Lloyd, Brian Edmund (1929 - 2014)

Summary

Brian Lloyd, AM MA PhD HonFIEAust CPEng, was a distinguished engineer, educator, and historian who lead major changes in engineering education and in the recognition of professional engineers in Australia. He worked for the Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works as an electrical engineer from 1957 to 1972 and as Manager, Scientific and Technical Services until his retirement in 1984.

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Chronology

1949

Career event - Student Member (StudIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia

1950

Career position - Ford Motor Company, Geelong

1951 - 1954

Career position - Australian Cement Ltd, Geelong

1952

Education - Diploma of Electrical Engineering (DipElectEng), Gordon institute of Technology, Geelong

1953

Career event - Graduate Member (GradIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia

1955

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

1955 - 1957

Career position - Hydro-Electric Commission, Tasmania

1957 - 1972

Career position - Electrical Engineer, Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works

1968

Career event - Member (MIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia [Former Associate Members were designated Members on this date.]

1971

Career event - Fellow (FIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia

1972

Education - Diploma of Business Administration (DipBusAdmin), Institute of Business Administration

1972

Award - Distinguished Life Member, Association of Professional Engineers, Australia (Professional Engineers Australia)

1972 - 1984

Career position - Manager Scientific and Technical Services, Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works

1973 - 1983

Career position - Chairman, Curriculum Board, Technical Education Victoria

1973 - 1994

Career position - Councillor, Institution of Engineers Australia

1981

Career position - Chairman, Victorian Division, Institution of Engineers Australia

1982 - 1985

Career position - Chairman of Directors, TAFE National Centre for Research and Development

1983 - 1987

Career position - Chairman, TAFE Accreditation Board

1984

Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM), for service to Engineering, particularly in the field of Education

1986

Education - Master of Arts (MA), University of Melbourne

1986 - 1994

Career position - Director, EPM Consulting Group

1989

Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Melbourne

1989 - 1991

Career position - Vice president, Institution of Engineers Australia

1992

Award - Silver Medal, Australasian Association for Engineering Education - for contributions to engineering education

1992

Career position - Deputy president, Institution of Engineers Australia

1993 - 1994

Career position - President, Institution of Engineers, Australia

1995 - 2002

Career position - Adjunct Professor, School of Engineering and Technology, Deakin University

1998

Award - Honorary Fellow (HonFIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia

2001

Award - Centenary Medal, for researching and publishing the history of the Victorian High Country

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Published resources

Books

• Anon, Australian men and women of science, engineering and technology (Port Melbourne: Reed Reference Australia, 1995), 661 pp. 'Lloyd, Brian Edmund, Dr' p.316. Details
• Lloyd, B.E.; and Wilkin W. J. [Foreword by R.L. Aston.], The Education of professional engineers in Australia: a detailed study of the technological educational structure (Sydney: Association of Professional Engineers, Australia, 1958), 358 pp. Joint Author. Details
• Lloyd, Brian E., Engineers in Australia: a Profession in Transition (Melbourne: Macmillan Education Australia, 1991), 256 pp. Details
• Lloyd, Brian E.; and Vines, Helen, Status and Reward: the History of Industrial Representation of Professional Engineers in Australia (Melbourne: Cherrington Carr, 1996), 329 pp. Details

Conference Papers

• Lloyd, Brian E., 'Lessons from History: The Great Engineering Eras', in Fourth International Conference on Engineering Management, 1994: Preprints (1994), pp. 1-6., https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.219937313754824. Details
• Lloyd, Brian E., 'Joshua Thomas Noble Anderson (1865-1949), Engineer: a Biographical Sketch', in 9th National Conference on Engineering Heritage: Proceedings (Melbourne, Victoria: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1998), pp. 31-35.. https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.545330577026905. Details

Journal Articles

• 'Obituary: Brian Lloyd 1929-2014', Engineers Australia: Civil Edition, 86 (6) (2014), 75, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.992820625711461. Details
• Anon, 'Vale Brian Lloyd - distinguished engineer and historian', Engineering Heritage Australia magazine, 1 (3) (2014), 3, https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/sites/default/files/Learned%20Society/eha%20magazine%20vol%201%20no%203%20June%202014.pdf. Details
• Lloyd, Brian, 'Shopping: boom style. [Melbourne's elegant shops of the middle to late 1800's]', Heritage Australia : the journal of the Australian Council of National Trusts, 4 (4) (1985), 10-12. Details
• Lloyd, Brian, 'Look up, look down, look around. [Photographic essay of some historic sites in Melbourne]', Heritage Australia : the journal of the Australian Council of National Trusts, 4 (2) (1985), 32-36. Details
• Lloyd, Brian, 'Crossing the Yarra: a look at some of the river's bridges', Heritage Australia : the journal of the Australian Council of National Trusts, 5 (4) (1986), 16-18. Details
• Lloyd, Brian, 'Resting in peace: the second time around. [Convict grave at Williamstown Cemetery, Melbourne, is the biggest mass grave in Australia]', Heritage Australia : the journal of the Australian Council of National Trusts, 6 (3) (1987), 41-43. Details
• Lloyd, Brian, 'Just passing: saw your light: Gabo Island lighthouse', Heritage Australia : the journal of the Australian Council of National Trusts, 8 (2) (1989), 2-5. Details
• Lloyd, Brian, 'HMVS Cerberus: the last of the Monitors', Heritage Australia : the journal of the Australian Council of National Trusts, 9 (4) (1990), 16-19. Details
• Lloyd, Brian, 'Obituary: One of our great engineers [Bernard James Callinan (1913 - 1995)]', Engineers Australia (1995), 15. Details
• Lloyd, Brian E., 'Obituary: Lance Endersbee 1926-2009.', Engineers Australia: Civil Edition, 81 (11) (2009), 68, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.814726686425586. Details
• McInnes, Ken, 'Vale Brian Lloyd - Some Memories of His Contribution to Engineering Heritage', Engineering Heritage Australia magazine, 1 (3) (2014), 4, https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/sites/default/files/Learned%20Society/eha%20magazine%20vol%201%20no%203%20June%202014.pdf. Details

Newspaper Articles

• Lloyd, Brian, 'Life of Leadership Touches Many [Obituary: Bernard James Callinan (1913 - 1995)]', The Age (1995), 14. Details
• Lloyd, Brian, 'Guiding hand in technical studies [Obituary: William Norman Roebuck (1930 - 2012)', The Age (2012). http://newsstore.fairfax.com.au/apps/viewDocument.ac?docID=AGE120114MP4C25KQI68. Details
• Lloyd, Rosemary, 'Engineer and educator raised the profession to new status: engineer and historian Brian Lloyd has died aged 84', Sydney Morning Herald (2014). Details

Reports

• Institution of Engineers Australia, Annual Report 1989 [Seventieth Annual Report] (1990), 36 pp. 'Vice President, Education and Training. Chairman, Board of Education', p.16-17. Details

Resources

• 'Lloyd, B E (1929-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-499586. Details

Theses

• Lloyd, Brian E., 'In Search of Identity: Engineering in Australia, 1788-1988', Thesis, University of Melbourne, 1988. Details

See also

• Lay, M. G., '20th Century Victorian Engineers - Case studies of engineers as leaders in Victoria from 1890 to 1990', in Fourth International Conference on Engineering Management, 1994: Preprints (Barton, ACT: Institution of Engineers Australia, 1994), pp. 7-12., https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.220235441294955. Details