There is no question that the Kennedy Scholarship has had a major impact on my career.
I received my BSc(Eng)degree in Electrical Engineering at Imperial College in 1967 and then applied for a Kennedy Scholarship when working as a development engineer with the Marconi Company.
I was in the last group of Kennedy Scholars who travelled to the US by boat in 1969 in the midst of the war in Vietnam, which was to dominate student landscape for the next several years.
I joined the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at MIT where I specialised in Systems and Control, and with my Scholarship renewed for a further year received the SM degree and then continued and was awarded a PhD degree in 1973.
After three years as an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California I moved to the University of Cambridge where I have remained and am now Professor of Engineering and Head of Department.
There is no question that the Kennedy Scholarship has had a major impact on my career: 'inserting' me into the mainstream of the US academic engineering community as well as the exposure to this culture at a politically turbulent time.
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