Person

McInnes, Kenneth Graham (1945 - )

Born
20 August 1945
East Malvern, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Civil engineer, Computer scientist, Conservationist and Engineering historian
Website
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9181-0919

Summary

Ken McInnes has had a diverse professional career as a civil, environmental and computer software engineer. Working in consulting engineering practices with Len T Frazer & Associates and the Scott & Furphy Consulting Group (1965-1977), in State Government with the Public Works Department (1977-1993), and in academia at Swinburne University of Technology (2000-2017).

Since 1970, he has been researching engineering history and heritage and has served on related statutory, professional and community organisations. These include the Historic Buildings Council Victoria (1989-1995), Engineering Heritage Victoria (since 1976, chair 1980-1996), and Engineering Heritage Australia (1980-1996, chair 1989-1990). Between 1993 and 2006, he was chair of the Timber Bridges Study of the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) which resulted in the publication "Wooden wonders: Victoria's timber bridges" Don Chambers, 2006. With Gary Vines, Ken was a consultant for the National Trust's Metal Road Bridges study (2001-2003).

As a conservationist, he has actively and successfully campaigned for the protection of wilderness areas, the Alpine area of Victoria, and the Mullum Mullum valley. In particular, his role in the establishment and participation in the Premier's North-East Alpine Areas Working Group (1973-1981) and the book "The Alps at the Crossroads" Dick Johnson, Victorian National Park Association, 1974.

After retiring in 2017, his focus is researching the biographies and works of Australian engineers, and contributing to the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation.

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Other community roles include:
* Proposed the Hume and Hovell Walking in Victoria and NSW 1973;
* Proposed a Coastal Walking Track for Victoria 1973;
* Founded Maroondah Bushwalking Club 1981;
* Founded Bayside Bushwalking Club 1984;
* Awarded a Sesquicentenary of Victoria Medal 1985 - for service to the community in researching the Hume and Hovell walking track.

Chronology

1965 - 1966
Career position - Assistant design engineer, Len T Frazer & Associates [Highway and siteworks including Northland, Eastland and Southland shopping centres, and traffic studies including Woden District Centre ACT.]
1966 - 1972
Military service - National Service. Acting Sergeant / Acting Warrant Officer Class One, Australian Regular Army [2 years full time]. Australian Regular Army Emergency Reserve [4 years part time]
1967
Career event - Student Member (StudIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
1967 - 1970
Education - Post Diploma studies in Mathematics and Civil Engineering, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and Swinburne Institute of Technology
1968 - 1969
Career position - Design Engineer, Scott & Furphy consulting engineers [Sewage, water and trade waste treatment plants; Highway bridges.]
1969 - 1977
Career position - Civil engineer and Computer Services Manager, Scott & Furphy Consulting Engineering Group [Developing pioneering computer applications in hydrology, networked road and drainage design, and management systems]
1973
Career event - Member (MACS), Australian Computer Society
1973 - 1975
Education - Post Graduate Diploma studies in Town & Regional Planning, University of Melbourne
1973 - 1981
Career position - Conservation representative on the Premier's North-East Alpine Areas Working Group, Premier's Department, Victoria
1974
Career event - Book published "The Alps at the Crossroads" Dick Johnson, Victorian National Park Association
1974
Career event - Member (MIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia [Backdated to 1971 after consideration of National Service]
1974
Education - Diploma of Civil Engineering (DipCE), Caulfield Institute of Technology [Completion disrupted by Military service]
1976 -
Career position - Committee Member, Engineering Heritage Branch / Engineering Heritage Victoria, Victoria Division, Institution of Engineers Australia
1977 - 1980
Career position - Planning and Research Manager, Building Division, Public Works Department, Victoria [Developed computerised capital works management systems]
1980 - 1981
Career position - Chairman, Engineering Heritage Branch, Victoria Division, Institution of Engineers Australia
1980 - 1981
Career position - Committee Member, National Committee on Engineering Heritage, Institution of Engineers Australia
1980 - 1983
Career position - Capital Works Programming Manager, Building Division, Public Works Department, Victoria [Managing the delivery of 75 capital works programmes for 21 client departments - 50% of government non-housing building works]
1983 - 1985
Career position - Resources Manager, Building Division, Public Works Department, Victoria [Included consultant registration and selection, granting over 400 commissions per year]
1984 - 1985
Career position - Chairman, Second National Conference on Engineering Heritage, Melbourne
1985 - 1987
Career position - Programmes Manager, Health & General Group, Public Works Department
1985 - 1996
Career position - Committee Member, National Committee on Engineering Heritage / Engineering Heritage Australia, Institution of Engineers Australia
1985 - 1996
Career position - Chairman, Engineering Heritage Victoria, Institution of Engineers Australia
1987 - 1990
Career position - Business Manager, Health & General Group, Ministry of Housing and Construction, Victoria
1989 - 1990
Career position - Chairman, National Committee on Engineering Heritage, Institution of Engineers Australia
1989 - 1991
Career position - Deputy Member, Historic Buildings Council, Victoria
1990 - 1993
Career position - Initial Project Overview, and later Team Leader, PROBIS project, Information Services and Building Division, Department of Planning and Housing / Department of Planning and Development, Victoria
1991 - 1992
Career position - Representative of the Historic Buildings Council, on the Steering Committee for the Docklands Heritage Study
1992
Career event - Founded Friends of Mullum Mullum Valley
1992 - 1994
Career position - Representative of the Engineering Heritage Victoria, Institution of Engineers Australia on the Steering Committee for the City of Melbourne Central City Heritage Study
1993
Career event - Founded CRISP Community Indigenous Plant Nursery
1993 - 1995
Career position - Project Officer, Printing & Publishing Services Victoria, Department of Finance [Electronic publishing systems]
1993 - 1995
Career position - Member of steering committee, National Mining Heritage Research Project, Australian Council of National Trusts
1993 - 1996
Career position - Chairman, Timber Bridges Study, National Trust of Australia (Victoria)
1994 - 1995
Career position - Deputy Member, Historic Buildings Council, Victoria
1995
Life event - Retrenched [When many Victorian government agencies were abolished]
1995 - 2000
Career event - Consultant in heritage, environment and systems
1997 - 1998
Career position - Member of steering committee, 9th National Conference on Engineering Heritage, Ballarat
1998 - 2004
Career position - Member, YarraCare / Yarra Catchment Implementation Committee, Department of Conservation and Environment
1999
Education - Graduate Diploma of Applied Science, Computer Science (Multimedia Software Development), Swinburne University of Technology
2000 - 2017
Career position - Adjunct Teaching Fellow, sessional lecturer, tutor, and examiner, Swinburne University of Technology [Teaching Internet and Web Technologies for more than 60 subject semesters]
2006
Career event - Book published "Wooden wonders: Victoria's timber bridges" Don Chambers, National Trust of Australia (Victoria)
2011
Education - Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, Swinburne University of Technology
2017
Life event - Retired
2017
Career position - Member of steering committee, 19th Australasian engineering heritage conference, Mildura
2017 - 2020
Career position - Honorary Research Fellow, eScholarship Research Centre, University of Melbourne. Data curation Encyclopedia of Australian Science
2021 -
Career position - Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology. Data curation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

