Professor Anthony Gachagan

Electronic and Electrical Engineering

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.

Expertise

Has expertise in:

Ultrasonic transducer and transducer array design
Application of ultrasonic monitoring techniques to NDE, Sonar, Industrial Process Control
Design of bespoke high power ultrasound reactors
Application of high power ultrasound in Sonochemistry
Array signal processing
Air-coupled NDE
Robotics and Automation

Qualifications

PG Cert in Advanced Academic Studies, Strathclyde, 2009
PhD entitled "An evaluation of 1-3 connectivity compoiste transducers for air-coupled ultrasonic applications", Strathclyde, 1996
BSc Electronic and Microprocessor Engineering, Strathclyde, 1985

Publications

Automated pressure tube defect analysis: Zacharis Panagiotis, West Graeme, Wallace Christopher, Dobie Gordon, Gachagan Anthony; 2019 Innovation Showcase: Nuclear Asset Management and Industrial Informatics (2019)
Ultrasonic phased array inspection of wire + arc additive manufacture samples using conventional and total focusing method imaging approaches: Javadi Y, MacLeod C N, Pierce S G, Gachagan A, Kerr W, Ding Jialuo, Williams Stewart, Vasilev M, Su R, Mineo C, Dziewierz J; Insight: Non-Destructive Testing and Condition Monitoring Vol 61, pp. 144-148 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1784/insi.2019.61.3.144
Experience, testing and future development of an ultrasonic inspection analysis defect decision support tool for CANDU reactors: Wallace C, West G, Zacharis P, Dobie G, Gachagan A; 11th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT) 2019 (2019)
Broadband 1-3 piezoelectric composite transducer design using Sierpinski Gasket fractal geometry: Fang Haoyu, Qiu Zhen, Mulholland Anthony J, O'Leary Richard L, Gachagan Anthony; IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control Vol 65, pp. 2429 - 2439 (2018); https://doi.org/10.1109/TUFFC.2018.2874384
Broadband piezocrystal transducer array for non-destructive evaluation imaging applications: Qiu Zhen, Fang Haoyu, O'Leary Richard, Gachagan Anthony, Moldovan Alexandru; Proceeding 2018 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium 2018 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (2018); https://doi.org/10.1109/ULTSYM.2018.8579855
Virtual prototyping of a catheter transducer array for internal hepatic sonoporation: Moldovan Alexandru Corneliu, Dziewierz Jerzy, Gachagan Anthony, Cochran Sandy, Lay Holly; 2018 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS) 2018 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (2018); https://doi.org/10.1109/ULTSYM.2018.8579783

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Teaching

Prof Gachagan is involved with the delivery of Analogue Electronics modules to 3^rd (EE315) and 4^th (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 3^rd 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

Faculty Robotics and Automation Users Group Discussion: Participant; 10/10/2017
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

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Projects

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
DTP 2018-19 University of Strathclyde | Zimermann, Rastislav: MacLeod, Charles Norman (Principal Investigator) Gachagan, Anthony (Co-investigator) Zimermann, Rastislav (Research Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2018 - 01-Jan-2022
DTP 2018-19 University of Strathclyde | Lukacs, Peter: Stratoudaki, Theodosia (Principal Investigator) Gachagan, Anthony (Co-investigator) Lukacs, Peter (Research Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2018 - 01-Jan-2022
New Wire Additive Manufacture- NEWAM: Pierce, Gareth (Principal Investigator) Gachagan, Anthony (Co-investigator) MacLeod, Charles Norman (Co-investigator); 25-Jan-2018 - 24-Jan-2023
OGTC Robotics Vessel Inspection: Dobie, Gordon (Principal Investigator) Gachagan, Anthony (Co-investigator) MacLeod, Charles Norman (Co-investigator) Pierce, Gareth (Co-investigator) Yan, Xiu (Co-investigator) Yang, Erfu (Co-investigator); 20-Jan-2018 - 19-Jan-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, Gareth (Co-investigator) Stratoudaki, Theodosia (Co-investigator) Tant, Katherine Margaret Mary (Co-investigator); 02-Jan-2018 - 30-Jan-2020

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Address

Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Royal College Building

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