Biographical entry Hawken, Roger William Hercules (1878 - 1947)

Summary

Roger Hawken served as a civil engineer in New South Wales, Malay and Queensland. Throughout his career, he also lectured at the Ballarat School of Mines, the University of Sydney and the University of Queensland. Hawken was co-founder of the Institution of Engineers, Australia (1919), its inaugural President and instigator of the compulsory registration of consulting engineers. He worked on the initial design of the Sydney harbour bridge (which was later aborted) and researched widely in the areas of hydrology, earth pressure, and column design.

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Events

c. 1900

Career position - Engineer at Tamworth-Manilla railway, New South Wales

1900

Education - Bachelor of Civil Engineering (BCE) completed at the University of Sydney

1901 - 1903

Career position - Engineer on the Sydney Harbour Bridge project

1902

Education - Bachelor of Arts (BA) completed at the University of Sydney

1905 - 1909

Career position - Director of Public Works for the Federated Malay States

1909 - c. 1911

Career position - Engineer for the Shire of Ashford (NSW) then Yelleroi (Qld)

1912 -

Career position - Inaugural Lecturer in Civil Engineering at the University of Queensland

1916 - 1919

Career position - de facto Professor of Engineering at the University of Queensland

1918

Education - Master of Civil Engineering (MCE) completed at University of Sydney

1919 -

Career position - de jure Professor of Engineering at the University of Queensland

1919

Career position - President of the Institution of Engineers, Australia

1919

Career position - Co-founder of the Institution of Engineers, Australia

1923 -

Career position - Councillor of the Institution of Engineers, Australia

1931

Award - Peter Nicol Russell Memorial Medal received from the Institution of Engineers, Australia

Published resources

Books

• Gregory, Helen, Vivant Professores: Distinguished Members of the University of Queensland, 1910-1940, University of Queensland Library, St Lucia, 1987, 180 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Trollope, D. H., 'Hawken, Roger William Hercules (1878-1947)', in Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 9, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1983, pp. 230-231. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090233b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• 'Obituary: Professor R. W. H. Hawken', Australian Journal of Science, vol. 10, no. 4, 1948, p. 107. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Hawken, R W H', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-568468. Details