About
Dr Ward is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Mechanical Engineering .
He has published over 70 research papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings. He has received major grants from the EU, EPSRC and industry.
He is an enthusiastic communicator and teacher and has appeared both the local and national media to on MEMS related issues.
Qualifications
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BSc Physics Imperial College 1981
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PhD Physics Warwick University 1987
Biography
After his PhD, Dr Ward joined RSRE Malvern that subsequently became DRA, DERA and, finally, QinetiQ to work on II/IV semiconductor devices, radiation hard electronics and micro electro mechanical systems.
In 1999 he was appointed senior lecturer in microsystems engineering at the university.
Teaching
Teaching Programmes
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Level 4 Microsystems Engineering
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Level 2 Advanced Mechanics
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Level 1 Electronics
Postgraduate supervision
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Dr Zaki Isham, Resonant Magnetometer, funded by Qinetiq, now working for BAE.
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Dr Sek Hoe Wong, Microfluid mixer, ORS, Now working for HP.
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Dr Peter Kinnel, Pressure sensors, funded by GE Druck, now working at GE Druck
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Dr Kio Nishiyama, Noise in micro machines, BRDL, Now working for Toyota Japan.
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Dr Jon Sprattley, Brain implants, Selly Oak Hospital, now consultant.
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Dr Tom Kemp, RF filters, Funded by DSTL, now consultant.
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Dr David Cheneler, Microfluidics, Now RF University of Birmingham.
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Dr Nor Saad, returned to university teaching in Malaysia.
Research
Research Themes
Dr Ward's research is inter-disciplinary in that it requires a range of computing, electronics and materials skills in MEMS technology applied to a wide range of applications including urban infra-structure, food processing, cosmetics, bio-medical research and healthcare.
He also has a strong interest in blue-skies MEMS research involving applications of the Casimir effect and using inherent properties (noise and non-linearity) that others try to avoid in a positive way to obtain useful information from MEMS arrays.
Other activities
Dr Ward is a member of the EPSRC pier revue college, has been external examiner at Herriot watt and Cranfield Universities.
Publications
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Printed circuit board as a MEMS platform for focused ion beam technology, D Cheneler, J Teng, M J Adams, C J Anthony, E L Carter, and M C L Ward (2011) Microelectronic Engineering,. 88, 121–126.2.
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Nonlinear dynamics of a periodically driven duffing resonator coupled to a Van Der Pol oscillator, M F Wei, M Randrianandrasana, M C L Ward and D. Lowe (2011), Mathematical Problems in Engineering, doi:10.1155/2011/248328.
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Characterization of coupled micro/nanoresonators using inverse eigenvalue analysis, B Choubey, C J Anthony, N H Saad, M Ward, R Turnbull and S Collins (2010) Applied Physics Letters, 97, 133114; doi:10.1063/1.3491802,1-3
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Analysis of the manufacturing variation in a coupled micro resonators array based on its designed values and measured eigenfrequencies, X Wei, N-H Saad, and M C L Ward (2010) Micro and Nano Letters, 5, 300 – 303.
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Concepts in nanomechanics, M C L Ward (2008) NanoPerceptions, 4, 239-248.