IES Events
We are currently working on our 2021 -2022 programme - it's looking good!
IES Presidential Address - this will be a hybrid event Making machines matters! learning what you don't know!
20th September 2022 6:30 pm
Britain has to make and export stuff. Successful manufacturing of machines requires brilliant design and a mastery of the widest skills, from fitting to finance to foreign languages. Tracing the silent death of the world’s biggest…
IES - James Watt Dinner 2022 Featuring the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame
7th October 2022 7:00 pm
The annual black-tie James Watt Dinner hosted by the Institution of Engineers in Scotland is a celebration of all engineering combined with entertainment. We will announce the inductees for the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame during…
IES - hybrid event - Green ammonia as global reserve fuel - marking the end of oil and gas
8th November 2022 6:30 pm
Geopolitical risk has recently added a whole new dimension to the climate debate - do we burn more coal, or give way to blackmail? Do we have to choose?
Ammonia is hydrogen’s Cinderella - often overlooked but with hidden talent.…
IES - hybrid event -Helping turn the tide on climate change.
10th January 2023 6:30 pm
Orbital Marine Power have developed a highly innovative technology capable of creating a new renewable energy sector focused on the sustainable extraction of the kinetic energy present in flowing currents and tidal streams. This talk…
IES - hybrid event - Eliminating the performance gap : Engineering value : Reducing energy: Minimising carbon
14th February 2023 6:30 pm
That new buildings too often consume many times more energy in reality than their designers predict at design stage – known as the “performance gap” - is a scandal.
This lecture will outline Architype’s radical approach to…
IES - hybrid event - Quantum Computing - how to build a REALLY cool computer
14th March 2023 6:30 pm
Computers are everywhere: in phones, cars, toasters, on the moon, in orbit, leaving the solar system, running the internet, keeping track of your money, deliveries, the NHS. Every year we are urged to upgrade to the latest, fastest…