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Welcome to IES

IES is a multi-disciplinary engineering body, founded in Scotland in 1857, that provides a forum in which individuals from all engineering and related disciplines can discuss and exchange information, generate ideas and encourage young engineers. IES works with kindred bodies to promote a wider understanding of the role of the professional engineer in society.

You might have missed a few lectures but there are still a few gems ahead - find out more, 2024 -2025 programme

Just announced! - AGM and lecture on 22nd April 2025, 6pm and 6.30pm respectively

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Dick Philbrick

I was distracted from a career as an engineer, but not as a manufacturer. I could not help but compare how farmers and their farm workers, in the Suffolk village where I was born, collaborated in hard work with the poor management, lousy productivity and working relations of the shipyard where I trained. There were numerous strikes, sabotage and demarcation disputes between unions, but excellent craft skills in the shipyard. I sought answers to the demise of UK manufacturing in other industries and countries.

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“It would be well if engineering were less generally thought of, and even defined, as the art of constructing. In a certain important sense it is rather the art of not-constructing.”

Arthur Mellen Wellington, American Civil Engineer / The Economic Theory of the Location of Railways, 1887
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