Professor of Engineering, Cambridge University

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The Professorship of Engineering is a professorship at the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1875 as a chair in 'Mechanism and Applied Mechanics', it was renamed to 'Mechanical Sciences' in 1934, and to 'Engineering' in 1966.

[edit] Professors of Mechanism and Applied Mechanics

• James Stuart (1875)
• James Alfred Ewing (1890)
• Bertram Hopkinson (1903)
• Charles Edward Inglis (1919)
• John Fleetwood Baker (1943)

[edit] Professors of Engineering

• Peter McGregor Ross (1970-1974)
• David Edward Newland (1976-2003)
• Daniel Mark Wolpert (2005-)