Person
Moorhouse, Charles Edmund (1911 - 2002)
AM HonFIEAust
- Born
- 6 September 1911
Armadale, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 2 July 2002
Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Electrical engineer
Summary
Charles Moorhouse, AM BEE MEE DEng HonDLit HonFIEAust FIEE FACE, was Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Melbourne 1948-1976.
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Chronology
- 1938
- Career event - Junior Member (JrIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1938 - 1945
- Career position - Assistant Engineer, State Electricity Commission of Victoria
- 1941
- Career event - Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1944
- Award - Electrical Association Premium, Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1946 - 1947
- Career position - Senior Lecturer, School of Engineering, University of Melbourne
- 1948
- Career event - Member (MIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1948 - 1976
- Career position - Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Melbourne
- 1950 - 1952
- Career position - Dean, Faculty of Engineering, University of Melbourne
- 1952
- Career position - Chairman, Melbourne Division, Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1954
- Award - Carnegie Corporation Travel Award
- 1956 - 1973
- Career position - Member of Council, Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1959 - 1965
- Career position - Vice President, Australian College of Education
- 1961 - 1965
- Career position - Dean, Faculty of Engineering, University of Melbourne
- 1963
- Career position - Vice President, Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1965
- Career position - President, Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1966 - 1967
- Career position - President, Australian College of Education
- 1966 - 1968
- Career position - Associate Dean, Faculty of Engineering, University of Melbourne
- 13 Sep 1968
- Career event - Fellow (FIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia [Former Members were designated Fellows on this date.]
- 1977 -
- Career position - Visiting professor, Deakin University
- 1977
- Award - Emeritus Professor, University of Melbourne
- 1981
- Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM) - for service to education
- 1985
- Award - Honorary Fellow (HonFIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
Related entries
Archival resources
The University of Melbourne Archives
- Charles Edmund Moorhouse - Records, 1950 - 1987; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
Published resources
Book Sections
- Moorhouse, C. E., 'Payne, Henry (1871-1945), engineer and educationist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 11: 1891 - 1939 Nes-Smi, Geoffrey Serle, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1988), pp. 169-170, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/payne-henry-7989. Details
Journal Articles
- 'President of The Institution for 1965 [Professor C. E. Moorhouse DEng MIEAust]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 37 (4-5), N25. Details
- 'Past presidents - where are they now?', Engineers Australia, 50 (7) (1978), 20-22. Details
- 'IEAust elects three new Honorary Fellows', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 57 (15) (1985), 11-12. Details
- Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, '150 Years, 150 Stories: Charles Edmund Moorhouse', Uni News, 12 (16) (2003), 4. Details
- Institution of Engineers Australia, 'Twenty-eighth Annual Report [1947]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 20 (1-3) (1948), 1-12. 'Prizes - Electrical Association Premium. (1944 Award), to Mr Charles Edmund Moorhouse, MEE BMechE AMIEAust, Melbourne Division, for his paper "Operation Charts"', p.2. Details
- Moorhouse, C. E., 'Power and reactive power in feeder calculations', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 15 (7) (1943), 159-164. Details
- Moorhouse, C. E., 'Operation charts', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 17 (1-2) (1945), 2-9. Details
- Moorhouse, C. E., 'Presidential address [1966] - Engineering and art', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 38 (3) (1966), 33-36. Details
- Moorhouse, C. E., 'Some aspects of Aboriginal art - a description in engineering terms', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 43 (12) (1971), 3-5. Details
- Moorhouse, C. E.; Vowels, R. E., 'Operation charts (Discussions and communications)', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 17 (7-8) (1945), 162-164. Details
Newspaper Articles
- Jones, Philip, 'Obituary: Emeritus Professor Charles Edmund Moorhouse, AM', The Age (2002). Details
Reports
- Institution of Engineers Australia, Annual Report 1985 [Sixty-sixth Annual Report] (1986), 24 pp. 'Awards and Honours - Honorary Fellows - Council elected Prof Emeritus C E Moorhouse as Honorary Fellow', p.11. Details
Resources
- 'Moorhouse, C E (1911-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-507531. Details
See also
- Draper, W.J. ed., Who's who in Australia 1983 (Melbourne, Victoria: Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, 1983), 960 pp. Page 619. Details
- Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, 150 years, 150 stories: brief biographies of one hundred and fifty remarkable people associated with the University of Melbourne (Melbourne: Department of History, University of Melbourne, 2003), 168 pp. Details
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Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 3 July 2025
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