A senior academic at the University of Leicester, Pro-Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Postlethwaite, recently met the President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, at the inauguration of the 5th International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences and Technology in Islamabad. Professor Postlethwaite, who is Professor of Engineering at the University of Leicester, gave a speech on Control Applications.

He said: “This was my third visit to Pakistan and on each occasion it has been a wonderful experience and their hospitality has been tremendous. As well as attending the conference and meeting the President, I was also able to visit the British Council and two Universities, Bahria and COMSATS Institute of Information technology, with whom we are developing partnerships.

“During my visit it was also a pleasure to meet with Dr Raza Samar who got his PhD from Leicester in 1995 working in the Control and Instrumentation group under my supervision. Dr Samar now heads a Centre for Control and Instrumentation at NESCOM, Pakistan’s Centre of Excellence in Engineering and Applied Sciences.”

Professor Postlethwaite was recently one of only 29 engineers to have been elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2006, placing him amongst the UK’s most distinguished engineers.

Professor Postlethwaite has received in excess of £6M research funding and published more than 280 refereed papers. His research interests involve theoretical contributions to the field of robust multivariable control and the application of advanced control system design to engineering systems. He is interested in the underlying principles of control and how they can be used to develop, from a strong theoretical foundation, practical design methods for practising control engineers. In 1997 he achieved a world first when his team designed and successfully flight-tested an H8 controller on a fly-by-wire helicopter.

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