ISSUE TWENTY SEVEN Autumn 2017
In this issue… 14 18 28 ASSOCIATION NEWS & REVIEWS FEATURES 3 Presidents Report 12-13 Technology and ecology – Sebastian Gonzato 4 RSMA AGM and Final Year BBQ – June 29th 2017 14-17 IMechE Simulation and Modelling Conference 5 CGCA 2017 AGM and President’s Evening Dinner 2017 – Hasan Amin, Laura Cattaneo, Oisin Shaw 6 Data Protection, Privacy and your CGCA 18-19 A Cappella at Imperial membership; New CGCA President; 20-21 Self-ePublishing (not to be confused with Selfe- IABSE Honorary Membership publishing) – Peter Buck 7 CGCU win Sparkes Cup; Imperial College students 22-23 Meet Hugh Kendrick (Mech Eng 1958-61) do the double at cybersecurity competitions 24-27 Development, advancement and alumni engagement in the Faculty of Engineering – FACULTY NEWS Nic Katona et al 8 Imperial researchers win double awards; IEEE award; Prototype technology for unearthing mines OBITUARIES 9 Prince William at Imperial’s Data Science Institute; 31 Prof. Tim Shaw; Barry Wooton Staynes Indian village gets electricity thanks to PhD student; 32 Dr. Tony Frank Mason; Henry James Samuel Mason Imperial and ABB exploring new collaboration 33 Cyril Jewitt; John Leslie Wilson 10 New RA Eng Fellows; Imperial engineer inspires the 34 Andrew (Andy) Hill; Alan Patrick next generation of women in STEM 35 Dr. Paul Garrard; Denis Grantham Maxwell; 11 Design and wearable technology event; Imperial Michael Seaward; David Hart McLellan Festival dates for 2018 Front Cover photo: This image of Earth was taken by ALUMNI NEWS & VIEWS a NASA camera on the Deep Space 28 New Dean of Engineering; Singapore Deputy PM Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) hails 40 years of alumni excellence satellite. The image, taken July 6 2015 29 Electrical Engineering class of ’81 annual reunion; from a vantage point one million Book Review – Louis M Solway miles from Earth, was one of the frst taken by NASA’s Earth Polychromatic 30 Flat Pack Alumni Reunions; Alumni Diary Imaging Camera (EPIC).
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2 Imperial ENGINEER Autumn 2017 I must start my President’s update in this edition of Imperial Engineer by telling you that this will be my last update as your President. I have recently taken on a new responsibility having been asked by the UK Government to lead an independent review into Building standards and Fire Safety Regulations in High Rise Buildings. Te review has been set up in the wake of the terrible tragedy which occurred at Grenfell Tower in West London in June but will be forward-looking, seeking to improve the standards or protection for residents in all high rise buildings throughout the country. Te timing of the review is tight and will inevitably take up a lot of my time. I have therefore decided that I must step down from my role as President of CGCA to concentrate on this important piece of work. For the most part I have enjoyed the last few years when I have been part of CGCA’s Exec committee and President for just over a year. Why only for the most part? Because the organisation is facing some very serious challenges and progress in resolving them has been by no means as fast as I would have liked to see. Te challenges are that: • our membership is falling in numbers and seriously skewed to those who left College 35 or more years ago; • we are struggling to understand how to become relevant and attractive to young graduates who leave Imperial’s Faculty of Engineering today; • we need to create an Association which is complementary to the work of the College, the Faculty and the Departments in Alumni engagement. Judith We now have some important foundations in place and it will be for my successor(s) to deliver on the rest of the programme we have started: • We have staf and student representatives identifed in every department. Hackitt • We have taken the decision to provide a small amount of funding to year reps from each graduating year of each department for the frst 5 years after graduation to enable them to maintain contact with their year group. • We are now funding departmental events in several departments, notably Chem Eng and Mech Eng. • We have joined with and sponsored a number of events with CGCU including a very well attended Women in Engineering event. • We have engaged in a working group with the Faculty and RSMA to talk about how we set up an Alumni Association ft for the future. Building on these foundations and creating a vibrant active Alumni Association is the task which lies ahead. I remain convinced that we will only achieve this when we have more, younger people actively engaged in the Association. College and the Faculty have changed enormously since many of us were there as students. Tat is why the College remains a world class University and every department attracts the very best students because they continue to adapt and change. Tat’s why the onus is on us as an Association to move with these changes not simply holding on to our fond memories of how it was “in our day”. Change has not just afected College and the Faculty but impacts all of us in many diferent ways. For CGCA one of the issues which needs to be addressed in the next 6-9 months is going to be how we all adapt to the new legislation on data protection (General Data Protection Regulation) which comes into force in May 2018. Tis is a direct acting European regulation passed in April 2016 which becomes enforceable after the 2 year transition period. None of us would argue with the aims of the legislation – to give citizens better control over their personal data and protect their privacy – but as ever, legislation is a blunt instrument and has many consequences. In the case of CGCA we are still trying to understand what it will mean in terms of our ability to continue to contact members and inform them about events. At the very least the Association is going to have to write out to all of its members and ask your permission to continue to send you mail and e-mails. Without a positive response from you we will no longer be able to make contact. You will quickly recognise that this represents a big risk to our existing membership base but it also means that we need to work very closely with College and the Faculty behind the scenes on establishing new and robust data sharing agreements. We have to have a workable system but we also rely on the strong support we get from the Faculty and that may mean that we have to change our ways of working to suit future arrangements – so please watch this space and look out for further CGCA communication about GDPR (starting with page 6 of this issue). I will continue to stay connected with CGCA (or whatever it may be called in the future) and will look forward to seeing some of you at future events. In the meantime, I would like to close by saying it has been a pleasure and a privilege to be CGCA President. Tank you. PRESIDENTS REPORT Te period between the spring and autumn issues of Imperial ENGINEER is always a quiet one in terms of RSMA and RSMU activities. Due to work commitments the RSMA committee was unable to feld a representative at the Imperial Alumni Fair in early May but our colleagues in the CGCA were able to hold the fort for those three RSM Alumni that did attend the event. Te 2017 Annual General Meeting of the Association was held on the 29th June, followed by the fnal year Bar-B-Q, which was again well attended by the students plus a few stalwart alumni. See the report on page 4 for an update and few photographs. Te 133rd annual dinner will be held on Friday 24th November at the Rembrandt Hotel in Knightsbridge. Last year was an excellent event with nearly 100 guests and it is hoped that as many members as possible will attend this year. Te dinner remains the most signifcant event in the Association’s calendar. In this publication there is a fyer that contains the booking form and a group e-mail will also be sent out to all members telling them how to book. Following the success of the last three years’ events, in December the committee will again give a presentation to the students on the history, aims and membership of the RSMA in order to get students to join the RSMA whilst studying. Te committee continues to maintain a very active relationship with the RSMU and for the 2018/19 academic year the new RSMU representatives are Rob Tomkies and Avni Patel, respectively President and Hon Sec. Tim Te challenge going forward is to better embrace the Materials Department students and seek a staf representative on the Committee. Te involvement with ESE remains strong and the Committee is looking to further the links in ESE and Materials by engaging with the key societies within them such as De La Beche, MatSoc and GeoPhysicsSoc. Cotton 2018 is set to be a challenging year for the RSMA as the UK Privacy laws are changing and are becoming very proscriptive on how associations may, or may not, contact their members. Tis impacts the College as a whole and we will be working with College’s Development Department in the Faculty of Engineering and College Alumni Relations team in managing the transition to these new privacy laws. Te Committee has a good working relationship with these two departments and it hoped that the membership will see minimal interruption. Lastly on the fund raising activity front, the 100 Club is slowly growing and I would encourage you, if you are able, to sign up and support the RSMA via the 100 Club or by a one-of donation. Your support is truly appreciated. I hope you fnd this issue informative, the RSMA Essay Competition winning entry (page 12) is worth a read and I look forward to seeing some of you in the RSM and /or at an RSMA event in the near future.
