Department of Chemical Engineering

The Department of Chemical Engineering commenced in 1963.

It had previously been the Department of Mining, Metallurgical and Chemical Engineering but underwent a name change when the teaching of Mining and Metallurgy, which had been declining in relation to Chemical Engineering, ceased with the resignation of Professor Edgar Clynton Ross Spooner.

The first Chair was Robert William Francis Tait and the number of students grew significantly during the Department's first 20 years.

On 1 July 2002 the Department was renamed the School of Chemical Engineering.

Taken from UAA Provenance Record UAR-0180

Professor of Chemical Engineering

• Professor Robert William Francis Tait, BSc (Edin), PhD (Birm), 1955-1983 (Emeritus Professor 1983)
• Professor David Ross Miller, MSc, PhD (Melb), PhD (Camb), FIEAust, CPENG, 1966-1995 (Emeritus Professor 1996)
• Professor John Broughton Agnew, BE (Syd), PhD (Monash), FTSE, HonFIEAust, CPEng, FRACI, FIChemE, FAIE, MAIChE, CEng, CChem, 1983-1998 (Emeritus Professor 1999)
• Professor Eric Hutton Dunlop, BSc (Strathclyde), PhD (Strathclyde), CChem, CEng, MRIC, 1996-2000
• Professor Keith Douglas King, BSc (Hons) (UNSW), PhD (UNSW), 2000-2011 (Emeritus Professor 2011)
• Professor Mark Biggs, BSc (Adel), PhD (Adel), 2008-2014