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Dr Mark Breach MA MSc PhD FRICS FRAS FInstCES AFRIN
Principal Lecturer in Engineering Surveying
School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment
Nottingham Trent University
Burton Street
Nottingham NG1 4BU
Tel: 0115 848 2753
Fax: 0115 848 6450
e-mail: mark.breach@ntu.ac.uk
Qualifications
MA in Engineering and Natural Sciences (Experimental Psychology and Statistics) from Cambridge University (Trinity Hall) 1973
MSc in Geodesy from Oxford University (Lady Margaret Hall) 1983
PhD (Nottingham Trent University) 2002
Professional Affiliations
Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society
Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors
Associate Fellow of the Royal Institution of Navigation
Professional Activities
Chairman of Geomatics Division of the Notts and Derby branch of the RICS 1998-2002
Member of East Midlands Construction Careers Group 1995-2002
Chairman of Nottingham Branch, The Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors from 1995-1999
Member of East Midlands Branch, The Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors from 1990-date
Member of RICS Mapping and Positioning Practice Panel from 1999 to date
Member of ICES Topographic and Surveying Panel from 2001 to date
Examiner
Chief Examiner (formerly Moderator) for "427 Engineering Surveying" examination in the Engineering Council's Part 2(A) Examinations, 1996 to date
Exeter
University – External Examiner for PhD, 2008
Thames
Valley University – External Examiner for HNC Civil Engineering, 2008 to date
Research Interests
PhD projects:
"One man Global Positioning System (GPS) for highway profiling" (director of studies) winner, in conjunction with Global Surveys Ltd, of a DTI "Smart Award" 1994-1998
"Gyrotheodolite Upgrade" (director of studies) 1995-1999
"An automated approach to astrogeodetic levelling" (own PhD) 1996-2002
"Digital Height Reference Surface for Europe" (director of studies). 2003-2007
"Alignment Methods and Strategies for the Large Hadron Collider Low Beta Quadrupole Sections at CERN" (director of studies). 2005-date
"Investigating the Optimum Design of Steel Portal Frames with Semi Rigid Joints" (supervisor) 2007-date
Consultancy and advice may be given in the following areas:
Land and Engineering Surveying
Control Surveying
Geodesy
Mapping
Positional Astronomy
Global Positioning System (GPS)
Metrology
Survey Instrumentation
Geoid Determination
Precise Level Surveys
Gyrotheodolites
Deformation Monitoring
Current teaching duties
Course Leader for:
MSc Civil Engineering
MSc Geotechnical Engineering
MSc Environmental Engineering Design & Management
MSc Transportation Design & ManagementMSc European Traffic and Transportation
Postgraduate modules in ...
Research Methods
Projects
Geomatic Engineering
Undergraduate modules in ...
Projects
Integrated Project
Mathematics
Mechanics
University Representative for & participant in:
Erasmus/Socrates projects from 1994-2003 with: Fachhochschule Oldenburg, Mikkeli Polytechnic, Hanzehogeschool van Groningen, Plymouth University, Wolverhampton University, Dublin Institute of Technology and Technological Institute of Patras.
Tempus project with Mikkeli Polytechnic, Fachhochschule Karlsruhe, local survey companies and Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia for the "Geodesian Educational Centre for Estonia" from 1995 to 1998.
Tempus project with Mikkeli Polytechnic, Fachhochschule Karlsruhe, local survey companies and Riga Technical University, Latvia for "Geomatics Education in Latvia" 1997-2003.
WG3 of European Education in Geodetic Engineering, Cartography and Surveying with the Polytechnic University of Valencia from 2002 to date.
Construction Network of East Midlands New Technology Initiative in 2004.
Conference Organization
"34th Meeting of the Teachers of Surveying", Loughborough, December 1998
Publications
Breach, M., 1981. Counting Sheep. In: V. Bryant, ed., The Sunday Times Book of Brain Teasers Book 2. London: Unwin.
