100 years of engineering - 2009 president's retiring address
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CHRISTMAS DINNER DECEMBER 3 2009
PRESIDENT’S RETIRING ADDRESSAND THE CONTRIBUTION OF 100 YEARS OF ENGINEERING
CHRIS FITZHARDINGE
2009 Year in Review - National
• International Arboretum used to recognise Honorary Fellows
• 2010 – 2015 Strategic Plan Launch
• CHEMECA in WA
• 90 Years Looking Forward - Looking Back Celebration of the formation of IE Aust in 1919
• Make It So Campaign Launch
2009 Year in Review - State
• New structure for Division Advisory Board and Division Committee
• Consultation on an Engineers’ Act
• 100 Years Looking Forward - Looking Back celebrating the formation of WA Institution of Engineers in 1909
• International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark Award for the Goldfields Water Supply
• 50th Anniversary of the Narrows Bridge opening
• WA Division Excellence in Teaching Award
2009 Year in Review - State
• Darren Hamley receiving the Engineers Australia WA Division Award for Excellence in Teaching from Minister Peter Collier MLC
2009 Year in Review - Awards
• Ed Scull Medal of the Order of Australia
• Sir Rod Eddington Honorary Fellow
• Sven De Jonghe Australia’s Future Leader Award
• Mitchell Freeway Stage 1 National Engineering Landmark
• Angel Platform Australian Engineering Excellence Award
2009 Year in Review - Awards• Richard Hartley 2009
John Monash Medal for heritage
• Four degrees of separation and three medals
Hartley– Monash
Monash – Stanley
Stanley – Chapman
Chapman – Fernie
Fernie - Hartley
2009 Year of Engineering Anniversaries
• 1829 Hugh Revelly appointed Colony Civil Engineer• 1839 Causeway Canal• 1849 Canning Bridge the first major structural
engineering work• 1869 Telegraph Line Perth to Fremantle• 1879 First Superintendant of Roads W H Highman• 1889 Perth Tramway Act • 1899 WA Parliament moves to investigate Narrows
Bridge options
2009 Year of Engineering Anniversaries
• 1909 WA Institution of Engineers formed
• 1919 first WA Engineers Ball at UWA
• 1919 IE Aust formed
• 1939 Fremantle Traffic Bridge completed
• 1959 Narrows Bridge opened
• 1969 Glen Mervyn Dam
• 1969 Donald Campbell Munro first WA born Director of Engineering
• 1989 Engineers Medal introduced
2009 Year of Engineering Anniversaries
• 1919 to 1969 UEC Anniversary
• Munro and Manners designing the UEC Engineers Crest in 1932
• Engineering students building the Reflection Pond as part of the UWA Crawley building phase started1929
They Made It So
• Western Australia’s economy has been built by capable creative and dedicated engineers
• Western Australia’s modern infrastructure has its genesis in lines in the sand drawn over 100 years ago
• Engineers needed to deal with politics, maintain perspective, undertake experimentation and persevere against great odds
• This year we celebrate the initiative that created the Western Australian Institution of Engineers and the Engineers that “Made It So”.
They Made It So – WAIE Chairs
• 1910-11 James Thompson
• 1911-12 William Leslie
• 1912-13 Ernest Edward Light
• 1913-14 Frederick Hugh Oldham
• 1914-15 Ernest Shotton Hume
• 1915-16 Henry Thomas Haynes
• 1916-17 Ernest Alfred Evans
• 1917-18 William James Hancock
• 1918-19 Joseph Robert Woodruffe Gardam
• 1919-20 Claude Edward Crocker
They Made It So• James Thompson1863 - 1945
• Inaugural Chair of WAIE 1909 - 1910
• Chief Engineer III for WA
1904-25
• Solved the problems of Teredo Navalis at Fremantle
• Introduced low cost railway construction
• Invited other similar Institutions across Australia to form a national association in 1910
They Made It So• Claude Edward Crocker 1875 –
1929• Electrical Engineer Kalgoorlie 1901 –
1915• Manager City of Perth Electricity and
gas Department 1915 – 1925• WAIE Councillor 1916 – 1917• WAIE Vice President
1917 – 1919• WAIE President 1919 -1920• IE Aust National President 1926 -
1927• Foundation Director WA Airways 1921
and WA Woollen Mills 1923
They Made It So• Henry Thomas Haynes
1858 - 1941• Founding Councillor of
WAIE• President WAIE 1915-16• WA Delegate to IE Aust
Provisional Council 1918• Introduced Tar as a Binder
and Tar Macadam to WA• 1910 – 21 Town Clerk and
Town Engineer at Fremantle
They Made It So• William John Hancock 1864-
1931• Electrical Engineer• 1886 installed the first telephone
line in Perth• 1890 Superintendant of Telegraphs• Demonstrated the use of the
RÖntgen X Ray Tube in August 1896 in Perth
• For 22 years volunteered his time to provide radiology services being exposed to 30,000 exposures
They Made It So• Government Electrical Engineer
1894 - 1922• Supervised all electrical works in
WA including submarine cables and tramways
• WAIE Council 1912 - 1918• WAIE President 1917 - 1918• UWA Senate 1915 - 1927 • Advocate of solar energy from
1917
They Made It So
• Richard Anketell
1862 - 1928• Surveyor and engineer • Reputation established in
constructing railways in rough terrain in Tasmania
• 1894-96 surveyed telegraph lines and railway lines in the Pilbara and constructed the Southern Cross – Coolgardie Railway
They Made It So
• 1896 Goldfields pipe track surveyor• 1897-99 Emu Bay Railway Company Tasmania• 1901 first survey of transcontinental railway• 1902 supervisor 2,000,000 gallon Mount Charlotte
Reservoir
They Made It So
• 1904 Anketell Superintendant of the Rabbit Proof Fence
• 2 023 miles of fence completed in 1908 at a cost of £337,941
• 400 men peak workforce• Anketell during one inspection
walked 705 miles in 9 weeks• 1908 second survey of the
transcontinental railway• Rail construction commenced 1912
and was completed in 1917 on Anketell’s alignment
They Made It So
• Engineers have consistently provided solutions to difficult and daunting problems
• Engineers are the profession that “makes it so” that it works, to the maximum capacity with the minimum risk at a reasonable cost
• Engineers have a whole of life perspective and boundless capability working as a seamless engineering team
• Engineers are infinity
personified
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