This is a series of exciting and unusual workshops to build on an engineer’s public engagement skills. The goal is to provide delegatesĀ 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)
Timed to follow the publication of the ‘one year on’ report of theĀ 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.Ā The conference also coincides with the Government’sĀ Your Life campaign, announced by the Chancellor in May 2014.
For more details, please follow the linkĀ Addressing the STEM skills gap – progression to university, employer engagement and postgraduate training
TheĀ 2014 Vitae Researcher Development International ConferenceĀ is being held on the 9-10 September in Manchester, UK
The conference will address the strategic and practical implications of the following themes:
Ā Policy developments relating to the doctoral education and employing researchers
Ā Building institutional capacity for researchers’ professional development to maintain research excellence
Ā Demonstrating the value of researcher development on research outputs, researcher careers, economic prosperity and society
Ā Sustainable practice to support researcher skills, professional and career development
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
The UNIVERSITIES UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS (UAS) CHALLENGE will take place in summer 2015, at WROUGHTON AIRFIELD
KEY DATES:
April 2014 – Team sign-up
June 2014 – EXPO Event
September 2014 – Competition starts
June/July 2015 – Fly off (date to be confirmed)
Entries for the challenge are now open! It is Ā£850 +VAT to register a team of 10 plus a team leader/faculty advisor. Additional members will be charged at Ā£85+ VAT per person up to a maximum of a further 10 participants.
Registrations close on Friday 26 September.
Follow link for more details for graduates,Ā sponsors, competition rules and booking form.
For other details or if you have an enquiry, please get in touch with Rachel Pearson on +44 (0)20 7304 6867 or email r_pearson@imeche.org.
The Engineering Education Research Special Interest Group’s second annual symposium will be taking place at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne on May 20th 2014. Attendance is free, but numbers are limited.
For the programme and registration details, follow the linkĀ Symposium Programme Ā
Our “roving reporter” and Chair of the Engineering Education, Employability and Skills sub Committee at the EPC, Clive Neal-Sturgess has been on the road again. Ā This time, he was representing the UK at a workshop entitled āThe different Engineering Doctorates in Europeā organised by the European Engineering Deans Council, 4ING – the EPC’s opposite number in Germany – and SEFI on the 16th September. Hosted by KU Leuven in conjunction with the 2013 SEFI Annual Conference, there wereĀ more than 60 participants with their presentations available here.
It was highlighted that the UK was unique in Europe owing to the existence of a single āarbiterā of quality in the QAA whereas across the range of other countries, quality control was within the remit of the individual institution. Ā A full report from the event will be posted here when it’s available.
Please see this Coal Research Forum E-mailshot No.17, (2014), with the Announcement of the Registration and Programme for the Coal Research Forum’s biennial conference, “10th European Conference on Coal Research and its Applications” to be held at the University of Hull on 15th ā 17th September 2014.
Registrations and payments are being handled by Maggi Churchouse Events, where you can register and pay on the above Conference Website.Ā Please note that the Conference Fee will increase after 31st July 2014.
Please note that although the Call for Abstracts for this Programme closed on 31st January 2014, one or more further abstracts may be submitted for consideration as poster presentations at any time up to 31st July 2014.Ā Such abstracts, which must conform to the specified format, (see template on the Conference Website), should be submitted by E-mail to the Conference Manager at maggi@maggichurchouseevents.co.uk. For such abstracts to be considered, the prospective authors must simultaneously register to attend this Conference via the Conference Website.Ā Although the Conference Programme is currently full, prospective authors of such abstracts may ask for an oral presentation, and such consideration will be given should a suitable slot appear in the Conference Programme.
For all enquiries regarding Conference Registrations, please contact:
Maggi Churchouse (Mrs), Maggi Churchouse Events,
3, East Barn, Market, Weston Road, Thelnetham, Diss, IP22 1JJ, UK.
Tel & fax : +44 (0)1359 221004.
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Brought to you by the Women’s Engineering Society in association with Aston University. Event flyer.
Guest of Honour: Professor Martin Hall, Vice-Chancellor, University of Salford and Chair, UK Open Access Implementation Group
Delegates at this timely seminar will assess the challenges and opportunities presented by the introduction of Open Access policies for publicly-funded research. It comes as academia and businesses prepare for publicly-funded research to be made available on an Open Access basis by 2014, following Government and the Research Councils’ accepting recommendations in Dame Janet Finch’s report Accessibility, sustainability, excellence: how to expand access to research publications.
The conference will bring together key policymakers with academics and university leaders, the publishing industry, science-based businesses, research councils, other research-funding organisations and further interested parties. Key topics for discussion will include the potential for e-books and other formats to more widely disseminate research, funding implications of the ‘Gold’ Open Access model, the role of that the ‘Green’ Open Access model could play in the UK and how the UK policy compares with the Open Access positions of other nations.