Breach, M., 1984. Theodolite Errors. Survey Review. Vol 27 No 214 pp 355-368
Breach, M., 1985. Azimuth by the method of multiple timed observations of a Gyrotheodolite without electronic registration. Bulletin Geodesique. Vol 59 No3
Breach, M., 1985. Criticism of "First Order Positioning by Three-dimensional EDM" by Prof S. H. Laurila. Surveying & Mapping. (USA) pp 272-279
Breach, M., 1987. The Global Positioning System or "Where am I ... now!". Royal Engineers Journal. Vol 101 No 3 pp 196-207
Breach, M., Maye, P., 1988. Heights above the Geoid for Mapping Control by Doppler Translocation. Survey Review. pp 363-370
Breach, M., 1988. Small Pass Doppler Translocation proceedings Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Land Surveyors Division, Biennial Conference
Breach, M., Wardrop, A., 1988. The RE 200 Greenwich to Paris Measurement Royal Engineers Journal. Vol 102 No 3 pp 282-285
Breach, M., 1989. RE 200 - The French Connection. Land & Minerals Surveying. pp 16-19
Breach, M., Knight, J., Sowdon, P., 1990 Calibrating the Hermitage Base. Land & Minerals Surveying. pp 425-428
Breach, M., 1990. The Importance of Accurate Co-ordinates of a Known Station in Precise Relative Positioning. Survey Review. Vol 30 No 238 pp 398-403
Breach, M., 1992. Engineering Surveying correspondence course for Ellis School of Building. 16 lessons
Breach, M., 1992. Gyrotheodolite Measurements. Video. approx. 114 mins
Breach, M., Devine, G., 1993. Engineering Surveying Case Study. Hobson's Casebook. 1993
Breach, M., 1993. A solution to the problems of teaching the Gyrotheodolite to large numbers. Survey and Mapping 93. Poster paper
Breach, M., Sargent, P., 1993. Survey Education at Nottingham Trent University. Survey and Mapping 93. Poster paper
Breach, M., 1993. Star Trekking Across Mill Lakes. Grapevine (Nottingham Trent University in-house staff magazine)
Breach, M., 1993. The Nottingham Trent University Education profile.Surveying World.
Breach, M., 1993. Gyro Teach-in. Surveying World.
Breach, M., 1993. The BEng (Hons) in Engineering Surveying. Video approx. 25 mins
Breach, M., 1994. Three Dimensional Resection. Surveying and Land Information Systems. (USA) Vol 54 No 1 pp 21-25
Breach, M., 1994. Teaching the Gyrotheodolite to large numbers. International Society for Mining Surveying IX Congress, Prague
Breach, M., 1995. Precise Levelling Video. approx. 50 mins
Breach, M., 1995. Global Positioning System. Leybucht International Field Course. 66 pages
Breach, M., 1996. Automated Geodesy Short Course.Tallinn Technical University. Estonia 182 pages
Breach, M., 1996. Engineering Surveying at Nottingham Trent - Education profile. Surveying World. March/April pp 44-45
Breach, M., 1996. Global Positioning System. Plymouth International Field Course. 64 pages
Breach, M., 1996. Foreword Are you in the driving seat? Engineering Showcase '96. No 2 p5
Breach, M., 1997. Global Positioning System Short Course. Tallinn Technical University, Estonia approx. 100 pages
Breach, M., 1997. Global Positioning System. Burren (Ireland) International Field Course. approx. 45 pages
Breach, M., 1998. Automated Surveying Short course. Riga Technical University. Latvia. 146 pages
Breach, M., 1999-2001. Civil Engineering @ Nottingham Trent Newsletter of the Department of Civil and Structural Engineering editor – issue 1-7
Breach, M., 2002. GPS - Historia Ja Tulevaisuus (GPS - From the Past to the Future). In: Proceedings of Maanmittauspäivät 2002. (ISBN 951-98709-1-1) pp33-41
Breach, M., 2002. Why the Wobble? Practical Boat Owner. No 424, April - ISSN 0032-6348
Breach, M., 2003. Is There Life after Military Survey? The Ranger - Journal of the Defence Surveyors' Association. Vol 2 Number 6 p34
Anon. 2004. Guidelines for the Use of GPS in Surveying and Mapping - RICS Guidance note. Contributing author. 100 pages. ISBN 1 84219 093 8
Breach, M., 2004. Engineering Surveying. Departmental Publication at Nottingham Trent University. approx. 840 pages
Breach, M., 2004. Navigation - Short course. Fachhochschule Karlsruhe, Germany. approx. 250 pages
Breach, M., 2004. Celestial Navigation when your GPS fails. Crewe: Trafford ISBN 1-4120-2667-9, 144 pages
Anon. 2005. Il GPS está dando problemas en núcleos urbanos y en los bosques - Interview with Mark Breach. El Diario Vasco. San Sebastián. No 22734. 14 July 2005
Breach, M., 2005. The 'Great Race' to the South Pole. Geomatics World. Jul/Aug 205 Vol 13 Issue 5 pp34-35.
Breach, M., 2005. Review of Plane and Geodetic Surveying. Survey Review. Vol 38 No 298 pp344-345.
Breach, M., 2006. QA – an English Perspective. In: State of the Art of Issues related to Engineering Education in Europe. EEGECS Thematic Network. Athens.
Schofield, W., Breach, M., 2007. Engineering Surveying. 6th edition. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann.
Breach, M., 2008 Dissertation Writing for Engineers and Scientists. Harlow: Pearson Education. (in press - due 3 Sep 2008)
This page was last updated July 2008.