Engineers make Top 100 list

Three UQ engineers have made a Top 100 list of Australia’s most influential engineers.

They are chemical engineers Paul Greenfield, 57 and Max Lu, 41, and mechanical engineer John Simmons, 63.

The inaugural list appears in the June edition of Engineers Australia, a monthly magazine for engineers which divides the top engineers into categories of industry, association, consulting, academia/research, defence and other.

Engineers Australia editor Dietrich Georg, said hundreds of engineers across all fields were boiled down to 100 by an advisory panel of engineers.

Mr Georg said the size of university faculties was a criteria for the 25 academic/research engineers.

He said Professor Paul Greenfield, UQ’s Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor, was included because of his academic position and involvement with the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology and the Queensland Brain Institute.

Professor Max Lu, joint youngest on the list, was named because he was a research leader in nanotechnology,

As the longest serving Dean of Engineering in the country, Professor Simmons was listed because of his position and work with Scramjet technology.

Mr Georg said the list of current influential engineers, not those who had made contributions in the past, had generated a lot of feedback.

“It’s fulfilling its purpose of raising the profile of engineers,” Mr Georg said.

Only five female engineers were included in the list of 100 men.

Most engineers were aged between 50 and 60-years-old.

For more information contact Miguel Holland at UQ Communications (phone: 3365 2619, email: m.holland@uq.edu.au)