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
- BINDT (External organisation)
- Chair
- 4/2016
- Joined-Up Approach Seminar
- Participant
- 28/1/2016
- PhD Viva for Ignacio Maria Garcia De Carellan Esteban-Infantes
- External Examiner
- 2016
- Social Mobility Foundation
- Visiting lecturer
- 10/2015
- Joined-Up Approach Seminar
- Participant
- 29/1/2015
- NDA Research Seminar
- Participant
- 14/1/2015
more professional activities
Projects
- Automated delivery of non-contact NDE sensors
- Dobie, Gordon (Principal Investigator) Gachagan, Anthony (Co-investigator) MacLeod, Charles Norman (Co-investigator) Pierce, Stephen (Co-investigator)
- Period 01-Apr-2018 - 31-Mar-2020
- Acoustic Based Characterisation of arc fusion process control parameters
- MacLeod, Charles Norman (Principal Investigator) Dobie, Gordon (Co-investigator) Gachagan, Anthony (Co-investigator) Mulholland, Anthony (Co-investigator) Pierce, Stephen (Co-investigator) Stratoudaki, Theodosia (Co-investigator) Tant, Katherine Margaret Mary (Co-investigator)
- Period 02-Apr-2018 - 30-Mar-2020
- ANRC 001 Ext Automated Classification and Sizing of Pressure Tube Defects Phase IV - GATED - YEAR 2
- West, Graeme (Principal Investigator) Dobie, Gordon (Co-investigator) Gachagan, Anthony (Co-investigator)
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- Period 01-Oct-2017 - 30-Sep-2019
- ANRC 015 Small-Bore pipe Ultrasonic Inspection Technology and Examination (SUITE) - GATED 18 months
- Gachagan, Anthony (Principal Investigator) MacLeod, Charles Norman (Co-investigator)
- Period 01-Feb-2018 - 31-Jul-2019
- Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP 2016-2017 University of Strathclyde) | Morrison, Laura
- O'Leary, Richard (Principal Investigator) Gachagan, Anthony (Co-investigator) Morrison, Laura (Research Co-investigator)
- Period 01-Oct-2017 - 01-Apr-2021
- New Wire Additive Manufacture- NEWAM
- Pierce, Stephen (Principal Investigator) Gachagan, Anthony (Co-investigator) MacLeod, Charles Norman (Co-investigator)
- Period 25-Jun-2018 - 24-Jun-2023
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Address
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Royal College Building
Royal College Building
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