Person

Vogan, Harold James (1894 - 1981)

Born
10 November 1894
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died
22 November 1981
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Occupation
Civil engineer

Summary

Harold Vogan was an academic in the Civil Engineering Department at the University Sydney from 1923 until his retirement, as Reader, in 1959. He was also a former student of the university having graduated with a BE.

Details

Chronology

1915 - 1918
Career position - Staff member, University of Sydney [Assistant at the PNR Testing Lab, under Prof W. H. Warren. Design of reinforced concrete buildings for Sydney Municipal Council]
1916
Education - Bachelor of Engineering, University of Sydney
1918
Career position - Member of the Australian Munitions Workers' HQ in London [Technical Assistant, under Col Sir S. H. E. Barraclough, which controlled 6000 Australian workmen in England on War work]
1919 - 1922
Career position - Assistant Engineer with the Port of London Authority [under C. R. S. Kirkpatrick]
1921 - 1923
Career position - Walter and Eliza Hall Travelling Fellow in Engineering
8 Mar 1921
Career event - Associate Member (AssocMInstCE), Institution of Civil Engineers, London
1923
Career position - Assistant Engineer with the New South Wales Government Railways
1923 - 1946
Career position - Lecturer, Civil Engineering, University of Sydney
1946 - 1959
Career position - Reader, Civil Engineering, University of Sydney

Related People

Archival resources

University of Sydney, Archives

  • Harold James Vogan - Records, 1904 - 1968, P 106; University of Sydney, Archives. Details

Published resources

Edited Books

  • Alexander, Joseph A. ed., Who's who in Australia 1950 (Melbourne: Colorgravure Publications, 1950). Page 722. Details

Journal Articles

  • Vogan, H. J., 'Some notes on proportioning concrete (Discussions and communications)', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 3 (7) (1931), 244. Details
  • Vogan, H. J., 'Some notes on proportioning concrete (Discussions and communications)', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 3 (4) (1931), 136. Details
  • Vogan, H. J., 'Some notes on proportioning concrete', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 3 (1) (1931), 1. Details
  • Vogan, H. J., 'Structural steel', Commonwealth Engineer, 24 (2) (1936), 43-50. Details
  • Vogan, H. J.; Dempster, M. G.;, 'Some notes on proportioning concrete (Discussions and communications)', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 3 (5) (1931), 170-171. Details
  • Vogan, H. J.; Jamieson, L. N., 'Some notes on proportioning concrete (Discussions and communications)', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 3 (3) (1931), 94. Details
  • Vogan, H. J.; Koerner, C. F., 'Some notes on proportioning concrete (Discussions and communications)', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 3 (2) (1931), 66-7. Details

Resources

McCarthy, G.J.

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