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Schemes for Professional Engineers
Sir Angus Paton Bursary
In 1986, Sir Angus
Paton made an endowment to The Royal Academy
of Engineering. Each year a bursary of £7000
is funded from this endowment, and awarded
to a suitably qualified engineer enrolled on
a full-time Masters course related to the
environment.
The award is currently
tenured for study on the MSc courses in
Water and Environmental Management at the
University of Surrey; Sustainable Management
of the Water Environment at the University
of Newcastle upon Tyne, and Engineering for
Development at the University of
Southampton.
Further information
please contact the scheme manager Ian Bowbrick
a the Academy's address.
[E-mail Ian]
Sir Angus Paton CMG FREng FRS
One of Britain's most
distinguished civil engineers, Sir Angus
worked on and managed some of the biggest
construction projects around the world. His
most notable achievements were the
construction of the Kariba dam and
hydroelectric power station on the River
Zambesi, and the Indus Basin Project in
Pakistan.
Sir Angus was
President of the Institution of Civil
Engineers 1970–1971 and Vice President of
the Royal Society 1977–1978. He was one of
the founding Fellows of The Fellowship of
Engineering, which became The Royal Academy
of Engineering in 1992.
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