Ken Dutton

General

• Born in Sheffield, England, 1952.

• Chartered professional engineer.

• Qualifications etc:   BSc, PhD, CEng, FIET, FInstMC.

• Married for 45 years.

• Two daughters.

• Three grandchildren.

• Likes to think of himself as a musician too (keyboards / bass guitar / very rusty voice).

 

Christianity

• Attended Greenhill Methodist Church, Sheffield, since before birth.

• Occasionally ejected from Sunday school, due to disruptive behaviour.  Father inevitably not amused!

• Excellent knowledge of science, for his age, prevented him "becoming a Christian" in his mid- to late-teens.

• Learned more about the relationship between science and Christianity by reading / praying.

• Became a Christian at age 22.

• Has now been a speaker on the relationship between science and religion for several years.

 

Science

• BSc and PhD in control systems analysis and design.

• Chartered engineer - so an applied scientist, as opposed to a pure scientist such as a theoretical physicist.

• Elected a Fellow of two UK engineering institutions.

• Ten years working in process control research and development in the steel industry.

• Obtained PhD (on automatic control of flatness when rolling stainless steel) whilst working full-time in the industry - mainly on other projects!

• 25 years lecturing at Sheffield Hallam University (you can probably guess the subject).

• Took early retirement in 2010, but continued to do some carefully-selected lecturing and industrial liaison for the University until 2015.

 

Useful consequences

• The pragmatic approach of the professional engineer is evident in his books.

• Because of his background, in A Working Faith in an Age of Science he is equally at home defending good science and belief in God. As a result, that book is unusually even-handed in that respect.