William Edgar (engineer)

William Edgar CBE (born 1938) is a British mechanical engineer, who was President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 2004.

For other people with the same name, see William Edgar.

He is a graduate from Strathclyde University and Birmingham University with an MSc in Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics. In 1990, he became Chief Executive of the National Engineering Laboratory.[1]

He gave the George Stephenson Lecture on "The challenges of offshore oil and gas deepwater".[2] He was Director of Seaforth Engineering, which built the Underwater Training Centre at Fort William, Scotland and the National Hyperbaric Centre at Aberdeen. He was a Group Director of the John Wood Group, was Chairman of the J.P. Kenny Group for ten years, and on the board of Subsea UK.[3]

He was appointed CBE in the 2004 New Year Honours.

References
  1. "Engineering Heritage Awards - IMechE".
  2. "Login". www.imeche.org.
  3. "William Edgar - Subsea UK, Aberdeen, Scotland". www.subseauk.com.


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