Professor announced as new President of the WA Division
Tony Lucey FIEAust was announced incoming President of Engineers Australia WA Division at its Annual General Meeting on December 3.
Tony is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and currently Head of the School of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at Curtin University.
He gained his Bachelors degree from the University of Cambridge, after which he worked in Industry as an aircraft designer at British Aerospace PLC in the UK.
He later returned to Academe to take a PhD from the University of Exeter, and then held positions at the Universities of Exeter and Warwick and the Asian University of Science and Technology in Thailand. Additionally, his career has been punctuated by, mostly voluntary, work in and for developing countries.
He is well-known for his fundamental research in fluid-structure interaction and its applications in new technologies, biomechanics and industry.
In 2001 he moved to Australia to take up the headship of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Curtin and was then Dean of Engineering from 2005 to 2007.
In 2007 he was listed by Engineers Australia as one of ‘Australia’s top 100 most influential Engineers’.
In accepting the role of President, Tony outlined some key focus areas for his term.
“Through its strategic planning, Engineers Australia has recently undergone a process of regeneration that heralds an increasingly outward focus, moving Engineering to take a more central place in Society and meeting the challenges that it faces regionally, nationally and globally.
“As an engineering educator I will seek to continue the excellent work underway in disseminating what contemporary Engineering really means and the manifold opportunities that it holds for young people who will be the engineers and leaders of tomorrow,” he added.
Tony also acknowledged that 2010 has been declared the Year of Engineering Leadership by Engineers Australia.
“I would wish to highlight the many forms and levels of engineering leadership that range from those of prominent engineering CEOs and Directors through to the ‘service leadership’ of the many.
“This spectrum of leadership combines to produce the engineering teams and organisations that are the backbone of profession,” he said.
Tony counts reading literature and literary criticism, creative writing, music, vehicle mechanics and sports as some of his keen interests.
He is married with three children.
