Thamo Sutharssan
Lecturer In Aeronautical Engineering
Senior Lecturer
Aeronautics, Embedded systems, System integration, Machine learning and Prognostics and Health Management (PHM)
Department of Engineering & Construction , School Of Architecture, Computing And Engineering
Course Leader for BEng in Aeronautical Engineering and MSc in Electric Vehicle Engineering.
Qualifications
- BSc Electrical & Electronic Engineering
- MSc Aeronautical Engineering
- PhD Computing and Mathematics
Areas Of Interest
- Aircraft design
- Embedded systems
- Machine learning
- Big data analytics
- Prognostics and health management (PHM)
OVERVIEW
Dr Thamo Sutharssan is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of East London. He leads the BEng in Aeronautical Engineering and the MSc in Electric Vehicle Engineering. Previously, Thamo worked as a lecturer at various higher education institutions, including the University of Portsmouth, Havering College, Derby College, and the Rolls-Royce Aerospace Academy, making significant contributions to BTEC, HNC, HND, BEng, and MEng programmes. He also participated in internal and external validation of the courses, assessments, and inspections.
Thamo also served as a Research Associate on a £177,500 Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) project focused on the Balance of Plant (BoP) of Combined Heating and Power (CHP) Hydrogen Fuel Cell systems, in collaboration with Sustainable Energy Technologies at the University of Hertfordshire. In this role, he project managed the design and production of an automated demonstrator of fuel cell systems, applicable to a variety of products including micro-CHP units. Additionally, he served as a Research Fellow at the University of Greenwich, contributing to a collaborative project with Heriot-Watt University for Scottish and Southern Energy. Throughout his career, Thamo has gained extensive experience in project management and consultancy, successfully overseeing numerous projects related to building services and automation.
Dr Thamo Sutharssan is a Chartered Electrical and Electronic Engineer and has been a Member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology since 2001. Additionally, he is a Chartered Manager with the Chartered Management Institute and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. His involvement in the academic community extends to reviewing conference and journal papers for the Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) Society since 2010, and he has served as the Review Manager for their annual conferences since 2014.
PAST RESEARCH
KTP - To embed a new capability for system integration and automation of Balance of Plant (BoP) systems for fuel cell stacks.
PUBLICATIONS
- Sutharssan, T, Stoyanov, S, Bailey, C & Yin, C 2015, 'Prognostic and health management for engineering systems: a review of the data-driven approach and algorithms', The Journal of Engineering, vol. 7, no. 7, pp. 215-222. https://doi.org/10.1049/joe.2014.0303
- Sutharssan, T, Montalvao, D, Chen, YK, Wang, WC, Pisac, C & Elemara, H 2017, 'A review on prognostics and health monitoring of proton exchange membrane fuel cell', Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, vol. 75, pp. 440-450. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2016.11.009
- Chen, YK, Enearu, O, Montalvão, D & Sutharssan, T 2016, 'A review of computational fluid dynamics simulations on PEFC performance', Journal of Applied Mechanical Engineering, vol. 5, no. 6, 1000241. https://doi.org/10.4172/2168-9873.1000241
TEACHING
Industry partners
- Advanced Avionics Ltd
External roles
Link tutor for Engineering Programmes at New Mansoura University, Egypt
Modules Taught
- Engineering Sciences
- Electrical Materials and Fields
- Applied Aeronautical Engineering
- Engineering Profession 3
- Electrical Automotive Practice
- Project Management and Organisation
Publications
The last four years of publications can be viewed below.
Full publications list
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