diff --git a/submission_thesis/colophon/copy.tex b/submission_thesis/colophon/copy.tex index 5f38b2d..1d42010 100644 --- a/submission_thesis/colophon/copy.tex +++ b/submission_thesis/colophon/copy.tex @@ -4,13 +4,14 @@ Completing my PhD degree is the most intellectually challenging %% FUCK OFF ZERNIKE POLYNOMIALS WERE MORE DIFFICULT --- and actually useful unlike set theory activity of my first 52 years of my life! %% SET THEORY IS A LOAD OF BOLLOCKS % -The best and worst moments of my doctoral journey +The best and worst moments of this journey have been shared with many people. % It has been a great privilege to spend several years visiting the Mathematics and Engineering departments of -the University of Brighton, -and its members will always remain dear to me. +the University of Brighton, pushing me forward in clarity of self-expression, +precision through mathematics, critical assessment and carefully crafted English, +its members will always remain dear to me. % % My first debt of gratitude must go to my supervisors, @@ -30,6 +31,7 @@ who explained that the chapter in my project documentation postulating a modular FMEA---which had obvious potential for making FMEA more efficient---was a concept worthy of being developed for a PhD and assisting me to submit this as a conference paper~\cite{Clark200519}. +% Further I thank her for encouraging me to apply for the PhD. %% PITY SHE DID NOT STAY ON AS MY PHD SUPERVISOR % @@ -40,7 +42,24 @@ afternoons to pursue my studies. % At Energy Technology Control, the following people gave encouragement, and validated the concepts for modular FMEA that I was proposing, Martin~Thirsk, Colin~Talmay, -Darren~Legge and Hazel~Anderson. +Darren~Legge and Hazel~Anderson. The environment and context of the work there +was very useful for clarifying concepts relating to FMEA and +safety, at least once a week there would be a new practical case study arising +and being discussed, be it the observability of the effect of failures in an amplifier, +or how a particular sensor could fail. +% +The field of industrial burner control +is rich with practical examples that my new methodology have been % be +applied to and thus the theoretical aspects were often +sounded out against `real~world' problems. +% +These real~world failure scenarios were reflected in the +design documentation, often submitted in support of +safety accreditation, that I am tasked to produce there. +% +Again I thank energy Technology control Ltd, for giving me +these parallel tasks, which aided my studies. + % These Engineers, whose whole careers have been focused on the safety critical electronic/computing area,