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Institution of Civil Engineers
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name | Institution of Civil Engineers| image =| image_size =| alt = Coat of arms| caption = Coat of arms| logo = File:Institution of Civil Engineers.svg| logo_size =| logo_alt = Logo| logo_caption = Logo| abbreviation = ICE
| One Great George StreetLondon, {{postcode>SW|1{edih}| location =| coords = | region = Worldwide| fields = Civil engineering | WEBSITE=INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS, 17 November 2023, | membership_year = 2020 | List of presidents of the Institution of Civil Engineers>President | URL-STATUS=LIVE | ARCHIVE-URL=HTTPS://WEB.ARCHIVE.ORG/WEB/20221222133030/HTTPS://WWW.ICE.ORG.UK/NEWS-INSIGHT/NEWS-AND-BLOGS/LATEST-NEWS/NEWS/ANUSHA-SHAH-CONFIRMED-AS-159TH-ICE-PRESIDENT/, 22 December 2022, | leader_title2 = Director General | TITLE=ICE UNVEILS NEW DIRECTOR GENERAL AND SECRETARY | ACCESS-DATE=2 DECEMBER 2022, | subsidiaries = Thomas Telford Ltd| website = {{official URL}}}}The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is an independent professional association for civil engineers and a charitable body in the United Kingdom. Based in London, ICE has over 92,000 members, of whom three-quarters are located in the UK, while the rest are located in more than 150 other countries. The ICE aims to support the civil engineering profession by offering professional qualification, promoting education, maintaining professional ethics, and liaising with industry, academia and government. Under its commercial arm, it delivers training, recruitment, publishing and contract services. As a professional body, ICE aims to support and promote professional learning (both to students and existing practitioners), managing professional ethics and safeguarding the status of engineers, and representing the interests of the profession in dealings with government, etc. It sets standards for membership of the body; works with industry and academia to progress engineering standards and advises on education and training curricula.History(File:ICE editathon - One Great George Street - 19 July 2013 08.JPG|thumb|Window at ICE headquarters commemorating its founding)The late 18th century and early 19th century saw the founding of many learned societies and professional bodies (for example, the Royal Society and the Law Society). Groups calling themselves civil engineers had been meeting for some years from the late 18th century, notably the Society of Civil Engineers formed in 1771 by John Smeaton (renamed the Smeatonian Society after his death). At that time, formal engineering in Britain was limited to the military engineers of the Corps of Royal Engineers, and in the spirit of self-help prevalent at the time and to provide a focus for the fledgling 'civilian engineers', the Institution of Civil Engineers was founded as the world's first professional engineering body.The initiative to found the Institution was taken in 1818 by eight young engineers, Henry Robinson Palmer (23), William Maudslay (23), Thomas Maudslay (26), James Jones (28), Charles Collinge (26), John Lethbridge, James Ashwell (19) and Joshua Field (32), who held an inaugural meeting on 2 January 1818, at the Kendal Coffee House in Fleet Street.BOOK, The Civils â The story of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Garth Watson, Thomas Telford, 1988, London, 9, The institution made little headway until a key step was taken â the appointment of Thomas Telford as the first President of the body. Greatly respected within the profession and blessed with numerous contacts across the industry and in government circles, he was instrumental in drumming up membership and getting a Royal Charter for ICE in 1828. This official recognition helped establish ICE as the pre-eminent organisation for engineers of all disciplines.Early definitions of a Civil Engineer can be found in the discussions held on 2 January 1818 and in the application for Royal Chartership.BOOK, A Brief History of the Institution of Civil Engineers with an Account of the Charter Centenary Celebration June 1928, Anon, William Clowes and Sons, 1928, London, 11 & 17, B019QJ6TTQ, In 1818 Palmer said that: {{cquote|An Engineer is a mediator between the Philosopher and the working Mechanic; and like an interpreter between two foreigners must understand the language of both. The Philosopher searches into Nature and discovers her laws, and promulgates the principles and adapts them to our circumstances. The working Mechanic, governed by the superintendence of the Engineer, brings his ideas into reality. Hence the absolute necessity of possessing both practical and theoretical knowledge.