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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.

Follow link for the call for papers.

For more information, please follow the link http://www.icmr.org.uk/

Download programme

Accommodation
We have reserved accommodation for delegates at a special rate in the Orchard Hotel, which is on campus adjacent to the conference centre. Please see the “more info” tab on the booking page.

For details of the conference, follow the link https://cphc.ac.uk/conferences-and-agms/

The annual Recruitment and Admissions Forum took place at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers on 10th November 2014 convened by EPC Recruitment and Admissions Sub Committee chair, Professor Mike Bramhall.

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.