IMechE Events

Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Survival in the 21st Century

Event Type: Seminar
Date: 12 May 2010
Ever-increasing cost pressures mean that a number of companies have moved their manufacturing operations to countries with lower labour costs. However, it doesn’t have to be this way, not if established world-class methodologies are applied to pharmaceutical plants. This event will offer advice, solutions and best practice to tackle excessive lead times, high inventory, inefficient staffing, poor process control and supply-chain reliability. Benefit from the lessons of best practice, recognise the signs of success and help prevent failure.

9th International Conference on Turbochargers and Turbocharging

Event Type: Conference
Date: 19 May 2010
This international event is the latest in a series of highly successful conferences, held every four years since 1978. It will cover all current aspects of design and development of turbochargers, turbocharging systems, other pressure charging devices and their associated systems.

VTMS 10 - Vehicle Thermal Management Systems

Event Type: Conference
Date: 15 May 2011

VTMS is a dedicated International Conference for Vehicle Thermal Management Systems, organised jointly by the Automobile Division & the Combustion Engines and Fuels Group of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and SAE International.

VTMS 10 will cover the latest research and technological advances in the field of heat transfer, energy management, comfort and the efficient management of all thermal systems within the vehicle. The programme will feature plenary sessions, break out technical sessions, panel discussions, an associated exhibition, and a selection of optional technical visits.

Hugh Ford Management Lecture 2010: A Breath of Fresh Air - the Turnaround of CompAir

Event Type: Lecture
Date: 15 February 2010
Nick Sanders (former CEO of CompAir) will talk about the highly successful turnaround of the iconic air compressor manufacturer.

Essential Management Skills for Engineers

Event Type: Conference
Date: 21 April 2010
This four-day conference will help your company get ahead and stay ahead by providing less-experienced engineers with the motivation, insight and ability needed to succeed.

Mechanical Sealing Technology

Event Type: Seminar
Date: 18 May 2010
This one day seminar will provide an update on the recent developments and latest Mechanical Sealing Technology for the hydrocarbon, petrochemical and process industries.

Nuclear New Build: 2010 - Nuclear's New Generation

Event Type: Conference
Date: 02 March 2010
This two-day conference and exhibition, organised by the Nuclear Institute in collaboration with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Nuclear Industry Association will cover nuclear new build, key issues associated with this and policy and planning.

Your Future in Mechanical Process Engineering - A free evening event to explore the options available for graduates

Event Type: Lecture
Date: 03 November 2010
The options open to a Mechanical Engineering graduate are enormous and it is important that students are able to make an informed choice. The Institution of Mechanical Engineers will bring together students, recent graduates, some longer serving engineers and companies looking to recruit Mechanical Engineers in an informal session.

Safe and Reliable Life Extension of Topside Equipment Offshore

Event Type: Seminar
Date: 18 March 2010
Many offshore platforms, drilling, work over rigs and other facilities are past their original design life. But new technology and field enhancement has meant that they are required to continue operating. Changing properties of the fluids produced or additional wells require different processing and equipment in order to maintain production.

ATEX for Offshore Operations

Event Type: Seminar
Date: 23 November 2010
Industries that hold high-risk rates in relation to danger from fire, explosive atmospheres and exothermic reactions etc need to comply with DSEAR/ATEX regulations.

IMechE Training: Preparing Engineering Specifications

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 16 March 2010
Having high quality engineering specifications in place, is of vital importance in achieving optimum technical performance and value for money for your organisation. You will learn structured methods of preparing specifications and a range of practical techniques to help you put the principles into practice. The commercial and contractual role of specifications is also addressed.The course emphasises the need for a clear definition of requirements combined with the ability to communicate those requirements effectively to third parties.

ATEX/DSEAR Compliance in Bulk Materials Handling

Event Type: Seminar
Date: 24 June 2010
Compliance with the ATEX directives has been mandatory for new equipment since June 2003, and for existing equipment since July 2006. There is still a great deal of uncertainty surrounding this legislation and its impact on design, testing, certification and operation of equipment in potentially explosive atmospheres for both users and manufacturers.

Subsea Engineering - Designing for Integrity and Operation

Event Type: Seminar
Date: 16 June 2010
As offshore oil and gas developments move to deeper water and more remote locations subsea developments become the only option. Subsea engineers must therefore work ever smarter to optimise the integrity of the equipment through good design whilst expanding the boundaries of operational capacity and availability. This seminar will examine operational challenges and share solutions to them, and provide an update on the best practice in subsea engineering design for integrity and operation.

Experimental methods for health monitoring of fluid systems

Event Type: Seminar
Date: 22 April 2010
Health monitoring is becoming more important in engineering situations. It is an emerging area that is key for future competitiveness.
At present there is a lack of proven and robust experimental methods for health monitoring in engineering situations, especially in the severe environments commonly present with thermo-fluid applications, e.g. flow measurements in gas turbines at very high temperatures - perhaps in or downstream of the combustor can.

Clean Coal Challenges ThermoFluids

Event Type: Seminar
Date: 16 September 2010
This event challenges the use of coal for energy with zero emmissions.

Oil & Gas ThermoFluids: Future Challenges

Event Type: Seminar
Date: 18 November 2010
This event will address Thermodynamic/fluid dynamic problems with current and future hydrocarbon extraction processing and storage. This will include new problems with deep wells, re-injecting at high pressures (CO2), sub-sea releases, pipeline decompression (multiphase problem) and reservoir modelling.