Imperial ENGINEER Autumn 2017 3 NEWS & REVIEWS RSMA AGM and Final Year BBQ – June 29th 2017
The 2017 AGM started after the workloads to prepare for the RSMA Trust meeting, and after changes in UK Privacy Law and the the previous meeting’s minutes terrible service that the Association were approved Professor Rees is receiving from our bankers, HSBC. Rawlings started proceedings with Both of these will add signifcantly an update on the Trust’s activities. to the administrative burden but it is A highlight of the Trust report was pleasing to note that the Association the announcement of the Annual receives good support from the Awards for the RSMA. The Peter College’s Development Department Harding Memorial Award was in the Faculty of Engineering and given to Dr Lorraine Craig for College Alumni Relations team. The her tremendous efforts in student meeting approved the election of development and support at the offcers and committee for 2017/18 RSM. Danny Hill was awarded the which included a new committee Professor Rees Rawlings Award for member Harry Fisher. The
his efforts as the RSMA Honorary association is also looking to add Mason Photo courtesy Evelyn Treasurer for the past four years more committee members from the A succession of Presidents (L to R) and Sebastian Gonzato was named staff and student bodies of the RSM. Ben Warnick RSMU 2014/15, Noah Hawkins RSMU 2016/17, as the winner of the RSMA Annual By a show of hands, the members Tim Cotton current RSMA President and RSMU 1991/92, Essay Prize. The meeting continued present unanimously voted in the Sam Argyle RSMU 2015/16, and Rob Tomkies RSMU 2017/18 with the usual reports being given 2017/18 Trust Board and with very from the President and Treasurer of little other business to attend to, Election of offcers and committee for 2017/18 the RSMA which outlined the work the meeting was closed and the of the Association over the last year. Final Year BBQ began. The draft President: Tim Cotton In summary the Association remains minutes of the AGM, including the Senior Vice-President: Position unflled fnancially strong and is continuing full President and Treasurers reports Junior Vice-President Eleanor Jay to support the students and staff of will be posted on the RSMA website Past-President: John O’Reilly the RSM. The key challenges facing in due course for all members to Hon. Secretary: Hannah Bungey the Association are the increasing review. Hon. Treasurer: David Bishop The British summer was kind, take VP International John Sykes that as it didn’t rain, and the evening Membership Secretary Coen Louwarts was a great success with students, members and guests all enjoying the Members: Lorraine Craig food and the company. John Monhemius The event also allowed the RSMU Rees Rawlings to make the fnal RSM awards and to Robert Tomkies (President RSMU) recognise those students who had Avni Patel (Hon Sec RSMU) contributed to the social life and Paul Holmes wellbeing of the RSMU. Daniel Hill Celia Hayes Once again, great thanks are due to Harry Fisher alumnus Eddie Gadd who donated two pins of his fnest Ramsgate Overseas: Giles Baynham (Canada) Brewery Ale for the function. Leah Glass (Australia) These were very well received by the members and guests and complemented the food supplied Trust Board by the team at 58 Princes Gate. Go to www.ramsgatebrewery.co.uk to Board Members: Photo Courtesy Tim Cotton Photo Courtesy fnd a stockist near you, or visit the Prof. Rees Rawlings (Chairman) New Committee member Harry brewery and shop, you will not be John O’Reilly Fisher trying Gadds’ Beer disappointed with the products. Fiona Cassidy Coen Louwarts David Bishop Tim Cotton
Trustees: Prof. John Monhemius David Bishop Hannah Bungey Robert Tomkies (President RSM Union) Glynne Lloyd Davies (Hon Secretary)
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Photo courtesy Evelyn Mason Photo courtesy Evelyn (Contact details on page 2) And the awards go to – (L to R) Rosie Blann, Madeline Hann, David Whittaker and Anna Caklais
4 Imperial ENGINEER Autumn 2017 NEWS & REVIEWS CGCA 2017 AGM and President’s Evening Dinner
The CGCA AGM was held at conference travel, expeditions, 17:30 on Monday 12th June 2017 awards and hardship help. Thanks Executive Committee for 2017/18 in the Queen’s Tower Rooms in the to Chris Lumb and his team. President Prof. Richard Kitney Sherfeld Building at Imperial. • However Chris Lumb is standing Senior Vice President Vacant Following approval of the minutes down as CGCA Membership Vice President Atula Abesekera (Civ ’80) of last year’s AGM, President Dame Secretary. Immediate Past President Roger Venables (Civ ’66) Judith Hackitt presented a review of • Thanks to the Committee for Honorary Secretary Nigel Cresswell (Civ ’71) the past year. In summary she said: their support. Honorary Treasurer Peter Chase (Comp ’82) • CGCA have to modernise. Peter Chase presented the accounts. Editor, IE Peter Buck (Comp ’79) Membership is falling and the the key points were: Young Members Secretary Tim Munday (Civ ’11) average age is getting higher. This is • We have spent more on student Events Programme Coordinator Charles Parry (Mech ’81) the mid point of Judith’s presidency events and facilities than in and we have not achieved as much previous years. as she wished. • Operating accounts are OK. General Committee for 2017/18 • Departmental Contacts are now • We have saved OC Trust money Annual Dinner Organiser Colin Kerr (Civ ’88) in place. by paying for some of their events. Decade Reunion Organiser Peter Chase (Comp ’82) • CGCA Departmental reps are in • RSMA paid a larger proportion place except for Computing and of Imperial ENGINEER due to Departmental representatives: Bioengineering. the change in relative number of Aeronautics Tim Munday (Civ ’11) • Several Departmental events have members receiving a printed copy. vacant been sponsored by CGCA. • The mail shot for email addresses Bioengineering vacant • CGCU events have been funded. increased expenses. vacant • CGCA agreed to buy PCs for • We had a bank charges refund. Chemical Peter Lynch (Chem ’73) CGCU • Investments rose from £157K to Judith Hackitt (Chem ’72) • The Union Honour Shields are £177K. Civil & Environmental Atula Abeysekera (Civ ’80) being restored and a place to • OC trust funds stand at £2.8M. Colin Kerr (Civ ’88) display them is fxed. Peter Chase proposed a vote to Computing vacant • Thanks to Peter Chase and Nigel reappoint the auditors, which was vacant Cresswell for their admin support. carried. Design Engineering Jineesha Mehta (Civ ’11) • DPA registration is complete and Nigel Cresswell presented vacant processes are being put into place. a proposal for a new level of Electrical & Electronic Chris Baker-Brian (Elec ’06) • We have good relationships with membership to be known as vacant the Faculty and Alumni Dept. Affliates. After a brief debate the Mechanical Charles Parry (Mech ’81) • Letters sent out requesting email proposal was approved. vacant addresses / contact details from The Committee was elected as Overseas those for whom we have no email proposed. The list of departments Australia (Melbourne) Dave Bishop (Elec ’61) address. awarding ACGI is unchanged. The Australia (Sydney) James Kehoe (Mech ’58) • Access to membership data is meeting was closed at 18:25. Hong Kong Leslie Swann (Civ ’68) still an issue, waiting on Imperial’s Dame Judith then led a discussion Malaysia Cheah It-Tee (Mech ’73) decision on a new system. on the future structure of Alumni South Africa Richard Gundersen (Elec ’73) • GDPR in 2018 will be a challenge. organisations for the Faculty of We need a positive opt-in to Engineering. CGCU contact members by email about There followed a brief General President Claudia Caravello events, etc. If members fail to Committee meeting to confrm the Hon Sec Thomas Bower respond we must assume they Trust Fund Board and other General V-P (Finance & Societies) Andrew Hill have opted out so we may lose Committee posts. It was suggested V-P (Activities) Edmund “Ross” Unwin contact with them. that in future Executive Committe Alumni offcer Andrei Pogan • Imperial ENGINEER has gone and General Committee meetings from strength to strength, thanks should be merged for effciency and to Peter and Alison Buck. convenience. OC Trust Fund Board for 2017/18 • Imperial ENGINEER represents Attendees then enjoyed supper. Trustees a great example of RSMA and The Consul of the CGCA working together. Faculty of Engineering Prof. Marek Sergot (ex offcio) • We are looking to work with The Hon Secretary, CGCA Mr N Cresswell (ex offcio) CGCU on a regular newsletter to The Hon Treasurer, CGCA Mr P Chase (ex offcio) students in the next academic year. Nominated by the Board Mr C Lumb (chairman) • Thanks to Nic, Jess and Nicola Nominated by the Board Mr J B Spooner from the Alumni dept and to Dean Jeff Magee for support throughout Ordinary members the year. Mr J Collins • The Annual Dinner was a great Mr J Fok success, thanks go to Colin Kerr. Mr C J Kerr • The Decade Reunion was Mr D J C Law rebranded the 5 + 10 Year Reunion Mr D Lehmann and worked well. Thanks to Peter Mr Tim Munday Chase. Prof. R C Schroter • Dick Kitney will become (one vacancy) Senior Vice President and Atula Abeysekera will be Vice President. By invitation Thanks to David Nethercot for
