Institution of Mechanical Engineers
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The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) is the British engineering society concerned with mechanical engineering.
Overview
- Vision statement:To be the natural professional home for all involved in Mechanical Engineering
Presidents
As of 2006, there have been 121 presidents of the Institution, who since 1922 have been elected annually for one year. The first president was George Stephenson, followed by his son Robert. Joseph Whitworth, John Penn and William Armstrong are the only persons to have served two terms. Pamela Liversidge in 1997-98 was the first – and so far only – woman president. Past presidents include:
{| border=1 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 !No. !Years !Name !Sphere |- |1 |1847–1848 |George Stephenson |railway engineer |- |2 |1849–1853 |Robert Stephenson | railway engineer, MP |- |3 |1854–1855 |William Fairbairn |manufacturer, trader, ironmaster, bridge, mill wheels, ships, later made baronet. |- |4 |1856–1857 |Joseph Whitworth (First term) |pioneer of machine tools, precision engineering |- |5 |1858–1859 |John Penn (First term) | |- |6 |1860 |James Kennedy | |- |7 |1861–1862 |William George Armstrong (First term) |Industrialist and inventor, primarily of armaments. Pioneer of domestic electricity |- |8 |1863–1865 |Robert Napier | |- |4 |1865–1866 |Joseph Whitworth (Second term) |pioneer of machine tools, precision engineering |- |5 |1866–1868 |John Penn (Second term) | |- |7 |1868–1869 |William George Armstrong (Second term) |Industrialist and inventor, primarily of armaments. Pioneer of domestic electricity |- |9 |1870–1871 |John Ramsbottom |railway engineer |- |10 |1872–1873 |Sir William Siemens | |- |11 |1874–1875 | Sir Frederick Joseph Bramwell | |- |12 |1876–1877 |Thomas Hawksley |water and gas engineer |- |13 |1878–1879 |John Robinson | |- |14 |1880–1881 |Edward Alfred Cowper |Metallurgist, inventor of Cowper pot |- |15 |1882–1883 |Percy Graham Buchanan Westmacott | |- |16 |1884 |Sir Isaac Lowthian Bell |Iron master |- |17 |1885–1886 |Jeremiah Head | |- |18 |1887–1888 |Sir Edward Hamer Carbutt | |- |19 |1889 |Charles Cochrane | |- |20 |1890–1891 |Joseph Tomlinson | |- |21 |1892–1893 |Sir William Anderson | |- |22 |1894–1895 |Prof. Alexander Blackie William Kennedy |Professor of engineering, University College London |- |23 |1896–1897 |Edward Windsor Richards |Iron master |- |24 |1898 |Samuel W. Johnson |Chief Mechanical Engineer, Midland Railway |- |25 |1899–1900 |Sir William Henry White |Naval architect |- |26 |1901–1902 |William Henry Maw |Editor, Engineering |- |27 |1903–1904 |Joseph Hartley Wicksteed | |- |28 |1905–1906 |Edward Pritchard Martin | |- |29 |1907–1908 |Tom Hurry Riches |Chief engineer, Taff Vale Railway |- |30 |1909–1910 |Sir John Audley Frederick Aspinall |Chief Mechanical Engineer, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway |- |31 |1911–1912 |Edward Bayzard Ellington | |- |32 |1913–1914 |Sir Hay Frederick Donaldson | |- |33 |1915–1916 |William Cawthorne Unwin | |- |34 |1917–1918 |Michael Longridge | |- |35 |1919 |Edward Hopkinson | |- |36 |1920–1921 |Cpt Matthew Henry Phineas Riall Sankey | |- |37 |1922 |Dr Henry Selby Hele-Shaw | |- |38 |1923 |Sir John Dewrance | |- |39 |1924 |William Henry Patchell | |- |40 |1925 |Sir Vincent Raven |Chief Mechanical Engineer, North Eastern Railway |- |41 |1926 |Sir William Reavell |Compressor manufacturer |- |42 |1927 |Sir Henry Fowler |Chief Mechanical Engineer, Midland Railway and London Midland and Scottish Railway |- |43 |1928 |Richard William Allen | |- |44 |1929 |Daniel Adamson | |- |45 |1930 |Loughnan St Lawrence Pendred |Editor