People
Nicholas Caldwell
Dr Nicholas Caldwell joined the Engineering Department in 1995 as a Research Student, eventually transforming into a Research Associate in 1998.
He became a formal member of the Multimedia Group in 2000 to assist with the development of the Department's undergraduate prospectus in both paper and electronic formats. He is responsible as either lead supervisor or co-supervisor for all the fourth-year undergraduate engineering students who are undertaking final-year projects for the Multimedia Group in the areas of virtual lecture course development and information dissemination via emergent communications technologies. He also acts in an editorial capacity for the group's publications.
Dr Caldwell continues to undertake research in the fields of electron microscopy, applied artificial intelligence, and web-based technologies. This work includes the development of knowledge-based systems to diagnose and achieve optimal performance from scanning electron microscopes, in partnership with LEO Electron Microscopy Ltd. He also works in collaboration with the Engineering Design Centre on the creation of software tools to support design process improvement.
Publications
A complete list of Dr Caldwell's scientific publications can be found here.
Background Information
Dr Caldwell graduated in 1994 in Computer Science at Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 1998 gained a PhD in Engineering on the topic of "Knowledge-Based Engineering for the Scanning Electron Microscope". He continued his doctoral research as a Research Associate under Dr David Holburn and Bernie Breton, with funding from LEO Electron Microscopy and the Isaac Newton Trust.
From 1998 to 2000, he worked with the Engineering Design Centre to develop web-based tools (such as WebCADET, a decision support and knowledge management system)) to support design research. In this, he was assisting Dr Paul Rodgers (formerly of the Engineering Design Centre, now a Reader at Napier University) and Dr Avon Huxor (of the University of Middlesex).
He remains active as a supervisor of third-year engineering and computer science students, and is a software demonstrator for the second-year Engineering Integrated Design Project.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society, a Member of the British Computer Society, and a Chartered Information Systems Practitioner.