Elektra Award 2007
I was announced as the first winner of the Student Engineer of the Year category at the Elektra European Electronics Industry Awards held in London on the 12 December 2007. Full details, including pictures, video and judges comments can be found on the Electronics Weekly and Elektra websites.
IET Innovation Award 2008
The DesignTag, which I developed as part of my Engineering Doctorate (EngD) along with Dr Tom Kean from Algotronix and fellow EngD student Dr David McLaren, was named winner of the Electronic category and received a highly commended for the Security category at the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) Innovation Awards 2008, which took place on the 3 November 2008 in London.
NMI Emerging Technology Company 2008
Algotronix was named as the winner of the Emerging Technology Company at the NMI award ceremony on 6 November 2008 for its DesignTag product. Articles about the awards:
Nov 2008 - IET Announces Innovation Award Winners - IET
Nov 2008 - Two major awards for Algotronix - Design and Reuse
More articles about the Elektra award can be found at "Electronic Specifier", "Electronics Talk", "EMSNow", "Engineer Online", "EPSRC", "iSLI", "Talent Scotland", "UKRC", and "University of Strathclyde"
Other articles :
Mar 2008 - Hart Marketing
iSLI Celebrates its 10th Anniversary as a World Class Electronics Institution
July 2008 - Electronics Weekly
MPs discuss engineering skills with award-winning student
Aug 2008 - Global SMT and Packing
Event Held at the House of Commons Focuses on the Future of Engineering
Aug 2008 - Compute Scotland
The Dancing, Cryptic Mind of Carol Marsh
Oct 2008 - IET Student and Young Professional Magazine
The IP Protector
Apr 2007 - First Article - New Electronics - Mine All Mine
May 2007 - Demonstration at 44th DAC - Design and Reuse
May 2008 - Launch - Design and Reuse
July 2008 - Algotronix Adds Thermal Signaling to IP Core DesignTag - EETimes
July 2008 - Put a Tag on it - New Electronics
July 2008 - DesignTag Digital Core Adds Thermal Signaling - EETimes Asia
Aug 2008 - When the Chips are Down - Beating the Counterfeiters - DPA
Sep 2008 - How to Defend Against the Cloning of your FPGA Designs - Digital Home Design Line and Programmable Logic Design Line
Oct 2008 - TC-08 Thermocouple Date Logger in the News - Pico Technology
After leaving school, I went to Napier College to Study an HND in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. In 1985, I passed the HND with distinction and was one of the first females to complete the HND. The HND in EEE was so new that no graduation gown was available. All my industrial experience during the HND was with Ferranti's at Silverknows in Edinburgh.
The first company I worked for was Marconi Instruments in Donibristle Fife. I worked there for 10 years. I started off as a junior electronics engineer and by the time I left I was a senior electronics engineer. I wrote test programs for the first few years, then worked in RF. I then moved into digital engineering and was the first person in Marconi Instruments at Donibristle to use FPGAs. I implemented a VME interface which was used for many years in the company. In my final years at Marconi I worked in the test department, did a large amount of PCB digital designs and a small amount of analogue and mechanical design.
While I worked at Marconi Instruments I did a part time MSc in Digital Techniques at Heriot Watt University. I passed the exams but like many other engineers I never completed the project.
In the early 1990s GEC bought Ferranti's (they already owned Marconi Instruments) so I moved to Silverknowes in Edinburgh and joined the Analogue and Digital Engineering Group (ADEG) as a digital engineer and returned to FPGA work.
I really enjoyed my time at ADEG, they were a wonderful group to work for. Not only did I learn a lot while working in this group but I also became a Principle Digital Engineer and took the lead in several of my later projects. One of my achievements at ADEG was designing the Processor Board for the Howitzer 105mm Light Gun, which is still being used today.
I was then headhunted by Agilent and ECS Technology, which was a design house within the Aglient building. I decided to move to ECS Technology. In my first year I designed a PCB which captured and analysed 155 Mb/s telecommunication protocols. In 2001, I returned to FPGA work and set up an FPGA group within ECS and wrote FPGA procedures and guidelines as well as producing many designs using mainly Xilinx FPGAs and Lattice CPLDs.
While at ECS I did an MSc in System Level Integration at the Institue for System Level Integration (iSLI) in Livingston. I was surprised at how easy it was to return to studying and how much I enjoyed this course. All the modules were relevant to my work and I either gained new knowledge or confirmed the knowledge I had.
In 2005, the iSLI advertised an Engineering Doctorate position working with the FPGA Super Computer Group at Edinburgh University. I applied for this and was accepted by Dr Tom Kean of Algotronix. Dr Tom Kean designed the CAL device which was implemented into the Xilinx FPGA and I wrote about this in my first MSc dissertation.
I completed my EngD in 2011 and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Engineering in System Level Integration (EngD) on 1 June 2011. My thesis title is "Detecting Misuse of Intellectual Property and Counterfeit Integrated Circuits using Thermal Communication Channels"
I am now the Firmware Process Lead / Assurance Manager (UK) at Selex Galileo. I ensure that Firmware designs comply with the design life cycle, co-ordinate updates to the design process, organize CPLD training events and assist with resourcing.
2005 - 2011: Doctor of Engineering in System Level Integration
Institute for System Level Integration
Sponsor: Algotronix
2003 - 2005: MSc in System Level Integration which forms part of my EngD
Institute for System Level Integration
1987 - 1990: MSc in Digital Techniques, passed exams at MSc level
Heriot-Watt University
1982 - 1985: HND in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Napier University
1981 - 1975: Tynecastle High School
1969 - 1975: Stenhouse Primary School
1968 - 1969: Milton House Primary School
2009 - Present: FPGA Process Manager, Selex Galileo
2005 - 2009: EngD Research Engineer, Algotronix
2000 - 2005: Principal FPGA Engineer, ECS Technology
1995 - 2000: Principal Digital Design Engineer, BAE Systems
1985 - 1995: Senior Design Engineer, GEC Marconi Avionics
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
IoP - Institute of Physics
IACR - International Association for Cryptologic Research
ACA - American Cryptogram Association
SEA - Science and Engineering Ambassador
Systers
I am also involved in the following activities:
WES - On WES council.
My remit is to promote WES in Scottish companies and universities
I administer the "Doris Gray" and "Lady Finniston" grants.
I also co-ordinated the Girls into STEM event and the Doris Gray Student
Conference in 2010.
SEA - In 2007 and 2008 I was a judge at the “F1 in Schools” challenge
I've been a volunteer on the “Lab in a Lorry” and in 2008, I helped out at the
Grangemouth SET Fair and attended career days at Mary Erskine School in
Edinburgh and St Mungo's RC High School in Falkirk
UKRC - Mentor
Dance instructor - see Dancing page for details