David Davies (electrical engineer) explained

Honorific Prefix:

Sir

David Davies

Nationality:

British

Birth Date:

1935 10, df=yes

Birth Place:

Cardiff, Wales^[1]

Module:

Employer:	Loughborough University
Significant Awards:	Knight Bachelor Commander of the Order of the British Empire

Sir David Evan Naunton Davies DSc FLSW (born 28 October 1935) is a British electrical engineer and educator, knighted for services to science and technology in the 1994 New Year Honours.^[2]

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,^[3] 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^[4]

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^[5]
Received an honorary doctorate from University of Bath in 1997^[6]
Received an honorary doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1999^[7]
FLSW (Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales), 2010^[8]

The Sir David Davies building at Loughborough University, housing the electrical engineering department, is now named after him.

References

Web site: David (D. E. N.) Davies . Swain . Harriet . Williams . Lynne . Times Higher Education (THE) . 15 October 1999 . 2017-11-30 .

Notes and References

Web site: Sir David Davies CBE FREng FRS. Royal Academy of Engineering. 12 October 2023.
Book: Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood. Burke's Peerage & Gentry . Mosley, Charles . Charles Mosley (genealogist) . 107 . 2003 . 1050 . Burke . 0-9711966-2-1. Burke's Peerage .
http://www.erafoundation.org/board/sirdaviddavies.htm Sir David Davies
Web site: Past Presidents - RAEng. 29 March 2015. 8 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160308193907/http://www.raeng.org.uk/about-us/people-council-committees/the-president/past-presidents. dead.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/467737.stm Former MoD adviser to study rail safety
Web site: Honorary graduates, 1990 to 1999.
Web site: Honorary Graduates. Heriot-Watt University. Edinburgh. 2016-04-04. 18 April 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160418163907/http://www1.hw.ac.uk/graduation/honorary-graduates.htm. dead.
Web site: Wales . The Learned Society of . David Davies . 2023-09-04 . The Learned Society of Wales . en-US.