Arnold Tustin, (1899-1994), was a British engineer, and Professor of Engineering at the University of Birmingham and at Imperial College London, who made important contributions to the development of control engineering[1] and its application to electrical machines.
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Arnold Tustin was born in 1899. He was apprenticed to the Parsons Company of Newcastle upon Tyne at the age of 16 and attended Armstrong College (later incorporated into Newcastle University). After completing his degree studies he joined Metropolitan-Vickers (MV) as a graduate trainee.
At Metropolitan-Vickers he worked on the Metadyne constant-current DC generator for gun control. This work began in 1937-38 and continued during World War II.[2]
He was Professor of Engineering and head of the Department. of Electrical Engineering at the University of Birmingham from 1947 to 1955 and at Imperial College London from 1955 to 1964 and a Visiting Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1953-54.[2]
Tustin's primary concern has been in the field of electrical machines, but his interests was much wider in the fields of systems thinking, control systems, and even economics and biology.[3]
Tustin was the author of several books and many published papers on electrical machines.