School of Engineering (ENG)
Dr Cliff Pritchard
Senior Lecturer
School of Engineering
Anglesea Building, Anglesea Road, Portsmouth, Hants, PO1 3DJ
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