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The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) is the British

United Kingdom

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engineering society

Engineering society

An engineering society is a professional organization for engineers of various disciplines. Some are umbrella type organizations which accept many different disciplines, while others are discipline-specific. Many award professional designations, such as European Engineer, Professional Engineer,...

based in central London, representing mechanical engineering

Mechanical engineering

Mechanical engineering is a discipline of engineering that applies the principles of physics and materials science for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is the branch of engineering that involves the production and usage of heat and mechanical power for the...

. It is licensed by the Engineering Council UK

Engineering Council UK

The Engineering Council is Britain's regulatory authority for registration of Chartered and Incorporated engineers and technicians, holding a register of these and providing advice to students, engineers, employers and academic institutions on the standards for registration and procedures for...

to assess candidates for inclusion on ECUK

Engineering Council UK

's Register of professional Engineers. It was founded in 1847 and received a Royal Charter

Royal Charter

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in 1930.

Membership Grades and Post-nominals

The following are membership grades with post-nominals

Post-nominal letters

Post-nominal letters, also called post-nominal initials, post-nominal titles or designatory letters, are letters placed after the name of a person to indicate that the individual holds a position, educational degree, accreditation, office, or honour. An individual may use several different sets of...

Affiliate: (no post-nominal) The grade for students, apprentices and those interested in or involved in mechanical engineering who do not meet the requirements for the following grades.
AMIMechE: Associate Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers: this is the grade for graduates (of acceptable degrees or equivalents in engineering, mathematics or science)
MIMechE: Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. For those who meet the educational and professional requirements for registration as a Chartered Engineer
Chartered Engineer (UK)
In the United Kingdom, a Chartered Engineer is an engineer registered with Engineering Council UK . Contemporary Chartered Engineers are master's degree-qualified and have gained professional competencies through training and experience...

(CEng) or Incorporated Engineer (IEng) or Engineering Technician
Engineering technician
An engineering technician is a specialist who is trained in the skills and techniques related to a specific branch of engineering, with relatively practical understanding of the general engineering concepts...

in Mechanical Engineering .
FIMechE: Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. This is the highest class of elected membership, and is awarded to individuals who have demonstrated exceptional commitment to and innovation in mechanical engineering.

Origins

In 1818 the Institution of Civil Engineers

Institution of Civil Engineers

Founded on 2 January 1818, the Institution of Civil Engineers is an independent professional association, based in central London, representing civil engineering. Like its early membership, the majority of its current members are British engineers, but it also has members in more than 150...

was founded. At that time the word "civil" was used to distinguish them from Military engineers and included all the fields of engineering, not just construction as it does today. The Institution of Mechanical Engineers was founded on 27 January 1847, in the Queen's Hotel next to Curzon Street railway station

Curzon Street railway station

Curzon Street railway station was a railway station in Birmingham that was used briefly for regular scheduled passenger services between 1838 and 1854 when it acted as the terminus for both the London and Birmingham Railway and the Grand Junction Railway, with lines connecting Birmingham to London...

in Birmingham

Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

by the railway pioneer George Stephenson

George Stephenson

George Stephenson was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer who built the first public railway line in the world to use steam locomotives...

and others.

It operated from premises in Birmingham until 1877, when it moved to London, taking up its present headquarters in 1898.

Engineering Heritage Awards

The Engineering Heritage Awards

Engineering Heritage Awards

The Engineering Heritage Awards, formally known as the Engineering Heritage Hallmark Scheme, were established by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1984 to help recognise and promote engineering achievements, past and present...

were created in 1984 to help recognise and promote the value of artefacts, locations, collections and landmarks of significant engineering importance. A full list of winners is noted on the Heritage Award wikipedia page.

Presidents

, there has been 122 presidents of the Institution, who since 1922 have been elected annually for one year. The first president was George Stephenson

George Stephenson

George Stephenson was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer who built the first public railway line in the world to use steam locomotives...

, followed by his son Robert

Robert Stephenson

Robert Stephenson FRS was an English civil engineer. He was the only son of George Stephenson, the famed locomotive builder and railway engineer; many of the achievements popularly credited to his father were actually the joint efforts of father and son.-Early life :He was born on the 16th of...

