Person
McInnes, Kenneth Graham (1945 - )
- Born
- 20 August 1945
East Malvern, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Civil engineer, Computer scientist, Conservationist and Engineering historian
- Website
- https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9181-0919
Summary
Ken McInnes has had a diverse professional career as a civil, environmental and computer software engineer. Working in consulting engineering practices with Len T Frazer & Associates and the Scott & Furphy Consulting Group (1965-1977), in State Government with the Public Works Department (1977-1993), and in academia at Swinburne University of Technology (2000-2017).
Since 1970, he has been researching engineering history and heritage and has served on related statutory, professional and community organisations. These include the Historic Buildings Council Victoria (1989-1995), Engineering Heritage Victoria (since 1976, chair 1980-1996), and Engineering Heritage Australia (1980-1996, chair 1989-1990). Between 1993 and 2006, he was chair of the Timber Bridges Study of the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) which resulted in the publication "Wooden wonders: Victoria's timber bridges" Don Chambers, 2006. With Gary Vines, Ken was a consultant for the National Trust's Metal Road Bridges study (2001-2003).
As a conservationist, he has actively and successfully campaigned for the protection of wilderness areas, the Alpine area of Victoria, and the Mullum Mullum valley. In particular, his role in the establishment and participation in the Premier's North-East Alpine Areas Working Group (1973-1981) and the book "The Alps at the Crossroads" Dick Johnson, Victorian National Park Association, 1974.
After retiring in 2017, his focus is researching the biographies and works of Australian engineers, and contributing to the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation.
Details
Other community roles include:
* Proposed the Hume and Hovell Walking Track in Victoria and NSW 1973;
* Proposed a Coastal Walking Track for Victoria 1973;
* Founded Maroondah Bushwalking Club 1981;
* Founded Bayside Bushwalking Club 1984;
* Awarded a Sesquicentenary of Victoria Medal 1985.
Chronology
- 1965 - 1966
- Career position - Assistant design engineer, Len T Frazer & Associates [Highway and siteworks including Northland, Eastland and Southland shopping centres, and traffic studies including Woden District Centre ACT.]
- 1966 - 1972
- Military service - National Service. Acting Sergeant / Acting Warrant Officer Class One, Australian Regular Army [2 years full time]. Australian Regular Army Emergency Reserve [4 years part time]
- 1967
- Career event - Student Member (StudIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1967 - 1970
- Education - Post Diploma studies in Mathematics and Civil Engineering, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and Swinburne Institute of Technology
- 1968 - 1969
- Career position - Design Engineer, Scott & Furphy consulting engineers [Sewage, water and trade waste treatment plants; Highway bridges.]
- 1969 - 1977
- Career position - Civil engineer and Computer Services Manager, Scott & Furphy Consulting Engineering Group [Developing pioneering computer applications in hydrology, networked road and drainage design, and management systems]
- 1973
- Career event - Member (MACS), Australian Computer Society
- 1973 - 1975
- Education - Post Graduate Diploma studies in Town & Regional Planning, University of Melbourne
- 1973 - 1981
- Career position - Conservation representative on the Premier's North-East Alpine Areas Working Group, Premier's Department, Victoria
- 1974
- Career event - Book published "The Alps at the Crossroads" Dick Johnson, Victorian National Park Association
- 1974
- Career event - Member (MIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia [Backdated to 1971 after consideration of National Service]
- 1974
- Education - Diploma of Civil Engineering (DipCE), Caulfield Institute of Technology [Completion disrupted by Military service]
- 1976 -
- Career position - Committee Member, Engineering Heritage Branch / Engineering Heritage Victoria, Victoria Division, Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1977 - 1980
- Career position - Planning and Research Manager, Building Division, Public Works Department, Victoria [Developed computerised capital works management systems]
- 1980 - 1981
- Career position - Chairman, Engineering Heritage Branch, Victoria Division, Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1980 - 1981
- Career position - Committee Member, National Committee on Engineering Heritage, Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1980 - 1983
- Career position - Capital Works Programming Manager, Building Division, Public Works Department, Victoria [Managing the delivery of 75 capital works programmes for 21 client departments - 50% of government non-housing building works]
- 1983 - 1985
- Career position - Resources Manager, Building Division, Public Works Department, Victoria [Included consultant registration and selection, granting over 400 commissions per year]
- 1984 - 1985
- Career position - Chairman, Second National Conference on Engineering Heritage, Melbourne
- 1985 - 1987
- Career position - Programmes Manager, Health & General Group, Public Works Department
- 1985 - 1996
- Career position - Committee Member, National Committee on Engineering Heritage / Engineering Heritage Australia, Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1985 - 1996
