The Manufacturing Industry Education Research Group (MIERG) at the Institute for Manufacturing is hosting the 3rd Annual Engineering Education Research (EER) Network Symposium in Cambridge. The EER Network used to be known as the EER SIG when it was supported by the HEA. As many of you are aware, the HEA is now focused on a smaller portfolio of work and the EER SIG Steering Group took the decision to carry on the activities of the SIG as an independent network to serve the community of EER researchers in the UK and Ireland.

The 5th EASN International Workshop aims, like its acclaimed annual predecessors, to offer a forum for discussion and exchange of information about state-of-the-art research and development activities, this year in the field of Aerostructures. The goal is to share high quality, current achievements and new upstream ideas for future research, from running or recently completed European and International research activities in Aeronautics and Air Transport.
In that frame, we are pleased to announce that the Abstract Submission deadline has been extended to June 15th, 2015. Selected papers will be published following peer review in a special issue of the International Journal of Structural Integrity (IJSI) of Emerald Group Publishing.

Registration is necessary in order to participate. To ensure that you will be a part of the event, please register and take advantage of the early bird registration fees which are offered at a discounted rate until June 15th, 2015!

Up to now, more than 15 ongoing Aerostructures related research projects have already confirmed their participation, most of them with dedicated project sessions. In this respect, the 5th EASN International Workshop is expected to foster the cooperation and interaction between them on a multidisciplinary basis serving as a forum to exchange novel and innovative ideas for future research.

For more information, see the workshop leaflet.

The structure of the event will emphasize into the enhancement of synergies between researchers through interactive sessions.
As such, the 5th EASN Workshop presents an excellent opportunity for discussing, networking and creating synergies for future collaborations on a bilateral basis or in the frame of multilateral projects. To get more information on the event, please contact us at workshop@easn.net.

From 7-11 September 2015 the Council of European Aerospace Societies (CEAS) will organize its fifth Air and Space Conference. CEAS represents 12 European Aerospace Societies with in total about 35.000 individual members. The theme of the 5th CEAS Air and Space Conference is “Challenges in European Aerospace”.

This latest in the Academy’s Innovation in… series of events will showcase a selection of some of the most recent advances in autonomous systems. It will focus on the potential of autonomous systems to have a transformative impact on industry and business, as well as considering the evolving relationship between people and technology.

Autonomy is at the core of modern complex systems as, increasingly, these systems are required top decide for themselves what to do and when to do it. Autonomy now extends beyond traditional robotic areas, covering autonomous vehicles, sensor networks and machine learning. With increasing growth opportunities available, the UK’s Robotics and Autonomous System (RAS) Special Interest Group suggested that the UK has potential to achieve a 10% share of a world market estimated to be worth £70bn by 2020. Beyond this, the global economic value of RAS in broader sectors is estimated at between $1.9 and $6.4 trillion a year by 2025.

Ticket cost : £20.00 including VAT
To book: http://www.raeng.org.uk/

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.

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