Current as of 1/6/2023

Emeritus Professor Peter Darvall, AO, FTSE, FIEAust is a former Dean of Engineering, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) and Vice-Chancellor of Monash University, now retired. His academic fields were structural engineering, especially in reinforced and prestressed concrete, and engineering education. He has a great number of publications in these areas. He was President of the Federation of Australian University Staff Associations 1979-81. He served on various CRC, School and other Boards, including Melbourne Water, the Holmesglen Institute and the General Sir John Monash Foundation.

Professor Darvall has made an outstanding contribution to engineering in Australia and the World in both research achievement and leadership in engineering education.

His early years in consulting engineering practice and research in a number of countries and adding a Diploma of Education to his Engineering Doctorate and National Presidency of the Federation of Australian University Staff Association, provided the background to the achievements which were to come.

These have been in the form of some fifty published papers, three books and presentations in a foreign language, the inspirational and innovative leadership as Dean of an engineering school which is extraordinarily strong in teaching, research and involvement, at the highest level, in professional practice, the Chairmanship of the first UNESCO sponsored International Centre for Engineering Education and Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research) at Monash University.