Person

Banks, Edgar Roger (Roger) (1930 - 2018)

FTSE

Born
10 July 1930
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died
26 January 2018
Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Telecommunications engineer

Summary

Roger Banks, FTSE BEE DEng(Hon) MIEAust, was responsible for the assessment and adoption by Telecom Australia of the switching equipment used in Australia's first electronic trunk exchanges, and later held senior positions in Telecom Australia. In the 1960s Banks was a leader in special study groups of the International Telecommunications Union concerned with planning for the development of automated telephone networks in developing countries and for worldwide international direct dialling following the laying of the first submarine telephone cables across the Atlantic Ocean. Banks also had a keen interest in road safety research, and was a board member of road safety research groups at both Monash University and the University of Melbourne, and of the Victorian Government's road construction and management organisations.

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Chronology

1948
Career event - Appointed Cadet Engineer, Postmaster-General's Department
1949
Career event - Student Member (StudIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
1953
Education - Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (BEE), University of Melbourne
1953 - 1972
Career position - Engineer, Postmaster-General's Department, rising to Assistant Director General, Switching and Facilities Planning, Postmaster-General's Department
1959
Career event - Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
1964 - 1968
Career position - Vice-Chairman, Special Study Group B - Worldwide Telephony, International Telecommunications Union
1965 - 1968
Career position - Chair, Special Autonomous Group, Consultative Committee for International Telegraphy and Telephony, International Telecommunications Union
1968
Career event - Member (MIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia [Former Associate Members were designated Members on this date.]
1972 - 1973
Career position - Director, Business Planning, Plessey Telecommunications Ltd, UK
1974 - 1975
Career position - Assistant Director-General, Telephone Exchange Equipment, Postmaster-General's Department
1975 - 1980
Career position - General Manager, Customer Service, Telecom Australia (Australian Telecommunications Commission)
1980 - 1987
Career position - Executive Director, Business Development, Telecom Australia (Australian Telecommunications Commission)
1983 - 1987
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences (FTS)
1983 - 1989
Career position - Member of the Board, Victorian Road Construction Authority
1984 - 1988
Career position - Director, Aussat Pty Ltd
1987 - 1988
Career position - Executive Director, Corporate Strategy, Telecom Australia (Australian Telecommunications Commission)
1987 - 2018
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE) [Awarded by AATS 1983]
1988
Life event - Retired
1988 - 1993
Career position - Senior Research Fellow, Monash University
1990 - 1993
Career position - President, Royal Automobile Association of Victoria
1991 - 2005
Career position - Member, VicRoads Advisory Board
1992
Career position - Member, Advisory Board, Transport Research Centre, University of Melbourne
1992 - 1995
Career position - President, Intelligent Vehicle and Highway Systems Australia
1997 - 2007
Career position - Chair, University of Melbourne Engineering Foundation
1999 - 2005
Career position - Board Member, Monash University Accident Research Centre
2001
Award - Centenary Medal - for service to Australian society in telecommunications and engineering
2003
Award - Doctor of Engineering (DEng), honoris causa, University of Melbourne

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See also

  • Who's who in Australia 2012 (Melbourne: Crown Content Pty Ltd, 2012), 2430 pp. Details
  • Moyal, Ann, Clear across Australia: a History of Telecommunications (Melbourne: Nelson, 1984), 453 pp. Details

Helen Cohn; Ken McInnes

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