Andrew Schofield Ann Dowling Zoubin Ghahramani Keith Glover Melvill Jones John Robertson Mark Welland Roberto Cipolla Stephen Young Gareth McKinley William Hawthorne Alec Broers Kenneth Bray Andrew Clennel Palmer Morien Morgan Christopher Hinton David J. C. MacKay Michael F. Ashby Kenneth L. Johnson Norman Fleck Vikram Deshpande Members of the Order of Merit Frank Whittle Christopher Hinton Ann Dowling Timoshenko Medal Recipients Richard V. Southwell Kenneth L. Johnson James N. Goodier Notable people for their contributions John Baker, developer of the plasticity theory of design. Brian Spalding, a founder of computational fluid mechanics. Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell, English engineer, best known as the inventor of the hovercraft. Sir Charles Edward Inglis, under whose leadership the department became the largest in the university. Sir Bennett Melvill Jones, who demonstrated the importance in streamlining in aircraft design. Ian Liddell, designer of the Millennium Dome. Charles Oatley, developer of one of the first commercial scanning electron microscopes. Nicholas Patrick, astronaut. W. E. W. Petter, aeronautical engineer, designer of Westland Lysander, English Electric Canberra and the Folland Gnat Harry Ricardo, major contributor to development of the internal combustion engine. Andrew Schofield, pioneer in centrifuge research. James Stuart, first true professor of engineering at Cambridge appointed in 1875. Constance Tipper, metallurgist, crystallographer and first woman to serve full-time as faculty in the department. Carol Vorderman, former Countdown host and mathematical television personality. Frank Whittle, inventor of the jet engine. Reverend Robert Willis, the first Cambridge professor to win an international reputation as a mechanical engineer. James N. Goodier, co-author of "Theory of Elasticity" with Stephen Timoshenko. Morien Morgan, sometimes referred to as "the Father of Concorde". Christopher Hinton, supervised construction of Calder Hall, the world's first large-scale commercial nuclear power station. James A. Greenwood, winner of Tribology Gold Medal, known for the Greenwood and Williamson model of contact interfaces. Bertram Hopkinson, who proposed the Split-Hopkinson pressure bar method to measure dynamic stress–strain response of materials. See also Engineering Glossary of engineering Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford References 1875 establishments in England Educational institutions established in 1875 Engineering, Department of Engineering, Department of Cambridge