Institution of Engineers, Australia
Victoria Division

Engineering Heritage Branch
(in conjunction with the Structural Branch)

SQUIRE WHIPPLE AND THE EVOLUTION
OF RATIONAL TRUSS BRIDGE DESIGN
IN THE 19th CENTURY

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

Wednesday 28th November 1990

Auditorium 1 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; current Editor of the Biographical Dictionary of American Civil Engineering; and an authority on Squire Whipple known in America as the father of the iron truss bridge.

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.