The Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE) is a learned academy that helps Australians understand and use technology to solve complex problems. It was founded in 1975 as one of Australia's then four learned academies (now five). Its original name was the 'Australian Academy of Technological Sciences', but in 1987 the name was lengthened to include Engineering, as 'Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and 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. The Academy operates as an independent, non-government, not-for-profit organisation.

Organisation

ATSE is composed of nearly 900 Fellows, bringing together Australia’s leading experts in applied science, technology and engineering to provide impartial, practical and evidence-based advice on how to achieve sustainable solutions and advance prosperity. The Academy Governance structure consists of a Board, an Assembly (strategic advisory body), a number of Board Committees, policy-generating Forums, state and territory-based Divisions, and a professional Secretariat.

List of presidents

*Sir Ian McLennan

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FAA FTSE 2007–2012 *Dr

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AO FAA FTSE 2013–2015 * Professor Peter Gray FTSE – 2015–2016 * Professor Hugh Bradlow FTSE – 2016–

Fellowship

Royal Fellow

The Academy inducted its Royal Fellow,

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Foundation Fellows

Foundation Fellows include: *Prof Graeme Bird *Dr John Christian *Dr Bob Durie *Dr Keith Farrer *Dr John Gladstones *Em Prof Antoni Karbowiak *Dr Philip Law *Prof

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Ian McLennan Sir Ian Munro McLennan (30 November 1909 – 25 October 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). McLennan was b ...

– Foundation President *Dr Robert Muncey *Sir

Mark Oliphant Sir Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant, (8 October 1901 – 14 July 2000) 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 weapon ...

*Prof June Olley *Prof

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*Dr Bob Ward *Prof Howard Worner

Honorary Fellows

Honorary Fellows include: *Elizabeth Broderick AO, a former Sex Discrimination Commissioner *Dame Marie Bashir AD, the former Governor of NSW *Tim Andrew Fischer AC, the former Deputy Prime Minister *John Landy AC, the former Olympian and Governor of Victoria *

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, AC DSC, Governor-General of Australia, the former Governor of NSW

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.

References

External links

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Address by the Governor-General at the ATSE Clunies Ross Awards ceremony
19 May 2011 {{authority control Scientific organisations based in Australia Technological Sciences and Engineering Australian National Academies 1987 establishments in Australia * National academies of engineering