Professor of Civil Engineering (Dublin)

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The Professor of Civil Engineering is a professorship at Trinity College Dublin. The chair was founded in 1842, thirty years before the establishment of the college's first degree programme in civil engineering. [1] It is one of the oldest chairs in civil engineering at any university, [2] surpassed in the British Isles only by the 1840 establishment of the Regius Professor of Civil Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Glasgow. [3] It was previously styled Professorship of the Practice of Engineering in the mid-nineteenth century and Professorship of Engineering from 1960 to 1985. The title was restored to Professor of Civil Engineering in 1986 following the creation in 1980 of new Chairs in Engineering Science. [4]

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Succession of Professors of Civil Engineering

Professors of Engineering Science

Following the reorganisation of the School of Engineering into three departments in 1980, two new Professorships in Engineering Science were created. The Foundation Chair was retained by the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering.

Chair of Electronic Engineering (1980)

Professors of Engineering Science

  • 1: Maurice Whelan (1981-1991; Professor of Industrial Electronics 1991-1994)
  • 2: Frank Boland (1994-2016; vacant 2016-2020)

Professor of Electronic Engineering

Chair of Mechanical Engineering (1980)

Professors of Engineering Science

  • 1: Paul Wallace (1980–1981) [10]
  • 2: David Talpin (1982-1986) [11]

Professors of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

  • 2: David Talpin (1986-1992)
  • 3: John Fitzpatrick (1992-1998) [12]

Professors of Mechanical Engineering

  • 3: John Fitzpatrick (1998-2012; vacant 2012-2020)
  • 4: Stephen Spence (2020-present) [13]

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  2. ↑ Adelman, Juliana (2015). Communities of Science in Nineteenth-Century Ireland. Routledge. p. 82. ISBN   9781317315759.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Purser, John (November 1941). "A note on the Engineering School since its foundation". Hermathena (58): 53–56. JSTOR   23037704.
  4. 1 2 Cox, Ron (1993). Engineering at Trinity: Incorporating a Record of the School of Engineering. Trinity College Dublin.
  5. ↑ Cox, Ronald; O'Dwyer, Dermot. "Education for construction: engineering education in Trinity College Dublin in the 1840s". In Campbell, James W P; Bill, Nicholas; Driver, Michael; Heaton, Michael; Pan, Yiting; Tutton, Michael; Wall, Christine; Yeomans, David (eds.). Further Studies in the History of Construction: Proceedings of the Third Conference of the Construction History Society. Construction History Society. pp. 295–308. ISBN   978-0-9928751-2-1.
  6. ↑ "Professor John Purser, MA, MAI, MSc". Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers. 40 (2): 291. June 1968. doi:10.1680/iicep.1968.7948.
  7. ↑ "Trinity professor who led crusade for Dublin's LRT". The Irish Times. 30 March 2002.
  8. ↑ "Newly Appointed TCD Chair in Civil Engineering". Trinity News and Events. Trinity College Dublin. 6 September 2006. Retrieved 4 October 2021.
  9. ↑ Trinity People Finder
  10. ↑ Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering in Trinity College
  11. ↑ Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering in Trinity College
  12. ↑ Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering in Trinity College
  13. ↑ Trinity People Finder
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