Person
Munro, Crawford Hugh (1904 - 1976)
- Born
- 23 March 1904
Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia - Died
- 21 September 1976
Hunters Hill, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Academic and Civil engineer
Summary
Crawford Munro was Professor of Civil Engineering at New South Wales University of Technology (later University of New South Wales) from 1954 to 1969. He planned the new faculty building, introduced new courses, encouraged further education for practising engineers and promoted the need for research alongside teaching. Munro's main area of research was hydrology. He helped establish the Water Research Foundation of Australia and served on State and National committees and as consultant on a variety of projects, particularly in retirement. His principal text was Australian water resources and their development (1974). Munro served on the Council of the Institution of Engineers, Australia from 1962 to 1974. In 1992, the Centre for Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of New South Wales was named in his honour. The "C H Munro memorial oration" delivered at the biennial Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, is also named in his honour.
Details
Chronology
- 1924
- Career event - Student Member (StudIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1926
- Education - Bachelor of Engineering (BE), University of Sydney
- 1926 - 1936
- Career position - Resident Engineer and Research Officer, Metropolitan Water, Sewerage and Drainage Board, Sydney
- 1929
- Career event - Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1936 - 1946
- Career position - Lecturer-in-Charge, Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Sydney Technical College
- 1941 - 1945
- Career event - Attached to the Commonwealth Department of Munitions as State Supervising Engineer
- 1946 - 1951
- Career position - Head of Department of Civil Engineering and Assistant Director of Technical Education, Sydney Technical College
- 1951 - 1954
- Career position - Associate Professor of engineering, New South Wales University of Technology
- 1954
- Career event - Member (MIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1954 - 1958
- Career position - Professor of Civil Engineering, New South Wales University of Technology University of New South Wales from 1958
- 1958 - 1969
- Career position - Professor of Civil Engineering, University of New South Wales
- 1962 - 1974
- Career position - Member of Council, Institution of Engineers, Australia
- 1968
- Career event - Fellow (FIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia [Former Members were designated Fellows on this date.]
- 1969
- Life event - Retired
Related entries
Published resources
Books
- Humphreys, L. Ross, Crawford Munro: a Vision for Australia's Water (Crown Nest (N.S.W.) : Engineers Media, 2009), 174 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Horne, Julia, 'Munro, Crawford Hugh (1904-1976), Civil Engineer and University Professor' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, John Ritchie, ed., vol. 15 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000), pp. 441-442. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150511b.htm. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q24040824. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/11090646. Details
- 'Munro, Crawford Hugh (1904-19761231)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-812671. Details
See also
- Ludlow, Christa; Bowie, Ian; Neville, Pamela, 'Chapter 15: Engineering education in Sydney' in Sydney: from settlement to city: an engineering history of Sydney, Don Fraser, ed. (Crows Nest, New South Wales: Engineers Australia, 1989), pp. 285-298. Details
Ailie Smith and Helen Cohn
Created: 6 April 2016, Last modified: 24 August 2023