim McKay, IBM |
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Stewart Houston Senior Lecturer Aerospace Sciences.
Stewart is an aeronautical engineer specialising in the study of aircraft stability, control and performance with particular reference to rotary-wing aircraft. Formerly employed by MoD(PE) in research, and VEGA Space Systems Engineering as satellite AOCS modelling specialist. Also a qualified commercial pilot and part-time flying instructor |
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Allan Colquohoun, Selex Galileo
SELEX Galileo is a major defence electronics company that specialises in surveillance, protection, tracking, targeting, navigation and control, and imaging systems |
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David Anderson Senior Lecturer in Aerospace Sciences
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Ian Watson, Senior Lecturer in Laser Systems Engineering, School of Engineering Careers Liaison Officer
Ian contributes to teaching in Mechanical Engineering, and lectures lasers to 4th and 5th year students. His research interests are varied and include exploiting microalgae for biofuels and high value product, decontamination systems, and laser fabrication and application, for example laser asteroid deflection. |
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Safa Hashim, Head of Mechanical Engineering Senior Lecturer
Safa teaches materials and design in mechanical engineering. His research is in structural adhesive bonding and polymer composites for marine applications. Safa had many years of industrial engineering experience. |
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Scott Wilson represents Scottish Enterprise on the committee. |
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Grant Spence, Mott MacDonald |
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David Mitchell, Howden |
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Simon Wheeler, Head of Civil Engineering, Cormack Professor of Civil Engineering |
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Arthur Slight, Targeting Innovation |
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Iain Kaynes, QinetiQ |
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John Oliphant, Technip UK |
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Michael West, BAE Systems |
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Alan Fry, WSP Group |
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Graham Maxwell, CI Photonics |
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John Gough, National Semiconductor (UK) Ltd |
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Dave Nettleship, Atkins Process (WS Atkins) |
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Karen Dinardo, Dinardo Partnership |
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Bruce Donaldson, WSP group |
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Steve Holton, Augusta Westland |
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Martin Jakes, Augusta Westland |