. Joseph Whitworth

Joseph Whitworth

Sir Joseph Whitworth, 1st Baronet was an English engineer, entrepreneur, inventor and philanthropist. In 1841, he devised the British Standard Whitworth system, which created an accepted standard for screw threads...

, John Penn

John Penn (engineer)

John Penn FRS, was a marine engineer, whose firm was pre-eminent in the middle of the nineteenth century due to his innovations in engine and propeller systems, which led his firm to be the major supplier to the Royal Navy as it made the transition from sail to steam power...

and William Armstrong are the only persons to have served two terms. Pamela Liversidge

Pamela Liversidge

Pamela Liversidge OBE was the first female president of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.-Life:She was born 23 December 1949 and graduated with a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Aston University. After graduating she worked for GKN, then moved first into forging, then the electricity...

in 1997-98 was the first – and so far only – woman president.

Past presidents

No.	Years	Name	Sphere of Influence
1	1847–1848	George Stephenson George Stephenson George Stephenson was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer who built the first public railway line in the world to use steam locomotives...	railway engineer
2	1849–1853	Robert Stephenson Robert Stephenson Robert Stephenson FRS was an English civil engineer. He was the only son of George Stephenson, the famed locomotive builder and railway engineer; many of the achievements popularly credited to his father were actually the joint efforts of father and son.-Early life :He was born on the 16th of...	railway engineer, MP
3	1854–1855	William Fairbairn William Fairbairn Sir William Fairbairn, 1st Baronet was a Scottish civil engineer, structural engineer and shipbuilder.-Early career:...	manufacturer, trader, ironmaster, bridge, mill wheels, ships, later made baronet.
4	1856–1857	Joseph Whitworth Joseph Whitworth Sir Joseph Whitworth, 1st Baronet was an English engineer, entrepreneur, inventor and philanthropist. In 1841, he devised the British Standard Whitworth system, which created an accepted standard for screw threads... (First term)	pioneer of machine tools, precision engineering
5	1858–1859	John Penn John Penn (engineer) John Penn FRS, was a marine engineer, whose firm was pre-eminent in the middle of the nineteenth century due to his innovations in engine and propeller systems, which led his firm to be the major supplier to the Royal Navy as it made the transition from sail to steam power... (First term)	Marine Steam engines
6	1860	James Kennedy	Marine engines and locomotives
7	1861–1862	William George Armstrong (First term)	Industrialist and inventor, primarily of armaments. Pioneer of domestic electricity
8	1863–1865	Robert Napier Robert Napier (engineer) Robert Napier was a Scottish engineer, and is often called "The Father of Clyde Shipbuilding."-Early life:Robert Napier was born in Dumbarton at the height of the Industrial Revolution, to James and Jean Napier...	Ship building and Marine engines
4	1865–1866	Joseph Whitworth Joseph Whitworth Sir Joseph Whitworth, 1st Baronet was an English engineer, entrepreneur, inventor and philanthropist. In 1841, he devised the British Standard Whitworth system, which created an accepted standard for screw threads... (Second term)	pioneer of machine tools, precision engineering
5	1866–1868	John Penn John Penn (engineer) John Penn FRS, was a marine engineer, whose firm was pre-eminent in the middle of the nineteenth century due to his innovations in engine and propeller systems, which led his firm to be the major supplier to the Royal Navy as it made the transition from sail to steam power... (Second term)	Marine Steam Engines
7	1868–1869	William George Armstrong (Second term)	Industrialist and inventor, primarily of armaments. Pioneer of domestic electricity
9	1870–1871	John Ramsbottom John Ramsbottom (engineer) John Ramsbottom was an English mechanical engineer who created many inventions for railways, including the piston ring, the Ramsbottom safety valve, the displacement lubricator, and the water trough.- Biography :...	railway engineer
10	1872–1873	Sir William Siemens Carl Wilhelm Siemens Carl Wilhelm Siemens was a German born engineer who for most of his life worked in Britain and later became a British subject.-Biography:...	Metallurgist and electrical engineer
11	1874–1875	Sir Frederick Joseph Bramwell	Steam engines and boilers
