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| known_for = Chairman and Founder, Warwick Manufacturing Group | occupation = Professor, chairman of WMG }} Sushanta Kumar Bhattacharyya, Baron Bhattacharyya, Kt. CBE FREng FRS (born 6 June 1940) is an Indian British engineer, educator and government advisor.〔http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-bhattacharyya/3672〕 In 1980 he became Professor of Manufacturing Systems at the University of Warwick and founded the Warwick Manufacturing Group.〔http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/wmg/people/chairman/〕 In 2004 he was made a life peer and became a member of the House of Lords. ==Early Life and Career== Kumar Bhattacharyya was born in Dhaka (then part of British-India, now capital of Bangladesh). His father was a professor of Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.〔http://www.theguardian.com/business/2005/jun/19/theobserver.observerbusiness6〕 Bhattacharyya studied Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He moved to Britain in the 1960s where he worked for six years as a graduate apprentice at Lucas Industries, a large British manufacturing company. During this time, he studied at the University of Birmingham where he attained an MSc in Engineering Production and Management and a PhD in Engineering Production. While completing his PhD at Birmingham, he was appointed as a Lecturer and began the process of establishing a manufacturing education programme for industry there.〔 In 1980 he moved to the University of Warwick and, with the support of Vice-Chancellor, Jack Butterworth, he founded WMG (Warwick Manufacturing Group) of which he is now chairman. WMG is now one of the largest academic departments of the University known for its collaborative research and education programmes with industry.〔http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/kumar-bhattacharyya/150799.article〕 During this time, he has been instrumental in brokering some significant partnerships for UK manufacturing including the takeover of Jaguar Land Rover by Indian firm Tata Motors〔http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00mdqrp〕〔http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-16130932〕 in 2008 and the investment in the National Automotive Innovation Centre at the University of Warwick.〔http://www.birminghampost.co.uk/business/business-news/jaguar-land-rover-invest-45m-4310324〕 Bhattacharyya was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1997 New Year Honours and knighted in 2003. On 3 June 2004, he was created a life peer as Baron Bhattacharyya, ''of Moseley in the County of West Midlands''. He sits on the Labour benches in the House of Lords.〔 In 2014, he was elected as a Fellow of The Royal Society.〔 He is also a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering〔http://www.raeng.org.uk/about/fellowship/fellowslist.htm?Alpha=All〕 and a number of other professional bodies including the Institution of Engineering and Technology, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Indian National Academy of Engineering and the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport. Kumar Bhattacharyya is a past member of the UK Council for Science and Technology.〔 He has also served as a scientific adviser to the government of South Africa. He sits on the Policy Advisory Council of the Institute for Public Policy Research〔http://www.ippr.org/staff-profiles/58/636/kumar-bhattacharyya〕 and served on the National Consumer Council from 1990 to 1993. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kumar Bhattacharyya, Baron Bhattacharyya」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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