IES Events
Our 2025-2026 programme!
IES - Presidential Address - Realising design - From concept to completion
22nd September 2026 6:30 pm
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James Watt Dinner 2026!
2nd October 2026 6:15 pm
This year’s James Watt Dinner will be held on Friday 2nd October at the Radisson Blu hotel Argyle Street, Glasgow
IES - Biomedical Engineering:- Digital Integration of Medical Diagnostics into Connected Healthcare
20th October 2026 6:30 pm
Prof Cooper and his team are developing new digital health platforms that combine rapid, low-cost diagnostic testing with blockchain-secured communication, deep-learning analytics, and AI-driven diagnostic decision support or after…
IES - The Rankine Memorial Lecture - The Challenges and Opportunites at Scotrail Engineering
10th November 2026 6:30 pm
This is a joint event with IMechE
From modernising behind the scenes in depots across the country to make our Victorian infrastructure ready for modern rolling stock, to upgrading the legacy fleet to improve reliability and…
IES and IMarEST - Thermotank, Fairfield and Sir Iain Maxwell Stewart
12th January 2027 6:30 pm
Air conditioning was invented in 1898 by Alexander Stewart at J&G Thomson’s shipyard (later John Brown & Co ltd) at Clydebank. So successful was this invention that Stewart with his two brothers established the Thermotank…
IES - How paint works: the Forth Bridge and other stories
9th February 2027 6:30 pm
As a child I remember many Saturday mornings helping my dad wash his car. As he explained: “the dirt and salt needs to be washed off the paint because that’s what causes rusting”. Only later, after I had made my career in corrosion,…
IES - Are we alone in the universe? How do we Search for the Signature of Energy Intensive Extra Terrestrial Civilisations?
9th March 2027 6:30 pm
Do advanced technological civilisations exist in our Galaxy?
Professor Garrett will discuss the latest developments in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) and how recent technical advances – particularly…