# Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering

The Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE) is an independent learned academy that helps Australians understand and use technology to solve complex problems.

## History

The Australian Academy of Technological Sciences was founded by Ian McLennan in 1975 in Melbourne.
In 1987 the name was lengthened to include engineering, as the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. In 2015, the Academy adopted a new business name, the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, reserving the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering as its company name.

## Organisation

ATSE operates as an independent, non-government, not-for-profit, chartered organisation.
As of 2020 it was composed of nearly 900 fellows, bringing together Australia’s leading experts in applied science, technology, and engineering, to provide impartial, practical and evidence-based advice on how to achieve sustainable solutions and advance prosperity.
The academy's governance structure consists of a board, an assembly (strategic advisory body), a number of board committees, policy-generating forums, state- and territory-based divisions, and a professional secretariat.

### List of presidents

* Sir Ian McLennan KCMG KBE FAA FTSE HonFAusIMM: 1975–1983
* Sir David Zeidler AC CBE FAA FTSE: 1984–1988
* Sir Rupert Myers KBE AO FAA FTSE: 1989–1994
* Sir Arvi Parbo AC FRSV FTSE HonFAusIMM: 1995–1997
* Mr M A (Tim) Besley AC FTSE: 1998–2002
* Professor John Zillman AO FAA FTSE: 2003–2006
* Professor Robin Batterham AO FREng FAA FTSE: 2007–2012
* Dr Alan Finkel AO FAA FTSE: 2013–2015
* Professor Peter Gray AO FTSE FAICD: 2015–2016
* Professor Hugh Bradlow FTSE: 2016–2022
* Dr Katherine Woodthorpe AO FTSE FAICD: 2022–present

## Fellowship
### Royal Fellow

The academy inducted its Royal Fellow, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh KG KT OM GBE AK PC FRS FAA FTSE, in 1977.

### Foundation fellows

Foundation fellows include:
* Graeme Bird
* John Christian
* Bob Durie
* Keith Farrer
* John Gladstones
* Antoni Karbowiak
* Philip Law
* Alec Lazenby
* Ian McLennan – Foundation president
* Robert Muncey
* Mark Oliphant
* June Olley
* David Solomon
* James Vernon
* Bob Ward
* Prof Howard Worner

### Honorary fellows

Honorary fellows include:
* Elizabeth Broderick AO, a former Sex Discrimination Commissioner
* Dame Marie Bashir AD CVO, the former Governor of NSW
* Tim Andrew Fischer AC, the former Deputy Prime Minister
* John Landy AC CVO MBE, the former Olympian and Governor of Victoria
* David Hurley, AC DSC, Governor-General of Australia, the former Governor of NSW
* John Anderson, AC, the former Deputy Prime Minister

### Fellows
## Clunies-Ross Award

Founded in 1959 to perpetuate the memory of Sir Ian Clunies Ross, the Ian Clunies Ross Memorial Foundation promoted the development of science and technology in Australia's beneficial interest.
In November 2002, the Foundation was brought under the Academy's umbrella, securing the long-term future of the Awards. It became known as the Clunies Ross Foundation.
The Foundation established the Clunies Ross National Science & Technology Award in 1991. The Foundation was disbanded in 2004 and the Awards are now administered by the Academy in three categories.