Photo: Peter Buck Peter Photo: President, CGCA Prof. Richard Kitney succession work. CGCA President, Dame Judith President, CGCU Claudia Caravello • The OC Trust continues to Hackitt presented a review of CGCU Alumni Offcer Andrei Pogan thrive in supporting students for the year
Imperial ENGINEER Autumn 2017 5 NEWS & REVIEWS Data Protection, Privacy and your CGCA membership I hope you’ve seen the urgent Issue 1 Issue 2 I have checked with the notice on the address sheet of this Information Commissioner’s Offce issue of Imperial ENGINEER? No? When the DPA came into force in PECR is currently a UK law. The (ICO) who have the responsibility Well please go and retrieve it right 1998, CGCA, like many membership concern here is with electronic to enact all the above legislation, and away! There is a request on the clubs in the UK, did not react marketing. If CGCA want to send the term ‘marketing’ includes: back that it is very important you completely to the new regulations. you an electronic communication • Details of the Annual Dinner, AGM, respond to – or we may never be We should have told every member that contains any form of marketing etc. able to contact you by email again. how we handled their personal data then we need to have your consent. • Details of a joint CGCA / CGCU So, what’s this all about and why is in our membership system and given At present that consent can be event it urgent now? It’s about these three you the chance to say you did not assumed in a number of situations, • Details of CGCA regalia pieces of legislation: consent to that. Issue 1 on the e.g. you are a member of CGCA, • And even an article setting out the • The existing UK Data Protection sheet is giving every member the so of course you want to know aims of CGCA! Act, DPA, 1998 chance to give their consent now, when the Annual Dinner, AGM, and This is why it is important you • The Privacy for Electronic hence bringing CGCA into line with other events are going to happen! respond to Issue 2. If you do not Communications Regulations, the existing regulations. Before At present CGCA can send you give consent or just don’t respond PECR, 2016 responding you should read the an email newsletter covering such we will not be able to send you • The General Data Protection ‘CGCA Data Protection and Privacy topics. email newsletters telling you about Regulations, GDPR, which come Statements’ which are printed in When GDPR comes into force forthcoming events and this may into force across Europe in May, the fyers in the IE packaging or (May, 2018) there is an interaction impair your enjoyment of your 2018 can be downloaded at http://www. between GDPR and PECR that gives membership. So please respond to The urgency comes from GDPR cgca.org.uk/annualmembership/ rise to Issue 2. GDPR will replace Issue 2 now and enable us to know when it comes into force next Annualmembership.html DPA, 1998. It generally makes your preferences for electronic May. Once in force, CGCA will be If you give your consent to Issue 1 data protection much stricter and communications from CGCA. very restricted in sending you any then all continues as is. introduces the concept of positive electronic communication unless we If you do not respond to this Issue consent across all regulations to do For future members, both issues are have a positive consent from you on and do not cancel your membership with personal data. handled in the application process. record. by contacting us or cancelling your Hence, from May, CGCA cannot Thank you for reading this, and Even if you don’t read any more of subscription payment instruction assume you want to receive please respond to us! this article, please look at the reverse then you will remain a member. electronic marketing unless we Nigel of the address sheet and respond to If you respond by saying you do have a positive statement or action the two ‘Issues’ described in the way not want your data handled in the from you saying you want to receive most convenient to you. You may way described in the Statements this such communications. If you do Nigel Cresswell complete the form on the back of will effectively end your membership not respond we must assume you CGCA Hon Sec and Data the address sheet and post it back of CGCA. do not consent even if you wish to Controller to us, or follow the instructions to Please respond to Issue 1 now. remain a member. respond by email. New CGCA President IABSE Honorary Membership awarded Effective from the start of October, 2017, Professor Richard Kitney will become President of CGCA. This follows Dame Judith Hackitt standing down due to pressure of newly gained commitments. Richard was elected Senior Vice President in June 2017, so takes on the role a year earlier than expected. CGCA thank Judith for her vision and motivation in her year in offce and thank Richard for stepping into the role. Richard Ian Kitney OBE, FREng,
FRSE, DSc (Eng), FCGI is Professor Imperial College Photo: Imperial College Photo: of Biomedical Systems Engineering, Chairman of the Institute of He has published over 300 papers The International Association for and has addressed conferences in Systems and Synthetic Biology, in the felds of synthetic biology, Bridge and Structural Engineering some 50 countries worldwide. and Co-Director of the EPSRC mathematical modelling, biomedical (IABSE) has awarded Honorary He has been one of the pillars National Centre for Synthetic information systems, and medical Membership to Emeritus Professor of the worldwide structural Biology and Innovation. He was imaging and has worked extensively David Nethercot. engineering community for years, Founding Head of the Department in and with industry. The award is presented to including within IABSE where his of Bioengineering and Dean of the In June 2001, Professor Kitney David in high appreciation of his leadership and example has been Faculty of Engineering. was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s outstanding and dedicated services an inspiration to many. David joined Recognised as a leading research Birthday Honours List for services to the Association. IABSE in 1986. worker in the feld of synthetic to IT in Biomedicine. David, who was Head of He was awarded a DSc degree biology, with Professor Paul Kitney was made a Fellow of the the Department of Civil and in 1993 and elected to the Royal Freemont he has been responsible World Technology Network in 1999 Environmental Engineering at Academy of Engineering in the same for developing the Imperial College for his innovative work in the felds Imperial for 12 years, and is a Past year. David is a Past President of the Hub for Synthetic Biology, one of of health and medicine. He was made President of CGCA, has 50 years' Institution of Structural Engineers the leading international centres an Academician of the International experience of teaching, research and and a former Council Member of in the feld. In 2013, they were Academy of BioMedical Engineering specialist advisory work on major the Royal Academy of Engineering. successful in winning the national in September 2003. In 2006 he was projects, principally in the feld of In 2006 he was awarded an OBE for competition to establish the UK made an Honorary Fellow of both steel construction. He is the author services to Structural Engineering. national industrial translation centre The Royal College of Physicians and of more than 400 research papers as for synthetic biology – SynbiCITE. The Royal College of Surgeons. well as textbooks and design guides bit.ly/IE27-Nethercot
