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词条 Don Fry
释义

  1. NQEA

     Hypersonics 

  2. Community involvement

  3. Awards

  4. External links

  5. References

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Don Fry AO (born Donald G. Fry)[1] is an Australian engineer, company director, entrepreneur and philanthropist.

NQEA

Fry is Owner & Chairman of NQEA Australia, founded by his father in 1948 in Cairns, Queensland as a general engineering company contracting to the mining industry, then diversified. Fry started his apprenticeship as a Fitter and Turner with NQEA.

Under Fry's direction, NQEA later entered the boat building and maintenance industry, and won the contract to build the 14 Australian follow-on 42m Fremantle Class patrol boats for the Royal Australian Navy that entered service in the 1980s, then provided maintenance for the ships. NQEA later built and maintained luxury pleasure boats.

Hypersonics

The Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra contracted NQEA to build a complete ground testing hypersonics test chamber to a design developed by him.

In 2004 NQEA built a nozzle for a scramjet (supersonic combustion ramjet engine) to be tested by the University of Queensland ground test facility, the T4 tunnel. Fry has been designated as an Adjunct Professor of the University's School of Engineering.

Community involvement

Besides his business and scientific interests, Don Fry chairs Australia’s national committee advising the Government of Australia on homelessness.

He is chair of the James Cook University Engineering Advisory Board.

Fry is a recipient of the Institution of Engineers Australia highest National award. He was the inaugural recipient of the Queensland Division Hall of Fame.

Fry has also been inducted into the Queensland University of Technology Hall of Fame for Outstanding Constructors.

He is Patron of the FNQ Independent Living Support Association, a longtime board member of Lifeline Cairns, and has been for 30 years member of the Cairns Salvation Army Advisory Board.

In 2006 he was appointed a special trustee for ensuring the allocation of funds under the federal government's Cyclone Larry assistance package.

Awards

  • 2006 - named among the Top 100 Australia's Most Influential Engineers [2] in Australia.

External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070429163234/http://www.engineersmedia.com.au/magazines/ea/100influential2006/newtop100_2006/top_other.html Engineers Australia profile]

References

1. ^{{cite web|title=Dr Donald G Fry, AO|url=http://www.fnqilsa.org.au/fnqilsa/management/10.html|publisher=FNQ Independent Living Association Inc|accessdate=17 September 2012}}
2. ^Top 100 Australia's Most Influential Engineers Engineers Australia, Vol 78 No 6 COVER STORY {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070429044623/http://www.engineersmedia.com.au/magazines/ea/100influential2006/newtop100_2006/name_index.html |date=29 April 2007 }}, JUNE 2006
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