School of Engineering (ENG)

Cliff Pritchard

Dr Cliff Pritchard

Senior Lecturer

School of Engineering

Anglesea Building, Anglesea Road, Portsmouth, Hants, PO1 3DJ

cliff.pritchard@port.ac.uk

Profile

Cliff (Anglesea office: The Lodge) is a lecturer in analogue and digital electronics. He is also the undergraduate year 2 supervisor and the LiFE units coordinator for the School of Engineering. Cliff is a member of the Electronic, Control and Computer Engineering Group.

Examples of projects that he has available for final year students are:

  • Ultrasonic distance measurement system
  • Electronic RS-232 breakout box
  • Temperature logging device
  • Use of Matlab to simulate Communication systems
  • Microcontroller Programmable function generator
  • PC controlled robot arm
  • Joystick controlled model car
  • Car black box video recorder
  • Car black box data recorder
  • Wireless RS-232 adapter
  • Ampere-hour meter for a caravan battery
  • Development of Communications experiments for use in teaching
  • Control system for a DC Motor selectable between speed and position control
  • Investigation of Electromagnetic Compatibility
  • Experimentation board for the teaching of microcontrollers
  • Robot vehicle with ultrasound based obstacle avoidance
  • High quality USB based Digital to Analogue Converter for interfacing to Hi-Fi preamplifier
  • High quality portable headphone amplifier
  • High capacity, high quality hard disk based music system