Entity titleBarden, Ronald GeorgeEntity identifier190Entity typePersonDate range1924 - 2002DescriptionR. G. Barden was born in Rochester, England on 18 June 1924. He was educated at the Royal Dockyard School, Chatham and the Battersea Polytechnic, U. K. Between 1947 and 1949 he worked as a design draughtsman with the Admiralty. He took up a lecturership with Battersea Polytechnic and followed by a lectureship at the NSW University of Technology in Sydney. From 1958 to 1962 Barden was a Reader in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Adelaide. He was appointed to the Chair of Fluid Mechanics at Monash in 1962 where he remained until retiring in 1974. On retirement he returned to work in the field of noise abatement with Riley, Barden & Kirkhope, Consultants.
Professor Ronald Barden, circa 1963