Dame Ann Patricia Dowling (born 15 July 1952) is a British mechanical engineer who researches combustion, acoustics and vibration, focusing on efficient, low-emission combustion and reduced road vehicle and aircraft noise. Dowling is a Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Mechanical Engineering,[4][5] and from 2009 to 2014 she was Head of the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge,[6] where she was the first female professor in 1993.[7][8][9][10][11][12] She was President of the Royal Academy of Engineering from 2014 to 2019, the Academy's first female president.[5]

Education

Dowling was educated at Ursuline Convent School, Westgate, Kent,[2] and the University of Cambridge (as a member of Girton College), where after studying mathematics at undergraduate level, and following a summer job at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, she was awarded a PhD degree in 1978.[13] Dowling's doctorate was in aeroacoustics, specifically on the Concorde noise problem.[14]

Career

Dowling's research career has been at University of Cambridge starting as a research fellow in 1977[1] but she has held visiting posts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Jerome C Hunsaker Visiting Professor, 1999) and at the California Institute of Technology (Moore Distinguished Scholar 2001).[1] Dowling is one of four main panel chairs for the Research Excellence Framework.[15]

On 3 February 2012, BP announced that Dowling was to become a non-executive director with immediate effect.[16] She has been a non-executive board member at BIS since February 2014.[17]

Awards and honours

Dowling was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 1996 and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2003. Her FRS nomination reads:

References

  1. 1 2 3 Debrett's People of Today Archived 4 July 2013 at the Wayback Machine Prof Dame Ann Dowling
  2. 1 2 "DOWLING, Prof. Dame Ann Patricia, (Dame Ann Hynes)". Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press.(subscription required)
  3. ↑ "Dame Ann Dowling". The Life Scientific. 28 August 2012. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  4. ↑ Notice Special No 1, Monday 2 October 2017 – Cambridge University reporter
  5. 1 2 "The President – Royal Academy of Engineering". Archived from the original on 20 October 2014. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
  6. ↑ "Professor Dame Ann Dowling, OM DBE FRS FREng". University of Cambridge Department of Engineering. Archived from the original on 26 January 2014.
  7. ↑ www.theukrc.com Archived 30 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine Women of Outstanding Achievement:Professor Dame Ann Dowling
  8. ↑ Dowling, A. P. (1997). "Nonlinear self-excited oscillations of a ducted flame". Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 346 (1): 271–290. Bibcode:1997JFM...346..271D. doi:10.1017/S0022112097006484. S2CID 121990505.
  9. ↑ Dowling, A. P. (1999). "A kinematic model of a ducted flame". Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 394 (1): 51–72. Bibcode:1999JFM...394...51D. doi:10.1017/S0022112099005686. S2CID 120706849.
  10. ↑ Dowling, A. P.; Stow, S. R. (2003). "Acoustic Analysis of Gas Turbine Combustors". Journal of Propulsion and Power. 19 (5): 751. doi:10.2514/2.6192.
  11. ↑ Dowling, Anne (1983). Sound and Sources of Sound. Ellis Horwood. ISBN 0853125279.
  12. ↑ Ann Dowling's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  13. ↑ Dowling, Ann Patricia (1978). Picoustic Sources in Motion (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge.
  14. ↑ "Interview with Professor Dame Ann Dowling". Archived from the original on 18 March 2015. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
  15. ↑ HEFCE announcement of panel chairs accessed 16 July 2010
  16. ↑ BP Board Changes Archived 20 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine 3 February 2012
  17. ↑ "Non-executive board member Professor Dame Ann Dowling". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
  18. ↑ "EC/2003/12: Dowling, Ann Patricia. Library and Archive Catalogue". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 4 July 2019.
  19. ↑ "Dame Ann P. Dowling". Retrieved 27 May 2021.
  20. ↑ "Woman's Hour – The Power List 2013 – BBC Radio 4".
  21. ↑ "BBC Radio 4 – The Life Scientific". Retrieved 19 January 2016.
  22. ↑ "Patrons: Women's Engineering Society". Retrieved 19 January 2016.
  23. ↑ "Royal Academy of Engineering Council nominates its first female President". Archived from the original on 15 July 2014. Retrieved 23 June 2014.
  24. ↑ "Royal Academy of Engineering selects first female president". Archived from the original on 13 July 2014. Retrieved 23 June 2014.
  25. ↑ "Royal Academy of Engineering celebrates its first female President". Retrieved 16 September 2014.
  26. ↑ The Dowling Review of business university research collaborations launches call for evidence, Royal Academy of Engineering, 23 January 2014. Accessed: 2 September 2015.
  27. ↑ Business-university research collaborations: Dowling review final report, BIS, 2 July 2015. Accessed: 2 September 2015.
  28. ↑ "No. 61470". The London Gazette. 13 January 2016. p. 546.
  29. ↑ University of Cambridge: Cambridge academics honoured over the New Year (accessed 19 January 2016)
  30. ↑ "JAMES WATT INTERNATIONAL GOLD MEDAL: ANN DOWLING". Institution of Mechanical Engineers. 19 August 2018.
  31. ↑ Xiang, Bo (27 November 2017). "Bill Gates elected to Chinese Academy of Engineering". Xinhua. Archived from the original on 27 November 2017. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  32. ↑ "Professor Dame Ann Dowling OM DBE awarded Honorary Doctorate from Royal Holloway". www.royalholloway.ac.uk. Retrieved 15 March 2024.
  33. ↑ Royal Medal 2019
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