Howard Foster
- Senior Lecturer and University Partnership Tutor
- Institute of Education
- Education
- Email: howard.foster@cumbria.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1228 616247
- Mobile: +44 (0)7427 569243
- Location: Carlisle - Fusehill Street
Biography
Howard Foster PGCE, MBA, BSc (Engineering) is a Senior lecturer at the University of Cumbria and an experienced primary teacher. Prior to working in Education, he gained experience in heavy engineering as an assembler and designer of cranes and large structural projects before moving into the design and production management of leading edge high volume safety products within the automotive safety industry where he obtained several global patents that were subsequently put into production in motor vehicles worldwide. He has also had a design feature on the BBC design awards TV program.
Qualifications and memberships
MBA (Newcastle University Business School)
BSc Engineering Liverpool (John Moores Liverpool)
PGCLTHE
PGCE
Academic and research interests
Motivation
Marketing
TQM
UG – Development of High velocity grinding wheel material
MBA – The marketing of Total Quality Management within a multi-National organisation (Allied Signal)
Research supervision
Engineer - Numerous Vehicle Crash Safety Systems (R&D)
Publications
Currently writing a book chapter on Teaching Design Technology for Sage Publishing.
Recent external roles
Teach mathematics at CPTT
Visited Romania as part of Pristine project