{{Short description|British mechanical engineer}} {{other people||William Edgar (disambiguation){{!}}William Edgar}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2017}} {{Use British English|date=April 2017}} '''William Edgar''' [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] (born 1938) is a British [[mechanical engineer]], who was President of the [[Institution of Mechanical Engineers]] in 2004.
He is a graduate from [[Strathclyde University]] and [[Birmingham University]] with an MSc in Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics. In 1990, he became Chief Executive of the [[National Engineering Laboratory]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://heritage.imeche.org/historyimeche/pastpresidents/president/WillianEdgar.htm|title = Engineering Heritage Awards - IMechE}}</ref>
He gave the George Stephenson Lecture on "The challenges of offshore oil and gas deepwater".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imeche.org/Sitefinity/Authenticate/SWT?realm=https%3a%2f%2fwww.imeche.org%2f&redirect_uri=%2farchive%2fknowledge%2flibrary%2fpresidents-choice&deflate=true|title=Login|website=www.imeche.org}}</ref> He was Director of Seaforth Engineering, which built the Underwater Training Centre at [[Fort William, Scotland]] and the National Hyperbaric Centre at [[Aberdeen]]. He was a Group Director of the John Wood Group, was Chairman of the J.P. Kenny Group for ten years, and on the board of Subsea UK.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.subseauk.com/item.asp?item=197&item=197|title=William Edgar - Subsea UK, Aberdeen, Scotland|website=www.subseauk.com}}</ref>
He was appointed CBE in the [[2004 New Year Honours]].
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