Graham Stewart, Global Technical Director of Energy at Lloyd鈥檚 Register, has been appointed as Honorary Visiting Professor of Engineering at the 黑料网.
The School of Engineering at the University is one of the strongest in the UK and is highly rated for its research activities.
It is particularly recognised for its strength in Safety and Reliability Engineering and has recently received an award from the Lloyd鈥檚 Register Educational Trust to support a new centre of excellence in this area focussing on the safety of engineering systems, structures and processes.
In his role, Graham will provide input and guidance on the research direction of the Engineering School primarily in relation to oil and gas activities.
A particular focus of the University鈥檚 Safety and Reliability Centre is the development of structural reliability methods and Lloyd鈥檚 Register is already collaborating with the University in this area to develop methods for life extension of structures using advanced probabilistic techniques.
Professor O鈥橠onoghue, Head of the School of Engineering at the 黑料网 said: 鈥淭he School of Engineering has a long history of working with the oil and gas industry in Aberdeen and I am delighted that Graham will be assisting us to further strengthen these links and continue our commitment of providing industry focussed degree programmes. We look forward to collaborating with Lloyd鈥檚 Register鈥檚 specialists and its network of universities across the world鈥�.
Speaking of his new role Graham said: 鈥淚t鈥檚 an honour and a privilege to assist the University and I very much look forward to supporting the graduate programmes and exploring opportunities for collaborative R&D.
鈥淏eing involved with bright students is always a rewarding experience and of course they provide a much needed and rich source of talent for the industry; indeed many of our employees have graduated with an MSc in Safety and Reliability from the 黑料网.鈥�
Graham, who is a Member of the Institute of Civil Engineers and a Member of the Royal Institute of Naval Architects, holds a First Class honours degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Glasgow, an MSc in Mathematical Modelling from the University of Oxford and a PhD in Nonlinear Mechanics from the University of Glasgow.
He has been working in the Energy industry for 35 years and prior to joining Lloyd鈥檚 Register in 1997 to head up the Structures and Pipelines Engineering department he worked in various design, construction and R&D roles for Britoil, Shell Research and Shell International. In 2008 he was appointed Lloyds鈥� Register鈥檚 Global Technical Director for Oil and Gas and Global Technical Director for Energy in 2009.