Dr. I. I. Esat

Prof. I. I. Esat has received his BSc honours degree from Queen Mary College of London University in 1973 and his PhD research degree from the same university in 1977. He worked in University College of London and Newcastle university as a research fellow, returning to Cyprus as the head of Mechanical Engineering Department of Eastern Mediterranean University for a short time before joining to the Dunlop as the principal engineer. In 1984, he moved back to Queen Mary College as a lecturer; while he was teaching he continued studying part time gaining a Postgraduate Diploma in Education and an MBA. Finally he moved to Brunel University as a Reader and later gained full Professorship. Prof Esat has a wide ranging research interest and since 1984 he has been heading a research group size of which fluctuated between 10 and 30 researchers. During the last 17 years he has supervised research in the areas of solid modeling, solid mechanics, CAD/CAM, dynamics, vibration, signal processing, neural networks, optimisation and graduated 24 PhD students and published over 200 reviewed technical papers. He has received a number of international awards from ASME and SDPS. He is a fellow of SDPS. He is the sole author of a major software package used in industry, particularly in vibration isolation. His collaborative work with industry also includes biomechanics and medical engineering projects such as novel hip and spinal implants.