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Institution Board of Trustees named

An Institution of Engineering and Technology product story

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Aug 30, 2006

The Institution of Engineering and Technology has announced the results of the ballot for its Board of Trustees.

The Institution of Engineering and Technology, Europe's largest professional engineering society, has announced the results for the ballot for the Board of Trustees.

Chris Earnshaw has been elected to Deputy President; Cdre Barry Brooks and Professor Christopher Snowden have been elected as Vice Presidents; Professor Maria Petrou and Colin Porter have been elected to the board as Ordinary Members.

All appointments will take effect from 1st October 2006.

Chris Earnshaw, 52, has been elected as Deputy President after serving as a Vice President on the board.

Earnshaw is Nonexecutive Chairman of the UK Police Information Technology Organisation (PITO), a nondepartmental public body which provides IT and communications systems to the police and related criminal justice services.

Barry Brooks, 57, has been re-elected as Vice President following the creation of the IET from the Institution of Electrical Engineers and the Institution of Incorporated Engineers.

Commodore Brooks is a Fellow of the IET, City and Guilds of London Institute and Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology and is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Engineers.

Since retiring from the Royal Navy, he joined Impact Plus as General Manager.

Professor Christopher Snowden, 50, has been elected as Vice President and is new to the Board.

Professor Snowden is Vice Chancellor and Chief Executive, University of Surrey.

Prior to this he was Chief Executive of Filtronic ICS.

He is a nonexecutive Director of Intense, designing and manufacturing photonic products.

He is a member of the UK's National Advisory Committee on Electronic Materials and Devices and an advisor on the UK's Office of Science and Technology/DTI Foresight Programme.

He is a member of the Council of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.

Professor Maria Petrou, 53, has been elected as an Ordinary Member and is new to the Board.

Professor Petrou is Head, Communications and Signal Processing Group, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London and holds a BSc in physics (Thessaloniki, Greece), Part III maths and PhD astronomy (Cambridge).

Professor Petrou has been working on image and signal processing and computer vision since 1986 and obtained Chartered Engineer status in 1999.

Colin Porter, 56, has been elected as an Ordinary Member and is new to the Board.

Porter is Engineering Director, Lloyd's Register Rail.

Porter has an engineering degree from Queen Mary College, London University and later trained as a signal and telecommunications engineer with British Rail and held a variety of engineering and management roles.

In 1996, Porter joined Harmon Industries, an American signalling company, becoming Managing Director of its UK subsidiary, by then GE Transportation Systems.

In 2001, Porter joined Lloyd's Register Rail leading the business development and engineering activities of the company.

He is a Fellow of the IET, has carried out professional review membership interviews for the Institution for the last 15 years and is Past President of the Institution of Railway Signal Engineers and currently a Board Member of the Engineering Council UK.