6 Imperial ENGINEER Autumn 2017 NEWS & REVIEWS CGCU win Sparkes Cup Imperial College students do the double at This item is reprinted from the CGCU magazine The BOLT with permission. cybersecurity competitions The Sparkes Cup is a friendly Our second challenge came from It’s been a good six months for “This year’s main event was 10-a-side rugby tournament the ramshackle squadron of the Imperial College students in a three-day capture-the-fag between the CGCU, RCSU and RSM, most of whom had opted to cybersecurity, with winners in both hackathon. Teams had to fnd RSM that takes place annually in spare themselves from our talent the Inter-ACE 2017 and the C2C cybersecurity vulnerabilities in Rosslyn Park Stadium during the by running away on ‘feldtrips’. The 2017 competitions. several servers, hack into them, and summer term. Emphasis is put on grapevine rapidly delivered news Madalina Sas, from the Inter- then plant a ‘fag’ which is a unique participation, and individuals who of a quicksilver hockey player ACE winning team, and Rodrigo team identifer. Once you planted a may never have played rugby before who sought to cause us grief on Vieira Steiner, from the C2C fag you had to defend it by fxing are encouraged to sign up to meet our fringes, since our winger Ifan winning team, were asked about the the server vulnerabilities, preventing new friends from all departments. Dafydd’s pace is like his relationship competitions: other teams from supplanting it. Free food, transport and drink with his dentist – not what it used So you need both attacking and are supplied throughout to all to be. James Field, imbued with Madalina said: “The Inter-ACE is a defending skills. supporters and players, and as it the power of his Shark Tooth cybersecurity competition open to “Points were awarded for the occurs after the majority of our necklace, performed a sumptuous students studying at an Academic number of fags at the end, but exams, there’s no excuse not to chip and chase which left the Centre of Excellence in Cyber you’d also get points for fxing come down and join in! Miners in disarray. Meanwhile, Jamie Security Research. vulnerabilities and solving side Blood, sweat and champagne Couchman thought God had been “The competition had two challenges. This year, the teams were went into the tournament, where overgenerous by affording him two challenges. The frst was a capture- mixed in terms of the universities the CGCU fought like warriors shoulders, and attempted to give one the-fag where teams competed to and individual abilities, which was before emerging victorious. Below back via the medium of dislocation. attack, control and defend as many decided in a qualifying round of is the team’s take on the event that A quick pop back into place and we hosts as possible on a network. The online challenges. I was on a team ended the CGCU on a high for the were off again! After a long fght, the second was a forensics challenge with people from MIT, Carnegie year! CGCU emerged victorious. where various puzzles had to be Mellon, Cambridge and Oxford. “The men of CGCU were awake With RCSU winning their solved, to fnd fags on the hard- “We realised that speed was at early dawn to watch the British match with RSM, they achieved a drive of a Windows machine and crucial for the capture-the-fag and Irish Lions play New Zealand, rematch with our men in the fnal. inside a PCAP fle. challenge; the earlier you could fnd in the arid climate of the ‘Famous Previous joviality was put aside, as “We decided to split the team, the servers, the more likely they 3 Kings’ public house. We looked the scientists sought vengeance for with some of the group focusing on were to still be vulnerable. So we on with glumness as Owen Farrell’s their earlier embarrassment at our taking over machines whilst others decided to focus on the attacking turnstile defence brought with it a hands. However, with their talented tried to solve as many forensics and defending, and left the side heavy defeat. With this saddening scrumhalf placed under intense challenges as possible. I believe the challenges to later on. loss at the forefront of our minds, psychological bombardment, they main reason we won was that we “It’s a lot of fun taking part, and we set out to demonstrate that could not put signifcant phase play had a good diversity of skills on our a great opportunity to meet new Warren Gatland had left the prime together. Jorn Voegtli pumped his team, which allowed us to come at people with similar interests. I’d British talent at home. legs and drove into enemy territory, the challenges from different angles. highly recommend it to anyone Stepping off the luxurious carrying several of the opposition This is important in real world interested in cybersecurity. (free) coach, we entered Rosslyn over the line with him to score. cybersecurity as well.” One of the main benefts is that Park Stadium where this mighty With this seemingly the last straw you get hands-on experience of exhibition would take place. A large for RCSU, they unveiled their Rodrigo Vieira Steiner said: “The cybersecurity from an attacker’s and group of fans had gathered in the greatest asset, a triplet of meaty C2C is a joint UK-US cybersecurity defender’s perspective. It’s diffcult stands, awaiting the entrance of their alumni. Fresh legs and ready to competition that was started to get this experience legally! You favourite engineering rugby stars. play, these giants headed onto the two years ago between MIT and learn a lot from this and from your Our frst match was against pitch. Despite these gravitationally- Cambridge University. It was team mates. RCSU, a team flled to the brim with challenged charlatans, our men drew launched by Barack Obama and “Finally, the prizes are a welcome receding hairlines and short man on their mettle to put their heads David Cameron to help foster bonus! Our team came 1st and won syndrome. The terrifying prospect where it hurt and came away with collaboration in cybersecurity. £9,000.” of a 99kg fy half sent shivers down the Sparkes Cup in hand. bit.ly/IE27-CyberComp the spine of the lightweight CGCU With good spirit all round, the squad, but the lack of quality ball teams joined the supporters and from the budding RCSU Finance headed to a nearby venue, where Offcer caused his effectiveness to free drink and barbequed delights be greatly reduced. Josh Pope ran awaited us. Festivities continued long with his usual will-o’-the-wisp style, into the night, celebrating a great day gliding through the defence on the of sport, as well as the handover to back of a handsomely delivered the new Captain of CGCU Rugby.” switch play. Despite the initial apprehension, CGCU came away Harry Brady with a convincing win. CGCU Rugby Captain
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Imperial ENGINEER Autumn 2017 7 NEWS DEVELOPMENTS AROUND THE ENGINEERING FACULTY Two Imperial researchers win double awards IEEE award for contributions to bioelectronics pancreas to deliver real-time glucose control. It uses an algorithm which replicates the sub-cellular behaviour of the beta cells of the pancreas to release insulin in a physiological manner and is the frst of its kind to be implemented in a miniature low-power silicon microchip and integrated into a small, handheld device. His team has successfully validated the BiAP in adult participants with type 1 diabetes,
Photo: Imperial College Photo: acquiring over 1000 hours of clinical Photos: Imperial College Photos: Dr Pantelis Georgiou, from the data with the system. Clinical trials It’s been a good year for Dr Camille A good year too, for Dr Ruth Centre for Bio-Inspired Technology, were conducted at the NIHR/ Petit. She has added to a string of Misener, from the Department of Circuits and Systems group, has Wellcome Trust Imperial Clinical successes with two awards: a Silver Computing, who was awarded the been awarded the 2017 IEEE Sensors Research Facility, Hammersmith Medal award from the Institute Sir George Macfarlane Medal, as Council Technical Achievement Hospital. The results to date have of Materials, Minerals and Mining the overall winner of the RAEng Award in the area of Sensor Systems proven the safety and effcacy of (IOM3); and an AIChE 35 Under 35 Engineers Trust Young Engineer or Networks (early career). the BiAP and they are now moving Award, from the American Institute of the Year competition, and also Dr Georgiou was given this award forward to conduct ambulatory for Chemical Engineers. received an AIChE 35 Under 35 for his signifcant contributions trials on type 1 diabetic subjects in The IOM3 Silver Medal award Award. to bioelectronics through the their home environment which will is typically given to an early career The RAEng Engineers Trust development of the Bio-inspired commence at the end of 2017. researcher who has made an Young Engineer of the Year awards Artifcial Pancreas and innovations in Dr. Georgiou has also been outstanding contribution within are presented to early career Ion-Sensitive Field Effect Transistors recognised for pioneering several the materials, minerals or mining researchers whose achievements for rapid diagnostics. He says, “We techniques that enable the sectors. The award was presented are recognised as outstanding, having are at the forefront of revolutionising reliable use of solid-state chemical at an awards ceremony in July. a major impact in their respective diabetes management and creating sensors called Ion-Sensitive Field Dr Petit said: “It’s always a felds. novel diagnostic technology which Effect Transistors (ISFETs), using pleasant feeling when your work Dr Misener is a chemical engineer will have great impact on human CMOS micro-technology, in a fully is recognised by your peers. This by training but now focuses on health. It’s a great honour to receive integrated sensing system enabling award is a great testimony of my developing innovative approaches this award and I’m thrilled my group development of low-cost, highly group’s research efforts.” to process systems engineering has been recognised by the IEEE scalable and completely integrated The AIChE 35 Under 35 Award and