Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering

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The Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering is an independent thinktank that helps Australians understand and use technology to solve complex problems. It was founded in 1975 as one of Australia's four learned Academies.

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Its original name was the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences but in 1987 the name was extended, with the addition of Engineering.

In 2015, the Academy adopted a new business name, the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, reserving the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering as its company name.

In 2018, the Academy changed its brandmark from ATSE to Applied, to avoid the confusion caused by the acronym and to reaffirm the Academy's origins in applied science and technology.

Organisation

The Academy consists of a Board, a number of Board Committees, policy-generating Forums, an Assembly and about two dozen professional and administrative staff. [1]

Board Committees

Source: [1]

List of presidents

Robin Batterham Chief Scientist of Australia, 1999 to 2006

Robin John Batterham AO FREng FAA FTSE is an Australian scientist specialising in chemical engineering. He was the Chief Scientist of Australia from 1999 to 2006.

Alan Finkel

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Fellowship

Royal Fellow

The Academy inducted its Royal Fellow, HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh KG KT OM GBE AC PC FRS FAA FTSE, in 1977.

Foundation Fellows

Foundation Fellows include:

Alec Lazenby is an academic who has held positions at the University of Cambridge, University of New England, University of Tasmania, the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research and the Welsh Plant Breeding Station. Lazenby served as the Vice-Chancellor of the University of New England from 1970 to 1977, and the University of Tasmania from 1982 to 1991.

Sir Ian Munro McLennan (1909–1998) was a prominent Australian director of public companies, most notably as Chairman of Australia's then largest company, the Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited (BHP).

Mark Oliphant 27th Governor of South Australia

Sir Marcus Laurence Elwin "Mark" Oliphant was an Australian physicist and humanitarian who played an important role in the first experimental demonstration of nuclear fusion and in the development of nuclear weapons.

Honorary Fellows

Honorary Fellows include:

Foreign Fellows

Foreign Fellows are:

Fellows

The Academy has almost 900 living Fellows. See the full list at https://www.applied.org.au/our-fellows/meet-our-fellows/

Clunies-Ross Award

Founded in 1959 to perpetuate the memory of Sir Ian Clunies Ross, the Ian Clunies Ross Memorial Foundation promoted the development of science and technology in Australia's beneficial interest.

In November 2002, the Foundation was brought under the Academy's umbrella, securing the long-term future of the Awards. It became known as the Clunies Ross Foundation.

The Foundation established the Clunies Ross National Science & Technology Award in 1991. The Foundation was disbanded in 2004 and the Awards are now administered by the Academy in three categories.

Academy submissions

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References

  1. 1 2 "About us". Applied. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
  2. "Dr Keith Farrer" (PDF). Focus. ATSE. August 2012. p. 50. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 July 2014.
  3. "Em Prof Antoni Karbowiak" (PDF). Focus. ATSE. August 2011. p. 54. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 July 2014.
  4. "Dr Bob Ward" (PDF). Focus. ATSE. June 2013. p. 43. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 July 2014.