About Me
Nigel Smith BSc
Born: 12 December 1978
After leaving school I was really unsure what I wanted to do.
After the summer I enrolled on a Music Technology course at Bradford College, 2 years of drinking and performing live gigs, basically living the whole music scene.
I completed the course and took the next year out to earn a bit of money and decide what next to do with my life. I eventually decided that working wasn’t much fun and enroled on a degree course at Sheffield Hallam University. I could never imagine how complicated engineering mathematics could be, Laplace and Z transforms ????
I put all my effort into learning the maths but messed up two exams. I then decided that staying in Sheffield would cost too much and moved back looking for a similar course at Bradford University.
I enrolled a fortnight late onto a course titled “Cybernetics and Virtual Worlds”, I thought it sounded good and they promised no more horiffic maths, LIARS.
A 4 year course including a year in industry with subjects on Robotics, Web Development, Control Theory, Digital Electronics, and C Programming to mention a few. This meant that the maths content was actually quite high, and included both laplace and Z transforms, fourier theory and analysis, and everything I hated about maths at school.
Once I got the hang of it I found that I actually enjoyed some of the maths, and strangely found myself aksing for more practice questions in advance of exams.
Some details of my final year project titled “Mobile Autonomous Submersible Robot” can be found here
During my final year at uni i decided that I could do with some more qualifications and enrolled in night school, a short course later and I had City & Guilds 2381 – BS7671 16th Edition Requirements for Electrical Installations. Still not happy with my quest for greater knowledge I enrolled again this time for City & Guilds 2391 – Inspection, Testing, and Verification of Electrical Installations
At the end of my degree I didn’t fair too badly, I achieved 2:1 at honors level, just the beer that let me down during revision, got top marks for the project though.
I did consider a PhD but decided that I really should do some work for a living and stop skiving through education, hence the formation of NJS Installs Limited.
The picture at the top of the page is actually me, it was taken by Neil Briscoe at roughly 70Mph, it’s hard enough to take a picture at that speed never mind read the speedo at the same time. more pictures from this and other days out can be found here.
