Gordon Beveridge

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Sir Gordon Beveridge, FEng, FIChemE, FRSA (b.1933, St Andrews - d.1999, Bangor), was President and Vice-Chancellor, Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland from 1986 - 1997.

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[edit] Career

Among the outstanding successes of his thirteen year Vice-Chancellorship were the realisation of his personal vision for the outreach to the south and west of Northern Ireland. This became reality with the opening of the Queen's campus in Armagh in 1995. In the same year he presided over the celebrations to mark the 150th anniversary of Queen's.

Sir Gordon who, in 1994, was knighted for his services to higher education, born in St Andrews, Fife but brought up in Inverness, where he attended Inverness Royal Academyfollowed by the University of Glasgow where he studied Engineering. He had a distinguished career and completed his PhD at the University of Edinburgh. He spent some time at the University of Minnesota as a Harkness Fellow and a visiting Professor at the University of Texas. In 1967 he moved to Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and from 1971 to 1986 was Professor of Chemical Engineering and Head of the Department of the Chemical and Process Engineering at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.

In 1981, he was a founder member of the Engineering Council, serving 13 years first as Chairman of its Standing Committee on Professional Institutions and later as chairman of its standing committee on the Regions and Assembly. He was also a member of the National Economic Development Office (Nedo) Chemicals Economic Development Committee and chairman of its Petrochemical Sector Working Group.

Among his many posts, he was a Fellow and an Officer of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinbugh, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a member of the Royal Irish Academy and a Companion of the Institute of Management.

He was Chairman of the Governments Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee (RWMAC) 1995 - 1998, a member of the Board of the Northern Ireland Growth Challenge and a Director of University Bookshop Ltd, the Northern Quality Centre and the Northern Ireland Economic Research Centre. He also served as a member of the Council of the Open University, as Director and Chairman of Navan at Armagh Management Ltd, which runs the Navan Fort complex; Textflow Services Ltd, QUBIS Ltd (1991 - 1997) and Lennoxvale Developments Ltd.

He was President of QUA in 1989.

[edit] Publications

Over 300 articles, papers and books including Optimization : Theory and Practice by Schechter, Robert S and Beveridge Gordon S; McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc. New York, 1970.

[edit] Exhibitions

Engineering in the 80s, Edinburgh.

[edit] Honorary Degrees

  • University of Dublin, Ireland
  • Connecticut College, USA
  • University of Łódź, Poland [1]
  • Royal Irish Academy, Ireland. [2]
  • 1985 University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. [3]
  • 1994 DSc Queens University of Kingston, Canada [4]
  • 1995 Dsc Queens University of Kingston, Canada [5]
  • 1995 LLD University of Ireland [6]
  • 1995 LLD University of Limerick [7]
  • 1997/98 DUniv Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. [8]
  • 1998 LLD Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast. [9]

[edit] See also

QUBIS [10]

Beveridge Hall, Queen's University [11]

Beveridge Hall was designed by Roger McMichael and now forms part of the principal residential campus of Queens University. Beveridge Hall won a RWUA Design Award 2000.

[edit] References

House of Commons appointment to RWMAC [12]