The Royal Aeronautical Society’s Education and Skills annual Spring seminar will take place on Monday 23 March at our London HQ, No.4 Hamilton Place, London W1J 7BQ.

Themed, “Where are we now? A pre-election update on the aerospace and aviation skills landscape”, the seminar will look at the skills for aerospace and aviation as the UK faces a General Election. Chaired by Jenny Body, the seminar will provide an update on the Society’s current actions in this field and share the work of related groups AGP and DGP. Discussion will include the broad spectrum of aerospace and defence, MRO and aviation, providing an opportunity for delegates to share views on where key skills programmes have got to and what should be the focus in the months following the election. We are particularly keen to ensure views of academics and AAU members are shared with employers at the event.

The Education and Skills Spring Seminar will feature speakers from:
– Aerospace Growth Partnership (AGP)
– Defence Growth Partnership (DGP)
– Royal Aeronautical Society.

Timings
13:30   Registration – Tea/Coffee
14:00   Presentations
15:00   Discussion
15:30   Networking Tea/Coffee

Registration
The Education and Skills Spring Seminar is free to attend and will provide both an excellent networking opportunity but, most importantly, gives you the chance to share your views.

You can register for this event by visiting http://aerosociety.com.

Alternatively please contact careers@aerosociety.com  if you have any further questions or would like the society to complete your booking for you.

This Intellectual Property Office (IPO) event will be held on 5th March 2015 at Paintworks, Bristol.

The event will be a celebration of entrepreneurial spirit and provides an opportunity to hear from industry and academic leaders about why IP knowledge is the cornerstone to graduate employability.

We’re very pleased that Baroness Neville-Rolfe, Minister of Intellectual Property, will be joining us to launch “IP Tutor”, a new interactive learning tool designed to improve IP knowledge amongst university students.

The event will also see the winners of the “StudentshIP Enterprise Awards 2014” being announced and receiving their awards.  This new IPO competition will reward the most enterprising projects that bring together enterprising students, businesses, and their local communities to incorporate IP within these exciting projects.

Further information on the venue and how to get there can be found here: http://www.paintworksbristol.co.uk/index.php?id=7
Please can you confirm your attendance (including your name, job title and institution) by emailing Alexandra.Symonds@ipo.gov.uk

Please let your colleagues know about this free event.
Please follow link to download a draft programme.

An impressive group gathered at Shell UK’s London headquarters this morning (3rd November, 2014) to launch Tomorrow’s Engineers week 2014.

Erik Bonino, Chairman of Shell UK (pictured) and Vince Cable the Business Secretary spoke passionately about the need to feed the pipeline of engineers to ensure we have sufficient to meet industry’s needs.

They endorsed warmly the Review of Engineering Skills led by Professor John Perkins, Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (also pictured), who also attended to launch his “One Year On” report which has brought together an array of partners – professional engineering institutions, universities, schools, FE colleges and businesses – to address the need at every level from schools to postgraduate specialist skills.

The Engineering Professors’ Council leads the work, on behalf of Education for Engineering, on postgraduate specialist skills.

Please click here for more information regarding the Perkins Review Progress Report.

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS AND CONFERENCE FEES

This Eighth MEE Conference will provide a full interactive one-day format covering current topics and initiatives of broad interest to the mathematical education of engineers and an (optional) informal Conference Dinner in the evening to enhance networking opportunities. This conference aims to reflect the progress and experiences of initiatives within the teaching of mathematics to engineers in recent years, to debate areas of known concern and to learn together from current best practice. The programme will include contributed papers, workshops and plenary discussions with distinguished invited speakers to highlight two areas:

i) Significant changes in pre-University mathematics. Major changes in A and AS level mathematics and new post-16 qualifications are due to take place from 2016.

Charlie Stripp, Director, National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics & Chief Executive of the charity Mathematics in Education and Industry (MEI).

ii) Significant changes in the education of graduate engineers.  Engineering education has undergone a fundamental change of emphasis away from individual analysis towards team working and a systems approach promoting more active learning.  The implications for the teaching (and learning) of mathematics will be discussed.

Peter Goodhew (Emeritus Professor of Engineering, University of Liverpool and Visiting Professor in Engineering Education, University of Derby).