Railway Division Annual Luncheon 2010

Event Type: Function
Date: 05 March 2010

Professor Roger Goodall will host the Railway Division's 2010 Annual Luncheon

Liquefied Natural Gas: A Review of the Challenges Facing LNG Terminal and Shipping Operators in the coming decade

Event Type: Seminar
Date: 17 November 2010

International Rail Accident Investigation Conference

Event Type: Conference
Date: 24 November 2010
This event will assist in improving the quality of investigations so that key lessons from investigations may be learnt and disseminated effectively. This will assist in the future reduction of waste from damaged trains and infrastructure, and in reducing the effects of travel disruption and transfer to other less efficient modes.

Use Lean Product Development to Recover from Recession - Workshop 1

Event Type: Workshop
Date: 16 March 2010
This series of three interactive workshops will analyse the business processes, tools and techniques that the world’s leading product developers use to do just that – and teach you how you apply them to your own business.

Use Lean Product Development to Recover from Recession - Workshop 2

Event Type: Workshop
Date: 13 April 2010
This series of three interactive workshops will analyse the business processes, tools and techniques that the world’s leading product developers use to do just that – and teach you how you apply them to your own business.

Use Lean Product Development to Recover from Recession - Workshop 3

Event Type: Workshop
Date: 27 April 2010
This series of three interactive workshops will analyse the business processes, tools and techniques that the world’s leading product developers use to do just that – and teach you how you apply them to your own business.

Steam Turbine User Group

Event Type: Seminar
Date: 23 March 2010
The next in the series of the popular Steam Turbine User Group will address issues relating to steam turbine generators for fossil, CCGT, nuclear, CHP, energy from waste and industrial applications.

Small Specimen Testing – Current Capabilities, Applications and Future Trends

Event Type: Seminar
Date: 22 June 2010
The use of small/miniature test pieces for obtaining materials data for critical engineering assessments of components is becoming more commonplace. This seminar will address the testing, analysis and the applications of the test data for use in engineering critical assessments.

Wheelset Management - Balancing Safety, Performance and Cost

Event Type: Seminar
Date: 10 February 2010
Showing how good tactical and strategic management can save the maintainers, suppliers, owners, infrastructure and operators money.

Bolted Flanged Joints: New Methods and Practices

Event Type: Seminar
Date: 16 March 2010
The seminar will highlight some of the problems associated with the design and assembly of bolted flanged joints in pressure systems

When Things Go Wrong... What Happens Next?

Event Type: Seminar
Date: 13 May 2010
This event will provide delegates with an insight into how an incident is viewed from all sides and will take the delegates through the events, the immediate aftermath, investigation by the Enforcement Authority and ultimately show how and why these events can often end in criminal court proceedings.

Professional Development Seminar (Bristol)

Event Type: Other
Date: 03 March 2010
Mentoring by Chartered Engineers is key to the success of IMechE's Monitoring Professional Development Scheme (MPDS), which has been operating successfully for over 30 years.

Professional Development Seminar (Glasgow)

Professional Development Seminar (Peterborough)

Event Type: Other
Date: 14 April 2010
Mentoring by Chartered Engineers is key to the success of IMechE's Monitoring Professional Development Scheme (MPDS), which has been operating successfully for over 30 years.

Professional Development Seminar (Birmingham)

Event Type: Other
Date: 26 May 2010
Mentoring by Chartered Engineers is key to the success of IMechE's Monitored Professional Development Scheme (MPDS), which has been operating successfully for over 30 years.

Professional Development Seminar (Preston)

Event Type: Other
Date: 07 July 2010
Mentoring by Chartered Engineers is key to the success of IMechE's Monitored Professional Development Scheme (MPDS), which has been operating sucessfully for over 30 years.

Professional Development Seminar (Gatwick)

Event Type: Other
Date: 08 September 2010
Mentoring by Chartered Engineers is key to the success of IMechE's Monitoring Professional Development Scheme (MPDS), which has been operating successfully for over 30 years

Professional Development Seminar (Derby)

Event Type: Other
Date: 13 October 2010
Mentoring by Chartered Engineers is key to the success of IMechE's Monitoring Professional Development Scheme (MPDS), which has been operating successfully for over 30 years.

Professional Development Seminar (Aberdeen)

Professional Development Seminar (Hull)

Event Type: Other
Date: 24 November 2010
Mentoring by Chartered Engineers is key to the success of IMechE's Monitoring Professional Development Scheme (MPDS), which has been operating successfully for over 30 years.

RBI: Non-Invasive Monitoring

Event Type: Seminar
Date: 20 October 2010
The Risk Based Inspection (RBI) process is seen as an important methodology for identifying and targeting inspection programmes. The basic premise is that the integrity of industrial plant, or other such asset, can be determined and monitored consistently by using risk-based methodologies.

Management Challenge Lecture: Delivering a Gold Medal Project - Building the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games

Event Type: Lecture
Date: 24 March 2010
This lecture explores the challenges management face in delivering the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and the critical success factors in appropriately planning and delivering on London 2012’s commitments.

Nanotechnology in Medicine and Biotechnology

Event Type: Seminar
Date: 05 October 2010

Nanotechnology is currently one of the most funded research areas in developed countries. It will have significant impact on the medical and biotechnology industries and healthcare technologies in the 21^st century. Nanotechnology has wide-ranging applications, such as drug synthesis and delivery, cell surgery and therapy, early disease diagnosis and prevention, biosensors and medical implants. The organising of this event will help to promote IMechE as a leading organisation in the area of emerging technologies.

