SS Great Britain visit
Join Brunel Western Regional Group and IRTE Wiltshire for a guided tour of SS Great Britain, exploring life onboard for passengers and crew, followed by a Brunel Institute Talk featuring rare artifacts, with time afterwards to freely explore the museum.
Visit to King Edward Mine
IRTE Cornwall welcomes members and guests for a sitive visit with Tony Wood, featuring a guided tour and social breakfast.
Scottish Ayrshire Centre visits Diageo facility in Shieldhall
The final site visit of the year took a group from the Scottish Ayrshire region to Diageo's bottling and distribution facility at Shieldhall, near Glasgow.
Near zero emissions
With the obvious exception of the global economic crisis and its insidious infection now of the ?real economy', recent months, and indeed years, have seen no greater issue than climate change. Governments and organisations around the world have pledged radical reductions in emissions - most recently with Gordon Brown's insisting that the UK's target for CO2 reduction must be 80% by 2050. In short, interest in energy efficiency, alternative generation and carbon capture has never been greater.
The Society joins other engineering institutions in an open letter to the Government on research & development spending pledge
Public investment in research and development paramount to future economic growth, states letter to Chancellor.
Irtec Accreditation: Fast track
Adam Russell, DAF business services manager, explains why the company has developed an intensive, accelerated four-month training course that leads to an irtec inspection technician accreditation.
Workshop: Draining resources
Pits and lanes can both accommodate systems to safely collect used vehicle oils drained out of the vehicle sump, reports Richard Simpson.
IRTE’s Vehicle Rollover guide now online
Built-in protection systems, the guide says, can provide a false sense of security
ADL to present on ground-breaking automated bus project at SOE Symposium
A joint Stagecoach and ADL project aims to trial automated driving on public transport and is part of a growing trend in using advanced technology to make roads safer.
SOE’s President resigns after years of dedicated service
After half a decade of service, SOE’s President John Eastman resigns.