The organisers invite contributed papers, posters or workshop sessions (submission deadline of an Abstract is extended to 24th November 2014)

Contributed papers (20 minutes presentation plus 5 minutes discussion), posters or workshop sessions (50 minute interactive session) should be notified through submission of an Abstract (200-400 words) emailed to conferences@ima.org.uk with the label MEE included in the header.

The proceedings of this conference will be published by the IMA; papers should be of maximum length 5-6 pages and submitted by 31 January 2016 for refereeing. It is expected at least one author will present at the Conference. Selected and possibly extended papers will be considered for the IMA Journal – Teaching Mathematics and its Applications.

Conference Fees: IMA members £70; Non-members £90; IMA Member Students £40; Non-IMA Students £50. Registration will open shortly via the conference webpage (below).

Local Organising Committee: Stephen Hibberd (Nottingham University), Duncan Lawson (Newman University), Carol Robinson (Loughborough University).

Further details are available on the Conference website:
http://www.ima.org.uk/conferences/conferences_calendar/8th_ima_conference_on_mathematical_education_of_engineers.html

For further information or to register your interest, please contact Lizzi Lake, Conference Officer, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, Catherine Richards House, 16 Nelson Street, Southend-on-Sea, Essex SS1 1EF, e-mail: conferences@ima.org.uk, tel: +44 (0) 1702 354020.

Call for participation

The University of Wolverhampton is pleased to be the coordinator of a British Council sponsored workshop, under the Newton-Al-Farabi Partnership Programme, to be held in Almaty-Kazakhstan between the 26 and 30 January 2015. The purpose of the workshop is to bring early researchers in the UK and Kazakhstan together in order to establish long-lasting research collaboration between the two countries.

It is intended to have 17 early researchers from the UK and a similar number from Kazakhstan. Early researchers are researchers with up to 10 years of post-doctoral research experience or equivalent.

The title of the workshop is Utilisation and treatment of wastes arising from mining activities, oils and other Industries: a) Mining solid wastes; b) Mining waste water; c) Oil and Gas industry waste; d) Coal power station wastes; e)  Cement manufacture waste and e) Food waste.

More information and contact details can be found by downloading the Open Call Advert.

Relevant expenses (e.g. travel and accommodation) will be met by the British Council (Newton-Al-Farabi Partnership) grant.

For more information on this Women in STEM conference for female engineering students, please download the flyer.

This is a series of exciting and unusual workshops to build on an engineer’s public engagement skills. The goal is to provide delegates with a platform to question and discuss the wider social, ethical and aesthetic implications of their work.
Join us to explore the obstacles and opportunities as in-vitro meat moves from the R&D lab to the dinner plate. How will interactions between logistics, engineering and society shape the public acceptability of cultured meat?


Royal Academy of Engineering Ingenious Award scheme and are free to attend, and there is one near you!

17th October (Birmingham)
24th October (Newcastle)
29th October (UCL)
30th October (Bath)

Please complete the registration form and return it to A.Phillips@bath.ac.uk before 7th October.

Timed to follow the publication of the ‘one year on’ report of the Perkins’ Review of Engineering Skills, expected in late 2014, delegates at this conference will assess progress made by the sector to close the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) skills gap by encouraging more young people to study these subjects and take up careers in related industries. The conference also coincides with the Government’s Your Life campaign, announced by the Chancellor in May 2014.
For more details, please follow the link Addressing the STEM skills gap – progression to university, employer engagement and postgraduate training

The 2014 Vitae Researcher Development International Conference is being held on the 9-10 September in Manchester, UK
The conference will address the strategic and practical implications of the following themes:

For further information and to book your place please go to:
https://www.vitae.ac.uk/events/vitae-researcher-development-international-conference-2014
Please feel free to forward this information to any colleagues or networks who will be interested in the conference.
Please don’t hesitate to get in touch (events@vitae.ac.uk or phone 01223 448527) if you have any queries about the conference.

Come and join a team that is putting in two entries for the rally.
Starting mid to end of May come and help prepare the aircraft in Tisbury.
Participate as ground crew at the rally, even perhaps get to fly the aircraft.
Follow link for more details.
Information and Applications:
John Edgley aero@aeroelvira.co.uk
See the website for other projects: www.aeroelvira.co.uk

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