Professor Chris Backhouse

BSc MSc PhD CEng FIMechE FIEE

  • Emeritus Professor of Product Innovation
  • Chair, School Learning and Teaching Committee
  • Head of Management Group
Chris Backhouse

Background

  • Graduated in Engineering Science (BSc) Durham, 1975.
  • MSc in Machines and Mechanisms, Liverpool Polytechnic, 1979.
  • PhD (part time) in Spatial Differential Geometry from Liverpool Polytechnic jointly with Unilever Research Port Sunlight Laboratories, 1989.
  • Design consultant Liverpool Polytechnic, 1980 - 1982.
  • Scientist, Unilever Research, 1983 - 1990.
  • Seconded full-time to Cambridge University Engineering Department, Manufacturing Group as Visiting Industrial Fellow, 1987 - 1989.
  • Design Manager, Morris Cranes, 1990 - 1994.
  • Senior Lecturer (joint appointment with Morris Cranes) Loughborough University, 1990 - 1994.
  • Head of Dept of Manufacturing Engineering, 1995 - 1999.
  • Director of Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, 1999 - 2001.
  • Dean of Engineering, 2001 - 2007.
  • Director of Internationalisation Strategy for the University, 2007 - 2012.