biomedical engineering in the sensors community.” Lab-on-Chip systems. was created to promote the Department of Computing. The award is being presented at His team is currently designing achievements of young professionals Her research interests are the IEEE Sensors 2017 Conference next generation ISFET arrays to be working in all areas of chemical diverse. She has optimised a in Glasgow. used in a diagnostic system for rapid engineering, and to acknowledge bioreactor developed at Imperial for Dr Georgiou’s team have detection of infectious diseases, in those who have made signifcant growing healthy red blood cells, an developed the world’s frst Bio- developing countries in 2018, for contributions to their feld. approach that could provide a new inspired Artifcial Pancreas (BiAP) rapid screening of bacterial, viral and The awards ceremony is being way for creating rare blood type developed for the treatment of fungal infections. held at the 2017 AIChE Annual supplies for transfusions in patients. diabetes. The BiAP is a closed- Meeting in Minneapolis. She has also developed in-depth loop system that replicates the Dr Petit said: “I feel extremely mathematical models that map functionality of the biological bit.ly/IE27-Georgiou honoured to receive this award. I see the progress in tissue of Chronic it as a testimony to the great work Lymphocytic Leukemia. Her work Prototype technology for unearthing mines of researchers at Imperial and the could have implications for disease Peat soils are combustible and prone Led by Dr Guillermo Rein from strong academic support from both management. to smouldering fres. Engineers at the Department of Mechanical the College and the Department of Her ANTIGONE software is Imperial have developed prototype Engineering, the researchers have Chemical Engineering. I share this regarded as one of the best mixed- technology that uses controlled successfully tested the device in the success with my entire research integer nonlinear optimisation burning to reveal landmines buried lab. Using dummy devices replicating group and all my mentors.” codes currently available in such soils. two of the most common types of A senior lecturer in the Dr Misener has also found ways The O-Revealer technology landmines, burying them in peat Department of Chemical to optimise industrial processes in consists of an electric power and using a fan to simulate wind Engineering, Dr Petit currently the petrochemical sector, making source and a heating coil which is conditions which affect the intensity leads a research group whose focus them more effcient and sustainable. inserted into the top layer of peat. and direction of a smouldering fre, is on developing multifunctional Professor Daniel Rueckert, Head Switched on, it slowly heats the they showed how they could partially nanomaterials as a platform for of the Department of Computing peat to 500º C, igniting a controlled, unearth the buried landmines. addressing environmental, water and at Imperial, said: “Ruth’s research fameless combustion process The areas most likely to beneft energy sustainability challenges. integrates algorithm development that strips the upper layer of soil, from O-Revealer technology include She has made signifcant and mathematical optimisation revealing the landmines and so the Falkland Islands, Vietnam, Burma, contributions to the felds to solve real-world problems making their disposal easier. Laos, Uganda, Zimbabwe and former of materials by designing and in biomedical engineering and Addressing environmental Yugoslavia. investigating new nanostructures process systems engineering. The concerns, the team say that Worldwide, blast injuries caused for various separation and catalytic department is really proud to have their method would be carefully by landmines currently exceed applications, and actively promotes outstanding young engineers such as controlled in the feld; the fres 26,000 people per year. research in this area through her. Well done on a much-deserved would be very small. Their impact Dr Rein predicts that the outreach and editorial activities. accolade.” would also be minimised by O-Revealer is around fve years bit.ly/IE27-Petit-Medal choosing at what time of the year from being used in the feld. bit.ly/IE27-Petit-35 bit.ly/IE27-Misener they burn the peat. bit.ly/IE27-Landmines
8 Imperial ENGINEER Autumn 2017 NEWS DEVELOPMENTS AROUND THE ENGINEERING FACULTY Prince William sees impact of Heads Together Indian village gets electricity thanks to PhD student campaign at Imperial’s Data Science Institute Clementine Chambon, a fnal-year customers, to hear their reports PhD student in the Department of of how electricity is allowing their Chemical Engineering, celebrated children to study longer, and their the successful installation of an hopes that a computer centre will eight-kilowatt mini solar grid in be opened in the school so that the village of Sarvantara, which is students can learn how to use a located in the state of Uttar Pradesh computer.” in northern India, connecting 100 Clementine added: “Demand homes to a mini solar energy grid. for electricity is high, especially Clementine helped to set up for pumping water for irrigation... the mini-solar grid via her social Villagers are particularly keen to enterprise start-up company called sign up to receive energy from
Photo: Imperial College Photo: Oorja. The company provides our system for affordable irrigation Professors Alice Gast and Yike Guo greet Prince William affordable and reliable power to services. They are very relieved that In early October, Prince William, Following a warm welcome from rural communities in India that an alternative to expensive diesel The Duke of Cambridge, visited Professor Alice Gast, President are currently not connected to pumps will be available...Community the College’s Data Science of Imperial, and Sir Keith Mills, the country’s national energy grid members are excited that electricity Institute (DSI) to see the impact President of the Royal Foundation, network. The company also aims to has fnally arrived in their village. of the Heads Together Campaign Prince William visited the DO. provide a stable source of electricity However, there has been a feeling displayed in Imperial’s pioneering Professor Alice Gast said: “It was an to villages that currently receive that this has been long overdue as data visualisation facility, the Data honour to welcome Prince William a very poor and erratic supply of the government has been promising Observatory (DO) – the largest of to Imperial and to collaborate electricity. its arrival for many years, which its kind in Europe. with the Royal Foundation to The mini solar grid provides older members in the village can Heads Together is a mental health produce this important evidence around 1,000 people with energy for attest to. I am really glad that a small initiative spearheaded by The Duke for the Heads Together campaign. affordable lighting, phone charging start-up can step in and fll a void in and Duchess of Cambridge and Imperial excels at multidisciplinary and fans to cool homes. the energy market in India. This gives Prince Harry. It aims to tackle the research and our mathematicians, The renewable energy generated us a sense of optimism that our stigma associated with mental health computer scientists, data scientists will also power pumps to provide business model is working,” added and inspire people to talk more and public health experts identifed irrigation services to farmers, Clementine. openly about mental wellbeing. and presented key trends using the providing signifcant cost savings Oorja was founded in 2015 by For the past two months, forefront analysis and visualisation compared to diesel powered pumps, Clementine and Amit Saraogi who Imperial experts from the DSI and technology in our Data Science which is what most rural villages like is a social entrepreneur. The two the Department of Mathematics, Institute’s Data Observatory.” Sarvantara rely on. joined forces to use clean energy as along with representatives from The DO’s 64 screens and 130 Forty of the 100 households a catalyst for local economic growth. Heads Together, have been analysing million pixels of surround vision powered by the system will be ftted Their objective is to use renewable YouGov data on emerging trends in provided an interactive backdrop for with smart meters to enable remote energy technologies to maximise attitudes to mental health. the presentation, which showed the monitoring of energy generation the social and economic beneft for The team of Imperial researchers progress of the campaign since its and consumption in real-time. The communities while reducing their who analysed the data included launch last year. As part of the data data will help Oorja to analyse the reliance on kerosene and diesel Professor Yike Guo, Dr Xian visualisations, Ms Jones talked about performance of the system and generators, lessening the impact on Yang and Dr David Birch from the