dr. john t. boardman - Paradigm Shift International

• investment in IT infrastructure to support virtual campus (the
College was spread over 3 buildings on 2 sites), to prepare electronic
study packs to support student-centered learning, and to promote
effective marketing of new College.
• Successfully initiated and nurtured the establishment of an entirely new School of
Systems Engineering at the University of Portsmouth created by the merger
of the Departments of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and of Mechanical
Engineering, by means of the following strategies. 1990 – 1994:
• creation of an organizational structure according to divisionalised line
management based on an agreed definition of the academic relevance of
Systems Engineering to staff expertise, market forces, and strategic
industrial support;
• creation of a Faculty handbook covering all processes for managing the
academic and resource operations and planning functions in the School;
• creation of a single portfolio of all School programmes in accordance with
an integrated, credit-rated, modularized and semesterised academic plan;
• establishment of an academic task force to plan the migration of existing
courses towards a system based approach for engineering and business
analysis, and to develop new courses based on a market survey of
demographic trends and industrial requirements;
• injection of new resources for faculty development, office automation
(network of PCs for e-mail, study packs and programme administration).
• Translating the original concept of the I.T. Research Institute at the University
of Brighton into a reality, developing a sound management infrastructure for 38
faculty and staff, generating strategies for its credibility as a unit for I.T. research
in expert planning systems, computer vision, and CAD. 1986 – 1990.
• Winning 20 research contracts (£5M plus) with industry and EPSRC for high
technology projects producing results which are being actively exploited in
ongoing developments by many of the sponsors. At the Universities of
Brighton, Portsmouth, and De Montfort. 1986 –2003.
• Academic Headship of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at
Brighton Polytechnic. The Department was reinvigorated, new faculty hired,
personnel development & appraisal initiated, injection of resources secured, and
a foundation laid for a subsequent 5-year accreditation by the IE. 1985 – 1986.
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