Professor of Civil Engineering (Dublin)

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The Professor of Civil Engineering is a professorship at Trinity College Dublin. The chair was founded in 1842, thirty years before the establishment of the college's first degree program in civil engineering.[1] It is one of the oldest chairs in civil engineering at any university,[2] surpassed in the British Isles only by the 1840 establishment of the Regius Professor of Civil Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Glasgow.[3] It was previously styled Professorship of the Practice of Engineering in the mid-nineteenth century and Professorship of Engineering from 1960 to 1985. The title was restored to Professor of Civil Engineering in 1986 following the creation of new Chairs in Engineering Science.[4]

Succession of Professors of Civil Engineering[]

  • 1: John Benjamin Macneill (1842–1852; Professor Extraordinary of Civil Engineering 1852–1880)[3][5]
  • 2: Samuel Downing (1852–1882)[3]
  • 3: Robert Crawford (1882–1887)[3]
  • 4: Thomas Alexander (1887–1921)[3]
  • 5: David Clark (1921–1933)[3]
  • 6: John Purser (1933–1957)[6]
  • 7: William Wright (1957–1985)[4]
  • 8: Simon Perry (1986–2002)[7]
  • 9: Margaret O'Mahony (2006)[8]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Monroe, Paul (1911). A Cyclopedia of Education, Volume 2. Macmillan. p. 375.
  2. ^ Adelman, Juliana (2015). Communities of Science in Nineteenth-Century Ireland. Routledge. p. 82. ISBN 9781317315759.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Purser, John (November 1941). "A note on the Engineering School since its foundation". Hermathena (58): 53–56. JSTOR 23037704.
  4. ^ a b Cox, Ron (1993). Engineering at Trinity: Incorporating a Record of the School of Engineering. Trinity College Dublin.
  5. ^ Cox, Ronald; O'Dwyer, Dermot. "Education for construction: engineering education in Trinity College Dublin in the 1840s". In Campbell, James W P; Bill, Nicholas; Driver, Michael; Heaton, Michael; Pan, Yiting; Tutton, Michael; Wall, Christine; Yeomans, David (eds.). Further Studies in the History of Construction: Proceedings of the Third Conference of the Construction History Society. Construction History Society. pp. 295–308. ISBN 978-0-9928751-2-1.
  6. ^ "Professor John Purser, MA, MAI, MSc". Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers. 40 (2): 291. June 1968. doi:10.1680/iicep.1968.7948.
  7. ^ "Trinity professor who led crusade for Dublin's LRT". The Irish Times. 30 March 2002.
  8. ^ "Newly Appointed TCD Chair in Civil Engineering". Trinity News and Events. Trinity College Dublin. 6 September 2006. Retrieved 2021-10-04.
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