Material created and collated by Douglas James Hargrave Maclean BSc MSc FIET, related to his education, early career and involvement with the IEE.
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Douglas James Hargrave Maclean, BSc MSc FIET, was born 1927 in Scotland. He was educated in Glasgow, attending Glasgow Academy from September 1939 to 1945, and Glasgow University Naval Division for six months in 1945, when he joined the Royal Navy as a seaman with the Radar Gunnery until 1948. In 1948 Maclean began a sandwich course in Electrical Engineering at Glasgow University, during which time he completed training at GEC Research Lab in Wembley (1949 and 1951), Svenska Turbinfabriks, Sweden (1950) and at the BBC (1951). He graduated from Glasgow University in March 1952. From September 1953 to March 1954 he undertook post-graduate courses in electromagnetic field theory and matrix and tensor analysis of linear electrical networks at the Northampton Polytechnic, London. From 1954 to 1955 he worked as a part-time lecturer in Telecommunication Mathematics and Priniciples at the Watford Technical College for the City and Guilds Institute course. From 1955 to 1956 Maclean attended the Graduate School of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, California, where he wrote his thesis on 'The Cocci Insertion Loss Design of Electric Filters', which was published as a technical report by the Electronics Research Lab, Stanford University, in July 1956.
Maclean first became involved with the IEE in 1949 when he joined as a Student member while at Glasgow University and acted as Student Representative of the IEE for the First Year students. From 1951 to 1952 he was a Committee member of the IEE Student Section in south-west Scotland. In 1954 he became an Associate Member and a year later was elected to full Membership status. This was transferred to Fellow status in 1966.
Maclean was an active member of the Institution and frequently found time for IEE social activities, as well as getting involved with organising colloquia and conferences with the IEE Secretariat, such as the 1989 Sir Eric Eastwood Commemorative Lecture on 'Telecommunications Past, Present and Future'.
