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NEWSLETTER Imeche Lancashire Area North Western Region, Lancashire Area nearyou.imeche.org/near-you/UK/North-Western/Lancashire-Area nearyou.imeche.org/near-you/UK/North-Western/North-Lancashire-Young-Member-Panel http://nearyou.imeche.org/near-you/UK/North-Western/south-lancashire-young-members-panel Spring | 2019 NEWSLETTER IMechE Lancashire Area University of Central Lancashire We have a great selection of events CHAIRMAN’S respectively. We are also in the process lined up for you in the next six COMMENT of setting up a new YMP at the months, but we are always on the Welcome to the Blackpool & Fylde College. We will lookout for future events and would Lancashire Area’s 2019 dedicate a section for YMP activities in love to hear your suggestions. If you winter newsletter. Our our next newsletter. We also support would like to join our Lancashire Area committee’s objectives our Business Development Manager, or Young Member Panel committees, are; Emma Guy, who is hosting IEng and be included in our distribution list, CEng applications workshops. borrow our Science Kits for your - creating opportunities for STEM activities, please get in touch personal and professional In this period, we learnt about with us through email or social development mechanical sealing technology at Bolton media. - hosting various engineering University, discussed the importance of Apart from monthly meetings, talks, events vacuum technology and hosted a lectures, STEM activities and visits, - promoting STEM education, technical visit to Leyland Trucks factory. our committee also come together in engineering profession and We later attended marketplace stands at annual dinners. We closed 2018 with the IMechE Engineering Your Future career our Lancashire Area Annual Dinner - inspiring, developing and awareness days as well as Primary with partners and reflected on our supporting our members Engineer & Secondary Engineer Leaders friendship in the committee. We will Award Launch events and supported also attend North West Engineering We have new committee members STEM Ambassador Hubs. Excellence Awards dinner on 29th and change of roles. Our The first event in 2019 was a technical March, and everybody is invited. distribution list is growing, showing lecture discussing plant reliability good health and sustainability. We improvement through mechanical seal I would like to thank all readers, and are committed to be a diverse and managed condition monitoring all our committee members for their inclusive committee. programs. We then reviewed the tragic continued leadership in improving Lancashire Area continues to Sandilands tram accident with the Rail Lancashire through engineering. support North and South Accident Investigation Branch in a joint Lancashire Young Member Panels effort with the Institution of Engineering Murat Islam : CEng MIMechE based in Lancaster University and and Technology (IET). Honorary Chair, Lancashire Area ST. MARY’S FEATURES MECHANICAL SEALING CAREER CONVENTION: TECHNOLOGY P2 INSPIRING THE NEXT ENGINEERING YOUR FUTURE P3 GENERATION LANCASHIRE SCIENCE FESTIVAL P4 Careers Convention at St Mary's Catholic PRIMARY ENGINEER LEADERS High School and they talked to dozens of AWARDS P5 students and parents about engineering SANDILANDS TRAM ACCIDENT P5 and apprenticeship career routes and VACUUM P6 answered many questions. We encourage LEYLAND TRUCKS P6 our members to participate in STEM activities and provide careers advice for the ANNUAL DINNER P7 Representing IMechE Lancashire young generation. PERFORMANCE & RELIABILITY P7 Area, Murat Islam, Gavin Tracey Murat Islam CEng MIMechE UPCOMING EVENTS P8 and Andrew Medd attended a MECHANICAL SEALING TECHNOLOGY TECHNICAL LECTURE FROM JOHN CRANE This winter, IMechE Lancashire lowed by design principles of at the end of this lecture and and Greater Manchester Area are mechanical seals with industri- explained their capabilities at jointly hosting a series of tech- al application examples. Prod- The National Centre for Mo- nical lectures from John Crane uct samples and models were torsport Engineering (www.johncrane.com) who are also displayed at the event. specialised in rotating machinery mechanical seals, couplings, fil- Dr. Karl Gregory, a Senior Lec- (https://www.bolton.ac.uk/ ters, predictive digital monitoring turer and Academic Coordina- subject-areas/motorsport- technologies as well as reliability tor for the School of Engineer- automotive-performance- and maintenance programmes. ing at the University of Bolton, engineering). also provided a university tour For the first part of the series, Ian Gaffing, an experienced Mechan- ical Engineer working on the de- velopment of High Duty Me- chanical Seals in Trafford Park, have presented a technical lec- ture on rotating machinery me- chanical sealing