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2003: Professor Christopher Taylor
Professor Christopher Taylor (1943-)
118th President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Taylor was born in 1943.
He was educated at Leeds Boys Modern School. He studied for his BSc in Mechanical Engineering at Kings College University, and for his masters and doctoral degrees at the University of Leeds.
His first position was as a Research Engineer with the English Electric Company. He then joined the Industrial Unit of Tribology at Leeds University.
In 1971, he joined the academic staff at the School of Mechanical Engineering at Leeds University as a lecturer. He became Senior Lecturer in 1980, and Reader in 1986. From 1990 to 2001 he was Professor of Tribology, and from 1993 to 2001, he was Editor of Part J of the Proceedings of the IMechE, the Journal of Engineering Tribology.
In 2001, he became Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Bradford, which position he retained until 2007.
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