This event will address the following questions:

1. What is the recent development on Nanotechnology?

2. What are the current medical needs and healthcare needs?

3. What are the existing and future applications of Nanotechnology in Medicine and Healthcare?

4. What are the future needs in medicine and healthcare and what can Nanotechnolgy offer?

Robotics in Surgery - State of the Art

Event Type: Seminar
Date: 03 November 2010

Surgical robots find increasing uses as surgeons demand more accuracy but with smaller incisions. First generation robots were large machines based on industrial arms. Numbers of these are still in daily clinical use. Today’s second generation robots are hand-sized. They are bespoke designs for specific tasks. They allow new procedures that are not practicable by hand and eye.

New sensors, real time imaging and miniature mechanisms offer even more uses for surgical robots. Tiny tools under image-guidance can place cochlear implants to treat profound deafness. Snake manipulators can navigate to disease sites within the abdomen without leaving scars. Micro-scale technology is being used to design swimming and crawling robots. These can move freely within body cavities. Examples of all these devices are undergoing laboratory trials.

Fractures

Event Type: Seminar
Date: 17 November 2010
Further details and a speaker programme will follow.

To register an interest in this event, please contact one of the contacts listed.

Spinal Biomechanics and use of Materials in Spinal Surgery

Event Type: Seminar
Date: 25 March 2010

There have been enormous advances in the application of materials and devices to spinal surgery over the past 20 years, and exciting innovations continue. However, further collaboration and also improved methods of introduction of these devices, remain fundamental to the developments in this field.

This interdisciplinary symposium will bring together engineers, surgeons and scientists to provide an important forum for the exchange of ideas and will address common spinal conditions, linking the basic science to the surgical application.

Advanced Plant Design and Assessment Methods

Event Type: Seminar
Date: 29 June 2010
Attend this event to hear about recent advances in design-by-analysis (DBA) methods for the design and assessment of both conventional and nuclear plant to ASME, BS and EN codes. Come and understand what new skills/software are needed to apply these methods and how DBA can reduce fabrication costs and increase plant life. Hear what both practitioners and regulators think about these methods. This event will appeal to engineers designing, procuring and assessing vessels and is an opportunity to see the current state of the art

IMechE Training: Commercial and Contract Risk Awareness

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 10 May 2010
The one-day programme is designed specifically to raise the Engineer's awareness of the various risks associated with engineering contracts and more importantly will equip the participant with ways to deal with them.

IMechE Training: Diploma in Management and Leadership for Chartered Engineers

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 01 March 2010
A unique opportunity is available to all Chartered Engineers. Delivered by CMI Enterprises (of the Chartered Management Institute), the Diploma in Management and Leadership for Chartered Engineers provides a 50% exemption based on proir learning and can be completed in a shortened time frame than the regular open programme, through a combination of formal home study and 4 compulsory attendance days. Additionally, on completion of the diploma, and a 360 degree exercise and panel interview, the award of Chartered Manager (CMgr) may be achieved with the CMI.

IMechE Training: Essential Financial Management for Engineers

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 23 March 2010
This practical course develops skills in understanding financial and management accounting for all those Engineers and Technical professionals who work alongside the business operations of the organisation.

IMechE Training: Essential Procurement for Engineers and Technical Professionals

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 20 May 2010
This course approaches effective ways of working within a framework of supply chain excellence. It is an excellent introduction to a very important part of an Engineer's working life. The course takes a systematic approach, demonstrating how to manage four dimensions of procurement and to gain an introduction to the role of Procurement for Engineers who have to work with the Procurement team or have to manage this function in their own role.

IMechE Training: Leading Individuals and Successful Engineering Teams

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 24 February 2010
This two day intensive workshop has been specifically designed to provide Engineers and Technical Professionals with a leadership course that addresses people management of Engineering projects and teams. It gets to the heart of good leadership, of high performance and the key ingredients of successful teams. Participants are shown how to identify key challenges they face at work; understand team behaviours and will work together on an action plan to move forward successfully. Group work is an extensive part of the workshop.

IMechE Training: Managing Project Risk

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 20 April 2010
This course will provide an overview of the key steps needed to be taken by all those involved in project management to identify and manage risks in a practical and effective way.

IMechE Training: Conflict Management

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 04 March 2010
This one-day course provides practical techniques to help you handle difficult and potentially confrontational situations confidently and effectively.

The Challenges of "Deep" - 45th John Player Lecture

Event Type: Lecture
Date: 15 March 2010
Professor C Richard Chaplin, former Head of Department, University of Reading will be presenting this year's lecture. He will discuss why the majority of rope applications are safety critical where failure can cause loss of life, damage and disruption. Those applications which involve great depth are amongst the most challenging.

IMechE Training: Prepare Your CV and Interview with Impact

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 22 April 2010
One day you will think about changing your job, moving upwards or to a new organisation. This course will give you the essential tools and techniques to analyse your skills, look for an appropriate appointment, prepare a CV and prepare yourself totally for your next interview. You will learn current interview practice and project yourself confidently in a formal interview situation. We will analyse your achievements, interests, and skill gaps so you are ready when that opportunity comes for the next move.

High Performance Vehicles: Can green still be fast and fun?

Event Type: Seminar
Date: 22 April 2010
Has low carbon spelt out the death of the high performance vehicle? This event will look at current technologies that will feature in vehicles over the coming years and how to integrate low carbon technologies without adversely affecting the overall performance and driveability of the vehicle.

Living with DSEAR

Event Type: Seminar
Date: 26 November 2010
How is industry reacting to these regulations (DSEAR 2002 Regs) ?

