Discrete Event, Continuous Simulation Micro-economics
Wide experience, superior analytical skills, quantitative methods
McCann Science
Dr Mike McCann, a
Chartered Engineer, is an expert in the application of quantitative methods to give
practical solutions to problems in business and engineering and the physical sciences.
With a strong background in electrical engineering, electronics and process control
engineering and in management sciences and operations research, he has managed teams of
analysts and engineers in business planning, in electronics development and in simulation
consulting.
Areas of experience include chemical and biological processes
and computer control, low frequency and microwave electronics, research policy and
strategy, capital investment and financial planning, market and economic systems. He
enjoys the challenge of grasping new technology and taking on problems that span science
and business. At home on both sides of the Atlantic, he can work independently, as part of
a team or as a team leader.
Education
Dr McCann served a 5 year apprenticeship in the British Aerospace industry and studied for
a BSc in Engineering at Hatfield Technical College (now the University of Hertfordshire),
getting a first class honours degree from London University.
He read for a PhD at Imperial College, London, in the Department of Electrical Engineering
and it was awarded in 1963 for a thesis on the "Control of Distributed Parameter
Systems".
In a industrial environment he has been subjected to more management training courses than
he can remember, but in particular had the benefit of attending the intensive
post-experience main management course at Henley Staff College, Henley on Thames, Oxon,
England, (Like a MBA course).
Now, with a base in Bristol, England as well as in the USA,
he is working with the Engineering Mathematics Department in the University of Bristol to help with teaching
undergraduates and post graduates about modelling and simulation from a practical point of view.
A list of publications is given below
Experience
After completing the PhD, Dr McCann was invited to be an Assistant Professor
of Engineering at Case Institute of Technology (Now part of CWRU) Cleveland Ohio, USA. As
well as teaching control engineering and system dynamics, this provided a lot of
experience in academic level research linked to consulting for the industrial sponsors of
the programme.
Then started a long association with Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI
PLC), initially in England latterly in the USA. Assignments covered internal consulting in
applied mathematics with applications in everything from biotechnology to economics, cash
flow, capital and resource planning at the corporate level and for a major retail paint
business, international R&D policy development, managing electronics
development and applications engineering for customers in the electronics business.
Alongside the extensive explosives business, a special expertise has been developed in
electronic initiation systems for pyrotechnics (explosives).
Since 1993 as an independent consultant, the range of
processes has expanded to include vacuum web coating and the productivity of automated
manufacturing as well as continuing the electrical instrumentation, heat and mass transfer
and side excursions into extrusion and electrostatics.
Since before Fortran, he has worked with analog
computers and many different programming languages for
numerical analysis, simulation and data processing e.g. Basic, CSMP, GPSS, Algol, Pascal,
Fortran, Forth, Simscript, Modsim, ACSL, spreadsheets etc. Click for Dr McCann's thoughts
on the philosophy of consulting and the obligations it imposes.
Professional Bodies.
Member: Sigma Xi, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE),
Fellow: Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE).
Chartered Engineer.
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Crimp and Press
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Glass to metal seals
Heat exchanger
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RF Soldering
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If you have a problem with the behaviour of a market sector, plant, process or item of equipment and would like to get a quantitative handle on it to improve yield or optimise performance, then contact us. We are always ready to give a little time to discuss a new puzzle, in confidence, of course. We'll only worry about fees when we have some defined work. We can be flexible about how we work with you.
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