Professor Kel Fidler

Ex Officio

Biography

Professor Kel Fidler chairs the Engineering Council.  Until his retirement in 2008, he held the post of Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of Northumbria University, in Newcastle Upon Tyne.

Professor Fidler is a career academic, having held the posts of Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader and Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering Science at Essex University from 1969-84, Professor of Electronics and Head of the Electronics Discipline at the Open University from 1984-89, and Professor and Head of Electronics, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of York 1989-2001, before moving to Northumbria.

Professor Fidler's research and teaching interests include Computer-Aided Design, Circuit Theory and Design, and Filter Design, involving much interaction with industry.

As IEE representative to the Engineering Council in 2002, Professor Fidler was appointed Chairman of the Registration Standards Committee, 2002-5, led the group that developed UK-SPEC, the new standard for engineering competence, and the Output Standards Working Party He was elected Chairman of the Engineering Council in 2005, and re-elected in 2008.