Dr Tom M Romberg
BSc(Tech) UNSW, BE UMelb, MEngSc UNSW, PhD UNSW, FIEAust, CPEng
Dr Tom
Romberg was formerly Managing Director,
I.E.T. CONSULTING PTY LTD, and Director of Research,
REDEVELOP
AUSTRALIA CONSORTIUM, which specialised in strategic
technology management and consulting. He was Foundation Professor and
Executive Dean of the former School of Information Technology at the
University of Southern Queensland, and has served on senior executive
committees of the University and Queensland government technology advisory
bodies, including the UNILINK Board of the Queensland Technology Quadrangle (TECHQUAD).
Dr Romberg is a graduate of the Universities of NSW and
Melbourne with Bachelor Degrees in Mechanical Engineering, a Masters Degree
in Nuclear Engineering and a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering. He has
certificates in R&D management and academic leadership, and is a graduate
in Executive Management from the Australian Management College, Mt Eliza.
Dr Romberg’s
industrial experience covers Australia, England and Europe. He commenced his
professional career as a cadet engineer with John Lysaght (Aust) Pty Ltd at
Port Kembla. He was awarded a Confederation of British Industry Travelling
Fellowship, and has worked in the U.K. with the Associated Electrical
Industries (AEI) Ltd, Manchester, the Nuclear Power Group (TNPG), Cheshire,
and Sulzer, Switzerland.
Dr Romberg
was a research scientist in the Nuclear Power and Energy (NPE) Program of the
Australian Atomic Energy Commission (AAEC, now ANSTO). His research on the
hydrodynamic performance of nuclear/fossil boilers received international
recognition, and he has served on the organising committees of international
heat transfer symposia and made invited visits to China and the U.S.A. He was
a member of the assessment teams for the Jervis Bay Nuclear Reactor (JBNR)
Project, the HIFAR reactor and the joint Australia–Japan Solar Thermal
Electric Power Station (STEPS) Project.
In 1981 Dr
Romberg transferred to the CSIRO, where he was Principal Research Scientist
and Project Manager, Advanced Process Control, in the CSIRO Division of
Mineral and Process Engineering (now Division of Minerals). He is the
inventor of an advanced self-tuning controller (COALTROL) for coal
preparation processes, and was invited by the Electric Power Research
Institute (EPRI) in the U.S. to be the keynote speaker at their 1987 EPRI
Seminar on Advanced Coal Cleaning Control, Pennsylvania, attended by invited
participants from the U.S. Department of Energy, coal and power industries.
Dr Romberg specialises in the fields of
digital signal processing, mathematical modelling and advanced process
control. He is the author of some 70 publications and is principal author of
the text book “Signal Processing for Industrial
Diagnostics” originally published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd
(1996, ISBN 0-471-96166-3) under the Wiley Series in Measurement
Science and Technology.
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