Daniel W

I was awarded an open scholarship to read Engineering Science at Balliol College, Oxford, and I graduated top of my year, with First Class Honours in 1985, also taking the Lubbock Prize for top graduating Mechanical Engineer. I went on to complete a PhD in Electrical Engineering (Control Theory) at Imperial College, London. I then worked as a researcher, on the design of helicopter fly-by-wire flight control systems. For approaching thirty years, I have taught (and continue to teach) university students a wide range of subjects, including Engineering Mechanics (Statics & Dynamics), Spaceflight Dynamics, Aircraft Performance, Applied Mathematics, Programming, Flight Dynamics & Control, and Rotorcraft theory. I took my A and S Levels in 1982, in Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry. My O-Levels included Latin, French and German, all at grade A. I also speak Russian reasonably fluently. I will target my lessons at the topics you want help with. We shall discuss those right at the start. I have a very wide range of interests, including foreign languages, and, for a university academic, the relatively unusual additional skill of holding a class 1 ("C+E") HGV license; during the pandemic, I have been doing my bit, on a part-time basis, helping keep all manner of industrial and consumer goods moving driving 44 tonners across the country.