Bernard Crossland
Bernard Crossland, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Queen's University, Belfast
1954 Bio Note [1]
Dr. Crossland was educated at Simon Langtons Secondary School. In 1940, he became an apprentice at Rolls Royce, Ltd., and left in 1941 to study at Nottingham University where he graduated with 2nd class honours in 1943. He then rejoined Rolls Royce, Ltd., as a technical assistant on experimental work on vibration problems.
In November 1945, he became a lecturer at Luton Technical College, and in August 1946, was appointed to his present position of lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at Bristol University. In 1947, he was awarded an M.Sc. on a thesis on Axial Vibration of Crankshafts, and during the past few years has been working on various problems associated with very high fluid pressures for which he was awarded a Ph.D. degree.