About Us

Welcome to the Scottish Region 

This Site will be used to update you on events and activities being organised by the IMechE Scottish Region. I hope you find something of interest in your area.

One objective of the Region is to improve its means of communicating details of events. From 2006, we now publicise events and meetings via e-mail and the web. Reminders are issued to interested Members some weeks prior to each event by email. If you are interested in receiving a details in advance of events in Your Area…then please either contact myself or your Area Secretary supplying your email address and Member Status.

We currently have three enthusiastic Young Member Panels operating in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen Areas. The Region is very keen to set an additional Young Member Panel in Glasgow. If you are under 30 years old and would be interested in participating in any of these panels, please do let me know.

Should you wish further information do not hesitate to contact myself or any other of the contacts listed within.

Dr Alex Galloway
Honorary Secretary

Events Diary

Nuclear Decommissioning - Separating the Myth From the Reality, Glasgow Caledonian University

26 November 2008 | 18:30 - 21:00

See poster for details.

 

How to nurse a badly corroded pipeline, The Robert Gordon University

03 December 2008 | 18:30 - 20:00

A presentation on the monitoring and analysis approach adopted to maintain a severely corroded pipeline in use until a replacement line was available.

 

Visit to Power Station Simulator, University of Strathclyde

04 December 2008 | 18:30 - 20:30

Details TBC.

 

New Edinburgh Tramways, The Royal Scots Club

09 December 2008 | 19:00 - 20:15

A high-quality, modern and efficient tram network is being created for Edinburgh and is scheduled to be running on the Capital’s streets by 2011. The lecture will explore the engineering required to realize this vision.

 

SELEX Industrial visit, SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems Ltd

11 December 2008 | 18:00 - 20:00

Across air, land, sea and space SELEX GALILEO offers both integrated sensor solutions and through life capability management for defence systems and homeland security applications. This opportunity has been created for IMechE young members to come and have a guided tour around the facility and projects to see what goes on in the state of the art facility.

 

Rolls Royce-Inchinnan:A Scottish Success, Teacher Building

11 December 2008 | 18:30 - 21:00

Investing in Success - Rolls-Royce Inchinnan MX08 Process Innovation Award winner Free Entry Members and Non-Members Welcome

 

Alexander Dennis, Falkirk, Alexander Dennis Ltd

13 January 2009 | 19:00 - 20:15

Alexander Dennis Limited is Britain's leading manufacturer of single and double deck buses. The visit is an opportunity to see behind the scenes at one of Scotland’s leading automotive manufacturing plants.

 

Hummingbird and Chestnut: Its hard work innovating in the North Sea!, The Robert Gordon University

14 January 2009 | 18:30 - 20:00

In his presentation, Mike Travis intends to use the experience on the Hummingbird and Chestnut project to bring out some of the regulatory challenges that were faced and the choices made, and whether or not these appear to be good choices in retrospect. Is the North Sea a supportive regulatory environment for innovating?

 

Financial Energy Management, University of Glasgow

15 January 2009 - 15 February 2009 | 18:30 - 20:30

Details TBC.

 

Longannet Power Station visit, Longannet Visitors Centre

28 January 2009 | 19:00 - 20:30

Longannet power station is a large coal-fired power station on the upper Firth of Forth near Kincardine on Forth, Fife, Scotland. It is the most powerful generating station in Scotland. When constructed it was the largest and most powerful coal-fired station in Europe, and it is now the third largest, after Belchatów in Poland and Drax in Yorkshire, England. It is a regional landmark, dominating the Forth skyline with its 183 m (600 feet) chimney stack. Like most other power stations in Scotland it lacks cooling towers, relying instead on river water as a coolant. This tour offers a unique opportunity to view the inner workings of Scotland's most powerful generating station. With a tour from ex-employees we are assured of interesting insights throughout this event.

 

Visit to Rolls-Royce Inchinnan, Rolls-Royce Inchinnan

05 February 2009 | 18:30 - 20:30

Details TBC.

 

Advances in Marine Materials, FMC Technologies

10 February 2009 | 19:00 - 20:15

Offshore engineering is an endless war with corrosion. Indeed the viability of our infrastructure for petroleum, wave and wind energy depends on winning many battles: Bob Reuben, Professor of Materials Engineering at Heriot-Watt University has a dispatch from the front line.

 

Transport Strategy for Scotland, Glasgow Caledonian University

05 March 2009 | 18:30 - 20:30

Details TBC.

 

Modern Naval Vessel Design - BAESYSTEMS., Babcock Marine (Rosyth)

10 March 2009 | 19:00 - 20:15

Modern Navel vessels push the limits of almost every engineering science from materials, through propulsion to complex systems electronics and stabilization systems. This talk by Mr Charlie Nisbet, BAESYSTEMS Head of Concepts and Assessment, will review the state-of-the-art and the most likely future developments

 

Modern Naval Vessel Design, Babcock Marine

10 March 2009 | 19:00 - 20:15

Modern Navel vessels push the limits of almost every engineering science from materials, through propulsion to complex systems electronics and stabilization systems. This talk by Mr Charlie Nisbet, BAESYSTEMS Head of Concepts and Assessment, will review the state-of-the-art and the most likely future developments.

 

Construction and Operation of an Evolving Network of Subsea Fields in the UK North Sea, The Robert Gordon University

11 March 2009 | 18:30 - 20:00

 

Engineered Systems for Safe Working at Height, TÜV NEL

02 April 2009 | 18:30 - 20:30

Details TBC.

 

Paterson Arran, Livingston, Paterson Arran Ltd

14 April 2009 | 19:00 - 20:15

Famed for the production of numerous house hold names from Oatcakes to Short bread. This visit will be an opportunity to see the engineering behind this commercial bakery.

 

Joint Institutions Prestige Lecture, Scottish Engineering Centre

16 April 2009 | 18:30 - 21:00

Details TBC.

 

Flexible Piping Integrity Management - Hot Topics, The Robert Gordon University

22 April 2009 | 18:30 - 20:00

 

Sailing the Solar Wind, The Royal Scots Club

12 May 2009 | 19:00 - 20:15

Could space craft of the future use the solar wind for propulsion across the vacuum of interplanetary space a project at Strathclyde University is doing the maths.

 

BP Schiehallion Redevelopment, The Robert Gordon University

13 May 2009 | 18:30 - 20:00