Michael Short (born August 1975) is

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Control Engineering Control engineering or control systems engineering is an engineering discipline that deals with control systems, applying control theory to design equipment and systems with desired behaviors in control environments. The discipline of controls o ...

and

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and leads the Centre for Sustainable Engineering at

Teesside University , mottoeng = Deeds Not Words , established = 1930 – Constantine Technical College1969 – as Teesside Polytechnic 1992 – gained university status , type = Public , endowment = £0.23 m (2019/20) , chancellor ...

in the UK. He received a

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(Electrical and Electronic Engineering) in 1999 and a PhD (Robotics) in 2003 from the

University of Sunderland , mottoeng = Sweetly absorbing knowledge , established = 1901 - Sunderland Technical College1969 - Sunderland Polytechnic1992 - University of Sunderland (gained university status) , staff = , chancellor = Emeli ...

. In 2012 he was also awarded a

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from Teesside University. He was previously at the

University of Leicester , mottoeng = So that they may have life , established = , type = public research university , endowment = £20.0 million , budget = £326 million , chancellor = David Willetts , vice_chancellor = Nishan Canagarajah , head_labe ...

until 2009, and was made

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(Professor) in January 2015 and full (Chair) Professor (by Research) in August 2020. Michael is also a time-served automation and process control engineer, with eight years' industrial experience. Michael is a full member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology ( MIET) since 1999, a fellow of the Higher Education Academy (

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) since 2012 and a full member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ( MIEEE), and he also sits on the

IEEE Industrial Electronics Society The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operati ...

Technical Committee on Factory Automation (TCFA) since 2012. As of November 2022, he has authored or co-authored over 170 reviewed publications and won six awards including the IEEE James C. Hung Award for best paper in Factory Automation in 2011. As of November 2022 he has a

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of 23 and an i-10 index of 43. Since 2003 he has been Principal or Co-Investigator on multiple completed and ongoing funded research and innovation projects. He is associate section editor for the

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International Journal and associate editor for th
Frontiers in Energy Efficiency Technologies
International Journal. He has made scholarly contributions in several areas, including

probability Probability is the branch of mathematics concerning numerical descriptions of how likely an Event (probability theory), event is to occur, or how likely it is that a proposition is true. The probability of an event is a number between 0 and ...

and

statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ''wikt:Statistik#German, Statistik'', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of ...

real-time systems Real-time computing (RTC) is the computer science term for hardware and software systems subject to a "real-time constraint", for example from event to system response. Real-time programs must guarantee response within specified time constrai ...

and

scheduling A schedule or a timetable, as a basic time-management tool, consists of a list of times at which possible task (project management), tasks, events, or actions are intended to take place, or of a sequence of events in the chronological order ...

embedded systems An embedded system is a computer system—a combination of a computer processor, computer memory, and input/output peripheral devices—that has a dedicated function within a larger mechanical or electronic system. It is ''embedded'' as ...

and

control Control may refer to: Basic meanings Economics and business * Control (management), an element of management * Control, an element of management accounting * Comptroller (or controller), a senior financial officer in an organization * Controllin ...

robotics Robotics is an interdisciplinary branch of computer science and engineering. Robotics involves design, construction, operation, and use of robots. The goal of robotics is to design machines that can help and assist humans. Robotics integrat ...

and

smart grid A smart grid is an electrical grid which includes a variety of operation and energy measures including: *Advanced metering infrastructure (of which smart meters are a generic name for any utility side device even if it is more capable e.g. a f ...

. Michael has appeared in most forms of media to discuss the impacts of his work, including public webcasts, invited/keynote speeches, plenary lectures, and radio broadcasts, magazine features/interviews and print/online news. He has contributed to several UK

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inquiries, and has led authorship of a commissioned report on digital trade for the

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. In Summer 2020 was interviewed on BBC Radio and featured in news articles regarding his role in the international response to manufacture PPE and Ventilators during the 2020/2021 waves of the

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viral

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. In November 2022 he was featured on BBC Television and in news articles after being listed as one of the ten most influential people in the UK working within the Net Zero agenda. Michael Short presenting at European Utility Week in Vienna, Austria in November 2018

Michael Short presenting at European Utility Week in Vienna, Austria in November 2018

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