12	1876–1877	Thomas Hawksley Thomas Hawksley Thomas Hawksley was an English civil engineer of the 19th century, particularly associated with water and gas engineering projects.The son of John Hawksley and Mary Whittle, and born in Arnold, near Nottingham on , Hawksley was largely self-taught from the age of 15 onwards, having at that point...	water and gas engineer
13	1878–1879	John Robinson John Robinson (engineer) John Robinson was a British locomotive engineer.He was apprenticed in 1839 to Sharp, Roberts and Co, and in 1843 he became a partner....	Steam Engines
14	1880–1881	Edward Alfred Cowper Edward Alfred Cowper Edward Alfred Cowper was a British mechanical engineer.He was the son of Professor Edward Shickle Cowper , head of the department of engineering at King's College London and Ann Applegath.In 1833, he was apprenticed to John Braithwaite, a railway engineer in London.In 1837, he invented the...	Metallurgist, inventor of Cowper pot
15	1882–1883	Percy G. B. Westmacott Percy G. B. Westmacott Percy Graham Buchanan Westmacott was a British mechanical engineer.He was apprenticed to Miller, Ravenhill and Co, Blackwall.In 1851 he joined the William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong's Elswick Works as a draughtsman....	Hydraulic machinery
16	1884	Sir Isaac Lowthian Bell Isaac Lowthian Bell Sir Lowthian Bell, 1st Baronet FRS was a Victorian ironmaster and Liberal Party politician from Washington, County Durham, in the north of England.He was the son of Thomas Bell and his wife Katherine Lowthian....	Iron master
17	1885–1886	Jeremiah Head Jeremiah Head Jeremiah Head was a British mechanical engineer.He was apprenticed in 1852 at the works of Robert Stephenson and Co, Newcastle upon Tyne....	Steam powered agricultural machinrey
18	1887–1888	Edward Hamer Carbutt Sir Edward Carbutt, 1st Baronet Sir Edward Hamer Carbutt, 1st Baronet was an English mechanical engineer who was President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and a Liberal politician....	Iron and steel making
19	1889	Charles Cochrane Charles Cochrane Charles Cochrane was a British engineer. He was a leading authority on blast furnaces.He secured a patent for dehumidifing air.-Life:In 1850, he studied at Kings College, London....	Iron and steel making
20	1890–1891	Joseph Tomlinson Joseph Tomlinson Joseph Tomlinson was a British railroad engineer, and executive.-Life:After leaving school in 1837, he joined his father, who was passenger superintendent, at the Stockton and Darlington Railway....	Locomotive Superintendent
21	1892–1893	Sir William Anderson William Anderson (engineer) Sir William Anderson was director-general of the Royal Ordnance factories.-Life:...	Bridges and factories
22	1894–1895	Prof. Alexander Blackie William Kennedy Alexander Kennedy Sir Alexander Blackie William Kennedy, LLD, FRS, FRGS , better known as Alexander Kennedy, was a leading British civil and electrical engineer and academic...	Professor of engineering, University College London University College London University College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and the oldest and largest constituent college of the federal University of London...
23	1896–1897	Edward Windsor Richards Edward Windsor Richards Edward Windsor Richards was a British engineer, and steel maker.-Life:He was educated at Monmouth and Christ’s Hospital.He was an apprentice at the Rhymney Iron and Steel Works....	Iron master
24	1898	Samuel W. Johnson Samuel W. Johnson Samuel Waite Johnson was Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Midland Railway from 1873 to 1903. He was born in Bramley, Yorkshire and educated at Leeds Grammar School.-Career:...	Chief Mechanical Engineer Chief Mechanical Engineer Chief Mechanical Engineer and Locomotive Superintendent are titles applied by British, Australian, and New Zealand railway companies to the person ultimately responsible to the board of the company for the building and maintaining of the locomotives and rolling stock... , Midland Railway Midland Railway The Midland Railway was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1844 to 1922, when it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway....
25	1899–1900	Sir William Henry White William Henry White Sir William Henry White was a prolific British warship designer and Chief Constructor at the Admiralty....	Naval architect
26	1901–1902	William Henry Maw William Maw William Henry Maw was a British civil engineer and astronomer. Born into a seafaring family and orphaned at age 16, Maw was taken into the workshops of the Eastern Counties Railway as an assistant before progressing to the design office as a draughtsman...	Editor, Engineering
