Institution of Engineers, Australia
Victoria Division

Joint meeting of Engineering Heritage Branch
and Civil Engineering Branch

THE ENGLISH AND AMERICAN ENGINEERS
OF THE 19th CENTURY WHO FOUNDED
THE PROFESSION OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

As English and American engineering had a profound influence on engineering of the 19th Century including Australia, this talk should provide a meaningful perspective for understanding Victoria's Civil Engineering Heritage.

Dr.Francis E. Griggs Jr.,
Professor of Civil Engineering
Dean of Merrimack College in Massachusetts

Monday 26th November 1990

Auditorium 4 Clunies Ross House

Dr. Griggs is a prominent member of the American Society of Civil Engineers' Committee of History and Heritage of American Civil Engineering; and current Editor of the Biographical Dictionary of American Civil Engineering.

Dr. Griggs has been invited to Australia as the 1990 Eminent Overseas Speaker by the IEAust Board of Engineering. He is also the keynote speaker at the 5th National Conference on Engineering Heritage in Perth 3-5 December 1990

Please register with Division Office 347-1088
to indicate numbers for catering arrangements.