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Mike White

Course Director

Mike is the Course Director for Undergraduate and Post Graduate programmes in Building Services Engineering. Mike qualified with a BEng (Hons) Mechatronics in 2001 and an MEng Electronics and Telecommunications in 2003. Mike joined Leeds Beckett as a Senior Lecturer in 2013.

Mike has extensive has industrial experience. Working 20 years' in electronics engineering, non-linear control systems and acoustics. He also has 15 years' academic and teaching experience in the fields of building services engineering, electronics engineering, mechatronics and mathematics.

He has had extensive experience in software engineering for embedded systems and is now heavily involved in BIM software applications and technologies.

He is commencing a PhD in the areas of model predicative control for waste water treatment systems

Current Teaching

BEng(Hons) in Building Services Engineering
Level 4: Building Services Design Principles ;Electrical and Electronic Principles
Level 5: BMS and Controls; Engineering Mathematics
Level 6: Building Physics (modelling and analysis); Intelligent Buildings Technology; Low Carbon Systems Design
BSc(Hons) Building services engineering
Level 6: Building Services Systems; Low Carbon Buildings and Renewables
MSc Building services engineering
Level 7: Sustainable Systems design; BIM and MEP, Building Energy Management Systems and Intelligent Buildings

Research Interests

Mikes research interests include include:

Intelligent Buildings and Smart Cities
Wavelet transforms for the structural acoustic control of musical instruments
Genetic algorithms for HVAC control and optimisation
Photogrammetric and Thermographic data fusion for defect detection in buildings
The effect of artificial lighting systems on people with photosensitive epilepsy