of The Engineer |- |46 |1931 |Edwin Kitson Clark | |- |47 |1932 |William Taylor | |- |48 |1933 |Alan Ernest Leofric Chorlton | |- |49 |1934 |Charles Day | |- |50 |1935 |Major-General Alexander Elliott Davidson | |- |51 |1936 |Sir Nigel Gresley |Chief Mechanical Engineer, London and North Eastern Railway |- |52 |1937 |Sir John Edward Thornycroft | |- |53 |1938 |David E Roberts | |- |54 |1939 |E. Bruce Ball | |- |55 |1940 |Asa Binns | |- |56 |1941 |Sir William Stanier |Chief Mechanical Engineer, London, Midland and Scottish Railway |- |57 |1942 |Col Stephen Joseph Thompson | |- |58 |1943 |Frederick Charles Lea | |- |59 |1944 |Sir Harry Ralph Ricardo |Automotive engineer. Founder, Ricardo Consulting |- |60 |1945 |Andrew Robertson | |- |61 |1946 |Oliver Vaughan Snell Bulleid |Chief Mechanical Engineer, Southern Railway |- |62 |1947 |Lord Dudley Gordon | |- |63 |1948 |E. William Gregson | |- |64 |1949 |Herbert John Gough | |- |65 |1950 |Stanley Fabes Dorey | |- |66 |1951 |Arthur Clifford Hartley |Chief engineer, Anglo-Iranian Oil co. Inventor, Pluto and Fido |- |67 |1952 |Sir David Randall Pye | |- |68 |1953 |Alfred Roebuck | |- |69 |1954 |Richard William Bailey | |- |70 |1955 |Percy Lewis Jones | |- |71 |1956 |Thomas Arkle Crowe | |- |72 |1957 |George Nelson | |- |73 |1958 |Air Marshal Sir Robert Owen Jones | |- |74 |1959 |Herbert Desmond Carter | |- |75 |1960 |Sir Owen Alfred Saunders | |- |76 |1961 |Sir Charles Hague | |- |77 |1962 |John Hereward Pitchford | |- |78 |1963 |Roland Curling Bond |Railway engineer |- |79 |1964 |Vice-Admiral Sir Frank Mason | |- |80 |1965 |Harold Norman Gwynne Allen | |- |81 |1966 |Lord Christopher Hinton of Bankside |Pioneer of nuclear power |- |82 |1967 |Hugh Graham Conway | |- |83 |1968 |Sir Arnold Lewis George Lindley | |- |84 |1969 |Donald Frederick Galloway | |- |85 |1970 |John Lamb Murray Morrison | |- |86 |1971 |Robert Lank Lickley | |- |87 |1972 |Lord Donald Gresham Stokes |Chief executive, British Leyland |- |88 |1973 |Sir John William Atwell | |- |89 |1974 |Sir St John de Hold Elstub | |- |90 |1975 |Paul Thomas Fletcher | |- |91 |1976 |Ewen McEwen | |- |92 |1977 |Sir Hugh Ford |Professor of mechanical engineering, Imperial College London |- |93 |1978 |Diarmuid Downs | |- |94 |1979 |James Gordon Dawson | |- |95 |1980 |Bryan Hildrew | |- |96 |1981 |Francis David Penny | |- |97 |1982 |Victor John Osola/Vaino Junani Osola | |- |98 |1983 |George Fritz Werner Adler | |- |99 |1984 |Waheeb Rizk | |- |100 |1985 |Sir Philip Foreman | |- |101 |1986 |Sir Bernard Crossland | |- |102 |1987 |Oscar Roith | |- |103 |1988 |Cecil Charles John French | |- |104 |1989 |Roy Ernest James Roberts | |- |105 |1990 |Michael Cooper Neale | |- |106 |1991 |Duncan Dowson | |- |107 |1992 |Tom D. Patten | |- |108 |1993 |Anthony Albert Denton | |- |109 |1994 |Brian Hamilton Kent | |- |110 |1995 |Frank Christopher Price | |- |111 |1996 |Robert William Ernest Shannon | |- |112 |1997 |Pamela Liversidge | |- |113 |1998 |John Spence (engineer) | |- |114 |1999 |James McKnight | |- |115 |2000 |Denis E. Filer | |- |116 |2001 |Tony Roche | |- |117 |2002 |John McDougall | |- |117 |2003 |Chris Taylor | |- |119 |2004 |William Edgar |[Biography pdf]. |- |120 |2005 |Andrew Ives |[Biography pdf]. | |- |121 |2006 |W Alec Osborn MBE |[Presidential Address pdf]. |[Biography].
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See also
- Institution of Civil Engineers
- Institution of Electrical Engineers
- James Watt International Medal
References
- Robert H. Parsons, A History of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 1847–1947
- John Pullin, Progress Through Mechanical Engineering (1997)
External links
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