CHRISTMAS DINNER DECEMBER 3 2009

PRESIDENT’S RETIRING ADDRESSAND THE CONTRIBUTION OF 100 YEARS OF ENGINEERING

CHRIS FITZHARDINGE

2009 Year in Review - National

• International Arboretum used to recognise Honorary Fellows

• 2010 – 2015 Strategic Plan Launch

• CHEMECA in WA

• 90 Years Looking Forward - Looking Back Celebration of the formation of IE Aust in 1919

• Make It So Campaign Launch

2009 Year in Review - State

• New structure for Division Advisory Board and Division Committee

• Consultation on an Engineers’ Act

• 100 Years Looking Forward - Looking Back celebrating the formation of WA Institution of Engineers in 1909

• International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark Award for the Goldfields Water Supply

• 50th Anniversary of the Narrows Bridge opening

• WA Division Excellence in Teaching Award

2009 Year in Review - State

• Darren Hamley receiving the Engineers Australia WA Division Award for Excellence in Teaching from Minister Peter Collier MLC

2009 Year in Review - Awards

• Ed Scull Medal of the Order of Australia

• Sir Rod Eddington Honorary Fellow

• Sven De Jonghe Australia’s Future Leader Award

• Mitchell Freeway Stage 1 National Engineering Landmark

• Angel Platform Australian Engineering Excellence Award

2009 Year in Review - Awards• Richard Hartley 2009

John Monash Medal for heritage

• Four degrees of separation and three medals

Hartley– Monash

Monash – Stanley

Stanley – Chapman

Chapman – Fernie

Fernie - Hartley

2009 Year of Engineering Anniversaries

• 1829 Hugh Revelly appointed Colony Civil Engineer• 1839 Causeway Canal• 1849 Canning Bridge the first major structural

engineering work• 1869 Telegraph Line Perth to Fremantle• 1879 First Superintendant of Roads W H Highman• 1889 Perth Tramway Act • 1899 WA Parliament moves to investigate Narrows

Bridge options

2009 Year of Engineering Anniversaries

• 1909 WA Institution of Engineers formed

• 1919 first WA Engineers Ball at UWA

• 1919 IE Aust formed

• 1939 Fremantle Traffic Bridge completed

• 1959 Narrows Bridge opened

• 1969 Glen Mervyn Dam

• 1969 Donald Campbell Munro first WA born Director of Engineering

• 1989 Engineers Medal introduced

2009 Year of Engineering Anniversaries

• 1919 to 1969 UEC Anniversary

• Munro and Manners designing the UEC Engineers Crest in 1932

• Engineering students building the Reflection Pond as part of the UWA Crawley building phase started1929

They Made It So

• Western Australia’s economy has been built by capable creative and dedicated engineers

• Western Australia’s modern infrastructure has its genesis in lines in the sand drawn over 100 years ago

• Engineers needed to deal with politics, maintain perspective, undertake experimentation and persevere against great odds

• This year we celebrate the initiative that created the Western Australian Institution of Engineers and the Engineers that “Made It So”.

They Made It So – WAIE Chairs

• 1910-11 James Thompson

• 1911-12 William Leslie

• 1912-13 Ernest Edward Light

• 1913-14 Frederick Hugh Oldham

• 1914-15 Ernest Shotton Hume

• 1915-16 Henry Thomas Haynes

• 1916-17 Ernest Alfred Evans

• 1917-18 William James Hancock

• 1918-19 Joseph Robert Woodruffe Gardam

• 1919-20 Claude Edward Crocker

They Made It So• James Thompson1863 - 1945

• Inaugural Chair of WAIE 1909 - 1910

• Chief Engineer III for WA

1904-25

• Solved the problems of Teredo Navalis at Fremantle

• Introduced low cost railway construction

• Invited other similar Institutions across Australia to form a national association in 1910

They Made It So• Claude Edward Crocker 1875 –

1929• Electrical Engineer Kalgoorlie 1901 –

1915• Manager City of Perth Electricity and

gas Department 1915 – 1925• WAIE Councillor 1916 – 1917• WAIE Vice President

1917 – 1919• WAIE President 1919 -1920• IE Aust National President 1926 -

1927• Foundation Director WA Airways 1921

and WA Woollen Mills 1923

They Made It So• Henry Thomas Haynes

1858 - 1941• Founding Councillor of

WAIE• President WAIE 1915-16• WA Delegate to IE Aust

Provisional Council 1918• Introduced Tar as a Binder

and Tar Macadam to WA• 1910 – 21 Town Clerk and

Town Engineer at Fremantle

They Made It So• William John Hancock 1864-

1931• Electrical Engineer• 1886 installed the first telephone

line in Perth• 1890 Superintendant of Telegraphs• Demonstrated the use of the

RÖntgen X Ray Tube in August 1896 in Perth

• For 22 years volunteered his time to provide radiology services being exposed to 30,000 exposures

They Made It So• Government Electrical Engineer

1894 - 1922• Supervised all electrical works in

WA including submarine cables and tramways

• WAIE Council 1912 - 1918• WAIE President 1917 - 1918• UWA Senate 1915 - 1927 • Advocate of solar energy from

1917

They Made It So

• Richard Anketell

1862 - 1928• Surveyor and engineer • Reputation established in

constructing railways in rough terrain in Tasmania

• 1894-96 surveyed telegraph lines and railway lines in the Pilbara and constructed the Southern Cross – Coolgardie Railway

They Made It So

• 1896 Goldfields pipe track surveyor• 1897-99 Emu Bay Railway Company Tasmania• 1901 first survey of transcontinental railway• 1902 supervisor 2,000,000 gallon Mount Charlotte

Reservoir

They Made It So

• 1904 Anketell Superintendant of the Rabbit Proof Fence

• 2 023 miles of fence completed in 1908 at a cost of £337,941

• 400 men peak workforce• Anketell during one inspection

walked 705 miles in 9 weeks• 1908 second survey of the

transcontinental railway• Rail construction commenced 1912

and was completed in 1917 on Anketell’s alignment

They Made It So

• Engineers have consistently provided solutions to difficult and daunting problems

• Engineers are the profession that “makes it so” that it works, to the maximum capacity with the minimum risk at a reasonable cost

• Engineers have a whole of life perspective and boundless capability working as a seamless engineering team

• Engineers are infinity

personified