- Career position - Chairman, Engineering Heritage Victoria, Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1987 - 1990
- Career position - Business Manager, Health & General Group, Ministry of Housing and Construction, Victoria
- 1989 - 1990
- Career position - Chairman, National Committee on Engineering Heritage, Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1989 - 1991
- Career position - Deputy Member, Historic Buildings Council, Victoria
- 1990 - 1993
- Career position - Initial Project Overview, and later Team Leader, PROBIS project, Information Services and Building Division, Department of Planning and Housing / Department of Planning and Development, Victoria
- 1991
- Career event - Founded Friends of Mullum Mullum Valley
- 1991 - 1992
- Career position - Representative of the Historic Buildings Council, on the Steering Committee for the Docklands Heritage Study
- 1992
- Career event - Founded CRISP Community Indigenous Plant Nursery
- 1992 - 1994
- Career position - Representative of Engineering Heritage Victoria, Institution of Engineers Australia on the Steering Committee for the City of Melbourne Central City Heritage Study
- 1993 - 1995
- Career position - Project Officer, Printing & Publishing Services Victoria, Department of Finance [Electronic publishing systems]
- 1993 - 1995
- Career position - Member of steering committee, National Mining Heritage Research Project, Australian Council of National Trusts
- 1993 - 1996
- Career position - Chairman, Timber Bridges Study, National Trust of Australia (Victoria)
- 1994 - 1995
- Career position - Deputy Member, Historic Buildings Council, Victoria
- 1995
- Life event - Retrenched [When many Victorian government agencies were abolished]
- 1995 - 2000
- Career event - Consultant in heritage, environment and systems
- 1997 - 1998
- Career position - Member of steering committee, 9th National Conference on Engineering Heritage, Ballarat
- 1998 - 2004
- Career position - Member, YarraCare / Yarra Catchment Implementation Committee, Department of Conservation and Environment
- 1999
- Education - Graduate Diploma of Applied Science, Computer Science (Multimedia Software Development), Swinburne University of Technology
- 2000 - 2017
- Career position - Adjunct Teaching Fellow, sessional lecturer, tutor, and examiner, Swinburne University of Technology [Teaching Internet and Web Technologies for more than 60 subject semesters]
- 2006
- Career event - Book published "Wooden wonders: Victoria's timber bridges" Don Chambers, National Trust of Australia (Victoria)
- 2011
- Education - Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, Swinburne University of Technology
- 2017
- Life event - Retired
- 2017
- Career position - Member of steering committee, 19th Australasian engineering heritage conference, Mildura
- 2017 - 2020
- Career position - Honorary Research Fellow, eScholarship Research Centre, University of Melbourne. Data curation Encyclopedia of Australian Science
- 2021 -
- Career position - Adjunct Research Fellow, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology. Data curation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation
Related entries
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Published resources
Books
- McInnes, Ken, Technical Services Manual (Melbourne: Ministry of Housing and Construction, Victoria, 1990), 400 pp. Details
- Vines, Gary; McInnes, Ken, Metal Road Bridges in Victoria: Part 1 - History of Metal Road Bridges in Victoria (Melbourne: National Trust of Australia (Victoria), 2003), 126 pp, https://www.academia.edu/22073573/Metal_Road_Bridges_in_Victoria_Part_1_HISTORY_OF_METAL_ROAD_BRIDGES_IN_VICTORIA_National_Trust_of_Australia_Victoria_. Details
- Vines, Gary; McInnes, Ken, Metal Road Bridges in Victoria: Part 2 - Survey and analysis of historic metal road bridges (Melbourne: National Trust of Australia (Victoria), 2003), 167 pp, https://www.academia.edu/37465965/Metal_Road_Bridges_in_Victoria_Part_2_SURVEY_AND_ANALYSIS_OF_HISTORIC_METAL_ROAD_BRIDGES_National_Trust_of_Australia_Victoria_With_assistance_from_VicRoads_Heritage_Victoria. Details
Conference Papers
- Chambers, Don; Churchward, Matthew; McInnes, Ken; Moloney, David, 'Victoria's Timber Bridges', in 9th National Conference on Engineering Heritage: Proceedings (Melbourne, Victoria: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1998), pp. 37-47., https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.545461007825712. Details
- McInnes, K. G., 'Programming and control of capital works - the experiences of Public Works Department, Victoria', in CSIRO-NCRB National Conference on Programming Capital Works for Australian Public Authorities (Highett, Vic.: CSIRO Division of Building Research, 1980), pp. 91-124.. Details
- McInnes, Ken, 'Francis Bell - a pioneer in metal truss bridges, overlooked by history', in 17th Engineering Heritage Conference: Canberra 100 - Building the Capital, Building the Nation (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Engineers Australia, 2013), pp. 90-109., https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.880689942068037. Details
- McInnes, Ken, 'William Thomas Doyne, a pioneer in metal truss bridges - a career shaped by changing, challenging circumstances', in From the Past to the Future: 18th Australian Engineering Heritage Conference 2015 [Newcastle] (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Engineers Australia, 2015), pp. 123-146., https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.697026319242477. Details
