Roy Evans (engineer)
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Hubert Roy Evans CBE FREng is a Welsh civil engineer and academic.
He is a native of Llandysul, in Ceredigion, Wales. A graduate of Swansea University (Wales) he became Professor of Civil and Structural Engineering at Cardiff University, where he spent 26 years of his career.
He won international recognition as a civil engineer, receiving numerous awards (including the in 1980) and became a Fellow[1] of the Royal Academy of Engineering[2] in 1992. Evans was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2002, for services to higher education.[3]
He served as Deputy Principal at Cardiff University for four years before his appointment as the Vice Chancellor of the University of Wales, Bangor in 1995, retiring in 2004. He was a Welsh Supernumerary Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford for the academic year 1998/9.
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- Welsh scholars and academics
- Welsh civil engineers
- Alumni of Swansea University
- Academics of Bangor University
- Academics of Cardiff University
- Fellows of Jesus College, Oxford
- Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
- Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
- People from Ceredigion
- Living people