William Edgar is a British mechanical engineer, who was President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers

Institution of Mechanical Engineers

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 in 2004.

He is graduate from Strathclyde University and Birmingham University with an MSc in Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics.
In 1990, he became Chief Executive of the National Engineering Laboratory

National Engineering Laboratory

The National Engineering Laboratory was originally one of several large government-funded public research laboratories in the UK, staffed by scientists and engineers of the Scientific Civil Service...

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He gave the George Stephenson Lecture on "The challenges of offshore oil and gas deepwater".
He was Director of Seaforth Engineering, which built the Underwater Training Centre at Fort William, Scotland

Fort William, Scotland

Fort William is the second largest settlement in the highlands of Scotland and the largest town: only the city of Inverness is larger.Fort William is a major tourist centre with Glen Coe just to the south, Aonach Mòr to the north and Glenfinnan to the west, on the Road to the Isles...

 and the National Hyperbaric Centre at Aberdeen

Aberdeen

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He was a Group Director of the John Wood Group, was Chairman of the J.P. Kenny Group for ten years, and on the board of Subsea UK.

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