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The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) is the British engineering society concerned with mechanical engineering.

Overview

Vision statement:To be the natural professional home for all involved in Mechanical Engineering

The Institution was founded in 1847 in Birmingham by the railway pioneer George Stephenson and others. The Institution of Civil Engineers had been founded in 1818, and the Institution of Electrical Engineers was founded later in 1871.

Presidents

As of 2006, there have been 121 presidents of the Institution, who since 1922 have been elected annually for one year. The first president was George Stephenson, followed by his son Robert. Joseph Whitworth, John Penn and William Armstrong are the only persons to have served two terms. Pamela Liversidge in 1997-98 was the first – and so far only – woman president. Past presidents include:

See also

References

  • Robert H. Parsons, A History of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 1847–1947
  • John Pullin, Progress Through Mechanical Engineering (1997)

External links

Institution_of_Mechanical_Engineers mechanical engineering | Engineering societies | British professional bodies

 

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No. Years Name Sphere
1 1847–1848 George Stephenson railway engineer
2 1849–1853 Robert Stephenson railway engineer, MP
3 1854–1855 William Fairbairn manufacturer, trader, ironmaster, bridge, mill wheels, ships, later made baronet.
4 1856–1857 Joseph Whitworth (First term) pioneer of machine tools, precision engineering
5 1858–1859 John Penn (First term)
6 1860 James Kennedy
7 1861–1862 William George Armstrong (First term) Industrialist and inventor, primarily of armaments. Pioneer of domestic electricity
8 1863–1865 Robert Napier
4 1865–1866 Joseph Whitworth (Second term) pioneer of machine tools, precision engineering
5 1866–1868 John Penn (Second term)
7 1868–1869 William George Armstrong (Second term) Industrialist and inventor, primarily of armaments. Pioneer of domestic electricity
9 1870–1871 John Ramsbottom railway engineer
10 1872–1873 Sir William Siemens
11 1874–1875 Sir Frederick Joseph Bramwell
12 1876–1877 Thomas Hawksley water and gas engineer
13 1878–1879 John Robinson
14 1880–1881 Edward Alfred Cowper Metallurgist, inventor of Cowper pot
15 1882–1883 Percy Graham Buchanan Westmacott
16 1884 Sir Isaac Lowthian Bell Iron master
17 1885–1886 Jeremiah Head
18 1887–1888 Sir Edward Hamer Carbutt
19 1889 Charles Cochrane
20 1890–1891 Joseph Tomlinson
21 1892–1893 Sir William Anderson
22 1894–1895 Prof. Alexander Blackie William Kennedy Professor of engineering, University College London
23 1896–1897 Edward Windsor Richards Iron master
24 1898 Samuel W. Johnson Chief Mechanical Engineer, Midland Railway
25 1899–1900 Sir William Henry White Naval architect
26 1901–1902 William Henry Maw Editor, Engineering
27 1903–1904 Joseph Hartley Wicksteed
28 1905–1906 Edward Pritchard Martin
29 1907–1908 Tom Hurry Riches Chief engineer, Taff Vale Railway
30 1909–1910 Sir John Audley Frederick Aspinall Chief Mechanical Engineer, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
31 1911–1912 Edward Bayzard Ellington
32 1913–1914 Sir Hay Frederick Donaldson
33 1915–1916 William Cawthorne Unwin
34 1917–1918 Michael Longridge
35 1919 Edward Hopkinson
36 1920–1921 Cpt Matthew Henry Phineas Riall Sankey
37 1922 Dr Henry Selby Hele-Shaw
38 1923 Sir John Dewrance
39 1924 William Henry Patchell
40 1925 Sir Vincent Raven Chief Mechanical Engineer, North Eastern Railway
41 1926 Sir William Reavell Compressor manufacturer
42 1927 Sir Henry Fowler Chief Mechanical Engineer, Midland Railway and London Midland and Scottish Railway
43 1928 Richard William Allen
44 1929 Daniel Adamson
45 1930 Loughnan St Lawrence Pendred Editor of The Engineer
46 1931 Edwin Kitson Clark
47 1932 William Taylor
48 1933 Alan Ernest Leofric Chorlton
49 1934 Charles Day
50 1935 Major-General Alexander Elliott Davidson
51 1936 Sir Nigel Gresley Chief Mechanical Engineer, London and North Eastern Railway
52 1937 Sir John Edward Thornycroft
53 1938 David E Roberts
54 1939 E. Bruce Ball
55 1940 Asa Binns
56 1941 Sir William Stanier Chief Mechanical Engineer, London, Midland and Scottish Railway
57 1942 Col Stephen Joseph Thompson
58 1943 Frederick Charles Lea
59 1944 Sir Harry Ralph Ricardo Automotive engineer. Founder, Ricardo Consulting
60 1945 Andrew Robertson
61 1946 Oliver Vaughan Snell Bulleid Chief Mechanical Engineer, Southern Railway
62 1947 Lord Dudley Gordon
63 1948 E. William Gregson
64 1949 Herbert John Gough
65 1950 Stanley Fabes Dorey
66 1951 Arthur Clifford Hartley Chief engineer, Anglo-Iranian Oil co. Inventor, Pluto and Fido
67 1952 Sir David Randall Pye
68 1953 Alfred Roebuck
69 1954 Richard William Bailey
70 1955 Percy Lewis Jones
71 1956 Thomas Arkle Crowe
72 1957 George Nelson
73 1958 Air Marshal Sir Robert Owen Jones
74 1959 Herbert Desmond Carter
75 1960 Sir Owen Alfred Saunders
76 1961 Sir Charles Hague
77 1962 John Hereward Pitchford
78 1963 Roland Curling Bond Railway engineer
79 1964 Vice-Admiral Sir Frank Mason
80 1965 Harold Norman Gwynne Allen
81 1966 Lord Christopher Hinton of Bankside Pioneer of nuclear power
82 1967 Hugh Graham Conway
83 1968 Sir Arnold Lewis George Lindley
84 1969 Donald Frederick Galloway
85 1970 John Lamb Murray Morrison
86 1971 Robert Lank Lickley
87 1972 Lord Donald Gresham Stokes Chief executive, British Leyland
88 1973 Sir John William Atwell
89 1974 Sir St John de Hold Elstub
90 1975 Paul Thomas Fletcher
91 1976 Ewen McEwen
92 1977 Sir Hugh Ford Professor of mechanical engineering, Imperial College London
93 1978 Diarmuid Downs
94 1979 James Gordon Dawson
95 1980 Bryan Hildrew
96 1981 Francis David Penny
97 1982 Victor John Osola/Vaino Junani Osola
98 1983 George Fritz Werner Adler
99 1984 Waheeb Rizk
100 1985 Sir Philip Foreman
101 1986 Sir Bernard Crossland
102 1987 Oscar Roith
103 1988 Cecil Charles John French
104 1989 Roy Ernest James Roberts
105 1990 Michael Cooper Neale
106 1991 Duncan Dowson
107 1992 Tom D. Patten
108 1993 Anthony Albert Denton
109 1994 Brian Hamilton Kent
110 1995 Frank Christopher Price
111 1996 Robert William Ernest Shannon
112 1997 Pamela Liversidge
113 1998 John Spence (engineer)
114 1999 James McKnight
115 2000 Denis E. Filer
116 2001 Tony Roche
117 2002 John McDougall
117 2003 Chris Taylor
119 2004 William Edgar Biography pdf.
120 2005 Andrew Ives Biography pdf.
121 2006 W Alec Osborn MBE Presidential Address pdf. Biography.