27	1903–1904	Joseph Hartley Wicksteed	Testing machines and machine tools
28	1905–1906	Edward Pritchard Martin Edward Pritchard Martin Edward Pritchard Martin was a British engineer, and steel maker.-Life:His father was mining engineer to the Dowlais Iron Co...	Iron and steel making
29	1907–1908	Tom Hurry Riches Tom Hurry Riches Tom Hurry Riches was a British engineer who became the Locomotive Superintendent of the Taff Vale Railway in October 1873, and held the post until his death. At the time of his appointment, he was the youngest locomotive superintendent in Britain....	Chief engineer, Taff Vale Railway Taff Vale Railway The Taff Vale Railway is a railway in Glamorgan, South Wales, and is one of the oldest in Wales. It operated as an independent company from 1836 until 1922, when it became a constituent company of the Great Western Railway...
30	1909–1910	Sir John Audley Frederick Aspinall John Aspinall (engineer) Sir John Audley Frederick Aspinall was a British mechanical engineer who served as Locomotive Superintendent of the Great Southern and Western and Lancashire and Yorkshire Railways. He introduced vacuum brakes to his locomotives in Ireland, a trend which was followed in Britain, and designed...	Chief Mechanical Engineer Chief Mechanical Engineer Chief Mechanical Engineer and Locomotive Superintendent are titles applied by British, Australian, and New Zealand railway companies to the person ultimately responsible to the board of the company for the building and maintaining of the locomotives and rolling stock... , Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway was a major British railway company before the 1923 Grouping. It was incorporated in 1847 from an amalgamation of several existing railways...
31	1911–1912	Edward Bayzard Ellington	Hydraulic machinery
32	1913–1914	Sir Hay Frederick Donaldson Hay Frederick Donaldson Brigadier-General Sir "Hay" Frederick Donaldson KCB was an English mechanical engineer.He was educated at Eton College, Trinity College, Cambridge, University of Edinburgh and Zurich University....	Royal Ordnance
33	1915–1916	William Cawthorne Unwin William Unwin William Cawthorne Unwin FRS was a British civil and mechanical engineer. He is noted for his extensive work on hydraulics and engines as well as his close association with William Fairbairn. He is one of only a few men who have served as president of both the Institution of Civil Engineers and the...	oil engine research
34	1917–1918	Michael Longridge	Chief Engineer
35	1919	Edward Hopkinson Edward Hopkinson Edward Hopkinson was a British electrical engineer and Conservative politician.He was the fourth son of John Hopkinson, an engineer who was mayor of Manchester in 1882/83. Hopkinson was educated at Owen's College, Manchester and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He graduated from Emmanuel in 1881 and...	Electric Traction. Died during year of office
36	1920–1921	Cpt Matthew Henry Phineas Riall Sankey Matthew Henry Phineas Riall Sankey Matthew Henry Phineas Riall Sankey CB, CBE was an Irish engineer from County Tipperary who created the Sankey diagram. He served as a captain of the British Army in the Royal Engineers until leaving to become an engineer...	Military engineering, oil engines and wireless telegraphy
37	1922	Dr Henry Selby Hele-Shaw Henry Selby Hele-Shaw Henry Selby Hele-Shaw FRS was an English mechanical and automobile engineer. He was the inventor of the variable-pitch propeller, which contributed to British success in the Battle of Britain in 1940, and he experimented with flows through thin cells. Flows through such configurations are named in...	Prof. Mechanical Engineering at Liverpool University
38	1923	Sir John Dewrance	Inventor
39	1924	William Henry Patchell	Electricity supply
40	1925	Sir Vincent Raven Vincent Raven Sir Vincent Litchfield Raven KBE was chief mechanical engineer of the North Eastern Railway from 1910 to 1922.- Biography :...	Chief Mechanical Engineer Chief Mechanical Engineer Chief Mechanical Engineer and Locomotive Superintendent are titles applied by British, Australian, and New Zealand railway companies to the person ultimately responsible to the board of the company for the building and maintaining of the locomotives and rolling stock... , North Eastern Railway North Eastern Railway (UK) The North Eastern Railway , was an English railway company. It was incorporated in 1854, when four existing companies were combined, and was absorbed into the London and North Eastern Railway at the Grouping in 1923...
