Roy Evans (engineer)
British scholar
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| honorific_prefix | Professor |
| name | Roy Evans |
| honorific_suffix | |
| office | Vice-Chancellor, University College of North Wales/University of Wales, Bangor |
| term_start | 1995 |
| term_end | 2004 |
| office2 | Professor of Civil and Structural Engineering, University College, Cardiff/University of Wales College of Cardiff |
| term_start2 | 1983 |
| term_end2 | 1995 |
| birth_name | Hubert Roy Evans |
| birth_date | |
| birth_place | Llandysul, Cardiganshire, Wales |
| death_date | |
| :: |
| honorific_prefix = Professor | name = Roy Evans | honorific_suffix = | image = | alt = | caption = | office = Vice-Chancellor, University College of North Wales/University of Wales, Bangor | term_start = 1995 | term_end = 2004 | office2 = Professor of Civil and Structural Engineering, University College, Cardiff/University of Wales College of Cardiff | term_start2 = 1983 | term_end2 = 1995 | birth_name = Hubert Roy Evans | birth_date = | birth_place = Llandysul, Cardiganshire, Wales | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = | other_names = | occupation = | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = Hubert Roy Evans (born 27 May 1942) is a Welsh civil engineer and academic.
He is a native of Llandysul, in Ceredigion, Wales. A graduate of Swansea University (Wales) he became Professor of Civil and Structural Engineering at Cardiff University, where he spent 26 years of his career.
He won international recognition as a civil engineer, receiving numerous awards (including the George Stephenson Medal in 1980) and became a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1992. Evans was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2002, for services to higher education.
He served as Deputy Principal at Cardiff University for four years before his appointment as the Vice Chancellor of the University of Wales, Bangor in 1995, retiring in 2004. He was a Welsh Supernumerary Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford for the academic year 1998/9.
He is a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.
References
References
- "List of Fellows".
- "List of Fellows".
- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/honours-order-of-the-british-empire--gcb-dbe-and-cbe-606426.html{{Dead link. (August 2014)
- Wales, The Learned Society of. "Roy Evans".
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