Professor of Engineering (Cambridge)

The Professorship of Engineering is a professorship at the University of Cambridge, and the senior professorship in the University's Department of Engineering. Founded in 1875 as the Professorship of Mechanism and Applied Mechanics, it was renamed to the Professorship of Mechanical Sciences in 1934, and then to Engineering in 1966. The professorship is currently vacant.

This article is about the professorship established in 1875. For the Regius professorship established in 2011, see Regius Professor of Engineering (Cambridge).

Professors of Mechanism and Applied Mechanics

Professors of Mechanical Science

Professors of Engineering
  • Arnold Hugh William Beck (1966–1970)
  • Peter McGregor Ross (1970–1974)
  • David Edward Newland (1976–2003)
  • Daniel Mark Wolpert (2005–2013)

References
    • Baker, J.F. (2004). Revised by Jacques Heyman. "Inglis, Sir Charles Edward (1875–1952)". The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34100.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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