Professor of Engineering (Cambridge)
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The Professorship of Engineering is a professorship at the University of Cambridge, and the senior professorship in the University's Department of Engineering. Founded in 1875 as the Professorship of Mechanism and Applied Mechanics, it was renamed to the Professorship of Mechanical Sciences in 1934, and then to Engineering in 1966. The professorship is currently vacant.
Professors of Mechanism and Applied Mechanics[]
- James Stuart (1875)
- James Alfred Ewing (1890)
- Bertram Hopkinson (1903)
- Charles Edward Inglis (1919) (post renamed in 1934)[1]
Professors of Mechanical Science[]
- Charles Edward Inglis (1934) (incumbent since 1919)
- John Fleetwood Baker (1943)
Professors of Engineering[]
- Arnold Hugh William Beck (1966–1970)
- (1970–1974)
- (1976–2003)
- Daniel Mark Wolpert (2005–2013)
References[]
- ^ *Baker, J.F. (2004). "Inglis, Sir Charles Edward (1875–1952)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Revised by Jacques Heyman (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34100. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Categories:
- Engineering education in the United Kingdom
- Professorships at the University of Cambridge
- School of Technology, University of Cambridge
- Professorships in engineering
- 1875 establishments in England