41	1926	Sir William Reavell	Compressor manufacturer
42	1927	Sir Henry Fowler Henry Fowler (engineer) Sir Henry Fowler, KBE was a Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Midland Railway and subsequently the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.- Biography :...	Chief Mechanical Engineer Chief Mechanical Engineer Chief Mechanical Engineer and Locomotive Superintendent are titles applied by British, Australian, and New Zealand railway companies to the person ultimately responsible to the board of the company for the building and maintaining of the locomotives and rolling stock... , Midland Railway Midland Railway The Midland Railway was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1844 to 1922, when it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.... and London Midland and Scottish Railway
43	1928	Richard William Allen Richard William Allen Sir Richard William Allen was an English mechanical engineer.Allen was born in Cardiff, the son of William Henry Allen, and was educated at Christ College, Finchley. He received a private technical education and was apprenticed for four years at his father's firm. He worked as a draughtsman with...	Pumps and Marine equipment
44	1929	Daniel Adamson Daniel Adamson Daniel Adamson was a notable English engineer who became a successful manufacturer of boilers and was the driving force behind the inception of the Manchester Ship Canal project during the 1880s.-Early life:...	Gears, cranes and cutting tools
45	1930	Loughnan St Lawrence Pendred Loughnan St Lawrence Pendred Loughnan St Lawrence Pendred was a UK mechanical engineer and editor of The Engineer, a weekly newspaper for engineers, from 1906 to 1946....	Editor of The Engineer The Engineer (magazine) The Engineer is a London-based fortnightly magazine covering the latest developments and business news in engineering and technology in the UK and internationally...
46	1931	Edwin Kitson Clark	Locomotive Engineer
47	1932	William Taylor	Lens Manufacturing
48	1933	Alan Ernest Leofric Chorlton Alan Ernest Leofric Chorlton Alan Ernest Leofric Chorlton was a British mechanical engineer and Conservative Party politician, and was involved in the development of the internal combustion engine....	Pumps and Diesel engines, MP
49	1934	Charles Day	Steam and diesel engines
50	1935	Major-General Alexander Elliott Davidson	Mechanised military transport
51	1936	Sir Nigel Gresley Nigel Gresley Sir Herbert Nigel Gresley was one of Britain's most famous steam locomotive engineers, who rose to become Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Eastern Railway . He was the designer of some of the most famous steam locomotives in Britain, including the LNER Class A1 and LNER Class A4...	Chief Mechanical Engineer Chief Mechanical Engineer Chief Mechanical Engineer and Locomotive Superintendent are titles applied by British, Australian, and New Zealand railway companies to the person ultimately responsible to the board of the company for the building and maintaining of the locomotives and rolling stock... , London and North Eastern Railway London and North Eastern Railway The London and North Eastern Railway was the second-largest of the "Big Four" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain...
52	1937	Sir John Edward Thornycroft John Edward Thornycroft Sir John Edward Thornycroft KBE was a British mechanical and civil engineer.Thornycroft was born in Chiswick in 1872 and was the eldest son of Sir John Isaac Thornycroft, the founder of the Thornycroft shipbuilding company. He was educated at St Paul’s School in London before receiving engineering...	Ship building and motor vehicle design
53	1938	David E Roberts	Iron and steel manufacture
54	1939	E. Bruce Ball	Motor Vehicles and hydraulic valves
55	1940	Asa Binns	Engineer
56	1941	Sir William Stanier William Stanier Sir William Arthur Stanier, FRS was Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.- Biography :...	Chief Mechanical Engineer Chief Mechanical Engineer Chief Mechanical Engineer and Locomotive Superintendent are titles applied by British, Australian, and New Zealand railway companies to the person ultimately responsible to the board of the company for the building and maintaining of the locomotives and rolling stock... , London, Midland and Scottish Railway London, Midland and Scottish Railway The London Midland and Scottish Railway was a British railway company. It was formed on 1 January 1923 under the Railways Act of 1921, which required the grouping of over 120 separate railway companies into just four...
