Cranfield University is a postgraduate-only public research university in the United Kingdom that specialises in science, engineering, design, technology and management. Cranfield was founded as the College of Aeronautics (CoA) in 1946. Through the 1950s and 1960s, the development of aircraft research led to growth and diversification into other areas such as manufacturing and management, and in 1967, to the founding of the Cranfield School of Management. In 1969, the College of Aeronautics was renamed the Cranfield Institute of Technology, was incorporated by royal charter, gained degree awarding powers, and became a university. In 1993, it adopted its current name.[3]
Cranfield University has two campuses: the main campus is at Cranfield, Bedfordshire, and the second is at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom at Shrivenham, southwest Oxfordshire.[4] The main campus is unique[5] in the United Kingdom (and Europe) for having its own airport – Cranfield Airport – and its own aircraft, used for teaching and research.
Agusmian Partogi Ompusunggu is Senior Lecturer at Cranfield University. Prior to joining Cranfield University, he was a senior research engineer and project leader at Flanders Make vzw, Belgium. He has been performing industry-driven R&D projects in diverse areas including (i) Condition monitoring, prognostics, and health management, (ii) Dynamics & Vibration analysis and measurement, (iii) Industrial big data analytics and advanced signal processing, (iv) Tribology and (v) Advanced manufacturing technologies. He holds a PhD degree in mechanical engineering (i.e., condition monitoring and prognostics of automatic transmission systems) from KU Leuven, Belgium. He earned his BSc and MSc degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Indonesia.