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Honorary Degrees 2019
The following honorary degrees were awarded:
December 2019
Professors Georges and Marlene Belfort were awarded honorary doctorates in engineering and science respectively.
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Professor Jonathan Jansen was awarded an honorary doctorates in education.
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July 2019
Denis Goldberg was awarded an honorary doctorate in engineering.
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April 2019
Professor David Roger Jones Owen was awarded an honorary doctorate in engineering.
Professor Owen is an international authority on finite element and discrete element techniques, and one of the researchers responsible for building the field of computational mechanics from nascence to maturity.
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Read the Vice-Chancellor’s announcement of honorary doctorates for 2019.