Thank you for visiting the IMechE website. Thameswey is made up of four areas and a Young Members’ section:
Chiltern
Farnborough and Guildford
Oxford
Reading
YMs
You will find details of their programmes elsewhere in the IMechE Near You web pages.
In Thameswey there are a variety of industries from large multi-nationals to small research units, many of whom have close contacts with the universities in the Region including the Joint Services Command and Staff College. The IMechE has close links with Surrey University and present two prizes to engineering students there.
Through our active members and the efforts of our Regional Manager we are increasing our membership in both academia and industry and have a number of active assessors within the Region. We also have members who can offer guidance on membership applications where potential candidates lack a direct link to the Institution.
The activities of the Areas and YMs are often in close co-operation with other Institutions and learned bodies and we are proud of our attendance numbers here in the Region, where we aim to deliver a varied and interesting programme of events. A recent visit by Bill Banks, then President elect, included visits to Gillette and AWE followed by an evening reception at Foster Wheelers’ offices in Reading where newly elected members were presented with a Thameswey certificate by Bill Banks.
President Bill Banks with AWE staff and the IMechE team from the Region during visit to AWE at Aldermaston
The Region is represented on the Council of the Institution through the Regional Strategy Board and we have members who are currently elected to Council in their own right.
We have an active Schools programme which takes up a lot of time for those members currently involved and we are always looking for new members who might be keen to help spread the load. If you have time to spare and would like to join one of the Area committees we can always find a role for you.
Although we have more than 5700 members, there are still a lot of engineers who are eligible to join but have not got round to it yet or are members but could become fellows of the Institution. If you know someone in either category or are there yourself please let us know and we will be happy to help you achieve membership or fellowship.
I hope to meet you at one of our events soon
Sue Lancashire
Chairman
27 November 2008 | 19:00 - 22:00
**PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE OF DATE FOR THIS EVENT - This is due to unforeseen circumstances!**
To improve on the effectiveness of your staff and operational systems it is important that you move towards a team culture in which all staff understand the supply chains within the business and their role in meeting the required outputs.
The talk examines issues relating to a team culture, the need for change, staff behaviour and attitudes, relationships with other staff and the ten things we should do to be effective supply chain members so that we can minimise ‘costs’ and maximise our chances of being successful.
03 December 2008 | 19:00 - 21:15
Jason Hill from ProDrive will talk about the background and result of utilising Biofuels in the Aston Martin DBRS9s.
11 December 2008 | 19:00 - 22:00
**THE DATE OF THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CONFIRMED - The change is due to unforeseen cicumstances!**
This talk gives details of the findings of around 150 health checks that Dennis Beard has carried out.
14 January 2009 | 18:30 - 21:17
developed into Airbus 300 series