Institution of Mechanical Engineers

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The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) is a British engineering company similar to the Association of German Engineers (VDI) .

The association was founded in Birmingham in 1847 . Founding members were Charles Beyer , George Stephenson and others.

List of presidents

Since it was founded, "IMechE" had 120 presidents. The presidents have been elected for one year each year since 1922. Joseph Whitworth, John Penn and William Armstrong have presided over several times.

No. Period Surname Sphere of activity
1 1847-1848 George Stephenson Railway engineer
2 1849-1853 Robert Stephenson Railway engineer, MP
3 1854-1855 William Fairbairn Bridges, mills, ships
4th 1856-1857 Joseph Whitworth ( First Round ) Machine tools pioneer
5 1858-1859 John Penn ( First Round )
6th 1860 James Kennedy
7th 1861-1862 William George Armstrong ( First Round )
8th 1863-1865 Robert Napier
4th 1865-1866 Joseph Whitworth ( Second Round ) Machine tools pioneer
5 1866-1868 John Penn ( Second Round )
7th 1868-1869 William George Armstrong ( Second Round )
9 1870-1871 John Ramsbottom Railway engineer
10 1872-1873 William Siemens
11 1874-1875 Frederick Joseph Bramwell
12 1876-1877 Thomas Hawksley Water and gas
13 1878-1879 John Robinson
14th 1880-1881 Edward Alfred Cowper Metallurgy, inventor of the Cowper blast furnace
15th 1882-1883 Percy Graham Buchanan Westmacott
16 1884 Isaac Lowthian Bell
17th 1885-1886 Jeremiah Head
18th 1887-1888 Edward Hamer Carbutt
19th 1889 Charles Cochrane
20th 1890-1891 Joseph Tomlinson
21st 1892-1893 William Anderson
22nd 1894-1895 Alexander Blackie William Kennedy Professor of Engineering, University College London
23 1896-1897 Edward Windsor Richards
24 1898 Samuel W. Johnson Railway Engineer Chief Developer at Midland Railway
25th 1899-1900 William Henry White Marine engineering
26th 1901-1902 William Henry Maw Editor of the association journal Engineering
27 1903-1904 Joseph Hartley Wicksteed
28 1905-1906 Edward Pritchard Martin
29 1907-1908 Tom Hurry Riches Railway engineer, Taff Vale Railway
30th 1909-1910 John Audley Frederick Aspinall Railway Engineer, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
31 1911-1912 Edward Bayzard Ellington
32 1913-1914 Hay Frederick Donaldson
33 1915-1916 William Cawthorne Unwin
34 1917-1918 Michael Longridge
35 1919 Edward Hopkinson
36 1920-1921 Matthew Henry Phineas Riall Sankey
37 1922 Henry Selby Hele-Shaw Mechanics and marine technology
38 1923 John Dewrance
39 1924 William Henry Patchell
40 1925 Vincent Raven Railway Engineer, North Eastern Railway
41 1926 William Reavell
42 1927 Henry Fowler Railway 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 magazine
46 1931 Edwin Kitson Clark
47 1932 William Taylor
48 1933 Alan Ernest Leofric Chorlton
49 1934 Charles Day
50 1935 Alexander Elliott Davidson
51 1936 Nigel Gresley Railway Engineer, London and North Eastern Railway
52 1937 John Edward Thornycroft
53 1938 David E Roberts
54 1939 E. Bruce Ball
55 1940 Asa Binns
56 1941 William Stanier Railway engineer, London, Midland and Scottish Railway
57 1942 Stephen Joseph Thompson
58 1943 Frederick Charles Lea
59 1944 Harry Ralph Ricardo
60 1945 Andrew Robertson
61 1946 Oliver Vaughan Snell Bulleid Railway 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 Developer, Anglo-Iranian Oil Company , Operation Pluto and Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation (Fido)
67 1952 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 Robert Owen Jones
74 1959 Herbert Desmond Carter
75 1960 Owen Alfred Saunders
76 1961 Charles Hague
77 1962 John Hereward Pitchford
78 1963 Roland Curling Bond Railway engineer
79 1964 Frank Mason
80 1965 Harold Norman Gwynne Allen
81 1966 Christopher Hinton, Baron Hinton of Bankside Pioneer of nuclear energy
82 1967 Hugh Graham Conway
83 1968 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 Chairman of the Board, British Leyland
88 1973 John William Atwell
89 1974 St John de Hold Elstub
90 1975 Paul Thomas Fletcher
91 1976 Ewen McEwen
92 1977 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 Philip Foreman
101 1986 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
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
120 2005 Andrew Ives
121 2006 W. Alec Osborn
122 2007 John Baxter
123 2008 William M. Banks
124 2009 Keith Millard
125 2010 John Wood Automobile manufacturing
126 2011 Roderick Smith Railway engineer
127 2012 Isobel Pollock
128 2013 Patrick Kniveton
129 2014 Mark Hunt Airplane Engineer (RAF)
130 2015 Richard Folkson
131 2016 Jon Hilton
132 2017 Carolyn Griffiths

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Past Presidents
  2. ↑ https://www.imeche.org/about-us/our-people/jon-hilton
  3. ↑ https://www.imeche.org/about-us/our-people/carolyn-griffiths

Web links

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