technologies af- ter a refreshments and network- ing session. University of Bolton have provid- ed their facilities and a Board Room for the presentation. The lecture started with an introduc- Image: ITM-Power tion to John Crane quickly fol- NEWSLETTER SPRING 2019 2 ENGINEERING YOUR FUTURE JIG The Joint Institutions Group North 77% of students would recommend West (JIG NW), with a vision to be the the events to peers. common voice and single point of 74% of students said EYF events reference for all Professional Engineering Institutions (PEI’s) and helped them with careers advice other stakeholders, had another very and 65% said they were more request by emailing Andrew Medd: successful year in 2018. likely to consider an [email protected] Apprenticeship route. The In 2018 we again teamed up with the careers advice element of EYF is EYF 2019 national organisation Engineering UK extremely important. (www.engineeringuk.com), who run It is hoped that 2019 will see the EYF Image: M-Sport the Tomorrows Engineers 100% of teachers said that the events events again grow with interest from (www.tomorrowsengineers.org.uk) met their expectations -cf- 89% the University of Chester, Lancaster and BIG BANG in 2017 University and BAE Systems at their (www.thebigbangfair.co.uk ) ASK Centre in Samlesbury Aerodrome, 100% of teachers said the events were programmes, to run FIVE of our with the full line-up being: enjoyable -cf- 91% in 2017 unique Engineering Your Future If any members and/or their (EYF) Career Awareness Days for 100% of teachers said they would companies wish to get involved with STEM students (Science, Technology, recommend the events to the EYF programme, please get in Engineering, Maths) in the Years 11 to colleagues -cf- 91% in 2017 touch with: 13 (16 – 18 years old) from local schools and colleges. These were held 100% of the Presenters said they Andrew Medd BSc(Hons) CEng in Liverpool, Preston, Manchester enjoyed the events and 98% FIMechE, Hon. President, Joint (South), Warrington and Manchester thought they were worthwhile. Institution Group (NW) (Central). Image: RNLI 93% of Presenters agreed the 2019 UPCOMING DATES students engaged in their • October – Liverpool workshops, higher than 2017 (Liverpool FC) (85%) • October—Preston (BAE ASK Centre) 98% of Presenters would recommend • November – Manchester the events to colleagues. South (Siemens) • November – Warrington 53% of Mentor/Guides were using the (Halliwell Jones Stadium) events for the CPD, a 20% • November – Warrington These unique events rely on the (Halliwell Jones Stadium) increase on last year. resources of the PEI’s and their • November – Manchester Central (venue tbc) members to facilitate the delivery of 97% of Mentor/Guides believe the multiple interactive engineering • December – North Lanca- events are worthwhile to educate shire (venue tbc) workshops covering different future STEM Professionals and a disciplines of engineering, together further 89% would recommend with a Market Place hosting the event to colleagues and peers. representatives from local and national engineering companies, Again, the 2018 EYF events very universities and training providers etc. significantly exceeded all EngineeringUK’s Engineering Brand We would again like to sincerely thank Monitors (EBM), which is a survey our sponsors including Siemens, carried out annually by EngineeringUK Warrington Council and Manchester to provide a benchmark for such Metropolitan University. activities. A full copy of Engineering UK’s 2018 2018 Key Findings: EYF Impact Report is available on 24% of students at the events were Construction of a Shannon lifeboat, which was designed entirely in-house by a team of RNLI female. engineers. NEWSLETTER SPRING 2019 3 LANCASHIRE SCIENCE FESTIVAL UCLAN 28-30 JUNE - Working model Sterling Engines - The Dyson Fan explained and Bernoulli’s Principle - Floating Balls on Air and again demonstrating Bernoulli’s Principle - Paper Helicopter Competition - Paper Aeroplane Competition UCLAN’s multi-award winning - UCLAN’s Formula Student Lancashire Science Festival entered Racing Car Image its seventh very successful year in - Thermal Imaging Camera – How Hot Are You? 2018. The festival took place between 28th – 30th June 2018 on UCLAN’s Our two competitions to win a Preston Campus and welcomed more Quadcopter Drone were fiercely than 13,000 visitors over the three contended throughout the day, and days. Sponsors and contributors the winners were: included BAE Systems, Electricity North West, Fort Vale Engineering, Paper Aeroplane – Jonathan Smith Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Paper Helicopter – Shaun Urmston & National Nuclear Laboratory and the Aelwyn Whitehead-St.Pierre Institution of Engineering and Technology. These events are free and accessible
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