David Davies (electrical engineer)
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Sir David Evan Naunton Davies (born 28 October 1935) is a British electrical engineer and educator, knighted for services to science and technology in the 1994 New Year Honours.{{cite book |title= Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Mosley, Charles |editor-link=Charles Mosley (genealogist) |edition=107 |year= 2003 |page= 1050 |ref=Burke |isbn=0-9711966-2-1|title-link=Burke's Peerage }}
Career
- 1985–1988: Head of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London (UCL), and holder of the Pender Chair, having already been lecturing there, in Communications Systems, for many years prior to that.
- 1986–1988: Vice-Provost of University College London
- 1988–1993: Vice Chancellor of Loughborough University
- 1993–1999: Chief Scientific Adviser for the Ministry of Defence
He has subsequently been Chairman of Railway Safety, a non-executive director of Lattice plc, a non-executive director of The ERA Foundation,[http://www.erafoundation.org/board/sirdaviddavies.htm Sir David Davies], The ERA Foundation. Accessed 30 July 2010 Chairman of the Hazards Forum (2002-2010), and safety advisor to the Board of National Grid plc.
Voluntary roles
- 1994–1995: President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE)
- 1996–2001, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering{{cite web|title=Past Presidents - RAEng|url=http://www.raeng.org.uk/about-us/people-council-committees/the-president/past-presidents|accessdate=29 March 2015|archive-date=8 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308193907/http://www.raeng.org.uk/about-us/people-council-committees/the-president/past-presidents|url-status=dead}}
Awards and honours
- CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire),
- Knight Bachelor
- FREng (Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering),
- FRS (Fellow of the Royal Society)
- Faraday Medal, Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1987[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/467737.stm Former MoD adviser to study rail safety], BBC News, 7 October 1999
- Received an honorary doctorate from University of Bath in 1997{{cite web |url=https://www.bath.ac.uk/corporate-information/honorary-graduates-1990-to-1999/ |title = Honorary graduates, 1990 to 1999}}
- Received an honorary doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1999{{Cite web|url = http://www1.hw.ac.uk/graduation/honorary-graduates.htm|title = Honorary Graduates|website = Heriot-Watt University|location = Edinburgh|access-date = 2016-04-04|archive-date = 18 April 2016|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160418163907/http://www1.hw.ac.uk/graduation/honorary-graduates.htm|url-status = dead}}
- FLSW (Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales), 2010{{Cite web |last=Wales |first=The Learned Society of |title=David Davies |url=https://www.learnedsociety.wales/fellow/david-davies/ |access-date=2023-09-04 |website=The Learned Society of Wales |language=en-US}}
The Sir David Davies building at Loughborough University, housing the electrical engineering department, is now named after him.
References
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- {{Cite web | title = David (D. E. N.) Davies | last = Swain | first = Harriet | last2 = Williams | first2 = Lynne | work = Times Higher Education (THE) | date = 15 October 1999 | accessdate = 2017-11-30 | url = https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/david-d-e-n-davies/148364.article?storyCode=148364§ioncode=26 }}
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Category:Engineers from Cardiff
Category:Academics of University College London
Category:Chief Scientific Advisers to the Ministry of Defence
Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Category:British electrical engineers
Category:Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society
Category:Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Category:People named in the Panama Papers
Category:Presidents of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Category:Vice-chancellors of Loughborough University