Cranfield University

£950
The course fee includes tuition, luncheon, course dinner, coffee breaks, and a copy of the new textbook, S. Braun, Discover Signal Analysis, An Interactive Guide for Engineers (Wiley 2008)

£219
CPD Short Course Accommodation (Residential)

Professor Simon Braun is a Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Israel Institute of TEchnology, for the last 40 years he has been at the forefront of signal processing.  He is an initiator and the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing (Elsevier), the leading peer reviewed publication in the area of signal processing.  He is also Editor in Chief of the 3 Volume Encyclopedia of Vibrations (Academic Press) and Mechanical Signature Analysis (Academic Press), the first book in this area.  He has authored more than 60 papers, mostly dealing with signal processing and applications in peer reviewed journals.  He has conducted workshops worldwide (Europe, US, Australia, China), attended by academics and engineers, in addition to offering consultancy services to General Electric and the Ford Motor Company.  He has participated in the scientific boards of numerous international conferences and chaired numerous sessions.

Professor Len Gelman, Dr. of Sciences, an academician who has 35 years experience in signal processing and monitoring of mechanical systems both in industry and academia.  He is the Chair of Vibro-Acoustic Monitoring, Director of the Centre of Vibro-Acoustics and Fatigue in the Applied Mathematics and Computing Group (AMAC) at Cranfield University and Director of the International grants from USA National Academy of Sciences, USA Research Council, USA Science Foundation, USA Civilian Research and Development Foundation (twice), USA MacArthur Foundation, Lady Davis, Israel and Centro Volta, Italy.  He is Principal Investigator on EPSRC, DTI (three times), Royal Society, Shell and Rolls Royce (twice) grants.  He is a Fellow of the British Institute of NDT and Institution of Diagnostic Engineers and Chairman of the Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Technology Committee of the British Institute of NDT.  He is the author of over 200 publications (including 17 patents) and 11 keynote papers.  He has given 49 invited lectures to industry and academia in the USA, UK, France and Italy.  He is editor-in-chief of the book series Condition Monitoring (Coxmoor, UK).  He is 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.