145th President of the ICE (Institution of Civil Engineers)
Awards
International Water Association Prize: Research Excellence in Support of Sustainable Urban Water Management (2008); ASCE Best Paper Prize Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering (2007); ICE Trevithick Prize (2005); ICE Trevithick Premium (1987) FREng[1] (2012)
Professor Paul William JowittCBE FREng FRSE FICE[2][1] is a British civil engineer, Professor of Civil Engineering Systems at Heriot Watt University, and executive director of the Scottish Institute of Sustainable Technology.[3] On 3 November 2009, he became the 145th President of the Institution of Civil Engineers.[4] He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2011 Birthday Honours for services to technology. He is currently President of the Commonwealth Engineers Council. He was elected in 2012 as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.[1]
Jowitt graduated from Imperial College in 1972, and lectured there from 1974 before moving to Heriot-Watt University in 1987 where he was head of civil and offshore engineering from 1989 to 1999. In 1997 he was an Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2005.[2][3]
He was the lead investigator in a Heriot-Watt/Cambridge University consortium on the EPSRC-funded Implementation Strategies for Sustainable Urban Environment Systems (ISSUES) project, intended to facilitate knowledge transfer for EPSRC's Sustainable Urban Environments Programme.[3][5] Previously he led a number of research projects from EPSRC, UKWIR and the UK Water Utilities on water distribution network reliability, drought management and sustainable wastewater treatment.
His published work includes journal articles in Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering Sustainability, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, ASCE, Engineering Optimization. and Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems (which Jowitt edits).[3]
Jowitt is chair of the engineering charity 'Engineers Against Poverty'.[6] He is a former trustee of the Forth Bridges Visitor Centre, and a trustee of The Steamship Sir Walter Scott Trust.
^ abc"List of Fellows".
^ abImmediate Past President biography Archived 2013-12-16 at the Wayback Machine (retrieved: 22 July 2013)
^ abcd"Paul Jowitt". Research Gateway. Heriot Watt University. Retrieved 22 July 2013.
^Oliver, Anthony (29 October 2009). "Paul Jowitt: Driving force". New Civil Engineer. Retrieved 22 July 2013.
^"The ISSUES Projects". Paul Jowitt. Retrieved 22 July 2013.
^Engineers Against Poverty Bulletin, January 2011 Archived 2013-12-12 at the Wayback Machine (retrieved: 22 July 2013)
Professor Paul William Jowitt CBE FREng FRSE FICE is a British civil engineer, Professor of Civil Engineering Systems at Heriot Watt University, and executive...
Jowitt is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Cameron Jowitt (born 1983), Samoan/New Zealand Rugby Union footballer Claire Jowitt, English...
Jessop William Jessop Canals Harry Edward Jones British gasworks engineer PaulJowitt ICE President; sustainable engineering Theodore Judah Railroads Edward...
recommendations, and the 2007 Brunel Lecture by the ICE's 2009–2010 president PaulJowitt, are representative of a change of approach in the UK at least to start...
Sheffield: J. Pearce. OCLC 10120937. Harte 2009, p. 29. Foster, Paul (23 September 2004). "Jowitt [née Crawford; other married name Glover], Jane". Oxford Dictionary...
academic associations Preceded by David Malcolm Orr President of the Institution of Civil Engineers November 2008– November 2009 Succeeded by PaulJowitt...
President of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) (2010-2011) and succeeded Paul Morrell as the UK government's chief construction adviser in November 2012...
the immediate Past President of CEC is ICE Past-president Professor PaulJowitt. The current President of CEC is Dawn Bonfield. CEC strives to strengthen...
dictionary, 3rd edn. Cape Town, South Africa: Juta, 2001. William Allen Jowitt. Jowitt's dictionary of English law, 2nd edn. Revised by John Burke, Clifford...
Warren Jowitt (born 9 September 1974), also known by the nickname of "Woz", is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played in the...
novelist William John Locke. The witnesses at their wedding were Sir William Jowitt, the Attorney General of England, and Lady Cynthia Mosley, a Member of Parliament...
Lawrence, Greg, p. 127 Jerome Robbins: his life, his theater, his dance by Jowitt, Deborah, pp. 108, 135 "Jerome Robbins: Something to Dance About" American...
taken a touring hiatus due to an operation earlier that year with John Jowitt covering. He was later replaced by Dave Rimmer. Dates are taken from the...
2009). "Everything Is Happening for Millepied". The New York Observer. Jowitt, Deborah (12 December 2008). "Benjamin Millepied Takes A Very Big Leap Forward"...
series of affairs with women, including Lesley Jowitt, the wife of the British politician William Jowitt, and Irene Curzon. In addition to fathering a...
the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth for eight years. Mordaunt met Paul Murray when they were both students at the University of Reading and married...
Layoff Flood". Bloomberg.com. January 26, 2024. Retrieved January 26, 2024. Jowitt, Tom (March 8, 2024). "Salesforce Launches AI Tools For Doctors, Healthcare"...
Len Deighton. She was tried in camera at the Old Bailey, with Sir William Jowitt as prosecutor. On 7 November 1940, Wolkoff was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment...
Global Information