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Millennium Bridge. When the New Millennium bridge opened in London in June 2000, it was only natural that Allan McRobie's family urged him to visit. ... Within a week he had built a model of a section of the New Millennium bridge in the Structures lab,

A new Engineering Design Centre, funded with a grant of nearly £1m over four years from the SERC, was inaugurated on 1 January, 1991 "To develop, validate and disseminate fundamental design ... Haroon Ahmed was appointed to a Chair at the Cavendish, and

He worked with Professor Hawthorne to forge links with the heat transfer laboratories, and to establish the new aeronautical laboratory in the South Wing of the Baker Building, a position which

He then continued to work with Charles Oatley, until Oatley retired, before moving into the new research area of electron beam lithography in 1970.

True engineers, Stuart and his assistant Lyon evolved a scheme for jacking up the roof and inserting new walls beneath it.

As a result, it was decided to set up a new Professorship of Mechanism and Applied Mechanics (the word 'Engineering' had been rejected in the title).

Not only did Baker come up with a way of improving existing shelters, but he also designed a new type of indoor table shelter, known as the Morrison shelter, of which

During his tenure the school grew at an enormous rate: a Tripos was instituted (1892) a laboratory founded (1894) and in 1899 a new wing was opened in memory of John

The case made engineering history and after the enquiry he was put in charge of preparing a new British Standard for these components to prevent similar failures in the future.

This was achieved with sponsorship from ICI, in 1951, leading to the creation of a new Chair, the Hopkinson and Imperial Chemical Industries Professorship of Thermodynamics.