}}{{cquote|When the time came to apply for a Charter it was clearly necessary to define the profession ... the council applied to Thomas Tredgold to propose some suitable description. The result was the now well-known definition of Civil Engineering as "the art of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man," and this was embodied in the Charter. }}The objects of such institution, as recited in the charter, and reported in The Times,The Times, London, article CS102127326, dated 30 June 1828, retrieved 30 April 2004 were{{cquote|The general advancement of mechanical science, and more particularly for promoting the acquisition of that species of knowledge which constitutes the profession of a civil engineer; being the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man, as the means of production and of traffic in states, both for external and internal trade, as applied in the construction of roads, bridges, aqueducts, canals, river navigation, and docks, for internal intercourse and exchange; and in the construction of ports, harbours, moles, breakwaters, and light-houses, and in the art of navigation by artificial power, for the purposes of commerce; and in the construction and adaptation of machinery, and in the drainage of cities and towns.}}File:Instituion of Civil Engineers.jpg|thumb|250px|right|The Institution's headquarters at One Great George StreetOne Great George StreetAfter Telford's death in 1834, the organisation moved into premises in Great George Street in the heart of Westminster in 1839, and began to publish learned papers on engineering topics. Its members, notably William Cubitt, were also prominent in the organisation of the Great Exhibition of 1851.For 29 years ICE provided the forum for engineers practising in all the disciplines recognised today. Mechanical engineer and tool-maker Henry Maudslay was an early member and Joseph Whitworth presented one of the earliest papers â it was not until 1847 that the Institution of Mechanical Engineers was established (with George Stephenson as its first President).IMEchE Presidents {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130906233417weblink |date=6 September 2013 }} (accessed 6 September 2013)By the end of the 19th century, ICE had introduced examinations for professional engineering qualifications to help ensure and maintain high standards among its members â a role it continues today.The ICE's Great George Street headquarters, designed by James Miller, was built by John Mowlem & Co and completed in 1911.ODNB, 51893, Burt family (per. c.1830â1964), M. H., Port,missing image!
- Peter Hines 50 years Institute Civil Engineers.jpg - A 50 year-membership certificate Membership and professional qualificationThe institution is a membership organisation comprising 95,460 members worldwide (as of 31 December 2022); around three-quarters are located in the United Kingdom. Membership grades include:WEB, Grades of ICE membership,weblink ICE, 2 April 2016,
Publishing(File:ICE editathon - One Great George Street - 19 July 2013 68.JPG|thumb|250px|Copies of the Proceedings of the ICE in the Great George Street library)The Institution of Civil Engineers also publishes technical studies covering research and best practice in civil engineering. Under its commercial arm, Thomas Telford Ltd, it delivers training, recruitment, publishing and contract services, such as the NEC Engineering and Construction Contract. All the profits of Thomas Telford Ltd go back to the Institution to further its stated aim of putting civil engineers at the heart of society. The publishing division has existed since 1836 and is today called ICE Publishing. ICE Publishing produces roughly 30 books a year, including the ICE Manuals series, and 30 civil engineering journals, including the ICE Proceedings in nineteen parts, Géotechnique, and the Magazine of Concrete Research. The ICE Science series is now also published by ICE Publishing. ICE Science currently consists of five journals: Nanomaterials and Energy, Emerging Materials Research, Bioinspired, Biomimetic and Nanobiomaterials, Green Materials and Surface Innovations.Nineteen individual parts now make up the Proceedings, as follows:WEB, ICE Publishing,weblink 2023-11-06, www.icevirtuallibrary.com, en,
