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
IES Events
Other Institutions’ Events
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Engineers Ireland - Fundamental Communication Skills for Engineers
22nd May 2025 10:00 am -
RSE - Preserving what matters: Scotland’s national collections
27th May 2025 5:00 pm
Opinion
Exciting Partnership Ph.D. Program Opportunities Offered at the University of Glasgow
04 April 2025
University of Glasgow, only one of two Russell Group universities in Scotland, has recently launched a very exciting new initiatives for the Ph.D. program, called ‘Partnership Ph.D. program’, which aims to work together with the Scottish / UK industries to work on core problems of industry through co-supervision of academic and industrial partners.
Featured Event
Publication of the Month
Manufacturing Matters - Presidential Address 2022
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.
“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