Anthony teaches on the following courses:
Academic Lead, Electronics: academic programme design and development, resource management.
Research Lead, Robotics and Intelligent Systems: Supervision of PhD students, developing areas of interest for research in the group, supporting other research group activities.
Teaching: Embedded Systems and Microelectronics.
Other: Organiser of Birmingham TechFest, the UK Micromouse competition, ROBOtic, Midlands Micromouse and Robotics Club.
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematic (STEM) ambassador taking robotics to schools through platform design and supporting STEM ambassadors in the Midlands area.
Engagement with Centre of Excellence for Learning and Teaching (CELT) in: Student Academic Partnerships, Student Academic Mentoring, Collaborative Projects.
Member of steering committee for Student Academic Partnership and Collaborative Projects.
Industrial consultancy and commercial partnerships.
HNC Chemistry, 1976
Graduateship of the Royal Institute of Chemistry, 1978
PostGraduate Diploma in Microelectronics and Computer Technology, 1986
PhD, Thesis title: The Condition Monitoring of Press-working Systems using Ultrasonic Lamb Waves, 1994
Member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, MIET,1997
Chartered Engineer, CEng, 1997
1. ‘Design of Low-Cost Ultrasonic Generators and Receivers suitable for On-Line monitoring of Strip and Tools in Small Press-Working Systems’, Comadem 1988, Proc 1st UK Seminar on Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineering Management, Kogan Page.
2. ‘An Investigation of the relationship between burr profiles and amplitude variations of reflected Lamb Waves using blanked components’, SheMet '94, Proceedings of the International Conference, University of Ulster, April 1994.
3. ‘An evaluation of the use of Lamb waves for the derivation of physical properties’, SheMet '94, Proceedings of the International Conference, University of Ulster, April 1994.
4. ‘Recent developments in press-tool monitoring’, SheMet '94, Proceedings of the International Conference, University of Ulster, April 1994.
5. ‘The Condition Monitoring of Press-Working Systems using Ultrasonic Lamb Waves’,PhD Thesis, 1994.
6. ‘The use of VHDL and Logic Synthesis to implement a Subset of CAN’, Proceedings of the COMETT CAN International Seminar, Birmingham, Oct 1994.
7. ‘The measurement of Progressive wear of Press Tooling using Acoustic Emission’, SheMet '96, Proceedings of the International Conference, University of Twente, April 1996.
8. ‘Acoustic Emission in Press-working’, SheMet '96, Proceedings of the International Conference, University of Twente, April 1996.
9. ‘The use of non-contact inspection systems in press-working’, SheMet '96, Proceedings of the International Conference, University of Twente, April 1996.
10. ‘Distributed Data Acquisition Systems for Industry, Education and Training’, EuroForth ‘97, Oxford, September 1997.
11. ‘A CAN Application Layer for Education’, EuroForth ‘97, Oxford, September 1997.
12. ‘International CAN connections’, CAN in Automation, December 1997.
13. ‘MicroSystems Technology - New Opportunities in Metal Forming’, Sheet Metal 2000, Proc 8th Int. Conf., Birmingham, UK,17-19 April 2000.
14. ‘A micromouse for education’, Minos’03,Royal Holloway, University of London, April 2003
15. ‘Educational Robotics at TIC’, Minos’04, Royal Holloway, University of London, April 2004
16. ‘Micromouse as an Educational Vehicle’, Minos’07, Royal Holloway, University of London, May 2007.
17. ‘Micromouse at TIC’, Presentation to the IET, Austin Court, Birmingham, June 2007
18. ‘A DC motor Micromouse’, Presentation to the IET, Austin Court, Birmingham, June 2007
19. ‘ VHDL and programmable logic for custom peripherals’, Minos’08, Royal Holloway, University of London, April 2008
20. ‘Micromouse: Electronics on Wheels’, 3rd International Conference on Research and Education in Robotics, Eurobot 2010, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland, May 2010.