the changing trends in the nation’s improve the services they provide. the climate by reducing emissions. DSI. Ms Sarah Jones, a research behaviour and attitudes around Oorja has also partnered with The next stage will see Clementine postgraduate from the Institute mental health. the Grantham Institute - Climate and Amit pilot a hybrid mini-grid for Global Health Innovation at Opened in November 2015, the Change and Environment. A that will generate electricity from Imperial and an advisor to the Royal DSI’s DO provides an opportunity Grantham team led by Professor solar energy and biomass. This could Foundation, also assisted, along with for academics and industry to Jenny Nelson will also have real- provide a bigger supply of electricity Professor Michael Crawford, visualise data in a way that uncovers time access to the smart meters to power small enterprises, such from the Division of Brain Sciences, new insights and promotes the and they will use the data to analyse as grain mills, sewing cooperatives and Dr Reza Drikvandi, from communication of complex data the effectiveness of the system and and water purifcation stations. The the Department of Mathematics. sets and analysis in an immersive and extrapolate information about its Oorja team then plan to raise more Around 14,000 responses from 6 multi-dimensional environment. potential impact on the environment, funding to enable them to roll out surveys were analysed by the team. bit.ly/IE27-HeadsTogether if scaled up. dozens more mini-grids to other Clementine said: “After months of villages in 2018. Imperial College and technology frm, ABB, preparation, we are delighted to see bit.ly/IE27-Chambon exploring new potential for collaboration the smiles on the faces of our happy bit.ly/IE27-Oorja Energy Futures Lab is working with As the energy system evolves, ABB to develop a power systems demonstration models are key to demonstrator facility at Imperial. exploring these key components Imperial has signed a letter and interactions at various scales, of understanding with ABB, the from building to national level. world’s largest builder of electricity “We are building on an already grids, to develop a rich portfolio of strong partnership with ABB research activities to understand the spanning over 15 years,” says complexities of integrated energy Professor Nick Jennings, Vice- systems. The collaboration will Provost (Research) at Imperial, explore the potential of building a “And I am very pleased to see our new power systems demonstrator partnership expanding further. The facility at Imperial College for unique facility and other activities research and teaching purposes. will enable highly realistic technology Energy supply systems are testing for the electricity sector.” Photo: Imperial College Photo: undergoing a radical transformation. bit.ly/IE27-EnergyLab Clementine Chambon with her business partner Amit Saraogi
Imperial ENGINEER Autumn 2017 9 NEWS DEVELOPMENTS AROUND THE ENGINEERING FACULTY Robotic vision expert and fuid mechanic Imperial engineer inspires the next academic recognised as new RA Eng Fellows generation of women in STEM Photos: Imperial College Photos: Photo: Imperial College Photo: Professor Andrew Davison Professor Spencer Sherwin Dr Yolanda Sanchez-Vicente is a to carry on with their research so In September, Imperial celebrated recognised alongside engineers from Research Fellow in the Department that we can make the most of the the election of two more of its many different disciplines. I’d like to of Chemical Engineering whose skills that they have. However, much academics to the Fellowship of use this role to push forward the research is primarily focused earlier on in education, I think a lot the Royal Academy of Engineering profle of robotics and computer on carbon capture and storage of young women and girls don’t even (RA Eng): Professor Andrew vision in the UK, and to help and processes. consider a career in engineering as Davison, from the Department of mentor younger engineers in our She studied Chemical Engineering an option, because they don’t think Computing, and Professor Spencer discipline as we continue to build in Spain, and completed her PhD they are capable. Sherwin, from the Department of this important technology. at the University Complutense “That’s why I think it was really Aeronautics. of Madrid. Always interested in important for the girls I was working Professor James Stirling, Provost Professor Sherwin is the research, she then undertook a junior with as part of the mentoring scheme of Imperial, said: McLaren Racing/Royal Academy of fellowship and applied for a research to have a positive experience of “My sincere congratulations Engineering Research Chair in the fellowship position at Imperial. seeing a project through from start to our new Fellows. It is hard to Department of Aeronautics. She currently works within the to fnish. I think it has the potential underestimate the pivotal role He is a world leading expert in QCCSRC (Qatar Carbonates and to inspire them to go further. engineering and applied sciences the development and application of Carbon Storage Research Centre). “For all women, but particularly play in our daily lives. From the advanced modelling methods known Dr Sanchez-Vicente also mentors teenage girls, there is a lot of smart phones that we use every day as ‘spectral/hp element methods’ secondary school students as a pressure to be perfect. They hold to the medical devices that underpin which his team has made widely STEM Ambassador for CREST. themselves to very high standards, our healthcare and the technology available through the open source She says: and are often quick to think that that propels astronauts into space, package, Nektar++. These methods “I received an e-mail about the they are not good enough in certain engineering both makes our modern enable researchers to more CREST mentoring scheme, and was subjects at school – such as maths or world function smoothly and has the accurately simulate fuid dynamics. keen to participate. The aim of the science – even if they enjoy studying potential to signifcantly improve Nektar++ is being applied to a programme is to introduce young them. This will then infuence the our quality of life. This honour range of problems in unsteady fuid people to the world of research, and choices they make later on in life. recognises the extraordinary dynamics, including understanding to guide them in developing their “I also think that more needs to work of Andrew and Spencer the role of blood fow in arterial own projects and ideas. be done by lecturers to encourage who have spent their careers at diseases such as atherosclerosis. “I wanted to be involved in this female students to stay on, because the forefront of their felds and Professor Sherwin’s work is project for a number of reasons, they generally don’t have as much whose work is really making a modelling water fow past bluff namely because I am passionate confdence in their work as male difference. It is a proud moment bodies such as bridges and offshore about research, but also because I students, even if they are attaining for our community at Imperial.” oil platforms, as well as improving have had really positive experiences better grades. the design of Formula One cars. of mentoring in the past. When “When I started out in my career, Professor Davison leads the £5 Professor Sherwin said: I started out as a postdoc here at I had plenty of female colleagues. million Dyson Robotics Lab at “I am delighted to receive this Imperial, I helped to supervise a Now, at my current level, I’ve found Imperial, along with Dr Stefan signifcant honour both for myself secondary school student who that there aren’t so many. A lot of Leutenegger. Professor Davison and the team which has supported came to work in our group for six my peers started their PhD at the and his team are leaders in the me for so many years. Our months, which was great. At this age, same time as me, but didn’t continue feld of real-time 3D computer technology has a range of potential students have a natural enthusiasm down the research path because of vision. His technology enables applications and we are excited and passion for learning, which is the nature of the work – postdoc robots to negotiate complex home about continuing to make it more really wonderful to see. It’s a very positions are almost always fxed- environments and is having a major widely available to help explore new rewarding thing to be a part of. term, or require you to relocate. impact on the robotics industry. research felds.” “I think you need to do whatever This is a very off-putting prospect if Professor Davison has worked for you can to broaden the horizons you want to have a family. However, over ten years with Dyson to design Becoming a Fellow of The Royal of students at this age, and to help there are always ways of balancing the core simultaneous localisation Academy of Engineering is one of them see where a science education your family and your career. In fact, and mapping (SLAM) algorithms that the highest honours that an engineer could take them. there are plenty of women here at are at the heart of the company’s can receive in the UK. It recognises “I think diversifying engineering is Imperial right now who are doing frst robotic product, the Dyson 360 outstanding and continuing really important, because different just that.” Eye. The SLAM technology enables contributions to the profession. kinds of people can contribute Dr Sanchez-Vicente concluded: the robotic vacuum to visualise and The new elections take the to research in different ways. I “At the end of the day, if this is make sense of the environment in number of Imperial Fellows of the currently have two female masters what you feel that you should be which it is operating. RA Eng to 86. students working with me who are doing with your life, then you should Professor Davison said: brilliant. I think it’s really important do it.” “It is a great honour to be bit.ly/IE27-FRAEng to encourage women at this stage bit.ly/IE27-Sanchez-Vicente
