b'30 Member News November 2020ObituariesEur Ing Professor Reginald LangmanBSc CEng FIET13 August 19302 April 2020An innovator at the forefront of research and development,Eur Ing Professor Reginald Langman has sadly passed away aged 89. Reginald first joined the IET as a Student member in 1953.Beginning his engineering journey in 1947,until 1966, before heading to the Electricity Reginald became an Apprentice in ElectricalCouncil Research Centre to lead as the & Mechanical Engineering at EnglishHead of Industrial Projects. During this Electric Co before moving into an Engineertime, he was also a Visiting Professor role at English Electric Stafford. Reginaldat Aston University in Birmingham. InEur Ing Professor Reginald Langman BSc CEng FIETthen went on to work at Nelson Research,1972, he became a Fellow of the IET.before heading to the USA for nine monthsTaking up more senior leadership roles in themetal processing, as well as advising on to take up the role of Senior Exchange80s, from Director of Electricity Utilisationmedical/dental surgery electrical matters. In Research Engineer at Jones and LaughlinStudies at the University of Cambridge to1992, Reginald became a Professorial Fellow Corporation in Pittsburgh, PA. Whilst inHead of Electricity Utilisation Education atat Aston University until retirement.Pittsburgh, he also became a PostgraduateThe Electricity Council, signified ReginaldsA leading researcher, he will be Student in Information Technology atcommitment to education and the Carnegie College of Technology.significantly remembered for his engineering profession. In 1991, he startedoutstanding contribution to the Back in the UK, Reginald continued in hisLangman and Partner along with his wife, role as Head of Automatic Control GroupRosemary Langman, which included thefield and education of electrical at United Steel Companies in Rotherhamteaching of engineering, mathematics andengineering. Professor Emeritus, University of Birmingham,Edwin Douglas Ramsay Shearman DSc FREng FIET FRMetS FIEEE17 November 192413 December 2019 1947-61. In 1960, the RRS were tasked with space research, Professor Shearmans working life beganspecifically UK involvement in just at the end of the Second World War inthe Canadian project to build an ionospheric sounder to 1945 after graduating from Imperial Collegego into orbit as the Topside in Electrical Engineering.Sounder, Alouette. Heading to Ottawa, Canada as the UK During his time at collegeof the Bletchley Park Colossusmember of the NASA design he was able to developdecoding machine were beingteam of Canadian engineers, his interest in radio, whichdeveloped and served on anProfessor Shearmans job was first encouraged whenanti-aircraft rocket battery inwas to oversee the antenna gifted a 1-valve radio fromthe Home Guard. His first jobsystem placed in the satellite. his grandfather, and buildwas in the UK Scientific CivilFor 6 months he travelled Edwin Douglas Ramsay Shearman the foundation for hisService based in the Admiraltyto Washington, New York,DSc FREng FIET FRMetS FIEEEprofessional interests in radioSignal Establishment, workingToronto and Boulder forAn esteemed engineer and communication, radar and theon various shore radio stationsmeetings with NASA. active member of the IET study of radio propagation. in the UK and overseasIn 1962, he joined theover many decades, in 1986 Professor Shearman livedconcerned with short-waveUniversity of Birminghamhe was awarded the Faraday in London throughoutcommunication and signalas Senior Lecturer inMedal of the IEE for his the Blitz and subsequentinterruption.Electromagnetism. In 1965,achievements in HF Radar attacks by flying bombsHis next role was Scientifiche was appointed Professorand sea-state sensing and and rockets. Whilst still atOfficer in the Departmentand later became Head of thein 2002 a Higher Doctorate Imperial he worked in theof Scientific and IndustrialPostgraduate School in the(DSc) by the University of Post Office Research StationResearch Radio and SpaceDepartment of Electronic andLondon for his Scientific Laboratory where key partsResearch Station (RRS)Electrical Engineering.publications over 55 years.'