Dr Will Midgley

Dr Will Midgley

Senior Lecturer
Engineering
Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

Will is a Senior Lecturer in Mechatronics and Robotics in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, UNSW Sydney. He received his PhD from Cambridge University, then went on to work for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Japan before returning to academia to work at Loughborough University and now working at UNSW Sydney.

Will is interested in using control engineering to help reduce emissions from transport. This has spanned work on modelling and building h...

Phone
+61 2 9385 4230
E-mail
w.midgley@unsw.edu.au
Location
Level 5, Room 510G Ainsworth Building (J17)

  • Don't Forget the Mortar! A New Approach to Engineering Education - £65,000 - Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) - 2022-23
  • Optimisation of Intermittent Electrification of Rail Transport for Near-Term Decarbonisation - £37,000 - DTE Network+ (UK) - 2021-22
  • Tyre-Road Friction Estimation using Maximum Entropy - £24,000 - EPSRC (UK) - 2021-22
  • Decarbonising High-Speed Bi-Mode Railway Vehicles through Optimal Power Control - £158,000 - RSSB  (UK) - 2019-20

  • IMechE T A Stewart-Dyer Prize/Frederick Harvey Trevithick Prize for “the most meritorious paper on the subject of railway engineering”, IMechE, (2022)
  • Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (now AdvanceHE) (2020-)
  • Best Poster Award, Intelligent Fluid Power Transmission and Control, University of Bath (2019)
  • 2012 SAGE Highly Commended Paper for “Comparison of regenerative braking technologies for heavy goods vehicles in urban environments” (2013)

My Research Supervision

External Advisor:

Mohammad Otoofi (Loughborough University, UK) - Computer vision for road surface identification