Previous Page  54 / 56 Next Page
Information
Show Menu
Previous Page 54 / 56 Next Page
Page Background

52

industrial communications handbook 2016

INDEX TO ADVERTISERS

About the authors

Professor Alan Robert Clark was born in

Derby, England on the 18 June 1964. Emi-

grating to South Africa in June 1969, he

became a South African citizen in 1984. He

attended Brakpan Technical High School,

and matriculated with full exemption in

1981. He attained the degree of B.Sc.(Eng)

in Electrical engineering in 1987 from the

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannes-

burg. In this period, he was employed by

Unilever, implementing several industrial

control projects. Joining the Department

of Electrical Engineering as a Professional

Assistant in 1988, half his time was spent

developing antennas in the HF/VHF/UHF

band for an industrial company. He was ap-

pointed as a lecturer in January 1990, and

attained the degree of Ph.D. in Electrical

Engineering in 1993, and was promoted to

the post of Senior Lecturer in January 2000,

and to Associate Professor in October 2002.

Current lecturing includes a first course in

Electromagnetics in the third year of study,

and a High Frequency Techniques course in

the fourth year.

Alan has supervised twenty-five M.Sc. post-

graduates, one Ph.D postgraduate, and has

one current Ph.D candidate. He has au-

thored eight journal articles, four refereed

conference publications, and eight other

conference publications. He is a registered

Professional Engineer (9 April 1992), a

member of the South African Institute of

Electrical Engineers, and a member of the

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engi-

neers (USA). His research interests are in

the field of computational electromagnet-

ics, with particular emphasis on improv-

ing a Method-of-Moments code:SuperNEC;

general antenna design; simulation and

measurement techniques; modelling of

electromagnetic propagation in conductive

media, and recently, Electromagnetic Com-

patibility.

Additional interests include the InterNet,

Unix (Linux), Microchip PIC microcon-

trollers, general electronic design, piano,

birding and gardening. Married to Lesley on

20 March 1988, he has a son, Robert James,

born 23 October 1999, and a daughter, Kath-

leen Brenda, born 18 June 2001.

Email:

AlanRobertClark@gmail.com

Tim Craven joined H3iSquared in 2008 and

has been tinkering with Ethernet switches

and routers ever since. He provides training,

troubleshooting and consulting services in

the field of industrial and utility Ethernet in

and around South Africa.

Enquiries: Email

tim@h3isquared.com

Alan Robert Clark,

Pr.Eng.

Tim Craven

ABB.........................................................2

ACDC Dynamics.....................................7

Afrilek...............................................25

Allbro..........................................OBC

Beckhoff.......................................11

CBi-electric: telecom cables...............19

CONCOEnergySolutions................26,27

Cummins Power Generation...........IFC

Danfoss.........................................18

Gator Products......................................45

H3iSquared.......................................24

Helukabel..........................................39

Industrial Data Exchange.............34, 35

Instrotech...................................50

KROHNE.......................................31

Phoenix Contact...................................17

Throughput Technologies....................40

Voltex.........................................IBC

ZEST WEG Group.................................23