Roger Hawken
| Prof. Roger Hawken | |
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| Born |
12 May 1878 Darlington, New South Wales |
| Died | 18 October 1947 (aged 69) Brisbane, Queensland |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Education |
Newington College University of Sydney |
| Occupation | Engineer, Lecturer, Professor |
| Spouse(s) | Adelaide Margrette (née Mott) |
| Children | 5 daughters |
| Parent(s) | Nicholas Hawken MLC and Mary Jane (née Vance) |
Roger William Hercules Hawken (12 May 1878 – 18 October 1947), an Australian engineer, was the first lecturer in Civil Engineering, and then a professor, at the University of Queensland.
Hawken was born at Darlington, New South Wales, the son of Nicholas Hawken MLC and Mary Jane (née Vance). He attended Newington College (1893–1896) and in 1895 won the Wigram Allen Scholarship, awarded by Sir George Wigram Allen, for mathematics. His tertiary education was at the University of Sydney (B.C.E., 1900; B.A., 1902). He also received a Masters of Engineering from the University of Sydney.
He died on 18 October 1947 after a week's illness and was cremated at Mt Thompson Crematorium. He was survived by his wife and five daughters.
Hawken's academic bent was evident by 1903 in a remarkably advanced paper to the Sydney University Engineering Society on the structural analysis of bridges.
Hawken worked as an engineer in the Federated Malay States for four years and then with local government authorities in New South Wales. In 1912 Hawken was appointed as a lecturer at the University of Queensland.
He graduated M.C.E. from Sydney in 1918 after submitting a thesis on column design, a frontier topic of the period, and appears to have had slightly the better of a lively argument with the eminent English engineer, E. H. Salmon, who had written an authoritative text on the subject.
Hawken was appointed as professor at the University of Queensland in 1919.
Professor Hawken was involved in the founding of IEAust in 1919 and was its president in 1923 and a councillor till his death. At his suggestion in 1928, Queensland became the first state to legislate for compulsory registration of consulting engineers.
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