57	1942	Col Stephen Joseph Thompson	Boilers
58	1943	Frederick Charles Lea	Engineering Professor at Birmingham and Sheffield Universities
59	1944	Sir Harry Ralph Ricardo Harry Ricardo Sir Harry Ricardo was one of the foremost engine designers and researchers in the early years of the development of the internal combustion engine....	Automotive engineer. Founder, Ricardo Consulting
60	1945	Andrew Robertson Andrew Robertson (engineer) Andrew Robertson FRS was a British mechanical engineer.He was the son of a marine engineer. He is a graduate of Manchester University, with a first-class honours degreeHe was a demonstrator and tutor at the university...	Prof. Mechanical engineering at Bristol University
61	1946	Oliver Vaughan Snell Bulleid Oliver Bulleid Oliver Vaughan Snell Bulleid was a British railway and mechanical engineer best known as the Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Southern Railway between 1937 and the 1948 nationalisation, developing many well-known locomotives.- Early life and Great Northern Railway :He was born in Invercargill,...	Chief Mechanical Engineer Chief Mechanical Engineer Chief Mechanical Engineer and Locomotive Superintendent are titles applied by British, Australian, and New Zealand railway companies to the person ultimately responsible to the board of the company for the building and maintaining of the locomotives and rolling stock... , Southern Railway
62	1947	Lord Dudley Gordon Dudley Gordon, 3rd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair Lieutenant-Colonel Dudley Gladstone Gordon, 3rd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair DSO , styled Lord Dudley Gordon from 1916 to 1965, was a British peer, soldier, and industrialist....	Refrigeration engineering
63	1948	E. William Gregson	Marine engines
64	1949	Herbert John Gough	Metal Fatigue, Engineering Research
65	1950	Stanley Fabes Dorey	Chief Engineer Surveyor
66	1951	Arthur Clifford Hartley Arthur Hartley Arthur Clifford Hartley, CBE was a British civil engineer. Graduating with a bachelor's degree from Imperial College London, Hartley worked for the North Eastern Railway and an asphalt manufacturer before joining the Royal Flying Corps during World War I...	Chief engineer, Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. Anglo-Persian Oil Company The Anglo-Persian Oil Company was founded in 1908 following the discovery of a large oil field in Masjed Soleiman, Iran. It was the first company to extract petroleum from the Middle East... Inventor, Pluto Operation Pluto Operation Pluto was a World War II operation by British scientists, oil companies and armed forces to construct undersea oil pipelines under the English Channel between England and France. The scheme was developed by Arthur Hartley, chief engineer with the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company... and Fido Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation (FIDO) Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation was a system used for dispersing fog from an airfield so that aircraft could land safely...
67	1952	Sir David Randall Pye David Randall Pye Sir David Randall Pye CB FRS was a British mechanical engineer and academic administrator.Pye was born in Hampstead, London and educated at Tonbridge School and Trinity College, Cambridge.He was appointed CB in 1937;...	Air Ministry Air Ministry The Air Ministry was a department of the British Government with the responsibility of managing the affairs of the Royal Air Force, that existed from 1918 to 1964... research engineer
68	1953	Alfred Roebuck	Engineering metallurgy
69	1954	Richard William Bailey	High temperature steel and materials research
70	1955	Percy Lewis Jones	Marine engines and ship building
71	1956	Thomas Arkle Crowe	Marine Engines
72	1957	George Nelson	Chairman English Electric English Electric English Electric was a British industrial manufacturer. Founded in 1918, it initially specialised in industrial electric motors and transformers...
73	1958	Air Marshal Air Marshal Air marshal is a three-star air-officer rank which originated in and continues to be used by the Royal Air Force... Sir Robert Owen Jones	Aircraft Engineer
74	1959	Herbert Desmond Carter	Diesel Engines
75	1960	Sir Owen Alfred Saunders Owen Saunders Sir Owen Alfred Saunders, MA, DSc, HonFCGI, FREng, FIMECHE, FInsTP, FRAES, FInsTF, FIC, FRS was an English applied mathematician, engineering science academic, and university administrator.- Early life :...	Prof. Mechanical Engineering Imperial College Imperial College London Imperial College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom, specialising in science, engineering, business and medicine...
