Industrial Communications Handbook August 2016

About the authors

Professor Alan Robert Clark was born in Derby, England on the 18 June 1964. Emi- grating to South Africa in June 1969, he became a South African citizen in 1984. He attended Brakpan Technical High School, and matriculated with full exemption in 1981. He attained the degree of B.Sc.(Eng) in Electrical engineering in 1987 from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannes- burg. In this period, he was employed by Unilever, implementing several industrial control projects. Joining the Department of Electrical Engineering as a Professional Assistant in 1988, half his time was spent developing antennas in the HF/VHF/UHF band for an industrial company. He was ap- pointed as a lecturer in January 1990, and attained the degree of Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1993, and was promoted to the post of Senior Lecturer in January 2000, and to Associate Professor in October 2002. Current lecturing includes a first course in Electromagnetics in the third year of study, and a High Frequency Techniques course in the fourth year.

Alan has supervised twenty-five M.Sc. post- graduates, one Ph.D postgraduate, and has one current Ph.D candidate. He has au- thored eight journal articles, four refereed conference publications, and eight other conference publications. He is a registered Professional Engineer (9 April 1992), a member of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers, and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engi- neers (USA). His research interests are in the field of computational electromagnet- ics, with particular emphasis on improv- ing a Method-of-Moments code:SuperNEC; general antenna design; simulation and measurement techniques; modelling of electromagnetic propagation in conductive media, and recently, Electromagnetic Com- patibility. Additional interests include the InterNet, Unix (Linux), Microchip PIC microcon- trollers, general electronic design, piano, birding and gardening. Married to Lesley on 20 March 1988, he has a son, Robert James, born 23 October 1999, and a daughter, Kath- leen Brenda, born 18 June 2001. Email: AlanRobertClark@gmail.com

Alan Robert Clark, Pr.Eng.

Tim Craven joined H3iSquared in 2008 and has been tinkering with Ethernet switches and routers ever since. He provides training, troubleshooting and consulting services in the field of industrial and utility Ethernet in and around South Africa. Enquiries: Email tim@h3isquared.com

Tim Craven

INDEX TO ADVERTISERS

ABB.........................................................2 ACDC Dynamics.....................................7 Afrilek...............................................25 Allbro..........................................OBC Beckhoff.......................................11 CBi-electric: telecom cables...............19 CONCOEnergySolutions................26,27

Cummins Power Generation...........IFC Danfoss.........................................18 Gator Products......................................45 H3iSquared.......................................24 Helukabel..........................................39 Industrial Data Exchange.............34, 35 Instrotech...................................50

KROHNE.......................................31 Phoenix Contact...................................17 Throughput Technologies....................40 Voltex.........................................IBC ZEST WEG Group.................................23

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