The incidents at Buncefield, Conoco, Texas City show the damage that can be done when hydrocarbon releases ignite.

The DSEAR regulations place requirements on operators to avoid ignition sources, these need effort to achieve compliance, maintaining compliance, but has this benefited safe operations.

The Fire and Explosion at the Buncefield Oil Terminal: The Basic Causes and the Impact on Industry

Event Type: Lecture
Date: 01 June 2010
This lecture is free to attend, all attendees must register in advance.
Refreshments are available from 5:15, the lecture will start at 6pm prompt.
The massive fire and explosion at the Buncefield Oil Terminal, Hertfordshire on 11 December 2005 made international headlines. But what actually happened?

Offshore Pipelines: Life Management & Fitness for Service

Event Type: Seminar
Date: 25 November 2010

An overview of the past 30 years of North Sea pipelines.
The regulators position (HSE will give their position on key integrity and regulatory issues)
Latest inspection technology: intelligent pigging; subsea survey; acoustic survey; etc.
Life extension for aging pipelines, including re-certification and design appraisal.
Re-commissioning.
Future potential uses, including carbon capture and storage of depleted gas fields.
Security of supply, damaged pipelines and emergency readiness.
Risk assessment.

Cost of Safety: Failure to inform the design process

Event Type: Seminar
Date: 11 November 2010
Further event details to follow

I'm a control engineer: ask me what I do

Event Type: Lecture
Date: 11 March 2010
UKACC and Mechatronics Forum Prestige Lecture, given by Professor Ian Postlethwaite, Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Northumbria University, commencing at 6:30pm.

"What do you do?"
"I’m a control engineer."
"That’s interesting; have you tried the black forest gateau?"

UKACC Annual Dinner

Event Type: Function
Date: 11 March 2010
The UKACC Annual Dinner will take place at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers following the UKACC and Mechatronics Forum Prestige Lecture.

Carbon Capture and Storage - How is it working and what next?

Event Type: Seminar
Date: 13 October 2010

Key figures from industry will provide an update on policy, legislation, funding issues as well as the real challenges in CCS that still remain to be solved on day one. A series of case studies will be presented from actual operational plants in the UK, Europe and USA covering the whole spectrum of processing activities through capture, transport and storage, identifying the operational flexibility obtained and issues of equipment functionality on day two.

IMechE Training: Setting Personal Objectives and Managing Performance

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 05 March 2010
The course is designed to equip you with vital tools and techniques that will enable you to set challaging objectives for your staff, monitor their performance, motivate them and to identify and improve poor performance.

IMechE Training: Advanced Negotiation Techniques for Engineers

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 10 March 2010
What do you do if the person you’re working with, negotiating with or managing is as tactically well-trained in negotiation or management as you are? How do you excel when required to manage or negotiate when you don’t possess a comprehensive background or experience in these areas? What personal style influences what you bring to the negotiation? Learn how to build truly win-win relationships through the art of influence, persuasion, and rapport.

IMechE Training: Essential Mentoring Skills for Technical Mentors

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 23 April 2010
The one day course focuses primarily on the skills and behaviours required of a mentor supporting and enhancing the developing Engineer.

Formula Student

Event Type: Other
Date: 15 July 2010
Formula Student (FS) is the biggest and best of its kind in Europe. Run by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), it promotes careers and excellence in engineering, by challenging university students to design, build, develop, market and compete as a team with a small single seat racing car.

To take part in this event, click here.

Liquefied Natural Gas – the chain and how it works

Event Type: Lecture
Date: 25 February 2010
The LNG projects are often likened to a chain consisting of interlinking components i.e. production, liquefaction, transport by sea, receiving and regasification. This lecture aims to describe the components of the chain and give some insights into the technology and the commercial aspects of how the chain works. From this, the relevance to the UK will be explained.

This lecture is free and open to all. Refreshments 17.30 - Lecture 18.00

A Joined up Railway: Procuring An Integrated Rail System in Scotland

Event Type: Lecture
Date: 22 February 2010
This lecture is free and open to all. Refreshments served from 5.15, lecture to start at 6pm prompt.

Railway Division Summer Technical Visit 2010 - Paris and La Rochelle, France

Event Type: Other
Date: 02 May 2010

The 2010 Summer Technical visit will be to Paris and La Rochelle. The prime aim of the visit is to broaden and develop the expertise and experience of UK railway engineers.

Moving Millions - Major Rail Projects 2010

Event Type: Seminar
Date: 20 April 2010

Carbon Capture: Under Pressure

Event Type: Lecture
Date: 19 May 2010

Lecture is free and open to all.
Refreshments served from 17.15
Lecture starts at 18.00 prompt

To achieve global targets for reducing CO2 emissions, carbon abated clean coal technologies (CATs) will be required for retrofit to existing power plant and installation on new build power plant. Improved cycle efficiency and biomass co-firing will reduce CO2 emissions per unit of electricity generated, but to achieve much larger reductions, up to 90%, there will be a need for carbon capture and storage (CCS).

Presented by: Euan McCulloch, R&D Engineer, Doosan Babcock Energy

IMechE Training: Essential Contract Law for Engineers

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 09 March 2010
This course has been designed specifically to introduce the Engineer to the legal concepts underpinning commercial contracting.

11th European Fluid Machinery Congress

Event Type: Conference
Date: 12 September 2010
This event will offer the perfect forum to share important Fluid Machinery design and operating experiences, providing superb networking opportunities to add value to your contact book.

