Roger Tomlinson is a Senior Experimental Officer within the department. His work centres around assisting research groups with electronic circuit design and assembly involving surface mounted devices.
He also carries out undergraduate laboratory supervision together with producing the necessary schedules reqired to effectively deliver this part of the syllabus.
Roger Tomlinson was educated in South Derbyshire and gained a honours degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering at The University of Bradford. After completion of the degree he worked for a while at The Marconi Company Limited where he was involved with the design and implimentation of advanced electro-optical systems used for a variety of applications including visual tracking of guided weapons.
He later moved to The British Steel Corporation where he designed a wide range of Non-Destructive tesing systems for use throughout the steel industry, both within the UK and around the world. From here he moved to The Express Lift Company where his main responsibility was to design and oversee the commisioning of safety related monitoring euipment associated with high speed, high quality multi lift-car passenger lift systems for high rise buildings, for both commercial and domestic environments.
In 1981 he moved to Loughborough University and became part of The Component Technology Reasearch Group with overall day to day responsibility for The Thick Film Hybrid Microelectonics Laboratory. Whilst working within the group he also designed a number of pieces of test equipment, small and large, used by members of the group performing accelerated life tests on a whole range of electronic components. In more recent times he has become more involved with undergraduate laboratory studies, supervising laboratory work and producing and maintaining the necessary schedules to ensure the smooth running of this activity.
