Renishaw former director appointed Professor
Professor Geoff McFarland
Consultant and former director at Renishaw
He has recently been appointed as a part time professor within the Centre for Precision Technologies to develop disruptive technologies and accelerate their applications with industry
A FORMER director of leading British engineering company, Renishaw, has been appointed a professor at the University of Huddersfield.
Professor Geoff McFarland will be working part-time with the Centre for Precision Technologies (CPT) to develop disruptive technologies and accelerate their applications with industry. Renishaw is a key strategic partner for the CPT with the Centre’s Professor Dame Jane Jiang as a Renishaw Royal Academy Chair and the University has collaborated with them for over 20 years.
Professor Dame Jane Jiang (left) and the University's Vice-Chancellor Professor Bob Cryan (right) welcome Professor Geoff McFarland to the University.He was the Engineering/Technical Director and had been a board member at Renishaw Plc since 2002. He led the engineering & research function and was also responsible for group intellectual property and patents. He left Renishaw in September 2021 after a 27 year career but continues to advise the organisation on disruptive technology.
Professor McFarland is a Fellow of The Royal Academy of Engineering, a member of the Institute of Physics and holds both BEng and DEng engineering degrees. He is a visiting professor at the University of Bath and an honorary professor at Heriot-Watt University.
He joined Renishaw in 1994, working on Research and Development in Edinburgh before moving to Gloucestershire to head up the Co-ordinate Measuring Machines products division in 1999. He has a broad engineering experience and is a named inventor/co-inventor on over 100 patents.
His expertise spans precision metrology, medical devices, manufacturing processing and most recently metal additive manufacturing technologies.
Professor McFarland is also a non-executive director with several SME technology companies that he is helping to commercially mature and has served on the Euspen Council since 2015.