Background
MAYNE, David was born on April 23, 1930 in Germiston, South Africa. Son of Leslie Harper Mayne and Jane Theresa Quin.
MAYNE, David was born on April 23, 1930 in Germiston, South Africa. Son of Leslie Harper Mayne and Jane Theresa Quin.
Christian Brothers’ College, Boksburg, University of The Witwatersrand, South Africa.
Mayne began his career in 1950 as a lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand (1950-1954. 1957-1959). He lectured at Imperial College London from 1959-1967. He was a Research Fellow at Harvard (1971).
At Imperial College he was professor of control theory (1971-1991) as well as concurrently heading the Department of Electrical Engineering (1984-1988).
He was a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Davis from 1989-1996. From 1996 he has been a professor emeritus.
He was named honorary professor at Beihang University in Beijing in 2006.
Royal Society; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Married Josephine Mary Hess in 1954.