10 Imperial ENGINEER Autumn 2017 NEWS DEVELOPMENTS AROUND THE ENGINEERING FACULTY Robotics expert combines design and wearable technology at Design Museum event technology can help improve our measures posture, stride length, step technology to improve our lives. lives. frequency, acceleration, and shock However at some point engineers Speaking before his presentation, waves travelling through the body realised the potential of their Professor Yang said: “Smart while the patient walks around the work and strived not just to make technology is evolving at an house or street. wearable technology, but also to incredible pace, and beginning to “I use robotics, sensing and create something that’s a pleasure transform the way we diagnose, imaging in medical diagnostics, to use and wear. treat and rehabilitate patients. My surgery and rehabilitation. I’ve been “It’s no longer enough to have talk and Dr Lo’s demonstration involved in inventing robots that help just new gadgets; they must also will give insights into how surgeons in theatre and intricate be smart, compact, convenient and wearable devices are changing our micro-surgical robots for complex attractive. This is where the design relationship with our bodies, as procedures during operations. aspect comes in. well as the ever evolving role of “The Hamlyn Centre embodies “The e-AR is the embodiment wearable technology in healthcare. the combined principals of of what we at the Hamlyn Centre The interactive demos will show off engineering and design, and is one work towards every day. Bringing Photo: Imperial College Photo: our exciting technology, followed reason Imperial plays a leading together the designer, the engineer At the Design Museum’s ‘The Future by more talks from other world- role in wearable tech today. The and a design critic, we will share the of Health’ event, in September, renowned experts in the feld. upcoming event at the Design design and engineering story behind one of Imperial’s leading robotics “Our part will focus on the Museum is tribute to this exciting e-AR, before going on to explore experts spoke about the future of invention of the ear-worn Activity combination.” how e-AR and others like it are set wearable tech and its implications Recognition (e-AR) sensor, a In explaining how the focus of his to transform the world we live in.” for health. small, wearable device that clips work has changed in recent years, bit.ly/IE27-Museum Professor Guang-Zhong Yang, behind the ear like a hearing aid to Professor Yang said: “Machinery, of the Department of Computing, measure the way a person walks engineering and robotics have is Director and co-founder of the or runs, otherwise known as gait. already transformed many areas Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery e-AR provides instant feedback of our lives. However, only in the at Imperial. The Centre aims to and instructions via smartphone past decade have we begun to improve health worldwide by using app or smart watch, and is used in consider comfort and appearance Imperial’s research strengths and surgical rehabilitation – for example, as an integral part of developing expertise in safe, effective and to measure and give feedback on these technologies. Now, the accessible technologies. walking and balance after knee design aspect of innovation is at In collaboration with Imperial’s surgery – and in athletic training. the forefront of my work alongside Centre for Continuing Professional “Patients rehabilitating from improving health, both of which Development, the event brought operations that affect walking, such contribute to improving human lives. together designers, scientists, and as in knee or hip replacements, “The focus of any engineering artists to explore how wearable can use e-AR for rehabilitation. It venture has always been to create Photo: Imperial College Photo:
Imperial Festival shares the wonder and reveals dates for 2018 Inspired crowds and widespread and how it could be improved going attendees. can be, flled with enthusiastic and College pride are highlighted in a forward. The Festival is only possible brilliant scientists who are keen to report on Imperial Festival 2017 The vast majority described their because of the time, effort and share what they do with the wider published in September. Festival experience positively with enthusiasm shown by more than community,” said one academic staff Feedback from attendees, 93.9% selecting ‘Excellent’ or ‘Good’ a thousand members of staff who member. exhibitors and volunteers on the when asked for an overall rating (an dedicate their weekend to entertain, For volunteers, 87.8% of fagship public event was presented increase from 90% in 2016). The engage and educate the crowds. As respondents rated their overall and the date of the next Festival response was even more positive a result, the Festival team place great experience as good or excellent. announced as 27-29 April, 2018. among under 12s, with 96.7% either emphasis on listening to the views Almost all reported that Imperial Festival is the College’s liking or loving the Festival. of contributing Imperial academics, participating in Imperial Festival largest annual showcase. For one “Absolutely loved the atmosphere students and staff members, and 2017 had positive impacts on their long weekend its doors are thrown and all the staff and students were were pleased to see a similarly feelings about Imperial College, with open as students, researchers and a incredibly willing to talk about their positive picture emerged from their increased pride and a greater sense range of other staff leave their labs, passions which inspired future interviews of community being emphasised. lecture theatres and libraries to generations,” said one visitor. More than 92% of the academic One undergraduate, helping out discuss, engage, perform, create and This year almost half of attendees presenters and exhibitors taking during the weekend, said: debate with thousands of visitors. had no connection to Imperial at part in the Festival described it “I wanted to give back to The Festival’s sixth incarnation all, and for around half of those the as a rewarding and motivating Imperial and help make the festival in May this year welcomed about Festival represented their frst ever experience with a range of successful.” 20,000 family members, school visit to the College. benefts. Nearly seventy-three bit.ly/IE27-ImpfFest pupils, alumni, local residents and Nearly 90% of visitors said per cent described it as enhancing other members of the public they would come again and the transferable skills, while a similar onto campus to enjoy interactive Festival increased 88% of visitors’ number (73.8%) reported that it stands, workshops, tours, talks and understanding of work carried out strengthened connections with performances on everything from at Imperial. Imperial colleagues. Nearly sixty- fying robots to the future of food. The evaluation also raised areas nine per cent stated that Imperial Evaluation has been critical to for improvement for next year’s Festival raised the external profle the development and growth of Festival. Responders of all ages of their work. the Festival. This year more than commented on overcrowding and “I was really proud of Imperial, 500 people gave their thoughts and the length of queues, while a number and of being part of Imperial, over suggestions to help provide a fuller of parents asked for more guidance the festival weekend – made me see picture of why they valued the event, to fnd content suitable for younger what an open and exciting place it Photo: Imperial College Photo:
Imperial ENGINEER Autumn 2017 11 FEATURES Technology and ecology Sebastian Gonzato, a fnal year undergraduate in Chem. Eng., is the winner of this year’s RSMA Essay Prize with his assessment of the relationship between technology and ecology, which is clearly not cut and dried.
