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Dr Les Bowtell

Dr Les Bowtell
Name Les Bowtell
Position Senior Lecturer (Electronic Engineering)
Section School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering
Office Z305E
Location Toowoomba Campus
Phone +61 7 4631 1482
Extension 1482
Email
Qualifications BEng USQ , MEng USQ , PhD USQ

Fields of Research (FoR)

  • Environmental Technologies ( 090703 )
  • Renewable Power and Energy Systems Engineering (excl. Solar Cells) ( 090608 )
  • ( 401103 )
  • ( 400803 )

Research interests
Renewable energy systems
Industrial Ultrasonic systems

Professional memberships
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (30yrs)

RPEQ Registered Professional Engineer of Queensland (12yrs)

Currently teaching courses/programs
ENG1100
ELE2913
ELE3803
ELE3805
ENG4111
ENG4112
ENG8411
ENG8412

Teaching experience(Tertiary)
12 Years

Teaching experience(Other)
3 Years

Administrative responsibilities
Programme Coordinator BENS Electrical



Publications in ePrints

Al-Juboori, Raed A. and Naji, Osamah and Bowtell, Les and Alpatova, Alla and Soukane, Sofiane and Ghaffour, Norreddine (2021) Power effect of ultrasonically vibrated spacers in air gap membrane distillation: Theoretical and experimental investigations. Separation and Purification Technology, 262:118319. pp. 1-12. ISSN 1383-5866

Ji, Boyu and Banhazi, Thomas and Perano, Kristen and Ghahramani, AfshinORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9648-4606 and Bowtell, Les and Wang, Chaoyuan and Li, Baoming (2020) A review of measuring, assessing and mitigating heat stress in dairy cattle. Biosystems Engineering. pp. 1-23. ISSN 1537-5110

Haraz, Mohammed Taha and Bowtell, Les and Al-Juboori, Raed (2020) Biochar effects on nutrients retention and release of hydroponics growth media. Journal of Agricultural Science, 12 (7). ISSN 1916-9752

Naji, Osamah and Al-juboori, Raed and Bowtell, Les and Alpatova, Alla and Ghaffour, Noreddine (2020) Direct contact ultrasound for fouling control and flux enhancement in air-gap membrane distillation. Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 61. pp. 1-12. ISSN 1350-4177

Ji, Boyu and Banhazi, Thomas and Ghahramani, AfshinORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9648-4606 and Bowtell, Les and Wang, Chaoyuan and Li, Baoming (2020) Modelling of heat stress in a robotic dairy farm. Part 4: Time constant and cumulative effects of heat stress. Biosystems Engineering. pp. 1-10. ISSN 1537-5110

View full listing in ePrints

Approved research supervisor in the area of:

  • Environmental Technologies ( 090703 )
  • Renewable Power and Energy Systems Engineering (excl. Solar Cells) ( 090608 )


Research topics