Past Events

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  • The Sir Michael Marshall Young Persons Lecture Competition 2018 (RAeS Cambridge)
    Event Type: Competition event
    06 March 2018 16:00 to 19:00
    Engineering Department, Cambridge University - Cambridge
    Competition for young people, under 18 to 30, to speak on any aerospace related topic
    Industry: Aerospace Industries
  • Tantalising Tantalum (The Welding Institute)
    Event Type: Technical lecture
    14 February 2018 18:00 to 21:00
    TWI - Great Abington, Cambridge
    David Rowe will discuss tantalum, from mine to finished products, a refractory metal mainly used in the chemical and electronic industries, and the welding techniques necessary for fabrication.
    Industry: Cross-sector
  • Visit to Cambridge Graphene Centre    Fully Booked
    Event Type: Technical visit
    09 February 2018 14:00 to 16:00
    Cambridge Graphene Centre - Cambridge
    Fully booked. Wait list operating. A facility tour of the Cambridge Graphene Centre, to see the advanced research equipment for processing and characterising graphene and 2D materials.
    Industry: Cross-sector
  • Air Battlespace Training Centre - The 18th Sir Arthur Marshall Lecture (RAeS Cambridge)
    Event Type: Technical lecture
    01 February 2018 18:00 to 20:00
    Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College - Cambridge
    Air Cdre Al Seymour, Commandant, Air Warfare Centre, RAF, will present a talk on the Air Battlespace Training Centre
    Industry: Aerospace Industries
  • An Evening with Miles Kingsbury - Bike Designer and Engineer (Cambridge University Cycling Club)
    Event Type: Technical lecture
    29 January 2018 18:30 to 20:00
    Nihon Room, Pembroke College - Cambridge
    Renowned bike designer and engineer, Miles Kingsbury, will talk about his record-breaking human powered vehicles.
    Industry: Cross-sector
  • Cambridge Autonomous Underwater Vehicles. Fully autonomous. Totally intelligent.
    Event Type: Technical lecture
    23 January 2018 18:30 to 20:30
    Lecture Room 4, Engineering Department, Cambridge University - Cambridge
    Members of the CAUV team will talk about AUVs in general, then describe the design of their new vehicle, where they are going, how they work, and the challenges they have to overcome.
    Industry: Machine systems informatics & control
  • Solar Orbiter – Mission to the Sun (RAeS Cambridge)
    Event Type: Technical lecture
    18 January 2018 19:00 to 21:00
    Lecture Theatre 2, Engineering Department, Cambridge University - Cambridge
    Kyle Palmer, Airbus Defence & Space, will provide an overview of the Solar Orbiter Mission, its background, mission design, orbit and objectives.
    Industry: Aerospace Industries
  • IEng & CEng Training Day
    Event Type: Professional development event
    16 January 2018 09:15 to 14:30
    The C3 Centre - Cambridge
    Complete your IEng or CEng application with support from Institution staff, and have it practically ready to submit by the end of the day.
    Industry: Cross-sector
  • Surgical robots big and small - how to enable the next generation of surgical robots (BmED)
    Event Type: Technical lecture
    20 December 2017 18:30 to 20:30
    Cambridge Consultants Ltd - Cambridge
    Current surgical robots give surgeons the ability to precisely and delicately manipulate tissue without requiring large incisions into the body. The robots themselves are large and costly, however, which limit their use. We discuss some of the engineering underpinnings that cause these robotic systems to be large, and talk through strategies for overcoming these limitations.
    Industry: Biomedical engineering
  • Portable Friction Welding (The Welding Institute, Eastern Counties)
    Event Type: Technical lecture
    13 December 2017 18:30 to 20:00
    TWI - Great Abington, Cambridge
    A technical talk on Topside/Subsea-portable Friction Welding outling the process characteristics, systems used and recent case studies
    Industry: Manufacturing
  • Visit to Museum of Technology, Cambridge
    Event Type: Technical visit
    09 December 2017 11:00 to 13:00
    Cambridge Museum of Technology - Cambridge
    A guided tour of the Museum of Technology, Cambridge, to see the impressive array of steam engines, boilers, gas engines, pumps and historical machinery and exhibits.
    Industry: Cross-sector
  • How modular reactors can provide an alternative to large nuclear reactors (IET Cambridge)
    Event Type: Technical lecture
    07 December 2017 18:30 to 20:00
    Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Cambridge University - Cambridge
    Steve Lawler from the Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, Sheffield, will talk about how modular reactors can provide a cost effective and efficient alternative to large nuclear reactors.
    Industry: Nuclear power
  • Flying Scotsman Restoration project (The Welding Institute)
    Event Type: Technical lecture
    15 November 2017 18:00 to 20:30
    TWI - Great Abington, Cambridge
    Simon Holroyd, Engineering Manager, NRM York, will discuss the full reconstruction of the world's most famous steam locomotive following 80 years of continuous operation.
