Professor Bill Thomson Bill commenced his career in 1961 and has 42 years' experience covering the installation, maintenance, design, performance and condition monitoring of electrical drives. He has worked as an electrician, R&D engineer with Hoover Ltd, academic and consultant. He is currently a consulting engineer and full-time Director of EM Diagnostics Ltd. Amongst others, he has provided consulting services to Exxon Mobil, BP Exploration, CNR International (Ninian South, Central & North Murchison), Total E&P (Aberdeen), Chevron Texaco/KBR, Nexen Petroleum UK Ltd, National Grid Company, SSE Hornsea Gas Plant, KBR: oil and Gas Installations, Total, R&D Centre, Pau, France, International Power (Abu Dhabi), Scottish & Southern Energy (SSE), Deeside Power Stations, Rocksavage Power Stations, Seabank Power Stations, Coryton Power Stations, Bristol Port Company, UPM - Kymmene (Shotton Paper), Iggesund Papermill (Workington). In 1990 he was appointed a Professor at the Robert Gordon University in Scotland in recognition of his research and development work on condition monitoring of electrical drives in the Offshore Oil Industry and Power Utilities. Bill is a Senior member of the IEEE (SMIEEE), Fellow of the IEE (FIEE), registered Chartered Engineer (CEng) in the UK and is currently visiting Professor in Electrical Engineering at the University of Abertay, Scotland. He has published over 92 papers.

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