IMechE Training: Lean Six Sigma

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 19 July 2010
Lean Six Sigma methodology helps to lead business improvement. This 3-day course is designed to help professionals gain understanding of Lean Six Sigma techniques. Learn to know where to apply Lean Six Sigma for maximum benefit and understand some of the critical success factors in applying Lean Six Sigma.

An Engineer in Court

Event Type: Seminar
Date: 08 June 2010
IMechE is pleased to announce the next seminar in the popular ‘An Engineer in Court’ series, giving a valuable insight into the legal responsibilities of an engineer.

Intelligent Transport Systems: Lean, Clean and Efficient Transport

Event Type: Seminar
Date: 15 April 2010
A one-day seminar to examine the engineering and technological challenges created by developing and deploying an ITS service in the UK, and to share solutions to these challenges.

Midlands Great Education Debate: Preparing for the Future

Event Type: Other
Date: 01 March 2010
This debate will be hosted by the IMechE's Engineering Director: Mr Colin Brown in front of a live audience of 150 key leaders and representatives from education and business. The discussion will be centred around what we need to be doing to prepare for our future in the recovery from one of the most devastating economic downturns in recent history.

Bringing Tram Train to Britain

Event Type: Seminar
Date: 22 June 2010
Tram Train services have been successfully operating in Germany since the early 1990's. As the benefits and popularity grew over the following decade the Netherlands, France and many other European countries quickly followed suite. Britain has been planning its own Tram Train Trial for the last two years and as the project moves into its second phase the interest and support has never been greater.

What is Reliability?

Event Type: Seminar
Date: 27 October 2010
Further event details to follow

Pump Fundamentals Part A

Event Type: Workshop
Date: 22 February 2010
A one-day course designed to enable individuals with a general engineering or commercial background to gain an understanding of the principles associated with the pumping of liquids.

Pump Fundamentals Part B - Pump Selection

Event Type: Workshop
Date: 23 February 2010
Pump Selection builds upon the fundamentals introduced in Part 1 and illustrates a procedure for evaluating enquiry data, making appropriate pump selections and on through to tendering.

Fluid Machinery - Meeting the Environmental Challenge

Event Type: Seminar
Date: 30 November 2010
This event aims to raise awareness of legislative requirements and to showcase best practice being adopted by manufacturers and users, highlighting where opportunities exist to reduce the wider impact of Fluid Machinery and work in harmony with Environmental requirements.

Ocean Power Fluid Machinery

Event Type: Seminar
Date: 19 October 2010
This one day International Symposium on Ocean Power Fluid Machinery will concentrate on engineering research, development, design, installation, site testing, operation and maintenance of Wind, Wave, Tidal Current and Tidal Range machinery at sea. The presentations will concisely describe the current state of the art and detail experiences in all of these topics.

Passengers, Procurement and Product Development – The Supply Chain for a Successful Railway

Event Type: Lecture
Date: 08 March 2010
This lecture is free and open to all. Refreshments are available from 5.15, the lecture will start at 6pm prompt.

All Change Please! The Annual Railway Seminar Organised by Young Engineers

Event Type: Seminar
Date: 08 September 2010
The world is an increasingly changing place. The start of a new decade represents an ideal opportunity to challenge the norm and make a positive step-change to exceed future expectations.

Railway Division Young Members Technical Visit (UK)

Event Type: Other
Date: 25 March 2010
The Railway Technical Visit (UK) offers an opportunity to participate in site tours at Bombardier and Ratcliffe on Soar Power Station with an evening presentation at Rolls Royce. The site tours will focus on how each industry implement their energy conservation processes and how effective this is – the evening presentation will concentrate on Energy Conservation within the Engineering field.

IMechE Training: Financial Appraisal of Projects

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 13 April 2010
Achieving true project cost control comes from understanding, eliminating and minimising risk prior to a business commiting any funds. This course studies the stages required for practical financial and business appraisals of projects and capital expenditure.

IMechE Training: Research and Development Project Management

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 15 June 2010
This intensive two day course specifically deals with the management of R&D projects, which require some differences in approach to conventional project management. Research and Development management throws up specific challenges for the professional engineer or science leader. Managing the uncertainties and non-predictables of R&D projects is integral to this course, as are advanced project management techniques specifically designed around the research environment.

IMechE Training: The New Engineering Manager - Moving from Technical Professional to Manager

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 29 March 2010
As you move ahead in your organisation, your effectiveness as a manager will depend increasingly on your ability to motivate people. The key to effectively managing people is leadership. Leadership is any attempt to influence the behaviour of an individual or a group. This intense 2-day workshop focuses on the movement from the technical professional and/or engineer to supervisor or team leader.

IMechE Training: Consulting Skills for Engineers

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 08 April 2010
This one day training course will teach you how to leverage your engineering skills in the workplace to maximise value for your organisation. You will learn a range of powerful tools and techniques used by leading consultancies that should feature in the toolbox of every professional engineers in any discipline. Participants will also learn how to develop their advanced professional skills and qualifications in this exciting and fast-moving field. Case studies and team working are used to demonstrate and embed new skills.

Future of UK Manufacturing Summit

Event Type: Other
Date: 04 March 2010
This Summit will cover the full range of issues facing UK manufacturing and will give you the opportunity to hear from - and to question - the people who will impact the future of your business. If you have an investment in UK manufacturing and want to be involved in the debate about the sector’s future, then this is a unique opportunity to do so and a must attend event.

