Staff Profile:Eur Ing Dr R Simon Sherratt
- Name:
- Eur Ing Dr Simon Sherratt
- Job Title:
- Senior Lecturer, Subject Chair Electronic Engineering
- Responsibilities:
- Areas of Interest:
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Introduction
Currently group Chair for Electronic Engineering and Senior Lecturer in Consumer Electronics. I arrived in the department of Electronic Engineering in 1996 and have had had a 16 month gap working for Panasonic Wireless design as Principal DSP Engineer.
Research
My research area is Consumer Electronics, and in particularly the following issues:
- Equalisation (cable, wireless and broadcast)
- Digital Communications layer 1 and associated DSP issues
- Adaptive signal processing
- DSP architectures
Awards
- IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics (ISCE) 2006 1st Place Best paper Award
- IEEE Chester Sall Award for 1st place paper in IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics 2004
- IEEE Consumer Electronics Society International Chapter Chairs Outstanding Service Award 2005
- IEEE Region 8 (Europe an Africa) Diploma award for the UKRI Consumer Electronics Chapter (which I chaired) (presented in Paris April 2005)
- IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Chairs Award 2004
- IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Singapore Section Appreciation Award 2003
- Best Engineering program with an SME, awarded by Engineering Employers Federation, Department of Trade and Industry TCS awards 2000
- Runner-up in Hunt Engineering DSP Innovation competition, 1999
Qualifications
Academic Qualifications
- B.Eng. from Sheffield City Polytechnic (now Sheffield Hallam University)
- M.Sc. from The University of Salford
- Ph.D. from The University of Salford
Professional Qualifications
- Chartered Engineer (C.Eng.) through the Engineering Council
- Registered European Engineer (Eur Ing) through FEANI
Professional Membership
- Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Sen Mem IEEE)
- Chartered Member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers (MIEE)
Teaching
My University of Reading teaching:
- Second Year lecture part of Engineering Applications and the Career Management Skills
- Third Year Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
- Third Year Electronic Engineering Projects coordinator
- Third Year DSP in Communications
- Third Year Video Engineering and Digital Media (1 lecture only)
- Fourth Year (Masters) Advanced Digital Signal Processing (half of the module)
- Fourth Year (Masters) Wireless Communications and Networking (half of the module)
My Open University teaching:
- T209, Information and Communication Technologies: People and Interactions
Duties
My University of Reading duties:
- Group Chair for Electronic Engineering, School of Systems Engineering
- Chair of the Board of Studies for Electronic Engineering
- Member of the School of Systems Engineering Management Commitee
- Member of the University of Reading Senate (elected 3 times now)
- Member of the Cybernetics Board of Studies
- Member of the MSc in Engineering and Information Systems Board of Studies
IEE Student Councellor for Reading University
My Professional duties:
- Elected Member of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Admin Committee (2003-2005 and 2006-2008)
- IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Awards Chair (2006..)
- IEEE Consumer Electronics Society ISCE Liaison Officer (2005..)
- IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics Executive Committee member
- IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics Vice-Technical Chair 2007 and TPC member
- Founder and current organiser of the IEEE UKRI Consumer Electronics and Broadcasting Technology Joint Chapter
- Chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics (ISCE) 2004
- Member of the IASTED technical committee on Telecommunications (2005 to 2008)
- Member of IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics publications committee
- Standing permanent reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
- Member of the IEE Signal Processing Professional Network advisory group
