COURSE PRESENTER:
Professor Len Gelman BSc, MSc, PhD, Dr. Sc., Fellow BINDT, Fellow InstDE
Professor Len Gelman has more than 25 year’s experience in signal processing, machinery failure analysis and prevention and vibro-acoustic monitoring of complex mechanical systems (e.g. rotating, reciprocating machinery, etc.) both in industry and academia.
He has been Principal Investigator on numerous contracts and grants, including grants from the USA National Academy of Sciences, USA National Research Council, USA International Science Foundation, USA Civilian Research and Development Foundation (twice), USA MacArthur Foundation, Lady Davis, Israel, Centro Volta, Italy and numerous UK grants and contracts, including UK Royal Society grant.
He is a Fellow of the British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing (BINDT) and UK Institution of Diagnostic Engineers, Chairman of the Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Technology Technical Committee of the BINDT and Director of the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration (USA). He is the author of over 200 publications (including 17 patents) and 11 keynote papers in the area of machinery failure analysis and prevention and vibro-acoustic monitoring.
He is editor-in-chief of the book series “Condition monitoring” (Coxmoor, UK), Chair of 2007 World Congress on Engineering Asset Management, Honorary Co-Chair of 2007 and 2008 World Congresses of Engineering and Chair of 2008 Condition Monitoring Conference. He has participated in the scientific boards of numerous international conferences, has spent a large amount of time lecturing and consulting to industry in all parts of the world and has held visiting professor positions at 5 overseas universities. He is a Chief Designer of numerous technologies and engineering prototypes for fault detection/diagnosis/isolation.
