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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:
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
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