Personal statement
Prof Gachagan has been Director of the Centre for Ultrasonic Engineering (CUE) since October 2010. This research Centre comprises approximately 55 staff and students and has a current funding portfolio of in excess of £5M. Prof Gachagan has line management responsibilities for all CUE personnel, reporting directly to the Departmental Head of Department. Interestingly, the research portfolio within CUE is diverse, with Electronic and Mechanical Engineers, Physicists, Mathematicians, Polymer Scientists and Biologists involved in the research teams. The research portfolio of the Centre has expanded in recent years, with robotics, metrology, bioacoustics and high power ultrasound building on the traditional fields of NDE and Sonar. Prof Gachagan has been directly involved in all of these areas and it is his interest in a broad, diverse range of scientific and engineering topics coupled with his strategic leadership that has seen CUE strengthen in terms of international profile, industrial engagement and funding profile.
Prof Gachagan is the Academic Chair and a member of the Management Board of RCNDE. He is also a member of both the Technical and Scottish Branch Committees of the British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing (BINDT). Within Strathclyde, he is the Deputy Head of Department for EEE, EEE Research Director and sits on the departmental Departmental Strategy Advisory Group and Departmental Executive Team.
Teaching
Prof Gachagan is involved with the delivery of Analogue Electronics modules to 3rd (EE315) and 4th (EE468) year EEE/CES/EME students. These modules focus on amplifier design using transistors and cover amplifier design, biaising considerations, frequency response and noise characteristics. In addition, he delivers a Project Management module (EE318) to 3rd year EEE/CES students.
Research interests
Prof Anthony Gachagan's specific research interests encompass ultrasonic transducers and arrays, power ultrasound, robotics and automation, industrial process control, bioacoustics, thermosonics and the application of coded excitation techniques. His research activities involve both national and international collaboration with academia and industry. His research activities encompass the following thematic sectors:
- Non-Destructive Evaluation and Condition Monitoring
- Sensors for Process Control
- Health Technologies
- Process Intensification
- Pressure Field Mapping
- Ultrasonic Transduction
Professional activities
- IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium
- Participant
- 22/10/2019
- Correction of B-Scan Distortion for OptimumUltrasonic Imaging of Back Walls with ComplexGeometries
- Contributor
- 15/10/2019
- IEEE international ultrasound symposium (IUS) 2019
- Contributor
- 6/10/2019
- External Examiner
- Examiner
- 2/9/2019
- ANRC International Showcase
- Participant
- 9/5/2019
- 2019 Innovation Showcase: Nuclear Asset Management and Industrial Informatics
- Participant
- 9/5/2019
More professional activities
Projects
- EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA)-New Organisation Engagement
- Mohseni, Ehsan (Principal Investigator) MacLeod, Charles Norman (Co-investigator) Pierce, Gareth (Co-investigator) Gachagan, Anthony (Co-investigator)
- "Automated non-destructive testing of high value additive manufactured components": The IAA application is geared towards how to commercialise the in-process NDT technology (ultrasonic and electromagnetic approaches).
- 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2021
- BH As-Clad Bond Integrity V1
- MacLeod, Charles Norman (Principal Investigator) Gachagan, Anthony (Co-investigator) Javadi, Yashar (Co-investigator) Lines, David (Co-investigator) Mohseni, Ehsan (Co-investigator) Pierce, Gareth (Co-investigator) Wathavana Vithanage, Randika Kosala (Co-investigator)
- 02-Jan-2020 - 01-Jan-2022
- EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) funding
- Qiu, Zhen (Principal Investigator) MacLeod, Charles Norman (Academic) O'Leary, Richard (Academic) Gachagan, Anthony (Principal Investigator) Stevenson, Tim (Principal Investigator)
- High Temperature Ultrasonic Imaging Transducer for In-Process Inspection
- 15-Jan-2020 - 15-Jan-2021
- OGIC - Arrow
- Dobie, Gordon (Principal Investigator) Gachagan, Anthony (Co-investigator)
- 08-Jan-2020 - 30-Jan-2020
- EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Ultrasonic Engineering (FUSE)
- Gachagan, Anthony (Principal Investigator) Mulholland, Anthony (Co-investigator) Windmill, James (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2027
- Industrial CASE Account - University of Strathclyde 2018 | Poole, Alastair
- Pierce, Gareth (Principal Investigator) Gachagan, Anthony (Co-investigator) Poole, Alastair (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 01-Jan-2023
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Royal College Building
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