Mary Irvine (engineer)
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Mary Thompson Irvine (later Lindsay, 1919 - 2001) was a British engineer. In 1947, she was the first woman to be elected a chartered member of the Institution of Structural Engineers.[1][2]
Biography
Irvine successfully passed the institution's admission examination in 1947.[2] She began training as an architect but switched to structural engineering after being inspired by a visit to a steelworks.[3] She studied evening courses at Bradford Technical College and then the Royal Technical College in Glasgow (now the University of Strathclyde).[4][5] Irvine's long career led her to work in the UK, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and South Africa, from the 1930s to 1985, with a specialism in structural steelwork for commercial and industrial buildings.[3] A particularly notable project was her work on the Castle Peak B Power Station in Hong Kong (1982) where she wrote analysis software to analyse pressures on the steel boiler houses.[3] During her career she worked for the London Country Council Taylow Woodrow and Bradshaw Buckton & Tonge of Leeds, establishing a Dundee office for the latter in 1979.[3][4]
References
- ^ "Top 100 Women". Magnificent Women. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
- ^ a b "Institution of Structural Engineers". Retrieved 1 May 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b c d "Visit to Steelworks Changed Mary's Life". Dundee Courier and Advertiser. 14 May 1982.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b "Engagement of Woman Structural Engineer". Yorkshire Evening Post. 30 November 1953.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Strathclyde University Archives reference: OE/11/3/1/46: Royal Technical College Register of Students, session 1946-1947
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