Dr Gordon Lindsay is a Lecturer in Industrial Automation in the Department of Engineering and is the leader for multiple undergraduate and postgraduate taught modules which focus on control and instrumentation technologies. Dr Lindsay’s experience in this field are also applied to ongoing industrial research collaborations (Knowledge Transfer Partnerships) which focus on industrial automation, condition monitoring and data analysis.

Before joining Glasgow Caledonian University in 2022, he spent 13 years working for TÜV SÜD National Engineering Laboratory (NEL), where as technical lead he was responsible for the design, build and commissioning of the control and instrumentation systems for the UK’s national standard for flow measurement. This included full facility instrumentation specification and wiring, Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) coding for control, automation and safety interlocking, signal conditioning, digital networking, and data acquisition (DAQ) software development. Gordon was the department head of Digital Metrology at NEL between 2018 and 2022. During this time, he and his team undertook research and consultancy projects to develop machine learning systems for condition-based monitoring applications.

The focus of Gordon’s doctorate was the detection and compensation of ambient temperature-induced density calculation errors in Coriolis mass flow meters. He conducted his research while working at NEL in collaboration with Coventry University and a flow meter manufacturer industrial partner. Before joining NEL, Gordon was an electronic engineer with robotic manipulator manufacturer Clansman Dynamics from 2007 to 2009. During this time, he travelled to forge and foundry sites worldwide to integrate and commission their robotic systems.