Summer, 2010

South Essex Area Chairman’s Letter 2010

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Welcome to another season of lectures and events organised by the South Essex Area aimed at providing you with a varied and stimulating programme to support continued professional development, knowledge and connection to professional engineers in the South Essex Area of the Institution.

As last year, we are presenting a series of evening lectures inspired by the four Institution Themes of Energy, Environment, Transport and Education. We hope that you will find the programme of events in the enclosed card interesting and appealing with something to encourage you to attend the lectures. We start the season in October with the subject of Nuclear Fusion for energy production followed by a meeting in November about future Gas Supplies – are they running out? Once again we have joined forces with our friends in the Automobile Division to put on two joint events on the subjects of Advanced Engineering Composites and Iconic Design with developments at Rolls-Royce Motors, which we are sure, will provide an informative view of these two areas.

Our Annual Dinner, which proved very popular last year, has moved slightly in the calendar to a new date of May 13^th, 2011. Please make a note of this in your diary as early booking is recommended for an enjoyable social event.

We also have a social visit planned to Bressingham Steam Railway and Gardens suitable for all the family on September 4^th 2010. Please contact the Secretary or myself if you would like further details of this event, or just turn up for lunch at 1pm if you fancy a day out. Everyone enjoyed the visit when we spent a day at Bressingham a few years ago.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the committee members and our sponsor, Jonathan Lee Recruitment, for all their support in putting together the programme and hope to see you at one of the meetings soon.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions for topics you would like to hear about in the future, or other ideas for making the Institution more relevant to your needs and those of other engineers.

Prof. Richard Folkson BSc(Eng), FIMechE, CEng, ACGI   –   e-mail: rfolkson@aol.com

Chairman – South Essex Area.

Vice-Chairman – Eastern Region