Specialist Knowledge SocietiesThe ICE also administers 15 Specialist Knowledge Societies created at different times to support special interest groups within the civil engineering industry, some of which are British sections of international and/or European bodies. The societies provide continuing professional development and assist in the transfer of knowledge concerning specialist areas of engineering.WEB, Specialist Knowledge Societies,weblink ICE, 25 April 2022, The Specialist Knowledge Societies are:{hide}columns-list|colwidth=30em|
GovernanceThe institution is governed by the ICE Trustee Board, comprising the President, three Vice Presidents, four members elected from the membership, three ICE Council members, and one nominated member.WEB, Meet our trustee board,weblink ICE, 25 April 2022, The President is the public face of the institution and day-to-day management is the responsibility of the Director General.President{{Further |List of Presidents of the Institution of Civil Engineers}}The ICE President is elected annually and the holder for 2023â2024 is Anusha Shah.Each year a number of young engineers have been chosen as President's apprentices.WEB, ICE President's Apprentices,weblink 26 June 2015, The scheme was started in 2005 during the presidency of Gordon Masterton, who also initiated a President's blog, now the ICE Infrastructure blog.WEB, ICE Infrastructure Blog,weblink 26 June 2015, Each incoming President sets out the main theme of his or her year of office in a Presidential Address.Many of the profession's greatest engineers have served as President of the ICE including:{hide}columns-list|colwidth=30em|
Female civil engineersThe first woman member of ICE was Dorothy Donaldson Buchanan in 1927. The first female Fellows elected were Molly Fergusson (1957), Marie Lindley (1972), Helen Stone (1991) and Joanna Kennedy (1992).WEB, Helen Stone becomes 3rd woman Fellow,weblink CNPlus 22 August 1991, 26 June 2015, 28 December 2021,weblink dead, WEB, Who says engineers lack culture,weblink Construction Index 17 June 2015, 26 June 2015, The three female Presidents (to date) are Jean Venables, who became the 144th holder of the office in 2008,WEB, Institution of Civil Engineers, Institution of Civil Engineers, Past Presidents,weblink 19 May 2008, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20100822214422weblink">weblink 22 August 2010, Rachel Skinner, who became President in 2020, and Professor Anusha Shah, the President from November 2023.In January 1969 the Council of the Institution set up a working party to consider the role of women in engineering. Among its conclusions were that 'while women have certainly established their competence throughout the professional engineering field, there is clearly a built-in or unconscious prejudice against them'.JOURNAL, Report of the Working Party on the role of women in engineering, ICE Proceedings, 1 February 1971, 48, 2, 343â354, 10.1680/iicep.1971.6467, The WISE Campaign (Women into Science and Engineering) was launched in 1984; by 1992 3% of the total ICE membership of 79,000 was female, and only 0.8% of chartered civil engineers were women.JOURNAL, For she's a jolly good Fellow, Arup Bulletin, July 1992, By 2016 women comprised nearly 12% of total membership, almost 7% of chartered civil engineers and just over 2% of Fellows.WEB, Annual Report and Accounts 2015,weblink ICE, 29 June 2016, In June 2015 a Presidential Commission on diversity was announced.JOURNAL, Hansford, Mark, Change bringer, New Civil Engineer, 25 June 2015, 20,weblink 26 June 2015, By the start of 2023 women made up 16% of overall membership, with female fellows comprising 6% of the fellowship.WEB, Blick, Daniel, All-female panel discusses positive climate action at annual fellowsâ reception,weblink 24 May 2023,Awards(File:Institution of Civil Engineers - One Great George Street - Library.JPG|thumb|250px|The ICE library at One Great George Street)The Institution makes various awards to recognise the work of its members. In addition to awards for technical papers, reports and competition entries it awards medals for different achievements.
Student chaptersThe ICE has student chapters in several countries including Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Malta, Pakistan, Poland, Sudan, Trinidad, and United Arab Emirates.WEB, ICE student chapters,weblink ICE, 3 December 2017,Arms
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