Bulk Solids Europe 2010 incorporating the IMechE Symposium in New Frontiers in Bulk Materials Handling - An international event for everyone involved in handling, storing and processing powders and bulk materials

Event Type: Conference
Date: 09 September 2010

The IMechE symposium will explore the latest developments from industry and academia in powder and particulate solids handling in a number of priority areas of research and innovation including storage and flow, characterisation, pneumatic conveying and mechanical handling. The focus of the 3rd Bulk Solids Europe conference will be on energy. It is fascinating to realise that on the one hand energy is required to power bulk solids handling systems and that on the other hand bulk solids handling systems are required to supply the coal or biomass for power stations.

User Group Dinner

Event Type: Other
Date: 23 March 2010
The User Group Dinner is a perfect opportunity for networking. Dinner tickets are complimentary for User Group delegates but registration is required.

MX Awards Visit Programme: Renishaw Plc

Event Type: Other
Date: 23 March 2010
Manufacturing Award Winners Renishaw Plc open their doors for a tour of their facility in Gloucestershire. The day will also feature presentations from Renishaw.

Accommodation for 22 March 2010

Event Type: Other
Date: 22 March 2010
Need an extra night's accommodation for the night before the event?
The accommodation provided is on the University of Warwick campus, a short walk away from the seminar rooms.
All rooms provided are en-suite, non-smoking rooms on a bed and breakfast basis.
If you have any special access requirements please email h_atkins@imeche.org

IMechE Training: Advanced Negotiation techniques for Engineers

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 09 June 2010
When Negotiating, It is important that you have an understanding of how your own communication style can have an impact on others, and indeed how you can be interpreted, in this course you will learn how to build truly win-win relationships through the art of influence, persuasion and rapport.

IMechE Training: Advanced Negotiation techniques for Engineers

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 14 September 2010
When Negotiating, It is important that you have an understanding of how your own communication style can have an impact on others, and indeed how you can be interpreted, in this course you will learn how to build truly win-win relationships through the art of influence, persuasion and rapport.

CSeries - Now is the future! 26th Aerospace Annual General Meeting Lecture

Event Type: Lecture
Date: 18 May 2010
Gavin Campbell, Director Design Engineering and Technology Development of Bombardier Aerospace will give an overview of the aircraft programme, highlighting why the CSeries will be the greenest single-aisle aircraft in its class, and outlining progress to date.

IMechE Training: Advanced Negotiation techniques for Engineers

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 09 December 2010
When Negotiating, It is important that you have an understanding of how your own communication style can have an impact on others, and indeed how you can be interpreted, in this course you will learn how to build truly win-win relationships through the art of influence, persuasion and rapport.

IMechE Training: Effective Communication Skills

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 27 April 2010
Effective Communication Skills is a one-day training course which will help you to express yourself more effectively, have more influence with your colleagues and appear more confident in front of others.

IMechE Training: Effective Communication Skills

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 06 July 2010
Effective Communication Skills is a one-day training course which will help you to express yourself more effectively, have more influence with your colleagues and appear more confident in front of others.

IMechE Training: Effective Communication Skills

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 02 November 2010
Effective Communication Skills is a one-day training course which will help you to express yourself more effectively, have more influence with your colleagues and appear more confident in front of others.

IMechE Training: The Procurement Engineer: A guide to improving supply chain performance

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 21 September 2010
This two day course takes a systematic approach, demonstrating how to manage four dimensions of procurement and to gain an introduction to the role of Procurement for Engineers who have to work with the Procurement team or have manage this function in their own role

IMechE Training: Powerful Communication and Presentation Skills

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 28 April 2010
This is an intensive and highly interactive two-day course to help ensure you get the most from all presentation opportunities and gain experience in practising skills in the group. The use of filming and instructor-feedback is used in the course. Participants are provided a range of challenges which allow the opportunity to present in a variety of styles.

IMechE Training: Powerful Communication and Presentation Skills

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 07 July 2010
This is an intensive and highly interactive two-day course to help ensure you get the most from all presentation opportunities and gain experience in practising skills in the group. The use of filming and instructor-feedback is used in the course. Participants are provided a range of challenges which allow the opportunity to present in a variety of styles.

IMechE Training: Powerful Communication and Presentation Skills

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 03 November 2010
This is an intensive and highly interactive two-day course to help ensure you get the most from all presentation opportunities and gain experience in practising skills in the group. The use of filming and instructor-feedback is used in the course. Participants are provided a range of challenges which allow the opportunity to present in a variety of styles.

IMechE Training: Managing Smaller Engineering Projects

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 13 July 2010
The aim of this course is to provide skills in the principles and practice for leading and managing a portfolio of smaller projects in a multi-project / multi-task environment. It presents a range of practical methods and techniques relevant to the smaller project scenario, using exercises and case studies to show how these can be applied.

IMechE Training: Managing Smaller Engineering Projects

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 16 November 2010
The aim of this course is to provide skills in the principles and practice for leading and managing a portfolio of smaller projects in a multi-project / multi-task environment. It presents a range of practical methods and techniques relevant to the smaller project scenario, using exercises and case studies to show how these can be applied.

IMechE Training: Leading Individuals and Successful Engineering Teams

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 12 July 2010
This two day intensive workshop has been specifically designed to provide Engineers and Technical Professionals with a leadership course that addresses people management of Engineering projects and teams. It gets to the heart of good leadership, of high performance and the key ingredients of successful teams. Participants are shown how to identify key challenges they face at work; understand team behaviours and will work together on an action plan to move forward successfully. Group work is an extensive part of the workshop.

