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. 

 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 : 1975–1983
    Sir David Zeidler : 1984–1988
    Sir Rupert Myers : 1989–1994
    Sir Arvi Parbo : 1995–1997
    Mr M A (Tim) Besley : 1998–2002
    Professor John Zillman : 2003–2006
Professor Robin Batterham : 2007–2012
Dr Alan Finkel : 2013–2015
    Professor Peter Gray : 2015–2016
    Professor Hugh Bradlow : 2016–2022
    Dr Katherine Woodthorpe : 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 , a former Sex Discrimination Commissioner
Dame Marie Bashir , the former Governor of NSW
Tim Andrew Fischer , the former Deputy Prime Minister
John Landy , the former Olympian and Governor of Victoria
David Hurley, , Governor-General of Australia, the former Governor of NSW
John Anderson, , 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.

See also
 Office of the Chief Scientist (Australia)

References

External links
 
Address by the Governor-General at the ATSE Clunies Ross Awards ceremony, 19 May 2011

Scientific organisations based in Australia
Technological Sciences and Engineering
Australian National Academies
1987 establishments in Australia

National academies of engineering