76	1961	Sir Charles Hague Charles Hague Charles Hague , was a professor of music at Cambridge University.Haguewas born in 1769 at Tadcaster, Yorkshire, and was taught music and the violin by an elder brother. In 1779 he removed with his brother to Cambridge, where he studied the violin under Manini and thorough-bass and composition under...	Chairman, Babcock & Wilcox
77	1962	John Hereward Pitchford	Internal Combustion engines
78	1963	Roland Curling Bond	Chief Mechanical Engineer, British Railways
79	1964	Vice-Admiral Sir Frank Mason	Engineer in chief, Royal Navy Royal Navy The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...
80	1965	Harold Norman Gwynne Allen	Power Transmission
81	1966	Lord Hinton of Bankside	Pioneer of nuclear power
82	1967	Hugh Graham Conway	Aero-engines and gas turbines
83	1968	Sir Arnold Lewis George Lindley	Chairman of GEC
84	1969	Donald Frederick Galloway	Manufacturing and machine tool engineer
85	1970	John Lamb Murray Morrison	Prof. Mechanical engineering Bristol University
86	1971	Robert Lank Lickley	Aircraft engineer
87	1972	Lord Stokes Donald Stokes, Baron Stokes Donald Gresham Stokes, Baron Stokes was an English industrialist. He was the head of British Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd from 1968 to 1975.-Life and career:...	Chief executive, British Leyland
88	1973	Sir John William Atwell	Steel industry and pump manufacture
89	1974	Sir St John de Hold Elstub	Metals
90	1975	Paul Thomas Fletcher	Process plan and nuclear power plant
91	1976	Ewen McEwen	Chief engineer, Lucas
92	1977	Sir Hugh Ford Hugh Ford (engineer) Sir Hugh Ford FREng FRS was a British engineer. He was Professor of Applied Mechanics at Imperial College London from 1951 to 1978....	Professor of mechanical engineering, Imperial College London Imperial College London Imperial College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom, specialising in science, engineering, business and medicine...
93	1978	Diarmuid Downs Diarmuid Downs Sir Diarmuid Downs CBE, KSG,, FRS is a British automotive engineer.He was born in 1922 in London where his father ran a small engineering business manufacturing equipment for the oil industry. Downs was educated at Gunnersbury Catholic Grammar School and the Regent Street Polytechnic, London...	Internal combustion engines
94	1979	James Gordon Dawson	Chief Engineer, Shell Royal Dutch Shell Royal Dutch Shell plc , commonly known as Shell, is a global oil and gas company headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands and with its registered office in London, United Kingdom. It is the fifth-largest company in the world according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine and one of the six...
95	1980	Bryan Hildrew	Managing Director, Lloyd's Register of Shipping
96	1981	Francis David Penny	Director, National Engineering Laboratory National Engineering Laboratory The National Engineering Laboratory was originally one of several large government-funded public research laboratories in the UK, staffed by scientists and engineers of the Scientific Civil Service...
97	1982	Victor John Osola/Vaino Junani Osola	Process engineer, safety glass
98	1983	George Fritz Werner Adler	Research Director, British Hydromechanical Research Association
99	1984	Waheeb Rizk	Gas turbines at GEC
100	1985	Sir Philip Foreman	Aerospace engineer
101	1986	Sir Bernard Crossland Bernard Crossland Prof Sir Bernard Crossland CBE, FRS was an engineering educator with a career spanning some seven decades. He was made a Freeman of the City of London in 1987 and was knighted in 1990 for services to Northern Ireland.-Life:...	Prof. Mechanical Engineering, Queen's University Belfast
102	1987	Oscar Roith	Chief Engineer, Department of Industry
103	1988	Cecil Charles John French	Internal combustion engines
104	1989	Roy Ernest James Roberts	Director, GKN GKN GKN plc is a multinational automotive and aerospace components company headquartered in Redditch, United Kingdom. The company was formerly known as Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds and can trace its origins back to 1759 and the birth of the Industrial Revolution.GKN is listed on the London Stock...
105	1990	Michael John Neale	Tribology Tribology Tribology is the science and engineering of interacting surfaces in relative motion. It includes the study and application of the principles of friction, lubrication and wear...
