Regius Professor of Engineering (Cambridge)

The Regius 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. The chair was bestowed the honorary title of Regius Professorship by Queen Elizabeth II in 2011, to mark the end of the Duke of Edinburgh's 34-year tenure as Chancellor of the University.^[1]

Professors of Mechanism and Applied Mechanics

• James Stuart (1875)
• James Alfred Ewing (1890)
• Bertram Hopkinson (1903)
• Charles Edward Inglis (1919) (post renamed in 1934)^[2]

Professors of Mechanical Science

• Charles Edward Inglis (1934) (incumbent since 1919)
• John Fleetwood Baker (1943)

Professors of Engineering

• Arnold Hugh William Beck (1966–1970)
• Peter McGregor Ross (1970–1974)
• David Edward Newland (1976–2003)
• Daniel Mark Wolpert (2005–2013)

Regius Professors of Engineering

• David J. C. MacKay (2013–present)^[1]

References

1. 1 2 "David MacKay appointed Regius Professor of Engineering". University of Cambridge. 28 March 2013. Retrieved 3 April 2013. 
2. ↑
   • Baker, J.F. (2004). Revised by Jacques Heyman. "Inglis, Sir Charles Edward (1875–1952)". The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34100.