NEWS
Nominate someone for the Smeaton Medal. Applications open on Monday 20th February
Professor George Fleming elected President of the Society for 2023.
The Society held a discussion dinner on 30th November 2022 on the subject of the 2022 Smeaton Medal award: "Designing water treatment solutions for humanitarian settings". Click here to see a precis of the discussions.
Francesca O'Hanlon awarded the 2022 Smeaton Medal. Click here to find out more.
Honorary Smeatonian Member Julia Elton FSA gave the 2022 Smeaton Lecture on "Who designed the Clifton Suspension Bridge". Click here to find out more.
The Society held a discussion dinner on 25th April 2022 on "Cyber Security - A Geopolitical Perspective". Click here to see a precis of the discussions.
The Society of Civil Engineers was founded in 1771 by John Smeaton and some of his professional acquaintances as a dining club to facilitate ‘conversation, argument and a social communication of ideas and knowledge, in the particular walks of each member were, at the same time, the amusement and business of the meetings’. The Society met in London once a fortnight, at 7 o’clock from Christmas to the end of the sitting of Parliament.
The Society was the first to adopt the name ‘civil engineer’ as a new profession, as distinct from the much older calling of military engineer. Following the death of Smeaton in 1792 the Society was revived as the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers. The Society is the oldest society of engineers in the world and embraces engineers of all disciplines. It predates the Institution of Civil Engineers founded in 1818. Members are known as ‘The Smeatonians’
