Biographical entry Anderson, Brian David Outram (1941 - )

Summary

Brian Anderson is Professor of Systems Engineering 1981- and Director, Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University 1994- . He was previously Professor of Electrical Engineering at University of Newcastle.

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1962

Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) with a major in pure mathematics completed at the University of Sydney

1964

Education - Bachelor of Engineering (BE) with a major in electrical engineering completed at the University of Sydney

1964

Career position - Research Assistant at Stanford Electronic Labs, USA

1965

Career position - Instructor in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, USA

1966

Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at Stanford University, USA

1966

Career position - Assistant Professor and Staff Consultant at Vidar Corporation in Mt View, California, USA

1967 - 1975

Career position - Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales

1967 - 1981

Career position - Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales

1974 -

Career position - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)

1980 -

Career position - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE)

1980 - 1983

Career position - Council of the Australian Academy of Science

1981 - 1993

Career position - Professor of Systems Engineering at the Australian National University, Canberra

1986 - 1989

Career position - Director of Telectronics Holdings Ltd.

1989

Career position - Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)

1989 - 1993

Career position - Prime Minister's Science and Energy Council

1990 - 1993

Career position - President of the International Federation of Automatic Control

1992 -

Career position - Chairman of the Advisory Board on Encyclopaedia Britannica

1992

Career position - Flinders Lecturer at the Australian Academy of Science

1993

Award - Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)

1994 -

Career position - Director of the Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering at the Australian National University

1998 - 2002

Career position - President of the Australian Academy of Science

Related entries

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

• Brian David Outram Anderson - Records, 1968 - 1982, MS 139; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Published resources

Online Resources

• 'Anderson, Brian David Outram - Ms 139', in Listing of Adolph Basser Library holdings, Australian Academy of Science, 1994, http://www.science.org.au/basser/manuscript-collection/ms139.html. Details
• National Library of Australia, 'Anderson, Brian D O', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-787025. Details