Distinguished engineer appointed Honorary Fellow of the IET
Mon, 21 Nov 2016 11:48:00 GMT
Professor Isobel Pollock-Hulf is a member of the University’s Governing Council
AN eminent engineer who sits on the Council of the University of Huddersfield has received a prestigious award from a historic professional institution that is the world’s largest in its field.
Professor Isobel Pollock-Hulf has been appointed an Honorary Fellow of The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). Since 1873, no more than three of these fellowships have been awarded every year and Professor Pollock joins an honours board that includes legendary names such as telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell, and Lord Kelvin, who gave his name to units on the scale of temperature that he designed.
In addition to her IET distinction, Professor Pollock-Hulf, who has an OBE for her services to mechanical engineering, is a Past President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineering and is currently Master of the Worshipful Company of Engineers.
She has had a distinguished academic career – leading to a professorship at the University of Leeds and an Honorary Doctorate of the University of Huddersfield – plus many years of managerial experience with multi-national companies including ICI, DuPont, Robert McBride and Beatson Clark. She has management and engineering skills in chemicals, metal handling, glassware, food, drinks and pharmaceutical industries.
Public appointments include Chair of the National Measurement and Regulation Office. She also led the Engineering Council review and publication of UK Spec 3rd edition 2014, after wide consultation with all the professional engineering institutions and other bodies. In 2016, she was named as one of the Daily Telegraph’s Top 50 Influential Women in Engineering.
Professor Pollock-Hulf has paid several fact-finding visits to the University of Huddersfield and in 2014 she officially opened its Turbocharger Research Institute. She was appointed to the University Council in March 2015.
Honorary Fellows of the IET are elected by its Board of Trustees. They are described as persons distinguished by their work in any engineering discipline falling within the objects and purposes of the IET, or as distinguished individuals to be honoured services rendered to the IET or whose association is of benefit to the IET.
The University of Huddersfield’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor Bob Cryan, is a Vice-President of the IET and said that he was delighted by the honour bestowed on Professor Pollock-Hulf.
“She is an exceptional engineer who has taken a keen and highly informed interest in our facilities at Huddersfield,” said Professor Cryan. She shares our passion for training the next generations of engineers and for encouraging women to enter the profession, and it has been a pleasure and privilege to work with Isobel on our Council.”
- The IET has its origins in The Society of Telegraph Engineers, formed in 1871. In 1887, after it had broadened its scope, it became the Institution of Electrical Engineers. In 2006, as a result of mergers with other professional bodies, it became the Institution of Engineering and Technology and now has over 150,000 members worldwide. It covers a wide range of areas including biometrics, telecommunications, electrical power systems, information security, nanobiotechnology, radar and navigation systems, wireless sensor networks and ultraminiature structures and systems.
