A MAN who has gone from shop floor worker to university professor will deliver his inaugural lecture at Huddersfield University next week.

Alan Myers is an engineering expert whose passion for precision has taken him from the factory floor to the world of academia.

He will deliver a public lecture called The Need To Be Precise which will explain how precision engineering is vital in modern manufacturing.

He will give the example of a poorly machined bearing in an aircraft engine which could fail prematurely with catastrophic consequences.

The lecture will be held at 6.30pm at the University’s Canalside West Lecture Theatre on Tuesday, June 7.

Professor Myers is technical director of the globally-renowned Centre for Precision Technologies (CPT) at the University of Huddersfield. He has earned worldwide respect for his innovative work and is a key figure in CPT’s multi-million pound projects carried out in partnership with major multi-national companies.

Life was not always so glamorous. His career began on the shop floor with a five-year engineering apprenticeship scheme with Halifax machine tool firm Kitchen and Wade.