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Published resources

Books

Conference Papers

  • Chambers, Don; Churchward, Matthew; McInnes, Ken; Moloney, David, 'Victoria's Timber Bridges', in 9th National Conference on Engineering Heritage: Proceedings (Melbourne, Victoria: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1998), pp. 37-47., https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.545461007825712. Details
  • McInnes, K. G., 'Programming and control of capital works - the experiences of Public Works Department, Victoria', in CSIRO-NCRB National Conference on Programming Capital Works for Australian Public Authorities (Highett, Vic.: CSIRO Division of Building Research, 1980), pp. 91-124.. Details
  • McInnes, Ken, 'Francis Bell - a pioneer in metal truss bridges, overlooked by history', in 17th Engineering Heritage Conference: Canberra 100 - Building the Capital, Building the Nation (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Engineers Australia, 2013), pp. 90-109., https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.880689942068037. Details
  • McInnes, Ken, 'William Thomas Doyne, a pioneer in metal truss bridges - a career shaped by changing, challenging circumstances', in From the Past to the Future: 18th Australian Engineering Heritage Conference 2015 [Newcastle] (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Engineers Australia, 2015), pp. 123-146., https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.697026319242477. Details
  • McInnes, Ken, 'A cradle for all the developments of electric welding in the world', in Engineering Heritage Victoria, Speakers Programme (2019)., https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/event/2019/09/cradle-all-developments-electric-welding-world. Details
  • McInnes, Ken G., 'Benjamin Hawkins Dods (1829-1892) and the audacious "Grand Victorian North-Western Canal, Irrigation, Traffic, and Motive Power Company" scheme of 1871', in 19th Australasian engineering heritage conference: putting water to work: steam power, river navigation and water supply edited by Engineers Australia and Engineering Heritage Australia (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Engineering Heritage Australia, 2017), pp. 278-298., https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.384782247488551. Details
  • McInnes, Ken G., 'Engineer David John McClelland (1873-1962) and the reinforced concrete Campaspe River syphon', in 19th Australasian engineering heritage conference: putting water to work: steam power, river navigation and water supply edited by Engineers Australia and Engineering Heritage Australia (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Engineering Heritage Australia, 2017), pp. 263-277., https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.384763614517292. Details
  • McInnes, Ken; Frost, Leonore, 'Three New Zealand Engineers in Colonial Victoria - Brees, Holmes, and Richardson', in Fourth Australasian Conference on Engineering Heritage, Christchurch, 2014 (Wellington, NZ: Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand, 2014), pp. 113-134., https://www.engineeringnz.org/documents/1275/Proceedings_of_the_Fourth_Australasian_Conference_on_Engineering_Heritage_Chri_FP8ZEMh.pdf. Details
  • Vines, Gary; Mclnnes, Ken; Deutsch, George, 'Historic Metal Road Bridges in Victoria', in Engineering Heritage Matters: Conference Papers of the 12th National Conference on Engineering Heritage, Toowoomba, 29 September to 1 Oct 2003 edited by Sheridan, Norman (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Engineers Australia, 2003), pp. 176-183., https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.339245803121934. Details

Journal Articles

Newspaper Articles

  • McInnes, K. G., 'Obituary: Dan McInnes: Naturalist and Microbiologist', The Age (1998). Details

Resources

  • McInnes, Ken, Institution of Engineers Australia - Foundation Societies' Publications Index, eScholarship Research Centre, Melbourne, 2018. Details

Seminar Papers

  • McInnes, Ken, 'Institution of Engineers Australia heritage programmes' in Historic Buildings Seminar (Parkville, Victoria: Institution of Engineers, Australia. Victoria Division, 1989), p. 6. Details

See also

Ken McInnes

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