106	1991	Duncan Dowson	Prof of Fluid Mechanics Fluid mechanics Fluid mechanics is the study of fluids and the forces on them. Fluid mechanics can be divided into fluid statics, the study of fluids at rest; fluid kinematics, the study of fluids in motion; and fluid dynamics, the study of the effect of forces on fluid motion... , Leeds University
107	1992	Tom D. Patten	Offshore engineering
108	1993	Anthony Albert Denton	Offshore engineering
109	1994	Brian Hamilton Kent	Design and engineering management
110	1995	Frank Christopher Price	Technical director
111	1996	Robert William Ernest Shannon	Inspection engineering
112	1997	Pamela Liversidge Pamela Liversidge Pamela Liversidge OBE was the first female president of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.-Life:She was born 23 December 1949 and graduated with a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Aston University. After graduating she worked for GKN, then moved first into forging, then the electricity...	Powder metallurgy
113	1998	John Spence
114	1999	James McKnight
115	2000	Denis E. Filer
116	2001	Tony Roche
117	2002	John McDougall John McDougall (engineer) John Donovan McDougall is a British mechanical engineer.He worked at the Davy Corporation, Whessoe and Sterling Furnaces.In 1975, he joined WS Atkins Consultants, as a project engineer.In 1991, he was promoted to Managing Director....
117	2003	Chris Taylor Chris Taylor (engineer) Christopher Malcolm Taylor is an engineer who was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bradford, holding the post from 1 October 2001 until 30 April 2007 when he retired from the university....	Tribology Tribology Tribology is the science and engineering of interacting surfaces in relative motion. It includes the study and application of the principles of friction, lubrication and wear...
119	2004	William Edgar William Edgar William Edgar is a British mechanical engineer, who was President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 2004.He is graduate from Strathclyde University and Birmingham University with an MSc in Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics....	Offshore engineering
120	2005	Andrew Ives Andrew Ives Andrew Ives is a British automotive engineer.He is a graduate of Brunel University with a First Class Honours in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and of INSEAD.He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering Technology....
121	2006	W. Alec Osborn W. Alec Osborn W. Alec Osborn MBE is a British mechanical engineer.He was educated at Grantham College.At the college, he apprenticed with British Racing Motors, working on projects including the BRM Formula 1 H16 and V12 engines.... MBE
122	2007	John Baxter John Baxter (engineer) John Baxter is a British nuclear engineer.He was educated at Strathclyde University, with a degree in mechanical engineering.He studied for a postgraduate degree at the Royal Naval College at Greenwich.He was a Submarine Engineer Officer....	nuclear engineer
123	2008	William M. Banks	Composite materials. Professor, University of Strathclyde University of Strathclyde The University of Strathclyde , Glasgow, Scotland, is Glasgow's second university by age, founded in 1796, and receiving its Royal Charter in 1964 as the UK's first technological university...
124	2009	Keith Millard
125	2010	John Wood

Divisions

The Institution of Mechanical Engineers has a number of divisions to promote different industry sectors. The Engineering in Medicine and Health Division aims to bring together key workers from both medicine and engineering to discuss the latest advances and issues, to enable networking among different industry leaders, and to promote the field of Medical Engineering, also known as Bioengineering or Biomedical Engineering

Biomedical engineering

Biomedical Engineering is the application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology. This field seeks to close the gap between engineering and medicine: It combines the design and problem solving skills of engineering with medical and biological sciences to improve...

, to government, healthcare professionals and the wider public.

The Engineering in Medicine and Health Division offer:

seminars, lectures and conferences every year;
the Journal of Engineering in Medicine;
a quarterly Medical Newsletter;
the annual Student Project Competition.

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Membership Grades and Post-nominals

Origins

Engineering Heritage Awards

Presidents

Past presidents

Divisions

See also

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