Roger Dixon

Experience

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  Alstom Power

  Sept 1996 - Sept 2003

  Principal Control Engineer

  Recruited as Control Engineer, promoted to Senior then Principal Control Engineer.Responsible for Management and Technical input on several R&D projects involving the application of modelling, control and health monitoring techniques (applications included, power, hydraulics, aerospace, automotive, marine). Example projects: REACTS - Reliable Electrical ACTuation Systems (for aircraft GT engines) Active Vibration Control for offshore craft Modelling and Control of IGCC Power Plant Show less

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  Loughborough University

  Apr 2009 - Jan 2015

  Involved providing strategic and operational leadership in Research for the School of EESE. Responsible for maintaining and developing the School’s excellence and international standing in research and overseeing post graduate research programmes. Responsibilities included:Lecturing/Teaching and Research Related to the field of Control Engineering. Supervision of final year projects, MSc projects, PhD research projects and Research Associates. Management of research projects. Management and Programme Oversight for the SEDC

  • Associate Dean (Research)

    Dec 2012 - Jan 2015

  • Head of Control Systems Group, Senior Lecturer - Control Systems

    Sept 2003 - Jul 2014

  • Director of Systems Engineering Doctorate Centre

    Apr 2009 - Oct 2013
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  Loughborough University - School of Electronic Electrical and Systems Engineering

  Jan 2015 - Aug 2015

  Dean of School EESE

  Dean: overall responsibility for staff and students within the school.

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  Loughborough University

  Sept 2015 - Apr 2018

  Leadership of the Control Research and Teaching, with growth two to five academics with similar growth in R&T activities. Also managing of research projects, researchers and teaching in the discipline. Providing strategic and operational leadership in Research for the newly formed Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering. Responsible for maintaining and developing the School’s excellence and international standing in research and overseeing development of our Post Graduate research programmes.

  • Professor of Control Systems Engineering, Head of Control Systems Group

    Aug 2014 - Apr 2018

  • Associate Dean (Research)

    Sept 2015 - Apr 2017
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  Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education (BCRRE)

  Jan 2018 - now

  Director of Research
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  University of Birmingham

  May 2018 - now

  Professor of Control Systems Engineering

  My research interests span a number of control & systems technology areas including: advanced control, advanced actuators, fault-detection and health/condition monitoring, fault-tolerant control, safety-critical systems, system identification, system modelling and simulation. The application areas for my control and mechatronics interests has always spanned transport, aerospace and energy. In my role here, I have a particular focus toward railways - within the BCRRE and UKRRIN.