William Gosling (born 1932) is a British electrical engineer, Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering at the

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, and pioneer of system design in electrical engineering.

Biography

Gosling received his ARCS at the Imperial College in London in 1953 under

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, and spent his career both in industry and education. Early 1960s he wrote a series of books, which contributed to the establishment of

systems design Systems design interfaces, and data for an electronic control system to satisfy specified requirements. System design could be seen as the application of system theory to product development. There is some overlap with the disciplines of system ...

and systems engineering. In 1967 Gosling became Professor of Electrical Engineering at the

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. From 1969 to 1971 he was Chair of the

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. In 1974 he became Professor of Electronic Engineering at the

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/ref> where he remained affiliated for the rest of his career. In the 1970s he also became Technical Director of

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, a British-based international electronics, defence and telecommunications company. Here he managed a division with over fifteen hundred scientists and engineers. In 1978 he was elected President of

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(Convention of National Societies of Electrical Engineers in Western Europe).International Telecommunication Union (1979) ''World telecommunication forum''. The next year as president of the Institution of Electronic and Radio Engineers he helped to merge the society into the

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Publications

Gosling wrote about eleven books and over fifty scientific papers. A selection: * 1962.
The design of engineering systems
'. New York, Wiley * 1964. ''Field effect transistor applications''. New York, Wiley * 1965. ''Mechanical system design''. With Wolfgang Ernst Eder * 1967. ''The genesis of electrical engineering: Inaugural Lecture Delivered at the College on 24th January, 1967''. University College of Swansea * 1968. ''An introduction to microelectronic systems''. New York, McGraw-Hill * 1978. ''Microcircuits, Society and Education'' * 1999. ''Radio Antennas and Propagation, 1st Edition': Radio Engineering Fundamentals'' * 2020. ''Culture’s Engine''. London, Palgrave Macmillan

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