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2012: Professor Isobel Pollock-Hulf
Professor Isobel Pollock-Hulf
127th President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Isobel Pollock-Hulf OBE became a Liverymen of the Worshipful Company of Engineers in 2003 and was Master Engineer from 2016 – 2017. She is Honorary Secretary of her Phoenix Past Master Livery Group formed in 2016.
She promotes Engineering, Measurement and Manufacturing following a successful career with large Yorkshire based multi-nationals including 10 years at ICI Huddersfield and DuPont Howson in Leeds. Isobel has worked as a consultant focusing on Technology Roadmapping with SMEs.
For over 35 years she has been an active volunteer member of her professional Institution both in Yorkshire and throughout the UK. She was the 127th President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 2012, only the second lady in 165 years. She rejuvenated the IMechE Heritage Awards scheme and presented over 40 awards to places of significant mechanical engineering heritage. In 2015, she became a Trustee of the HMS Warrior 1860 Preservation Trust and was involved in a major renovation project funded by a Heritage Lottery Grant.
She led the Engineering Council 2014 review of the UK Standards for Professional Engineering (UK-SPEC) requirements for Chartered, Incorporated Engineers and Engineering Technicians.
From 1999 to 2011, Isobel was a Trustee of the AUDI Design Foundation and in 2015, became a Trustee of the Design & Technology Association. She is Patron of WES (Women’s Engineering Society) and works with WISE (Women into Science and Engineering) to promote STEM to the next generation of engineers.
She chaired the National Measurement and Regulation Office (NMRO) Steering Board (2013 – 2016).
She is a member of the Science and Technology Advisory Council (STAC) at National Physical Laboratory (NPL, Teddington) and chairs the Digital Programme Expert Group (PEG) for Quantum, Electromagnetics, Time and Data on behalf of the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS). In 2019, she was appointed by BEIS as a member of the British Hallmarking Council.
In 2004, she received an Honorary Doctorate from University of Huddersfield and was appointed to the University of Huddersfield Council in 2015. She is a visiting professor at the University of Leeds in the School of Mechanical Engineering and received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Leeds in 2016. In 2016 she was made an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineering Technology (IET).
She was appointed OBE in 2014 for services to mechanical engineering. On 23rd June 2016, she was named as one of the Top 50 Women in Engineering in the Daily Telegraph.
Biography provided by Professor Pollock.
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