Prof Brian Mellitt, FREng

Career: design engr (Electric Traction) English Electric 1956-66, sr lectr Huddersfield Poly 1966-68, sr princ scientific offr Res Div British Railways Bd 1968-71; Univ of Birmingham: lectr 1971, sr lectr 1981, prof 1983, head Undergraduate Sch 1983, head Electrical Engrg and Electronics Dept 1985, dean Faculty of Engrg 1987-88, hon prof 1989; head Power Electronics and Traction Gp 1971-88 (conslt engr to various railways incl LUL, Hong Kong MTRC, Singapore MRTC, CIE, Metro Madrid), engrg dir London Underground 1989-95, dir engrg and prodn Railtrack plc 1995-99 (ret), pt/t engrg advsr Railtrack (UK) plc 1999-2000; hon ed IEE Proceedings - Electric Power Applications 1978-2009, ed IEE Proceedings Power Electronics 2009-; Leonardo da Vinci Award Italian Industrial Design Assoc 1989; chm Railway Forum 1998-2000; non-exec chm: Building Research Establishment 1998-2010, Metro Consulting 2000-02, SIRA Ltd 2001-06, Rail Personnel Int Hong Kong 2002-03; non-exec dir: Catalis Rail Trg Ltd 1998-2001, Jarvis plc 2002-08; rail conslt to NM Rothschild 1999-; Hon DTech Loughborough Univ 1991, Hon DSc Univ of Huddersfield 1997, Hon DEng Univ of Birmingham 1999; pres Welding Instn 2000-01; FIEE 1978 (vice-pres 1996-99, dep pres 1999-2001, pres 2001-02), FIMechE 1986, FIRSE 1984, FREng 1990

Books and Publications: Computers in Railway Operations (ed, 1987), Computer Applications in Railway Operations (ed, 1990)