James McFarlane Receives QEII Diamond Jubilee Medal

Dr McFarlane started ISE in 1974 and has been involved with the design, construction, and operation of manned, tethered and untethered Remotely Operated Vehicles as well as subsystems of these vehicles including manipulators and computer control systems. Since that time, Dr McFarlane has been a part of engineering teams that have built over 400 robotic manipulators and over 200 vehicles.

In addition to his Officer of the Order of Canada designation in 1989, Dr McFarlane has received numerous awards including, inter alia, the BC Science Council Award for Industrial Innovation, the BC Science and Engineering Gold Medal, the IEEE Engineer of the Year Award and the MTS Lifetime Compass Distinguished Achievement Award. In October, 2011 he received the Diver Certification Board of Canada’s Lifetime Achievement Award for his significant contributions to the underwater industry.

Dr McFarlane is the author of many papers on submarines, manned submersibles, remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) and autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). He has also made keynote presentations in Europe, India, Japan, China, Korea, USA and Canada. Two notable presentations include the inauguration of the India Chapter of IEEE, Oceanic Engineering Society at the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) in 2008, and the Institute of Industrial Science, at The University of Tokyo in 2010.

Dr McFarlane has served on many boards and committees worldwide and has been a guest speaker at many different conferences around the globe. Most recently, he lectured to students and faculty at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in Chennai, India on submarine design and engineering.

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