Centenary Programme 2007-2008

• The Jenkin Lecture
  Date: Saturday, 15th September 2007
  Speaker: The Honourable Mr Justice Ramsey on Law and Engineering: resolution of technology disputes. Formerly an engineer and subsequently a barrister in construction law, he will explore the involvement of engineers in dispute resolution processes.
  Guest of honour: Patron of Centenary, Lord Jenkin of Roding, the grandson of Frewen Jenkin who was elected first Professor of Engineering Science in 1908

  Lord Jenkin will give a guest introduction at 1.45pm. The Honourable Mr Justice Ramsey’s lecture will begin at 2.00pm in Lecture Rooms 1 and 2, Thom building

• Lecture: Keep it cool! 38 years of gas-turbine research
  Date: Saturday, 15th September 2007
  Speaker: Professor Martin Oldfield
  Unusual short-duration wind-tunnels have been used to research, in a split second, results that normally need expensive hours. The work of one of the most successful thermo-fluid laboratories over the years is illustrated in this lecture.

  This lecture will take place from 10.30 to 11.30am in Lecture Room 1, Thom building

• Series of 12 Centenary Lectures:
  A series of lectures by distinguished speakers on the origins and history of engineering science at Oxford, as well as current and future developments in engineering. These are:

  Tuesday, 16th October 2007: Dr Allan Chapman on "'The Greatest Mechanick of this Present Age': Dr Robert Hooke and the Origins of Engineering Science in Oxford"

  Tuesday, 30th October 2007: David Brown on "William Froude - A Sacred Duty to Doubt"

  Tuesday, 13th November 2007: Dr Jane Smallman on "Hydraulic Engineering"

  Tuesday, 27th November 2007: Lt Colonel Christopher Pugsley on "Engineers at War"

  Tuesday, 22nd January 2008: Professor Guy Houlsby on "An Early Structural Engineering Problem: the Oxford Connection"

  Tuesday, 5th February 2008: Dr Julian Morris on "Motion Capture"

  Tuesday, 19th February 2008: Professor Lionel Tarassenko on "Advances in Biomedical Engineering"

  Tuesday, 4th March 2008: Dr Alastair Howatson on the "History of the Department of Engineering Science"

  Tuesday, 29th April 2008: Professor Carlos Ruiz on "Solid Mechanics at Oxford"

  Tuesday, 6th May 2008: Professor Peter Dobson on "Spin-out Companies and Nanotechnology"

  Tuesday, 27th May 2008: Professor Roland Clift on "Engineering & Sustainable Development"

  Tuesday, 10th June 2008: Professor Sir Michael Brady on "Information Engineering and its Future"

  Audience for lectures: representatives from industry, government and academia; undergraduates; postgraduates; alumni; staff; friends of the Department

  Lectures will be held from 5.00pm to 6.00pm in Lecture Room 1, Thom building

• Conference for Young Coastal Scientists and Engineers
  Date: Thursday, 10th April 2008
  Audience: engineering students from all over the UK

  This conference will be held in Lecture Room 2, Thom building

• Seminar on "Educating Engineers"
  Objective: to debate some of the key issues in engineering education. These include: are we educating engineers for a sustainable future?; why are there so few women engineers; why are so few engineers key decision makers in society?; does the UK need more engineers?
  Date: Thursday, 24th April 2008
  Audience: representatives from industry, government and academia; undergraduates; postgraduates; staff; friends of the Department

  This seminar will be held in Lecture Room 1, Thom building

• The Centenary Lubbock Lecture, poster exhibition and photography competition
  Date: Thursday, 15th May 2008
  Speaker: Lord Browne, President, The Royal Academy of Engineering
  Audience: Centenary Patron; representatives from industry, government and academia; staff; students; graduates; alumni; friends of the Department

  This lecture will be held in Lecture Rooms 1, 2 and 3, Thom building

• Garden Party at Keble College
  Date: Saturday, 28th June 2008
  Audience: Vice Chancellor; Centenary Patron; representatives from industry, government and academia; postgraduate students; alumni; staff; friends of the Department

• Commemorative Book Launch: "Engineering Science at Oxford: A History" by Dr AM Howatson
  Date: Saturday, 28th June 2008 at the Garden Party in Keble College
  Audience: Vice Chancellor; Centenary Patron; representatives from industry, government and academia; postgraduate students; alumni; staff; friends of the Department

SOUE News Home

Engineering Science Home

SOUE Home