Civil Engineers join academy of engineering excellence

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-Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering

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Three engineering professors at Imperial College were elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the UK's champion of engineering excellence, on Monday evening.

The three, all from the department of civil and environmental engineering, join the Academy's current Fellowship of 1169. They are permitted to use the letters FREng after their name, and they join the 56 other Fellows already on Imperial's staff.

Four UK universities - Cranfield, Sheffield, UMIST and Imperial College - shared the honour of having the most Fellows elected to the Academy this year.

Imperal's new Fellows are:

Professor Richard John Chandler FICE
Professor of Geotechnical Engineering,
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine

Professor David William Hight FICE
Director and Visiting Professor,
Geotechnical Consulting Group, Imperial College

Professor David Malcolm Potts CBE
Professor of Analytical Soil Mechanics and Head of Soil Mechanics Section
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine

And additionally a former member of staff and Fellow of Imperial College was elected:

Dr David Edwin Potter CBE
Chairman, Psion plc