Brief History of Civil

The History of Civil Engineering at Strathclyde University

 

It is tied up with Engineering in general at the Tech, G and W S Tech

RTC, RCST etc

 

Initial professorship was that in 1877 (APPLIED MECHANICS)

First students to take diplomas started in 1887

 

By 1911 Professor in Mechanical Eng and Prof in Civil Eng

              Date of appointment of Geo Moncur was 10^th Nov 1910

              According to court minutes in SU Archive

 

              But after Prof Moncur became a joint chair of

                Prof of Civil and Mechanical Eng

             

              On Moncur’s death in mid 1930’s the Chair lapsed

 

Then when Prof William Frazer was appointed to Chair of

Civil Engineering in about 1953

 

Link between Glasgow and Tech Graduates of Civil Eng

Who became members of staff at Tech/Strathclyde

 

Name                                          Undergrad              Division                                                        PhD

 

Matt Blair                                  g 1938                            (Structures)

Bobby Kenedi                            g 1941                            became Prof in Bio-eng

D G McKinlay                            g 1944                            (Soil Mechanics)                                          *

A C Paterson                            g 1945                            (Visiting Prof)

D I H Barr                            g 1949                            (Hydraulics)                                                        *

W M Kirkpatrick              g 1950                            (Soil Mechanics)                                          *

W Cranston                            g 1950                            (Visiting Prof)

A G B Ritchie                            g 1950                            (Structures)                                                        *

Bob Dykes                            g 1950                            (Structures)                                                        *

Alan A Smith                            g 1955                            (Hydraulics)                                                        *

I A MacLeod                            g 1960                            (Structures)                                                        *

W Duncan                            g 1960                            (Structures)                                                        *

J J Sharp                            g 1960                            (Hydraulics)                                                        *

J Marshall                            g 1962                            (Structures)                                                        *

A McGown                            g 1962                            (Soil Mechanics)                                          *

J S Younger                            g 1962                            (Soil Mechanics)

Nick Dekker                            g 1962                            (Soil Mechanics)

P H Milne                            g 1963                            (Survey)                                                        *

J D Allan                            g 1965                            (Structures)

D M Logan                            g 1967                            (Structures)

John Ellis                            g 1967                            (Hydraulics)                                                        *

J F Riddell                            g 1967                            (Hydraulics)                                                        *

Ken Collins                                                        (Soil Mechanics)                                          *

Geo Morris                                                        (Enviro)

Nigel Mansfield                                          (Construct)                                                        *              MBA

Alan Stanbury                                                        (Construct)                                                                      MBA

Lorne Woodrow                                          (Soil Mechanics)

David Buchanan                                          (Hydraulics)

Neil Ferguson                                                        (Traffic)

Bimal Kumar                                                        (Structures)

G Masterton                                                        (Hon Structures)

 

 

D M Logan joined RCST as Mechanical Engineering student but after 1^st year

Transferred to associateship in Civil Engineering, was top student in 3^rd year

And awarded attendance at British Association of Science meeting in

Nottingham and finished as top student in the final year (1967) when awarded

First Class Honours in Civil Engineering

 

Started to do research in the Simulation of Curved Bridge Decks using Finite

Element and other methods but in December 1969 was appointed as a Lecturer

In Structural Engineer and started this in Jan. 1970

 

Continued in this post until Jan. 1990 when had to retire on ill health grounds

 

Professional Qualifications

 

MBCS in about 1974                            teaching Computing Methods

CEng in about 1999                            (MBCS became valid for Chartered Engineer Status)

CITP    in about 2005                            (MBCS               Chartered IT Professional)

 

 

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With web site being built

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