The Professorships of Engineering are several established and personal

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at the

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. The senior professorship in the university's Department of Engineering was founded in 1875 as the ''Professorship of Mechanism and Applied Mechanics'', renamed to the ''Professorship of Mechanical Sciences'' in 1934, and then to ''Professorship of Engineering'' in 1966. Also 1966, the university established three further permanent Professorships of Engineering. However, in 2001 one of these 1966 chairs was suppressed in order to fund the establishment of the Prince Philip Professorship of Technology to mark the 80th birthday of the university's then-Chancellor. In 2011, another of the 1966 chairs was renamed the ''Sir Kirby Laing Professorship of Civil Engineering''. In 1974, the university established another Professorship of Engineering on a permanent basis, replacing a single-tenure professorship vacated in the same year. The 1974 professorship was itself replaced by a professorship established in 2012, with the additional creation intended to afford a brief period of overlap between the 1974 and 2012 professors. The university has also established Professorships of Engineering limited to a single tenure (i.e. personal chairs) for various specific individuals.

Professors of engineering (1875)

Professors of Mechanism and Applied Mechanics

* James Stuart (1875–1889) *

Alfred Ewing Sir James Alfred Ewing MInstitCE (27 March 1855 − 7 January 1935) was a Scottish physicist and engineer, best known for his work on the magnetic properties of metals and, in particular, for his discovery of, and coinage of the word, ''hys ...

(1890–1903) *

Bertram Hopkinson Bertram Hopkinson (11 January 1874 – 26 August 1918) was a British patent lawyer and Professor of Mechanism and Applied Mechanics at Cambridge University. In this position he researched flames, explosions and metallurgy and became a pioneer ...

(1903–1918) * Charles Inglis (1919–1934) (professorship renamed in 1934)

Professors of Mechanical Sciences

* Charles Edward Inglis (1934–1943) (incumbent since 1919) * John F. Baker, Lord Baker (1943–1966) (professorship renamed in 1966)

Professors of Engineering

* John F. Baker, Lord Baker (1966–1968) (incumbent since 1943) * Peter McGregor Ross (1970–1974) * David Edward Newland (1976–2003) *

Daniel Wolpert Daniel Mark Wolpert FRS FMedSci (born 8 September 1963) is a British medical doctor, neuroscientist and engineer, who has made important contributions in computational biology. He was Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge ...

(2005–2013)

Professors of Engineering (1966, suppressed in 2001)

Arnold Beck Arnold Hugh William Beck (7 August 1916 – 11 October 1997) was a British scientist and electrical engineer, a specialist in plasma and microwaves, Professor of Engineering in the University of Cambridge. Early life and education The you ...

(1966–1970) * John Edward Carroll (1983–2001)

Professors of Engineering (1966)

Kenneth H. Roscoe Kenneth Harry Roscoe (1914–1970) was a British civil engineer who made tremendous contributions to the plasticity theories of soil mechanics. Early life Roscoe was born in 1914, the son of Col. H. Roscoe, OBE, of Stoke-on-Trent. He was educat ...

(1968–1970) *

Michael F. Ashby Michael Farries Ashby (born 20 November 1935) is a British metallurgical engineer. He served as Royal Society Research Professor, and a Principal Investigator (PI) at the Engineering Design Centre at the University of Cambridge. He is known ...

(1973) *

Stephen Williamson Stephen Williamson (28 June 1827 – 16 June 1903) was a founder of the Liverpool shipping company Balfour Williamson & Co. and a Scottish Liberal Party politician. He was born in Cellardyke, Fife in 1827, the son of Archibald Williamson, a sh ...

(1989–1997) * Gehan Anil Joseph Amaratunga (1998–)

Professors of engineering (1967)

Professors of Engineering

John Horlock Sir John Harold Horlock FRS FREng (19 April 1928 – 22 May 2015) was a British professor of mechanical engineering, and was vice-chancellor of both the Open University Andrew N. Schofield Andrew Noel Schofield FRS FREng (born 1 November 1930) is a British soil mechanics engineer and an emeritus professor of geotechnical engineering at the University of Cambridge. Life Schofield was born on 1 November 1930, the son of Rev John Noe ...

(1974) * Robert J. Mair, Lord Mair (1998–2011) (professorship renamed in 2011)

Sir Kirby Laing Professors of Civil Engineering

* Robert J. Mair, Lord Mair (2011–2017) (incumbent since 1998) *

Mark Girolami Mark A. Girolami (born 1963) is a British civil engineer, statistician and data engineer. He has held the Sir Kirby Laing Professorship of Civil Engineering in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge since 2019. He has been ...

(2019–)

Professors of Engineering (1974, suppressed in 2013)

Alistair MacFarlane Sir Alistair George James MacFarlane (9 May 1931 – 2 November 2021) was a Scottish electrical engineer and leading academic who served as Principal and Vice Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, and Rector, University of the Hi ...

(1974–1988) *

Keith Glover Keith Glover FRS, FREng, FIEEE is a British electrical engineer. He is an emeritus professor of control engineering at the University of Cambridge. He is notable for his contributions to robust controller design and model order reduction. ...

(1989–2013)

Professors of Engineering (2012)

Rodolphe Juan Sepulchre Rudolph or Rudolf may refer to: People * Rudolph (name), the given name including a list of people with the name Religious figures * Rudolf of Fulda (died 865), 9th century monk, writer and theologian * Rudolf von Habsburg-Lothringen (1788� ...

(2013–)

Professors of Engineering (single-tenure creations)

John Flavell Coales John Flavell Coales CBE, FRS (14 September 1907 – 6 June 1999) was a British physicist and engineer. He started the Borehamwood laboratory of the Elliott Brothers company in 1946. Coales graduated in 1929 from Sydney Sussex College, Cambrid ...

(1965–1974) *

Jacques Heyman Ancient and noble French family names, Jacques, Jacq, or James are believed to originate from the Middle Ages in the historic northwest Brittany region in France, and have since spread around the world over the centuries. To date, there are over ...

(1971–1992) *

Kenneth L. Johnson Kenneth Langstreth Johnson FRS FREng (19 March 1925 – 21 September 2015) was a British engineer, Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge from 1977 to 1992 and a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. Most of his research was in t ...

(1977–1992) * Richard William Prager (2008–)

References

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