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ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

STAFF INFORMATION

Staff and Grades of Appointment
Senior Lecturer and Head of Department:
Jonas.A.S. Redwood-Sawyerr,
AMIEE,CENG,MIEE,PEng.

Senior Lecturer and Head of Department for the last 7 years.
BEng(Electrical option)Division 1,Fourah Bay College,USL 1975
MSc(Industrial Electronics)Chelsea College,London 1977
PhD(Electronic Systems Engineering),University of Essex,1985
He has been in the department for 24 years.
He lectures the following subjects:Communications, Digital Systems Design, Signal Analysis, Digital Electronics, Engineer In Society

LECTURERS
Joseph.Kanu,
BENG(USL),MSc(Essex),PhD(Aston)
He lectures the following subjects:Communications, Data Processing, Circuits,Digital Systems.
He obtained his University education at the Fourah Bay College,University of Sierra Leone between 1975 and 1980.
He graduated with a second class upper division degree in Electrical Engineering and his B.Eng dissertation was "High Speed Arithmetic and Logic Unit"
1981-82 he studied and obtained his Masters(MSc Telecommunications Systems) at the School of Science and Engineering,University of Essex,England.
He was a teacher between 1975-1981 and in 1982 he entered the department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering.
He obtained his PH D in Telecommunication Systems Technology at the University of Aston,Birmingham,England in 1991. He has attended several workshops all over the country and did a course in in Cantania,Italy on Thermal Applications on Renewable Energy.

C O L Asgill,BENG(USL),MSc(Lond),AMIEE
He lectures the following subjects:Industrial Electronics, Electronics, Computer Aided Design

E F Kebbie,BENG(USL),MSc(Madres)
He obtained his Masters in 1981 and joined the department in 1990.
He lectures the following subjects:Electrical Machines,Fields,Applied Electricity,Energy Conversion

I Y Thorlu-Bangura,
BENG(USL),MSc(London)

He started with the department in 1992.
He lectures the following subjects:Microcomputer Engineering, Electronics, Digital Electronics, Digital Systems

S. Silla,BENG(USL),MSc(Cranfield)

He lectures the following subjects:Control, Power Systems, Energy Conversion, Machines

M S Bah,
BENG(USL),MPhil(Swansea)

He grduated from The University of Sierra Leone in 1988 with a class 2 division one degree in Electrical Engineering.
In 1993 he did his Masters in Power Electronics at the College of Swansea in Wales.
Later he obtained his doctorate degree in Power Electronics at the same College in 1995.
He lectures the following subjects:Power Electronics, Control Systems,Industrial Electronics.

Technical and Auxilliary Staff
Miss M.Davies: Secretary
She is the newest member of the department and has been there for only two years.
E A Thomas: Senior Lab Technician
He started with the department in April 1966,and has served for the past 33 years.
F Peacock-Cole: Lab Technician
He joined the department in 1992.
M E Langley:Assistant Lab Technician
He joined the department in October 1992
A Kamara:Janitor

Research and Study Abroad

J.A.S.Redwood-Sawyerr:
Photovoltaic technology and solar energy system design.
Modulation methods for bandwidth and error minimisation.Engineering Education.
Digital systems Design.Information Technology application.

Refereed Papers in Conference Proceedings:

"The role of Communications in Integrated Rural Development"(with S.J.K.Sesay)Proceedings at the International
Conference on Appropriate Technology in Rural Societies,

University of Sierra Leone,3rd-7th July 1978
"Status of Computers in Sierra Leone

"Status of Computer Applications (Africa),

Commonwealth SCT Publication Series,No.208,CS(86)ISP-20
"Telecommunications in Sierra Leone;

from Strowger to fully Digital Switching" (

with S R Tumoe)
Proceedings of the 4th IEE conference on Telecommunications,Manchester,18-22 April 1993
"A Novel Classification of Phase Codes from their spectral properties",

Proceedings of the seventh
ANSTI International Electrical Engineering Disciplinary Area Conference,20-22 November 1991,UST,Kumasi,Ghana.

S.M.Silla:
Harmonic studies in power Systems, Renewable Energy Technologies,
Energy Auditing and Management Control Systems design and analysis.

I.Y.Thorlu-Bangura:
A study of the characteristic impedance of the Electrical network in Freetown.
Investigation of the effect and the possibility of transmitting digital signals through the Electrical mains.
A study of the earth resistivity of soils in Freetown and methods of domestic earthing used in Freetown.

J.Kanu:
Digital speech and data communications.

C.O.L.Asgill:
Composite Energy Conversion Systems.

Photovoltaic application to solar generation of electricity.
Circuit analysis using ORCAD with a view to providing enhancements of the facilities for the application.
Power Electronics controls for DC machines:

this research is to investigate and device economical means of controlloing DC machines with solar powered interface.
M.Bah
Power Electronics and Embedded Control
Real-time and On-line control of AC/DC Drives
Distributed Computer Control Systems
UPS Systems
Real-time Software Engineering