Corporate Body

Melbourne University Engineering Students' Club (1889 - )

The University of Melbourne

From
22 August 1889
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Functions
Education, Association and Society or membership organisation
Alternative Names
  • University of Melbourne's Engineering Students Club
Location
Melbourne, Victoria

Summary

The Melbourne University Engineering Students' Club was founded in 1889 as the Engineering Students' Society. Its first meeting was held on 22 Aug 1889, with a paper presented by Wilfred Noyce Kernot, and the meeting chaired by Prof William Charles Kernot. It was closely related with the Melbourne University Engineering Society, and traditionally provided it with an Assistant Honorary Secretay. It produced a student club newsletter "Quo Vadis". From 1938 to 1978 it published an annual journal, "Cranks and Nuts".

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Archival resources

The University of Melbourne Archives

  • Melbourne University Engineering Students' Club - Records, 1947 - 1964, 80/39; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
  • Melbourne University Engineering Students' Club - Records, 1957 - 1958, 81/36; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
  • Melbourne University Engineering Students' Club - Records, 1979, 79/60; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
  • Melbourne University Engineering Students' Club - Records, 1937 - 1954, 82/27; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
  • Melbourne University Engineering Students' Club - Records, 1936 - 1980, 80/37; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details

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