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- Allan Glen was a Glasgow businessman.
- He was a wright, and man of property.
- Founder of the school that bore his name
- A far sighted benefactor for 'the young of the industrial classes'.
- A philanthropist determined that his success and legacy should benefit
the sons of Glasgow
- Through the Endowment Trust, the legacy of Allan Glen lives on, a
lasting tribute to a great Scot.
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- To pursue the ideals and goals of Allan Glen
- To encourage promising students from less affluent backgrounds to
embrace the belief that they can achieve the betterment of humanity
through science and engineering as a career choice
- The Trust has the additional objective to provide financial support
through bursaries to such students pursuing qualifications at university
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- Thomas Edison once stated that true genius is 1% inspiration and 99%
perspiration.
- This means that any one of you can achieve great things if you put in
enough work.
- Allan Glen’s Scholarship is intended to cover some of the necessary
expenses incurred by university students thereby giving them more time
for their studies.
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- Aeronautical
- Agricultural
- Chemical
- Civil
- Computer
- Control
- Electrical
- Electronic
- Environmental
- Gas
- Hospital
- Marine
- Mechanical
- Medical
- Nuclear
- Railway
- Royal
- Structural
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- Mr. Bill Brown – Education services
- Mr. Fergus Loudon - Tunnocks
- Mr. David Kyle - Paisley University
- Mr. Fraser McIntosh - Rolls Royce
- Dr. Ron Thomson - Glasgow University
- Mr. David Manson - Weir Group
- Mr. Stuart MacLeod - Weir Group
- Mr. John Bolton - ex Airbus
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- The school was opened in 1853
- Also known as the Glasgow High School of Science
- Some notable pupils are
- Dr Cranston the only Scotsman to discover an element - 91 pro actium -
scientist
- Lord Todd of Trumpington - Nobel Prize 1957 (Chemistry)
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- They all grew up in Glasgow
- They all attended Allan Glen’s School
- They graduated from Glasgow University
- They all reached the top of their chosen fields
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- 19th Century - Public Health, sanitation, clean water
- 20th Century - X-ray machines, artificial joints
- 21st Century - Robotic surgery
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- Power
- Transportation
- Stephenson
- Otto
- Diesel
- Wright Brothers
- Whittle
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- May work in large or small companies
- PC has made many small operations possible
- 1955 University of Glasgow, no computer
- 1959 Computer with 2K memory, cost per month salary of 40 engineers
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- Many large companies were started by one or two engineers
- Weirs
- Rolls-Royce
- Charles Stewart Rolls and Frederick Henry Royce 1906
- Boeing Aircraft
- William Boeing and George
Conrad Westervelt 1916
- Douglas Aircraft
- Donald Wills Douglas 1921
- Ferrari
- Enzo Ferrari 1929 and 1940
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- Sir Frank Whittle (born 1907)
- Invented jet engine on sound academic basis
- Developed to flight stage
- Business developed by Rolls-Royce
- Got £100,000 in 1948 (the equivalent of millions today)
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- Based on my research program, one of my PhD students
- Started as 1 man (1979)
- Grew steadily to 100 persons
- Now has a turnover of £8 Million per year
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- Engineering is the APPLICATION of science
- Mathematics,
- Physics,
- Chemistry,
- Biology etc
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- Outstanding example of application of science
- Revolutionized long distant transportation
- Killed off ocean liners, long distance trains in North America
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- Picture from RR showing basic layout
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- Large civil engine 8 Million pounds
- Massive development cost
- Ensures SAFETY (bird strike for example)
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- One fan blade £30,000 (or
- a BMW 5 series)
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- Thrust - Physics (Newton's Laws)
- Efficiency - Physics and Chemistry (Gas Laws ,
Thermodynamics, combustion)
- Design - Physics and Mathematics
- Turbine blades - Trigonometry, integration,
- Fluid flow - Bernoulli, matrices, Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Mechanical design - Mechanics, dynamics, matrices
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