I was born in Bristol, England, in 1937 and educated at Cotham Grammar School, Bristol, and the University of Southampton, finally graduating in 1963 with a PhD in Mechanical Engineering. From 1963 to 1971, I was Technical Director of Westwind Air Bearings Ltd., a manufacturer of precision high speed bearings for the computer manufacturing industry. During this period I published two books: Gas Lubrication with Dr N S Grassam (Butterworths, 1963) and The Design of Aerostatic Bearings (Machinery Publishing Co., 1970). ![]() http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=pd_rhf_s_8?ie=UTF8&search-alias=stripbooks&keywords=The%20Design%20of%20Aerostatic%20Bearings http://ezinearticles.com/featured/
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Career in Ghana In February 1971, I took up a post at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, where in January 1972 I was appointed the first director of the Technology Consultancy Centre (TCC). I started a grassroots industrial development programme in Kumasi and Tamale that attracted the attention of the Ghana Government and international aid agencies, and in 1986 I transferred to the Ministry of Industries, Science and Technology in Accra to extend the programme to all ten regions of the country. In 1991, I was awarded the OBE for Services to Technical Education in Ghana, a year later I was elected a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London, and in 2003 I was awarded an honorary DSc by Kumasi University. After leaving Ghana in 1997 I worked for UNIDO in Vietnam for four years, helping universities of technology in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to set up grassroots industrial development programmes. Then I worked for the EU-China Project in Liuzhou in Guangxi Province for one year before retiring in May 2002. |