Margaret Lucas is a Scottish mechanical engineer specializing in vibration analysis and the applications of high-power ultrasound, including shattering and sampling rock in

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, under-sea oil and gas exploration, and ultrasonic cutting devices in

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. She is Professor of Ultrasonics and Head of Systems, Power & Energy Division in the James Watt School of Engineering at the University of Glasgow.

Education and career

Lucas was an undergraduate student at the University of Aberdeen, and earned a PhD in mechanical engineering at

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. She remained at Loughborough as a lecturer, beginning in 1990, and moved to the University of Glasgow in 1996. She became a professor there in 2006.

Recognition

Lucas was elected as a Fellow of the

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in 2020. Also in 2020, the Institution of Engineering and Technology gave Lucas the IET Achievement Medal for Ultrasonic Technology. In 2021 she was elected a Fellow of the

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lucas, Margaret Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Scottish mechanical engineers Scottish women engineers Alumni of the University of Aberdeen Alumni of Loughborough University Academics of Loughborough University Academics of the University of Glasgow Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering Female Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering 20th-century Scottish engineers 21st-century Scottish women engineers 21st-century Scottish engineers 20th-century Scottish women engineers