The University of Strathclyde is a public research university located in Glasgow,Scotland. Founded in 1796 as the Andersonian Institute,it is Glasgow's second-oldest university,having received its royal charter in 1964 as the first technological university in the United Kingdom. Taking its name from the historic Kingdom of Strathclyde,it is Scotland's third-largest university by number of students,with students and staff from over 100 countries.
The New York University Tandon School of Engineering is the engineering and applied sciences school of New York University. Tandon is the second oldest private engineering and technology school in the United States.
Brigadier-General Sir Alexander Gibb was a Scottish civil engineer. After serving as Civil Engineer-in-Chief to the Admiralty and Director-General of Civil Engineering at the Ministry of Transport,he established the engineering consultancy firm Sir Alexander Gibb &Partners.
Allan Glen's School was,for most of its existence,a local authority,selective secondary school for boys in Glasgow,Scotland,charging nominal fees for tuition.
Sir James Lithgow,1st Baronet,was a Scottish industrialist who played a major role in restructuring the British shipbuilding and steelmaking industries in the 1930s in addition to playing an important role in formulating public policy and supervising wartime production.
Sir Thomas John Parker is a British businessman. He is chairman of Laing O'Rourke and former chairman of Pennon Group,a director of Carnival Corporation &plc and lead non-executive director at the Cabinet Office. He has been a director or chairman of numerous other public companies including Airbus,Anglo American plc,Babcock International,British Gas,DP World,Lattice Group,National Grid plc and Ombu Group. He is a past President of the Royal Academy of Engineering,patron at the Centre for Process Innovation and a Visiting Fellow of the University of Oxford.
The Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland (IESIS) is a multi-disciplinary professional body and learned society,founded in Scotland,for professional engineers in all disciplines and for those associated with or taking an interest in their work. Its main activities are an annual series of evening talks on engineering,open to all,and a range of school events aimed at encouraging young people to consider engineering careers.
Thomas Orr Leith OBE,FRAE was a Scottish mechanical engineer and industrialist.
Sir Alistair George James MacFarlane was a Scottish electrical engineer and leading academic who served as Principal and Vice Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University,Edinburgh,and Rector,University of the Highlands and Islands.
Archibald Anderson Bethel is a British businessman. He is CEO of Babcock International,and a main board director. He is president of the Society of Maritime Industries (SMI),and vice-president and treasurer of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in Great Britain. He is a lay member of the Court of the University of Strathclyde. Bethel is the former president of Scottish Engineering,and former CEO of the Lanarkshire Development Agency.
Sir Kenneth John Wilson Alexander was a Scottish economist and university administrator. He also had strong links to the Scottish steel and shipbuilding industries.
Sir Alan Walter Rudge CBE,FREng,FRS is a British electrical engineer. He was Chairman of the ERA Foundation from its formation until December 2012,after which he was appointed as the Foundation's President. In 2012 he also stepped down as Chairman of the Board of Management of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851,a position he had held for eleven years;he had succeeded Sir Denis Rooke and was himself succeeded by Bernard Taylor.
Sir Horace William Alexander Francis CBE FREng is a British civil engineer.
The Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame honours "those engineers from,or closely associated with,Scotland who have achieved,or deserve to achieve,greatness",as selected by an independent panel representing Scottish engineering institutions,academies,museums and archiving organisations.
Ronald Nathan Arnold PhD (Sheffield) MS (Illinois) DSc DEng MIMechE MICivilE was a distinguished British engineer.
Sir Harold Edgar Yarrow,2nd Baronet,CBE FRS FRSE was a British industrialist and shipbuilder. He developed Yarrow Shipbuilders as Chairman and Managing Director,as well as later serving as Chairman of Clydesdale Bank.
Sir Iain Maxwell Stewart (1916–1985) LLD (Strathclyde),BSc,MINA,MINE,MIMEch.E was a Scottish industrialist with a strong interest in modernising industrial relations.
Prof Adam Simpson Turnbull Thomson FRSE FIMechE FICE LLD was a 20th-century engineer and university administrator,serving as the first Vice Principal of Strathclyde University. As an engineer he was involved in rocket research.
