Scott William Sloan (2 July 1954 — 23 April 2019) FRS FREng

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FTSE was laureate Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Newcastle.

Education

Sloan was educated at

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where he was awarded

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and

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degrees. He went on to study at the

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where he was awarded a PhD in 1981 for

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of incompressible and plastic solids using

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Awards and honours

In 2009, Sloan was awarded an

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. Sloan was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015. His certificate of election reads: Sloan was named as the

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Scientist of the Year in 2015 and gave the Rankine Lecture in 2011. In January 2018 Sloan was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for " distinguished service to education, particularly in the field of geotechnical engineering, as an academic and researcher, to professional associations, and as a mentor of young engineers".

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sloan, Scott William 1954 births 2019 deaths Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science Officers of the Order of Australia