The Belfast Royal Academy is the oldest school in the city of Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is a co-educational, non-denominational voluntary grammar school in north Belfast. The Academy is one of 8 schools in Northern Ireland whose Head is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference
Sir Peter John Gregson, FREng is a British research engineer and Chair of the Henry Royce Institute. He was previously the Vice-Chancellor of Cranfield University from 2013-202 and President and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University Belfast from 2004. Prior to that he was deputy Vice-Chancellor at Southampton University from 2000-2004.
Sir Gordon Smith Grieve Beveridge was a Scottish chemist. He served as President and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, from 1986 to 1997. He was knighted in 1994 for his services to higher education and died in Belfast.
Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz was a British academic of Polish descent, mathematician, and civil engineer. He was born in Caterham, England. He was one of the early pioneers of the finite element method. Since his first paper in 1947 dealing with numerical approximation to the stress analysis of dams, he published nearly 600 papers and wrote or edited more than 25 books.
Winston Churchill received numerous honours and awards throughout his career as a British Army officer, statesman and author.
William Bald FRSE MRIA FGS MWS was a Scottish surveyor, cartographer and civil engineer.
Alan Arthur Wells was a British structural engineer.
Frederick Michael Burdekin is a British civil engineer, and emeritus professor at University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and the University of Manchester.
Sir John Vincent McCanny is the emeritus Regius Professor of Electronics and Computer Engineering at Queen's University Belfast, and director of the Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology.
Sir James McDonald is a British engineer and educator, serving as Principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Strathclyde since 2009. He is the current President of the Royal Academy of Engineering and is also a visiting professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering.
Professor Jean Venables CBE, BSc (Eng), MSc, DSc, FREng, CEng, CEnv, FICE, FCGI, MCIWEM is a British civil engineer who in November 2008 became the 144th President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, the first woman to be elected to the position.
Paul Westbury CBE CEng FREng FICE FIStructE, is the Chief Executive Officer of engineering company Buro Happold.
Prof John Neil Loughhead CB OBE FREng FIMechE FIET is a British businessman and Chief Scientific Adviser to Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). He is also a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Chair of the Energy research partnership and was formerly the Executive Director of the UK Energy Research Centre. He was appointed an OBE for services to Technology in 2011. In 2014, he was voted as one of the Top 500 Most Influential People in Britain by Debrett's and The Sunday Times.
Michael John Nigel Priestley was a New Zealand earthquake engineer. He made significant contributions to the design and retrofit of concrete structures, and developed the first displacement-based method of seismic design.
Laurence Glynn Williams, is a British nuclear engineer, health and safety expert, and academic. He specialises in nuclear safety and security. From 1998 to 2005, he was Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Nuclear Installations. From 2010 to 2014, he was Professor of Nuclear Safety and Regulation at the University of Central Lancashire. He has served as Chairman of the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management in the Department of Energy and Climate Change since 2012, and Chairman of the Defence Nuclear Safety Committee in the Ministry of Defence since 2013. He has been described as "one of the world's leading experts in nuclear safety regulation".
Jane Grimson, is a Scottish-born computer engineer. She is Fellow Emerita and Pro-Chancellor at Trinity College Dublin.
Rachel Susan Skinner is a British civil engineer with Canadian-based consultant WSP Global. Named as one of the Daily Telegraph Top 50 Influential Women in Engineering in 2016 and as the most distinguished winner of 2017 at the European Women in Construction and Engineering Awards, she became the youngest ever president of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 2020. In 2019 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng). She was appointed CBE for services to Infrastructure in the 2022 New Year Honours.
John Allan Hill FREng, FIStructE, FICE, FIAE, FIEI is a British structural engineer born in 1938.
Dervilla Mitchell HonCBE, FREng, FIEI is an Irish engineer and a director and joint deputy chair of Arup Group. She led the management of the design for London Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5, and as of 2019 was project director for Arup for a 2-billion dollar airport terminal development in Abu Dhabi. She is a Fellow of two national engineering academies, and the holder of an honorary CBE.
Adrian Long is a British civil engineer. A professor at Queen's University Belfast, he has a particular interest in concrete structures and has patented FlexiArch, a pre-cast concrete arch product. He served as president of the Institution of Civil Engineers for 2002-03, the first Northern Irish engineer to do so.
