Person

Shaw, Frederick Stanley (1911 - 1982)

Born
31 October 1911
Albany, Western Australia, Australia
Died
4 November 1982
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
aeronautical engineer and Civil engineer

Summary

Frederick Shaw worked at the Aeronautical Research Laboratories in Melbourne from 1942. During his eighteen year tenure there he had many secondments to Institutes in the USA. Shaw finally left in 1960 to take up an appointment as Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of New South Wales.

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Chronology

1938
Education - Bachelor of Engineering (BE) completed at the University of Western Australia
1942 - 1960
Career position - Research Officer at the Aeronautical Research Laboratories in Melbourne
1946 - 1948
Career position - Research Associate in Applied Mathematics at Brown University in Rhode Island, USA
1947
Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Oxford, UK
1951 - 1953
Career position - Visiting Professor of Aeronautical Engineering at Brooklyn Polytechnical Institute in New York
1953 - 1960
Career position - Superintendent of Structures Division at the Aeronautical Research Laboratories
1960 - 1971
Career position - Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of New South Wales

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