IMechE Training: Leading Individuals and Successful Engineering Teams

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 10 November 2010
This two day intensive workshop has been specifically designed to provide Engineers and Technical Professionals with a leadership course that addresses people management of Engineering projects and teams. It gets to the heart of good leadership, of high performance and the key ingredients of successful teams. Participants are shown how to identify key challenges they face at work; understand team behaviours and will work together on an action plan to move forward successfully. Group work is an extensive part of the workshop.

Comfortable Trains: A Moving Experience

Event Type: Lecture
Date: 26 April 2010
This lecture is free and open to all.
Refreshments available from 5.15, lecture starts at 18.00 promt.

Presented by Professor Mike Griffin, University of Southampton.

Railway passengers, and all those providing the railways, want trains to be comfortable – but do we understand what makes rail passengers uncomfortable?

Railway Young Engineers - Presentation Competition Final

Event Type: Lecture
Date: 13 May 2010

The top three presenters from the regional heats will battle it out at this final for £1500 prize fund.

Come along to support our Young Engineers and discover what the next generation are doing.

Further details will follow.

IMechE Training: Conflict Management

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 13 September 2010
This one-day course provides practical techniques to help you handle difficult and potentially confrontational situations confidently and effectively.

IMechE Training: Conflict Management

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 02 December 2010
This one-day course provides practical techniques to help you handle difficult and potentially confrontational situations confidently and effectively.

IMechE Training: Setting Personal Objectives and Managing Performance

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 24 September 2010
The course is designed to equip you with vital tools and techniques that will enable you to set challaging objectives for your staff, monitor their performance, motivate them and to identify and improve poor performance.

IMechE Training: Essential Contract Law for Engineers

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 22 June 2010
This course has been designed specifically to introduce the Engineer to the legal concepts underpinning commercial contracting.

IMechE Training: Essential Contract Law for Engineers

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 19 November 2010
This course has been designed specifically to introduce the Engineer to the legal concepts underpinning commercial contracting.

IMechE Training: CDM Regulations for Mechanical Engineers

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 10 March 2010
This course gives a comprehensive review of the CDM Regulations and their practical implementation and is appropriate for anyone involved in the procurement, planning, design or implementation of construction work (including building maintenance). Equally appropriate to those with no prior knowledge of the Regulations or those looking for a refresher on current best practice.

IMechE Training: CDM Regulations for Mechanical Engineers

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 23 September 2010
This course gives a comprehensive review of the CDM Regulations and their practical implementation and is appropriate for anyone involved in the procurement, planning, design or implementation of construction work (including building maintenance). Equally appropriate to those with no prior knowledge of the Regulations or those looking for a refresher on current best practice.

IMechE Training: Preparing Engineering Specifications

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 06 October 2010
Having high quality engineering specifications in place, is of vital importance in achieving optimum technical performance and value for money for your organisation. You will learn structured methods of preparing specifications and a range of practical techniques to help you put the principles into practice. The commercial and contractual role of specifications is also addressed.The course emphasises the need for a clear definition of requirements combined with the ability to communicate those requirements effectively to third parties.

IMechE Training: Project Management for Engineers and Technical Professionals

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 16 March 2010
This intensive two day course is specifically focused to meet the needs of those who work within an Engineering industry and will provide modern project management learning and its alignment with organisational strategies.

IMechE Training: Project Management for Engineers and Technical Professionals

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 09 September 2010
This intensive two day course is specifically focused to meet the needs of those who work within an Engineering industry and will provide modern project management learning and its alignment with organisational strategies.

IMechE Training: Project Management for Engineers and Technical Professionals

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 13 December 2010
This intensive two day course is specifically focused to meet the needs of those who work within an Engineering industry and will provide modern project management learning and its alignment with organisational strategies.

IMechE Training: Essential Financial Management for Engineers

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 15 June 2010
This practical course develops skills in understanding financial and management accounting for all those Engineers and Technical professionals who work alongside the business operations of the organisation.

IMechE Training: Essential Financial Management for Engineers

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 21 September 2010
This practical course develops skills in understanding financial and management accounting for all those Engineers and Technical professionals who work alongside the business operations of the organisation.

IMechE Training: Essential Financial Management for Engineers

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 06 December 2010
This practical course develops skills in understanding financial and management accounting for all those Engineers and Technical professionals who work alongside the business operations of the organisation.

IMechE Training: The New Engineering Manager - Moving from Technical Professional to Manager

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 15 June 2010
As you move ahead in your organisation, your effectiveness as a manager will depend increasingly on your ability to motivate people. The key to effectively managing people is leadership. Leadership is any attempt to influence the behaviour of an individual or a group. This intense 2-day workshop focuses on the movement from the technical professional and/or engineer to supervisor or team leader.

IMechE Training: Consulting Skills for Engineers

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 14 May 2010
This one day training course will teach you how to leverage your engineering skills in the workplace to maximise value for your organisation. You will learn a range of powerful tools and techniques used by leading consultancies that should feature in the toolbox of every professional engineers in any discipline. Participants will also learn how to develop their advanced professional skills and qualifications in this exciting and fast-moving field. Case studies and team working are used to demonstrate and embed new skills.

IMechE Training: Consulting Skills for Engineers

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 24 June 2010
This one day training course will teach you how to leverage your engineering skills in the workplace to maximise value for your organisation. You will learn a range of powerful tools and techniques used by leading consultancies that should feature in the toolbox of every professional engineers in any discipline. Participants will also learn how to develop their advanced professional skills and qualifications in this exciting and fast-moving field. Case studies and team working are used to demonstrate and embed new skills.

IMechE Training: Financial Appraisal of Projects

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 20 October 2010
Achieving true project cost control comes from understanding, eliminating and minimising risk prior to a business commiting any funds. This course studies the stages required for practical financial and business appraisals of projects and capital expenditure.

