Institution of Engineers & Shipbuilders in Scotland
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| Established | 1 May 1857 |
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| Type | Engineering and Shipbuilding professional association |
| Headquarters | Clydeport, 16 Robertson Street, Glasgow, Scotland G2 8DS |
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Region served
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Scotland |
| Services | open lectures, social events, annual James Watt Dinner |
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Key people
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Karen Dinardo, FIES, President; Laura Clow, secretary. |
| Slogan | Per Mare Per Terras: By Sea By Land |
| Website | www.iesis.org |
The Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland (IESIS) is a multi-disciplinary professional body and learned society, founded in Scotland, for professional engineers in all disciplines and for those associated with or taking an interest in their work. Its main activities are an annual series of evening talks on Engineering, open to all, and a range of school events aimed at encouraging young people to consider Engineering careers.
IESIS is registered as a Scottish Charity, No SC011583 and is the fourth oldest still-active registered Company in Scotland.
Members, Fellows, Graduates or Companions are entitled to use the abbreviated distinctive letters after their name - MIES, FIES, GIES, CIES.
The inaugural meeting of the Institution of Engineers in Scotland was held on 1 May 1857. Office bearers were appointed and the principal objective of the new institution was set down as "the encouragement and advancement of Engineering Science and Practice". It was to have a broad basis for membership, and engineers from the mining, foundry, railway, iron, shipbuilding and other industries were to be eligible. The prime movers behind the founding of the Institution were William John Macquorn Rankine, Regius Professor of Civil Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Glasgow, and Walter Montgomerie Neilson, one of the major figures in establishing Glasgow's locomotive-building industry. Rankine was the first President of the Institution and Neilson succeeded him in 1859. The Engineer James Howden, who died in 1913, was the last surviving founding member of the Institution.
The Institution was an early promoter of consciousness of industrial effects on the environment. In those early years there was a pervading atmosphere of enquiry into the applications of steam power. In 1858 the Institution was responsible for a public meeting, held in the Glasgow City Chambers, to establish "An Association for Promoting Safety, Economy and Absence of Smoke in the raising and use of Steam".
The Scottish Shipbuilders Association had been formed in 1860 and amalgamated with the IES on 25 October 1865. The current name of the Institution was adopted in 1870. The current President, and first female President of the Institution, Karen Dinardo, took office on 4 October 2016. She thus followed her father, Carlo Dinardo, who had been President in 1999-2001.
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