Report

Author

Institution of Engineers Australia

Title

Thirtieth Annual Report [1949]

In

Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia

Imprint

1949, 16 pp

Description

Published as a Supplement to the "Journal of the Institution of Engineers Australia", v.21 Dec, 1949.

Related entries

Awards

• Electrical Association Premium, Institution of Engineers, Australia (1919 - 1975)

  'Prizes - Electrical Association Premium (1947 Award), to Mr Wilfrid Weston Honnor, BSc ME MIEAust, and Mr James Brydon Rudd, BSc AMIEAust, Sydney Division, for their paper "An Experimental Frequency-Modulated Broadcast Transmitter." It was recorded that Mr W S McGuire, non-member, was a joint author of the paper. It was decided by the Council that no award of the Electrical Association Premium would be made for the year 1948', p.3

• Peter Nicol Russell Memorial Medal, Institution of Engineers, Australia (1922 - )

  'Prizes - Peter Nicol Russell Memorial Medal (1949 Award), to Dr Thomas Haynes Upton, OBE MSc MCE DEng MIEAust, Sydney Division', p.3

• R. W. Chapman Medal, Institution of Engineers, Australia (1935 - )

  'Prizes - R. W. Chapman Medal (1946 Award), to Professor John Hardie Lavery, ME BSc(Oxon) AMIEAust, Brisbane Division, for his paper "Continuity in Elevated Cylindrical Tank Structures"', p.3

• W. H. Warren Medal, Institution of Engineers, Australia (1926 - )

  'Prizes - W. H. Warren Memorial Prize (1948 Award), to Mr John Dunbeth Lang, BCE AMIEAust, Melbourne Division, for his paper "The Determination of Storage Reservoir Capacity," and to Mr Albert Francis Ronalds, MCE AMIEAust, Melbourne Division, for his paper "Regulation of River Flow"', p.3

Corporate Bodies

• Victorian Institute of Engineers (1883 - 1949)

  'A milestone in the history of Australian engineering societies was reached this year when the Victorian Institute of Engineers, that was founded in 1883, realised that because of a falling membership it was no longer able to carry on as a separate entity. Schemes for amalgamation with The Institution were discussed and eventually, the Institute decided to go into voluntary liquidation. The assets of the Institute have been made over to The Institution and those members of the Institute who are eligible are being admitted to The Imtitution without payment of an entrance fee. Those who are ineligible for membership of The Institution are to be granted certain privileges such as the right to attend meetings and to receive publications but will not be Members of The Institution. As the members of the Victorian Institute of Engineers were predominantly mechanical engineers, a Mechanical Branch has been formed in the Melbourne Division to cater for their needs as well as for mechanical engineers who were already members of the Division. The former Secretary of the Institute has accepted the Honorary Secretaryship of the new Branch, and as the meetings will be conducted in the Institute's old meeting place, the members of the Institute in becoming members of The Institution will bring with them and maintain for a long period the traditions and prestige acquired by the Institute during its long history', p.1