Dr Gordon Lindsay is a Lecturer in Industrial Automation in the department of Applied Science.
Before joining GCU in 2022, he spent 13 years working for the National Engineering Laboratory (NEL), where as technical lead he was responsible for the design, build and commissioning of the control and instrumentation systems for the UK’s national standard for flow measurement. This included full facility instrumentation specification and wiring, Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) coding for control, automation and safety interlocking, signal conditioning, digital networking and data acquisition (DAQ) software development.
Gordon was the department head of Digital Metrology at NEL between 2018 and 2022. During this time, he and his team undertook research and consultancy projects to develop machine learning systems for condition-based monitoring applications.
The focus of Gordon’s doctorate was the detection and compensation of ambient temperature-induced density calculation errors in Coriolis mass flow meters. He conducted his research while working at NEL in collaboration with Coventry University and a flow meter manufacturer industrial partner.
Before joining NEL, Gordon was an electronic engineer with robotic manipulator manufacturer Clansman Dynamics from 2007 to 2009. During this time he travelled to worldwide forge and foundry sites to integrate and commission their robotic systems.