Professor Kevin Edge
Department: Vice-Chancellor's Office
Job Title: Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Kevin Edge is Deputy Vice-Chancellor
and Honorary Fellow of the Centre for
Power Transmission and Motion Control (PTMC). He was employed at Rolls
Royce for several years as a Senior Control Systems Engineer before joining the
Kevin
is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Institution of
Mechanical Engineers and former Chair of the Institution's Mechatronics
Informatics and Control Group. He has published extensively on various
aspects of fluid power systems and their control and has been awarded a number
of I.Mech.E prizes for Proceedings papers, and also,
in 1991, the Bramah Medal. He has been involved
in both National and International Standards committee work relating to fluid
power.
For
many years he co-edited the Proceedings of the annual Bath Symposium on
Power Transmission and Motion Control [formerly
known as the Bath Workshop on Power Transmission and Motion Control and, prior
to that, the Bath International Fluid Power Workshop].
His
research background is in the field of fluid power systems and their control.
His research interests include: Positive Displacement Pumps; Fluid-borne and
Air-borne Noise; Hydraulic servomechanisms; Hydraulic valve performance;
Failure Mode & Effects Analysis & Fault Diagnosis.
Publications
are listed here.
Postal Address:
Vice Chancellor's Office,
Tel:
+44 1225 386963
Fax: +44 1225 386626
E-mail: K.A.Edge@bath.ac.uk