{"id":494,"date":"2015-05-12T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.eda.kent.ac.uk\/news-ext\/2015\/05\/12\/sarah-spurgeon-receives-obe-from-hrh-prince-of-wales\/"},"modified":"2015-05-12T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T00:00:00","slug":"sarah-spurgeon-receives-obe-from-hrh-prince-of-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2015\/05\/12\/sarah-spurgeon-receives-obe-from-hrh-prince-of-wales\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Spurgeon receives OBE from HRH Prince of Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Professor Sarah Spurgeon, Head of the School of Engineering and Digital Arts, was presented her award during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace on 6 May.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Spurgeon was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her services to engineering in the New Year&#8217;s Honours 2015.<\/p>\n<p>A Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) and President of the Institute of Measurement and Control, she has a national and international track record as a control engineer.<\/p>\n<p>She initially worked with the aerospace industry to develop and improve its control strategies, specifically with BAE Systems and Lucas Industries.<\/p>\n<p>Away from aerospace, Professor Spurgeon has brought insights to the control of robotic limbs, monitoring of the restoration of function to human limbs and control of a range of vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Her research contributions were recognised by the award of an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers&#8217; (IEEE) Millennium Medal (2000) and the InstMC&#8217;s Honeywell International Medal (2010).<\/p>\n<p>She has published more than 200 papers on control engineering.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Sarah Spurgeon, Head of the School of Engineering and Digital Arts, was presented her award during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace on 6 May. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2015\/05\/12\/sarah-spurgeon-receives-obe-from-hrh-prince-of-wales\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}