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Completing my PhD degree is the most intellectually challenging %% FUCK OFF ZERNIKE POLYNOMIALS WERE MORE DIFFICULT --- and actually useful unlike set theory 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 activity of my first 52 years of my life! %% SET THEORY IS A LOAD OF BOLLOCKS
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The best and worst moments of my doctoral journey The best and worst moments of this journey
have been shared with many people. have been shared with many people.
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It has been a great privilege to spend several years It has been a great privilege to spend several years
visiting the Mathematics and Engineering departments of visiting the Mathematics and Engineering departments of
the University of Brighton, the University of Brighton, pushing me forward in clarity of self-expression,
and its members will always remain dear to me. precision through mathematics, critical assessment and carefully crafted English,
its members will always remain dear to me.
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My first debt of gratitude must go to my supervisors, My first debt of gratitude must go to my supervisors,
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FMEA---which had obvious potential for making FMEA FMEA---which had obvious potential for making FMEA
more efficient---was a concept worthy of being developed for a PhD and assisting me more efficient---was a concept worthy of being developed for a PhD and assisting me
to submit this as a conference paper~\cite{Clark200519}. to submit this as a conference paper~\cite{Clark200519}.
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Further I thank her for encouraging me to apply for the PhD. %% PITY SHE DID NOT STAY ON AS MY PHD SUPERVISOR Further I thank her for encouraging me to apply for the PhD. %% PITY SHE DID NOT STAY ON AS MY PHD SUPERVISOR
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At Energy Technology Control, the following people gave encouragement, and At Energy Technology Control, the following people gave encouragement, and
validated the concepts for modular FMEA that I was proposing, Martin~Thirsk, Colin~Talmay, 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.
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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.
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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.
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Again I thank energy Technology control Ltd, for giving me
these parallel tasks, which aided my studies.
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These Engineers, whose whole careers These Engineers, whose whole careers
have been focused on the safety critical electronic/computing area, have been focused on the safety critical electronic/computing area,