David A. Nethercot
OBE,
FREng
Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) is an award and Scholarship, fellowship for engineers who are recognised by the Royal Academy of Engineering as being the best and brightest engineers, inventors and technologists in the UK a ...
, FIStructE, FICE, FCGI is a British
structural engineer.
He was the Head of the
Civil Engineering
Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewa ...
Department at
Imperial College London
Imperial College London (legally Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who developed his vision for a cu ...
until September 2011. He was president of the
Institution of Structural Engineers
The Institution of Structural Engineers is a professional body for structural engineering based in the United Kingdom.
The Institution has over 30,000 members operating in over 100 countries. The Institution provides professional accreditation ...
(IStructE) in 2003-04 and the 2009 recipient of their
Gold Medal.
In June 2012 he became President of the City & Guilds College Association, the association for engineering alumni of Imperial College. 1 November 2013 he became President of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (
IABSE
The International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) is a non-profit organisation with mission to promote the exchange of knowledge and to advance the practice of structural engineering worldwide in the service of the profess ...
).
See also
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Imperial College Civil & Environmental Engineering
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is the academic department at Imperial College London dedicated to civil engineering. It is located at the South Kensington Campus in London, along Imperial College Road. The department is cur ...
References
External links
Imperial College's pageCity & Guilds College Association
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Academics of Imperial College London
Engineering educators
Living people
Presidents of the Institution of Structural Engineers
British structural engineers
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
IStructE Gold Medal winners
Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
Year of birth missing (living people)
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