- McInnes, Ken, 'A cradle for all the developments of electric welding in the world', in Engineering Heritage Victoria, Speakers Programme (2019)., https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/event/2019/09/cradle-all-developments-electric-welding-world. Details
- McInnes, Ken G., 'Hume and Hovell Walking Track', in Making Tracks. From Point to Pathway: the Heritage of Routes & Journeys (Australia ICOMOS, 2001).. Details
- McInnes, Ken G., 'Engineer David John McClelland (1873-1962) and the reinforced concrete Campaspe River syphon', in 19th Australasian engineering heritage conference: putting water to work: steam power, river navigation and water supply edited by Engineers Australia and Engineering Heritage Australia (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Engineering Heritage Australia, 2017), pp. 263-277., https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.384763614517292. Details
- McInnes, Ken G., 'Benjamin Hawkins Dods (1829-1892) and the audacious "Grand Victorian North-Western Canal, Irrigation, Traffic, and Motive Power Company" scheme of 1871', in 19th Australasian engineering heritage conference: putting water to work: steam power, river navigation and water supply edited by Engineers Australia and Engineering Heritage Australia (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Engineering Heritage Australia, 2017), pp. 278-298., https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.384782247488551. Details
- McInnes, Ken; Frost, Leonore, 'Three New Zealand Engineers in Colonial Victoria - Brees, Holmes, and Richardson', in Fourth Australasian Conference on Engineering Heritage, Christchurch, 2014 (Wellington, NZ: Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand, 2014), pp. 113-134., https://www.engineeringnz.org/documents/1275/Proceedings_of_the_Fourth_Australasian_Conference_on_Engineering_Heritage_Chri_FP8ZEMh.pdf. Details
- Vines, Gary; Mclnnes, Ken; Deutsch, George, 'Historic Metal Road Bridges in Victoria', in Engineering Heritage Matters: Conference Papers of the 12th National Conference on Engineering Heritage, Toowoomba, 29 September to 1 Oct 2003 edited by Sheridan, Norman (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Engineers Australia, 2003), pp. 176-183., https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.339245803121934. Details
Journal Articles
- 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
- Vines, Gary; McInnes, Ken; Deutsch, George, 'Historic Metal Road Bridges in Victoria', Australian Journal of Multi-disciplinary Engineering, 3 (1) (2005), 75-82, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.194881653602679. Details
Newspaper Articles
- McInnes, K. G., 'Obituary: Dan McInnes: Naturalist and Microbiologist', The Age (1998). Details
Resources
- McInnes, Ken, Institution of Engineers Australia - Foundation Societies' Publications Index, eScholarship Research Centre, Melbourne, 2018. Details
Seminar Papers
- McInnes, Ken, 'Institution of Engineers Australia heritage programmes' in Historic Buildings Seminar (Parkville, Victoria: Institution of Engineers, Australia. Victoria Division, 1989), p. 6. Details
- McInnes, Ken G., 'Engineering Heritage and Science Heritage: Can the lessons learnt from one, apply to the other?' in Under the Microscope - Exploring Science Heritage. Symposium, 12th November 2018, Hobart, Tasmania (Hobart, Tasmania: Australia ICOMOS, 2018). Details
- McInnes, Ken G., 'Times, Tides and Flagstaffs' in Under the Microscope - Exploring Science Heritage. Symposium, 12th November 2018, Hobart, Tasmania (Hobart, Tasmania: Australia ICOMOS, 2018). Details
See also
- Chambers, Don (Donald), Wooden wonders : Victoria's timber bridges (Flemington, Vic.: Hyland House, 2006), 207 pp. Chair of book committee, contributed 'Epilogue' chapter. Details
- Donovan & Associates [Donovan, Peter] ed., A mining history of Australia (Blackwood, South Australia: 1995), 335 pp. Member of study steering committee. Details
- Johnson, Dick, The alps at the crossroads : the quest for an alpine national park in Victoria (Melbourne: Victorian National Parks Association, 1974), 207 pp. Member of editorial team. Details
- Johnson, Dick, 'Alpine Retrospective - Part 1', Park watch (1989), 8-10, http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3031960969. Details
- Lewis, Miles; Goad, Philip; Mayne, Alan, Melbourne : the city's history and development (Melbourne, Vic.: City of Melbourne, 1995), 220 pp. Member of steering committee. Details
- Mosley, Geoff, Rescuing the wilderness. The history of wilderness conservation in Australia (Sydney, NSW: Colong Foundation for Wilderness Ltd, 2018), xii, 234 pp. Details
- Vines, Gary, Metal Road Bridges in Victoria: Part 3 - Assessment of Significant Bridges (Melbourne: National Trust of Australia (Victoria), 2005), 40 pp, https://www.academia.edu/37465935/National_Trust_Study_of_Victorias_Metal_Road_Bridges_Part_3_Assessment_of_Significant_Bridges_National_Trust_of_Australia_Victoria. Details
- Vines, Gary, National Trust Study of Victoria's Rail and Masonry Bridges. Part 1 - Thematic History, Analysis and Recommendations (National Trust of Australia (Victoria), 2011), 253 pp, https://www.academia.edu/5781078/National_Trust_Study_of_Victoria_s_Masonry_Metal_and_Concrete_Rail_Bridges_and_Masonry_Road_Bridges_. Details
- Ward, Andrew Charles; Milner, Peter; Vines, Gary; Greenaway, Ron, Docklands heritage study (Melbourne, Vic.: 1991), 278 pp, https://www.academia.edu/1950205/Docklands_Heritage_Study_A_Report_to_the_Docklands_Task_Force_. Member of steering committee. Details
Ken McInnes
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