IMechE Training: Managing Project Risk

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 14 September 2010
This course will provide an overview of the key steps needed to be taken by all those involved in project management to identify and manage risks in a practical and effective way.

IMechE Training: Prepare Your CV and Interview with Impact

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 09 July 2010
One day you will think about changing your job, moving upwards or to a new organisation. This course will give you the essential tools and techniques to analyse your skills, look for an appropriate appointment, prepare a CV and prepare yourself totally for your next interview. You will learn current interview practice and project yourself confidently in a formal interview situation. We will analyse your achievements, interests, and skill gaps so you are ready when that opportunity comes for the next move.

IMechE Training: Prepare Your CV and Interview with Impact

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 06 September 2010
One day you will think about changing your job, moving upwards or to a new organisation. This course will give you the essential tools and techniques to analyse your skills, look for an appropriate appointment, prepare a CV and prepare yourself totally for your next interview. You will learn current interview practice and project yourself confidently in a formal interview situation. We will analyse your achievements, interests, and skill gaps so you are ready when that opportunity comes for the next move.

IMechE Training: Essential Mentoring Skills for Technical Mentors

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 25 June 2010
The one day course focuses primarily on the skills and behaviours required of a mentor supporting and enhancing the developing Engineer.

IMechE Training: Commercial and Contract Risk Awareness

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 27 September 2010
The one-day programme is designed specifically to raise the Engineer's awareness of the various risks associated with engineering contracts and more importantly will equip the participant with ways to deal with them.

IMechE Training: Essential Procurement for Engineers and Technical Professionals

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 29 November 2010
This course approaches effective ways of working within a framework of supply chain excellence. It is an excellent introduction to a very important part of an Engineer's working life. The course takes a systematic approach, demonstrating how to manage four dimensions of procurement and to gain an introduction to the role of Procurement for Engineers who have to work with the Procurement team or have to manage this function in their own role.

IMechE Training: Research and Development Project Management

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 01 December 2010
This intensive two day course specifically deals with the management of R&D projects, which require some differences in approach to conventional project management. Research and Development management throws up specific challenges for the professional engineer or science leader. Managing the uncertainties and non-predictables of R&D projects is integral to this course, as are advanced project management techniques specifically designed around the research environment.

IMechE Training: Contract Law and Contract Drafting for Engineers and Technical Professionals

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 01 July 2010
This two day Professional Development Skills Training Course will enable engineers and technical professionals to understand the fundamentals of contract law and methods of drafting a contract.

IMechE Training: Contract Law and Contract Drafting for Engineers and Technical Professionals

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 16 November 2010
This two day Professional Development Skills Training Course will enable engineers and technical professionals to understand the fundamentals of contract law and methods of drafting a contract.

IMechE Training: Contract Law and Contract Drafting for Engineers and Technical Professionals

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 07 December 2010
This two day Professional Development Skills Training Course will enable engineers and technical professionals to understand the fundamentals of contract law and methods of drafting a contract.

IMechE Training: High Performance Teams: Getting the best out of your team and yourself as a team leader

Event Type: CPD Training
Date: 08 April 2010

In an environment where targets are all important, businesses can forget that to keep ahead in a competitive and demanding environment, the focus needs to be on the people who’ll be realising those goals. Without a cohesive, focussed team that can work well under pressure, those targets are threatened.

Any combination of elements from ‘High Performance Teams’ will give you the tools to help you get the best out of your staff.

Your teams will have the means to be more purposeful and motivated and to work in a more collaborative environment.

Project Skills for Engineering Managers

Event Type: Seminar
Date: 11 May 2010
This one-day, interactive workshop will explore the necessary skills for successful project management and equip attendees with the practical tools to facilitate this.

Bulk Storage and Reclaim for the 21st Century

Event Type: Seminar
Date: 09 November 2010
Seminar will demonstrate the selection of the correct bulk materials storage solution and the associated feed and reclaim equipment and the latest control technologies.

Installing Rails for Heavy Cranes

Event Type: Lecture
Date: 18 February 2010
Heavy Cranes are used in a wide range of industries. The crane rail is at the interface between the crane, designed by the mechanical engineer and the structure designed by the civil engineer.

The Food Industry Challenge to Water Resources

Event Type: Seminar
Date: 07 October 2010

This seminar will provide an overview of the resource, cost, legislation, public health, commercial and practical solutions of water supply and disposal.

Setting Up and Running a Successful Consultancy

Event Type: Seminar
Date: 21 October 2010
This seminar will address vital consultancy considerations, as well as provide valuable networking opportunities to give you the chance to share experiences and best practice with other delegates.

TRIZ - Rapid Innovative Problem Solving

Event Type: Workshop
Date: 19 April 2010
TRIZ is a proven process for problem solving, generating new ideas and developing systems more quickly, cheaply and inventively than traditional methods.

Engineers and Surgeons: Joined at the Hip III

Event Type: Conference
Date: 01 November 2011
Further details to follow

TRIZ - Rapid Innovative Problem Solving

Event Type: Workshop
Date: 12 July 2010
TRIZ is a proven process for solving problems, generating new ideas and developing systems more quickly, cheaply and inventively than traditional methods. The TRIZ thinking tools are a rigorous and systematic approach for understanding and solving any problem; its principal tools enable you to uncover the most effective route to practical solutions, as well as the development of your next generation of products.

Human Factors: Usability & Operations

Event Type: Seminar
Date: 29 September 2010
Further details to follow