Person

Shepherd, Else Egede (1944 - 2023)

AM FTSE HonFIEAust

Born
19 January 1944
Durban, South Africa
Died
20 February 2023
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Occupation
Company director and Electrical engineer
Alternative Names
  • Budtz-Olsen, Else Egede (maiden name)

Summary

Else Shepherd was founder and Executive Director of Mosaic Information Technology Pty Ltd and Microwave and Materials Designs Pty Ltd, companies that designed and manufactured telecommunications products including microwave filters for mobile phones. Shepherd was Chair of Powerlink (Queensland) and on the board of both the National Electricity Market Management Company and the International Electrotechnocal Council. She was a member of the Institution of Engineers Australia's Accreditation Board and National Industry Liaison Board. Shepherd also lectured in Queensland universities. On being named named Queensland Engineer of the Year by the Queensland Division, Institution of Engineers Australia, she could not attend meetings because they were held in the local men's club. In 2020 one of the cross-river rail's twin tunnel-boring machines was named after her.

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Chronology

1956
Life event - Moved to Queensland with her family
1965
Education - BEng, University of Queensland
1966
Career event - Graduate Member (GradIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
1972
Career event - Member (MIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
1986
Career event - Founded Mosaic Information Technology
1994
Career event - Appointed Chair, Powerlink, Queensland
1996
Award - M A Sargent Medal, Electrical College, Institution of Engineers Australia
1999 - 2023
Award - Honorary Fellow (HonFIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
2000
Award - Queensland Engineer of the Year, Queensland Division, Institution of Engineers Australia
2000 - 2023
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE)
2001
Award - Centenary Medal - For service to Australian society in information technology
2002
Career event - Founded Microwave and Materials Designs
2003
Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM) - For service to the engineering profession, particularly electrical and electronic engineering, to education, to the electricity distribution industry, and to the community.
2005 - 2010
Career position - Member of the Board, International Electrotechnical Commission
2007
Award - Peter Nicol Russell Memorial Medal - Career Achievement Award in Engineering, Institution of Engineers Australia
2009
Award - Doctor of Engineerng honoris causa, University of Queensland
2023
Life event - Cremated, Mt Gravatt, Queensland

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

  • McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details

Journal Articles

Reports

  • Institution of Engineers Australia, Annual Report 1999 [Eightieth Annual Report] (2000), 16 pp. 'Honorary Fellows - Council elected Ms Else Shepherd HonFIEAust CPEng as Honorary Fellow in 1999, for her outstanding abilities as an electrical engineer and for her contributions to engineering innovation' [Includes biography], p.14. Details

Resources

See also

  • Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering Handbook 2001 (Victoria: Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, 2001), 271 pp. Details
  • Engineers Australia ed., Anything is possible: 100 Australian engineering leaders (Barton, A.C.T.: Institution of Engineers Australia, 2019), 136 pp. 'Entering a Man's World - Else Shepherd' p.90. Details

Ailie Smith; Ken McInnes

Created: 17 March 2003, Last modified: 2 July 2024

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