Welcome to another year of Pressure Systems Group events and activities. We are excited to be able to release our 2008 programme of events, a downloadable version of which is available here.

Our seminars start with ‘Engineering Critical Assessments Come of Age’ on the 12 March 2008. Get more information on this and other future events via the events section.

Dr Paul Murphy stepped down as Chairman of the PSG at the beginning of 2008 and I am delighted to have taken over. Paul would like to pass on his thanks to all the members of the Group for their invaluable support during his term of office as Chairman. This changeover also created a vacancy for the position of 2nd Vice Chairman, which I am pleased to announce Mr Paul Jackson (ABB) has filled.

I am also pleased to announce the following winners of PSG nominated IMechE prizes:

• The James Clayton Prize - Robert Ainsworth, British Energy Generation Ltd – Awarded for his work on structural integrity assessment in the area of fracture and high temperature components. 
• Donald Julius Groen Prize - Brian Leslie Cashman, Founder and Director of the Finglow Group of companies – Awarded for producing pressure vessel design software. 
• Thomas Stephens Group Prize - Paul Smith, AMEC – Awarded for an outstanding series of papers on buckling by a developing engineer.

The IMechE President, John Baxter, presented Robert Ainsworth with his prize and certificate before the James Clayton lecture on 7 November 2007. Dr Paul Murphy presented Brian Cashman and Paul Smith with their well deserved Prizes and certificates at a PSG Committee lunch in December.

In August 2007 PSG emailed our last newsletter to all those IMechE members registered with Pressure Systems Group. This regular newsletter will keep you updated on current issues in Pressure Systems as well as news and events (  RSS feed ) from the PSG at the IMechE. If you did not receive it and wish to receive future PSG e-newsletters, please email pressure@imeche.org giving your first name, last name, email address and include 'Pressure Systems Group newsletter subscribe' in the title.

As the new Chairman of the IMechE Pressure Systems Group, my aim is to create events and opportunities that will benefit and bring together the whole community of engineers involved with pressure systems. The programme of regular one day seminars on topical issues, and courses in conjunction with Strathclyde University will continue, but I shall also be looking at new ways in which we can reach and add value to the members of the Group through training, the internet and other media.

If you would like to be considered for a position on the PSG Committee or would like to contact myself or the committee, please email your details to psg@imeche.org.

I hope to meet some of you at an event in the near future and look forward to hearing any views you have on anything concerning PSG.
Here’s to a successful 2008!

Mr John Wintle MA, MSc CEng FIMechE
Chairman - Pressure Systems Group
Consultant Engineer TWI

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