Liveryman Professor Ludwik Finkelstein OBE FREng, has recently received the Tallantire Exceptional Achievement Award from the Institute of Measurement and Control and also had a new electrical laboratory here at City named in his honour. 

Tallantire Exceptional Achievement Award

City Professor Ludwik Finkelstein has been awarded the Institute of Measurement and Control’s Tallantire Exceptional Achievement Award.

Emeritus Professor Ludwik Finkelstein OBE FREng, Senior Research Fellow of City’s Measurement and Instrumentation Centre has been awarded the Institute of Measurement and Control’s Tallantire Exceptional Achievement Award.

The award is presented for extraordinary dedication to the advances in science and practice of measurement and control, and for achieving the aims and objectives of the Institute. It is only the second time the Institute has given this award.

“I view this award as one that recognises the special links that bind the University and the professions so would like to thank my colleagues and City for all they have done to make this possible.”

Professor Ludwik Finkelstein 

Professor Julius Weinberg, Acting Vice-Chancellor says: “Many congratulations to Ludwik. We are delighted that the University has been able to provide him with a home to make the enormous contribution that he has made to the science of measurement.”

In addition to having served as President of the Institute of Measurement and Control and as Vice-President of the International Measurement Confederation, Professor Finkelstein has received a number of scientific honours. He received the Distinguished Service Award of the International Measurement Confederation and has been awarded the Hartley Medal of the Institute of Measurement and Control for contributions to Measurement and Control deemed to be of outstanding merit. He was also co-recipient of the Achievement Award from the Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers for contributions to industry.

At the same occasion as the Tallantire Award, Ludwik Finkelstein received the Honeywell Prize of the Institute for the best paper published in the Journal of the Institute in 2006. The awards were presented at the Institute’s Presidential Address and Learned Awards Evening, held last week at the Royal Society, London.

New electrical laboratory opens in honour of Professor Ludwik Finkelstein

City's Electrical Engineering teaching facilities have been boosted by a new laboratory, named in honour of Professor Ludwik Finkelstein.

A new electrical laboratory will open in the School of Engineering & Mathematical Sciences this week, named in honour of Emeritus Professor Ludwik Finkelstein OBE FREng, who is a Senior Research Fellow of City’s Measurement and Instrumentation Centre.

The Finkelstein Laboratory was built over the summer in a new space on the ground floor of the Tait Building and will be used in undergraduate teaching and final year project work across all of City’s Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering courses.

Meanwhile, the area that the lab previously occupied has been converted into four centrally-timetabled classrooms, CG02 – 05, each equipped with state-of-the-art audiovisual pods.

The laboratory features an array of all-new equipment, as well as flexible work benches, which offer access to wheelchair-users and enables the space to be converted into a conference centre during holidays.

“In a time that many universities are cutting back on new teaching and research facilities, City has made a remarkable investment with a new laboratory and classrooms. It’s fitting, therefore, that it should be named after one of the University’s longest-serving and most-respected academics, Professor Finkelstein.”

Professor Ken Grattan, Conjoint Dean of the School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences and the School of Informatics.

Professor Finkelstein, who recently received the Institute of Measurement and Control’s Tallantire Exceptional Achievement Award, will formally open the laboratory at a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 4:30pm on Wednesday 7 October.

If you would like to attend, please contact Julie Shelton, Executive Support Officer in the School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, at or X 8121.