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undefined Albert Hamilton (Engineer, Manager, Academic)

Professor Albert Hamilton (born in Belfast, Northern Ireland on the 18 May 1939) obtained his primary education in Belfast and his secondary education in Winnipeg, Canada. Tertiary education in Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering was obtained at the Belfast College of Technology and The Queens University of Belfast, respectively. Retired from 2012 he spent most of his 57-year career living and working in North America, Africa, United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.

Early career

Albert Hamilton commenced an apprenticeship with Harland and Wolff, the shipbuilders and engineers in Belfast. From 1955 the apprenticeship was centred on the craft of fitting based at the Engine Works and in 1958 he spent another two years as a management trainee working on the broad range of crafts allied to diesel engine manufacture and erection. At that time H&W built very large, opposed piston, engines under licence to Burmiester and Wain (B&W), the Danish engineering Company; these engines were the largest of this type in the World. In 1959-60 he was awarded a scholarship for full-time education where he completed academic studies leading to MIMechE (Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers).

In 1960 he joined the Port Line as an engineering officer sailing refrigerated cargo vessels between England and Australia. In 1962 he returned to academic study when he commenced a four-year full-time Degree course in Civil Engineering and in July 1966 graduated with a BSc (2:1).

To complete the Institution of Civil Engineers membership requirements he worked in Northern Ireland for Farrans Ltd. a large civil engineering construction Company and Ferguson & McIlveen, Consulting Engineers, on a broad range of project, including motorway infrastructure, advance factories for the NI Government, water augmentation, treatment and distribution, and sewage treatment facilities.

Career since 1969