Hawken, Roger William Hercules (1878 - 1947)

Summary

Roger Hawken MIEAust, was Professor of Engineering, University of Queensland from 1916 until 1947. He served as a civil engineer in New South Wales, Federal Malay States and Queensland. He also lectured at the Ballarat School of Mine and the University of Sydney. Hawken was a co-founder of the Institution of Engineers, Australia in 1919, the first chairman of its Brisbane division in 1919, its President in 1923 and a councillor until 1947. He was the instigator of the compulsory registration of consulting engineers. Hawken worked on the initial design of the Sydney harbour bridge (which was later aborted) and researched widely in the areas of hydrology, earth pressure, and column design.

The Hawken Engineering Building, University of Queensland; Hawken Drive, St Lucia; and the Hawken Address, an annual oration presented by the Queensland division of the Institution of Engineers, are all named in his honour.

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Chronology

1900

Education - Bachelor of Civil Engineering (BCE), University of Sydney

c. 1901

Career position - Engineer, Tamworth-Manilla railway, New South Wales

1901 - 1903

Career position - Engineer on the Sydney Harbour Bridge project

1902

Education - Bachelor of Arts (BA), University of Sydney

1904

Career position - locum tenens Professor of Engineering, School of Mines, Ballarat

1905 - 1909

Career position - Assistant engineer, later Executive engineer, Public Works Department, Federated Malay States [under John Trump MInstCE]

1909 - c. 1911

Career position - Engineer, Shire of Ashford (NSW) then Yelleroi (Qld)

7 Dec 1909

Career event - Associate Member (AssocMInstCE), Institution of Civil Engineers, London

1912 -

Career position - Inaugural Lecturer in Civil Engineering, University of Queensland

1916 - 1919

Career position - de facto Professor of Engineering, University of Queensland

1918

Education - Master of Civil Engineering (MCE), University of Sydney

1919

Career event - Foundation Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia

1919

Career position - Co-founder, Institution of Engineers, Australia

1919 - 1947

Career position - Member, Queensland Advisory Committee, Institution of Civil Engineers, London

1919 - 1947

Career position - de jure Professor of Engineering, University of Queensland

28 Jan 1919

Career event - Member (MInstCE), Institution of Civil Engineers, London

1920

Career event - Member (MIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia

1923

Career position - President, Institution of Engineers, Australia

1923 - 1947

Career position - Councillor, Institution of Engineers, Australia

1931

Award - Peter Nicol Russell Memorial Medal - Career Achievement Award in Engineering. Institution of Engineers Australia

1932

Career event - Elected Member (Engineering), Australian National Research Council

1937

Career event - Fellow, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS)

1938 - 1947

Career position - Chairman, Queensland Advisory Committee, Institution of Civil Engineers, London

1947

Life event - Retired

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Published resources

Books

• Gregory, Helen, Vivant Professores: Distinguished Members of the University of Queensland, 1910-1940 (St Lucia: University of Queensland Library, 1987), 180 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Trollope, D. H., 'Hawken, Roger William Hercules (1878-1947)' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1983), pp. 230-231. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090233b.htm. Details

Edited Books

• Whitmore, R. L. ed., Eminent Queensland Engineers [volume 1] (Brisbane, Queensland: The Institution of Engineers, Australia, Queensland Division, 1984), 75 pp. https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/sites/default/files/resource-files/2017-01/eqe_vol_i.compressed.pdf. pp.34-35 'Professor R.W.H. Hawken ME(Syd) BA(Syd) MInstCE MIEAust'. Details

Journal Articles

• 'Obituary [Professor Roger William Hercules Hawken]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 19 (Sep-Dec) (1947), 207-8. Details
• 'Obituary: Professor R. W. H. Hawken', Australian Journal of Science, 10 (4) (1948), 107. Details
• 'First members of institution [Diamond Jubilee feature article]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 51 (20) (1979), 69. 'Registered member number 15'. Details
• Hawken, R. W., 'The use of influence lines in the designing of structures.', Journal and abstract of proceedings of the Sydney University Engineering Society, 8 (1903), 51-98, https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/SUES/article/view/2036. Details
• Hawken, R. W., 'The method of two origins for deducting the deflection of a beam and the equation of three moments', Journal and abstract of proceedings of the Sydney University Engineering Society, 20 (1915-17), 37-48, https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/SUES/article/view/2331. Details
• Hawken, R. W., 'Column analysis and design', Journal and abstract of proceedings of the Sydney University Engineering Society, 21 (1917-20), 1-40, https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/SUES/article/view/2070. Details
• Hawken, R. W., 'Maximum positions of moving loads on beams', Commonwealth Engineer, 5 (7) (1918), 201. Details
• Hawken, R. W. H., 'An analysis of maximum run-off and rainfall intensity', Transactions of the Institution of Engineers Australia, 2 (1921), 193-215. Discussion p.285-, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.264713918089134. Details
• Hawken, R. W. H., 'Presidential address', Transactions of the Institution of Engineers Australia, 4 (1923), lxxii-lxxxi, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.632336754823285. Details
• Hawken, R. W. H., 'Economy of purchase and curves of relative cost', Transactions of the Institution of Engineers Australia, 6 (1925), 97-133, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.863577613862020. Details
• Hawken, R. W. H., 'Stress in cohesive material and earth pressure', Transactions of the Institution of Engineers Australia, 6 (1925), 37-82. Discussion pp.311-, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.863577613862020. Details
• Hawken, R. W. H., 'Column design curves, and correspondence', Transactions of the Institution of Engineers Australia, 8 (1927), 217-254, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.264713918089134. Details
• Hawken, R. W. H., 'Critical planes and curves of rupture in cohesive material', Transactions of the Institution of Engineers Australia, 9 (1928), 147-212, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.265030678600523. Details
• Hawken, R. W. H., 'The general equation of stress in frictional cohesive material', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 2 (1930), 247-. Details
• Hawken, R. W. H., 'The influence of area-shape on run-off', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 7 (1935), 421-. Details
• Hawken, R. W. H., 'River flood measurement from height records', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 8 (1936), 281-; Discussion pp.373-. Details
• Hawken, R. W. H., 'A general theorem for the real column', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 10 (1938), 315-. Details
• Hawken, R. W. H., 'Creep and bending moments in a non-uniform column', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 15 (1943), 230-. Details
• Institution of Engineers Australia, '48th Council Meeting [23rd November 1931, Sydney]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 3 (1931), 434. '1931 award of the Peter Nicol Russell Memorial Medal be made to Professor R W H Hawken, Member, Brisbane Division.'. Details
• Institution of Engineers Australia, 'Twelfth Annual Report [1931]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 4 (1932), 178-179. 'Prizes awarded during the session: The P. N. Russell Memorial Medal, to Professor R W H Hawken', p.179. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7358316. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/93411749. Details
• 'Obituary. Professor Roger William Hercules Hawken, 1878-1947.', Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Institution of Civil Engineers, https://doi.org/10.1680/ijoti.1948.13472. Details
• 'A practical column-diagram, with proof (includes appendix). Vol.205 Issue.1918, pp.419-427', Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Institution of Civil Engineers, https://doi.org/10.1680/imotp.1918.15850. Details
• Institution of Civil Engineers, London, 'Application: 12845, 1909', Civil Engineer Membership Forms, 1818-1930, ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/collections/3585/. Details
• 'Hawken, R W H (1878-1947)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-568468. Details

See also

• 'P. N. Russell Memorial Medal [List of recipients 1923 - 1931]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 3 (1931), 445. Details