Andrew Ball awarded BINDT’s COMADIT Prize
22/09/2021
Awarded each year by the CM Technical Committee of the British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing, the COMADIT Prize is given for significant contribution through research and development in any branch of condition monitoring to the benefit of industry or society.The winner for 2020 is Professor Andrew Ball, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Enterprise and Professor of Diagnostic Engineering at the University of Huddersfield.
Professor Ball has a first degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Leeds and a PhD in Machinery Condition Monitoring from the University of Manchester. He held the Shell Lectureship in Maintenance Engineering at the University of Manchester, became Professor of Maintenance Engineering in 1999 and was then Head of School of the Manchester School of Engineering. He went on to be the Dean of the Graduate School and in late 2007 he moved to the University of Huddersfield as Professor of Diagnostic Engineering and Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Enterprise.
Andrew established the Centre for Efficiency and Performance Engineering at Huddersfield, with the aims to advance the scope and sensitivity of machinery fault detection and diagnosis and of plant performance and emissions monitoring. With a focus on non-intrusive online techniques to detect incipient faults and predict future behaviour, the Centre is recognised internationally for its specialisms in machinery condition monitoring, fault detection and diagnosis, signal processing, dynamic modelling, feature extraction, pattern recognition, vibro-acoustics and sensor development.
Andrew is the author of over 300 technical and professional publications and has more than 8000 citations and an h-index of 44. To date he has supervised to completion more than 100 doctoral degrees in the fields of mechanical, electrical and diagnostic engineering. He has acted as external examiner for research degrees at over 50 institutions worldwide, he holds visiting and honorary positions at six overseas universities and he sits on three large corporate scientific advisory boards.