    Industry: Railway
  • Gravitational Waves - LISA and LISA Pathfinder
    Event Type: Technical lecture
    02 November 2017 19:00 to 20:00
    Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Cambridge University - Cambridge
    Dr Christian Trenkel, Airbus Defence & Space, will talk about ESA's LISA mission to detect gravitational waves - ripples in space and time - and the recently completed LISA Pathfinder mission that has proven the technology.
    Industry: Aerospace Industries
  • Constructing the Internet, a maritime adventure. The interconnected Internet and sub-sea cables
    Event Type: Technical lecture
    19 October 2017 18:30 to 20:30
    Institute for Manufacturing, West Cambridge Site - Cambridge
    Last few places - book now! Rob Struzyna, a subsea engineer, will explain how the undersea cables that carry the Internet across oceans are laid and maintained.
    Industry: Telecommunications, communications & IT
  • Inhalers - a different kind of particle physics... (BmEA Cambridge)
    Event Type: Technical lecture
    26 September 2017 18:30 to 20:30
    Lecture Room 6, Engineering Department, Cambridge University - Cambridge
    Learn about dry powder inhalers and how they deliver drug to the lungs to treat asthma and COPD and explore what other conditions they could help treating.
    Industry: Biomedical engineering
  • SR-71, Technology of Mach 3+ (RAeS Cambridge)
    Event Type: Technical lecture
    14 September 2017 19:00 to 21:00
    Engineering Department, Cambridge University - Cambridge
    Col. Richard Graham USAF (Ret.) will talk about the SR-71, the world’s fastest and highest flying aircraft.
    Industry: Aerospace Industries
  • Cambridgeshire Ordinary Committee Meeting
    Event Type: Committee meeting or AGM
    13 September 2017 19:00 to 21:00
    Wyboston Lakes Waterfront Bar and Restaurant - Bedfordshire
    Committee meeting to discuss our upcoming programme and other business.
    Industry: Cross-sector
  • AGM followed by talk on Keronite
    Event Type: Committee meeting or AGM
    18 July 2017 18:00 to 20:30
    Institute for Manufacturing, West Cambridge Site - Cambridge
    The AGM for the Cambridgeshire area. Followed by talk on Keronite surface treatment technology, a hard ceramic coating for light alloys, given by Dr Steve Hutchins, CTO.
    Industry: Cross-sector
  • "Time Flies At The Old Warden" The story of The Shuttleworth Collection (The Welding Institute)
    Event Type: Technical lecture
    12 July 2017 18:00 to 20:30
    TWI - Great Abington, Cambridge
    Shuttleworth volunteer Debbie Land will talk about the history of the Collection, how it started, supported by audio visual of some its most interesting aeroplanes. (rescheduled date)
    Industry: Aerospace Industries
  • A light connected world (Institute of Physics)
    Event Type: Technical lecture
    14 June 2017 19:00 to 20:30
    Schlumberger Gould Research Center - Cambridge
    Prof Harald Haas of Edinburgh University will explain how LiFi works and how it will shape future communications.
    Industry: Telecommunications, communications & IT
  • IEng and CEng Training Day    Fully Booked
    Event Type: Professional development event
    14 June 2017 09:30 to 14:30
    Cambridge Design Partnership - Cambridge
    All Engineers, who satisfy the academic and competence requirements, are not on MPDS and who wish to make an application for Professional Registration as a Chartered or Incorporated Engineer should attend this workshop.
    Industry: Cross-sector
  • Energy generation and storage systems (IET Cambridge)
    Event Type: Technical lecture
    18 May 2017 18:30 to 20:00
    Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Cambridge University - Cambridge
    Oliver Burstall of Origami Energy will talk about the technology and financial mechanisms needed to manage a network of energy generation, storage and demand assets connected to the electricity grid.
    Industry: Power Industries
  • "Time Flies At The Old Warden" The story of The Shuttleworth Collection (The Welding Institute)
    Event Type: Technical lecture
    17 May 2017 18:00 to 20:30
    TWI - Great Abington, Cambridge
    Shuttleworth volunteer Debbie Land will talk about the history of the Collection, how it started, supported by audio visual of some its most interesting aeroplanes. (Rescheduled to 12 July 2017)
    Industry: Aerospace Industries
  • Space Debris – is it a Threat and are there Solutions (RAeS Cambridge)
    Event Type: Technical lecture
    11 May 2017 19:00 to 21:00
    Lecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Cambridge University - Cambridge
    Dr Jaime Reed of Airbus Defence & Space will talk about the problem of space debris and what can be done about it.
    Industry: Aerospace Industries
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