We live, undoubtedly, in fortunate times. Te last three centuries have seen humanity break free from the shackles of misery, superstition and irrationality, thus embracing the scientifc way of thinking that has allowed us to learn an unprecedented amount about the world around us. Technology, the application of science to everyday problems, has enabled many of us to live largely free from hunger or even the prospect of it, allowing us to pursue more leisurely activities. Tis has come at a cost; while we may not worry about dying from treatable diseases, the prospect of catastrophic damage to our environment, whether by climate change, plastic pollution or the myriad of other man-made problems, is very real. It is perhaps natural then that our relationship to technology is fraught. Faced with these looming disasters, we are tempted to turn our back on the tool that has both liberated and condemned us. To save us from this fate, we are faced with a choice: should we change our NASA Photo: way of life or place our trust in the technology that has got us where we are now? know it today in Great Britain with Edmund by consumerism. Te examples are numerous: Ecological movements today can broadly Burke. Conservatism does not oppose change the Chernobyl disaster immediately springs be split into those that aim to protect our or progress, but demands that change happen to mind, but that is just the most noteable environment by changing human behaviour, within the framework of our society. Te incident. More telling was the contrast between and those that aim to mitigate the damage name is particularly revealing: the purpose of East and West Germany: in the former, many done by our lifestyles through engineering conservatism is to preserve our society, culture, rivers and lakes were too polluted to be used and technology. Many are those who fervently institutions and our environment for future anymore with entire forests decaying because believe we must change the way we live, and generations. of this. indeed our very nature, in order to solve our Te diference between these two positions Te conservative philosopher Roger Scruton ecological woes. Opposed to them are people is subtle, but important. While those of the argues that these are not simply isolated or who see human nature as something to be left might see oil companies as enemies that anachronistic cases. By putting property in overcome: we will keep consuming and by need to be overcome in order to achieve common, we are absolved of responsibility consequence polluting, and so to save our ecological justice, conservatives accept that for taking care of it, and this applies to the habitat we need to come up with technological these companies exist for a reason. Tey might environment as well. Tis is the well known solutions that minimise or even reverse then be inclined to work with them in order free rider problem, for which examples bound. our impact on the earth while allowing for to conserve and improve our environment for To use a previous example, when Germany business as usual. their children. was reunited, water useage in East Germany Tese opposing views have a long history. Perhaps the greatest experiment of our times dropped dramatically because up until then Te view of human nature as changeable to change human nature was communism. Te water had been free. dates back to the Enlightenment and the quest to abolish the notion of private property Despite this, the modern green movement French revolution, the thinkers of this period and even the ability to think in terms other appears to have confated unbridled capitalism believing that changing our behaviour and than as a collective, led to the preventable and the endless stream of new technologies prejudices was in fact necessary for progress. deaths of millions, whether in Stalin’s gulags or it produces with pollution and ecological Over time, this has come to be associated with Mao’s cultural revolution. Tere are few now disasters. Tis ignores the fact that in left-leaning political movements, and this is who honestly believe that this is an agreeable most cases technology has actually led to true of green politicians who are often labelled form of government, but the idea that radical reductions in pollution. Factories during the as watermelons: green on the outside, red on change in human behaviour is possible lives early industrial revolution were polluting on the inside. Green politicians may not use the on. Tat radical change often means a rejection a scale that is difcult to fathom. An 1839 lexicon of revolution, but that is essentially of capitalism for the green movement. In the lawsuit against soda works in England (which what is being asked of us when we are told to words of Rudolf Bahro, founding member and eventually led to the frst air pollution laws to divest from fossil fuels, invest in green energy theoretician of Germany’s green movement: be passed in 1863) alleged that “.. the gas from and most importantly to consume responsibly. “Te capitalist mode of production is markedly these manufactories is of such a deleterious nature Te revolution we are asked to carry out is self-destructive, outwardly murderous and as to blight everything within its infuence, and is one that aims to change our behaviour and inwardly suicidal.” alike baneful to health and property... Cattle and relationship to the environment we live in. Te fact that socialist and communist states poultry droop and pine away.” Opposing this call to revolution is the were heavy polluters is sometimes forgotten Modern processes to produce soda ash do conservative movement, which was born as we by those that decry the destruction wreaked not cause anything like this damage.
12 Imperial ENGINEER Autumn 2017 FEATURES Similarly, cars pollute considerably less bearable level. than they did 3 decades ago due to catalytic Optimising a building’s energy consumption converters and desulfurized fuels. What has in this way would appear to be a good idea, changed however is the scale of industry, but there is a better way of doing it. It is very which has turned local ecological problems easy to change the constraints of the problem into global ones. by allowing for colder temperatures; for every Te natural response to this is to point out degree you turn your thermostat down, you that technological progress was the cause of decrease the heat loss by about a tenth while these problems in the frst place. Tere is a the savings in heating power are even greater. tendency to see this progress (often written in Changing the dynamics of the system is also quotation marks) as a sin that has led us away possible through better insulation, but it is from nature, and hence we need to redeem admittedly more difcult. Lowering your ourselves by renouncing our obsession with thermostat is much more efective, but it economic growth. Tere is no going back would require the (perhaps insurmountable) though: we long left the Garden of Eden and lifestyle change of wearing a sweater indoors. we must now fnd our own way in this world. An MPC controller requires no lifestyle EnolaBrain81/Shutterstock.com To then deny ourselves the tools we have change, while still allowing you to feel warm developed to save our environment (and, lest and fuzzy about ‘saving the planet’. Photo: we forget, ourselves) is somewhat perverse. Tere is also the risk that the fruits of Ruins of a kindergarten in Pripyat Nonetheless, blindly placing our trust in science actually distance us from the harm following the Chernobyl disaster our own ingenuity is similarly stupid. Take the we cause, when they should in fact allow us classic example that is used to showcase our to take ownership of the solutions to our ability to solve ecological problems, depletion problems. At the very least, they shouldn’t add out in this essay have largely been attacking a of the ozone layer. Te 1989 Montreal an additional ecological burden to our daily straw man. Green parties around the world Protocol, which led to the phasing out of activities, or merely shift the problem further recognise the importance of diferent strategies. chloro-fuorocarbons (CFCs), is frequently down the supply chain. Tis is why they favour investing in renewable held up as a model on how to solve ecological Hydrogen fuelled cars are a good example sources of energy, as well as attempting to problems. What is never mentioned is how of this last case. Te product of hydrogen reduce our energy consumption, encouraging close we came to completely depleting the combustion is just water, which at frst people to recycle, reuse and generally take care ozone layer. When receiving the Nobel Prize glance would seem desirable: no carbon of the environment they live in. for Chemistry in 1995 for his research on dioxide emissions, not to mention equally Nonetheless, this pragmatism does not go ozone depletion, Paul Crutzen noted that harmful nitrous and sulfur oxide pollutants. far enough, and ecological movements are not bromofuorocarbons, which are “almost However, hyrogen is predominantly obtained short on their share of sacred cows. Wind and a hundred times more dangerous for ozone through steam reformation of hydrocarbons, solar power are seen as the be all and end all than chlorine”, were originally considered as which does produce carbon dioxide. Te in the energy mix despite the problems posed refrigerants instead of CFCs: “Noting that other principal way of producing hydrogen by intermittency, while research into other nobody had given any thought to the atmospheric is through electrolysis which doesn’t produce technology is stifed for fear of unintended consequences of the release of Cl or Br before emissions (assuming the electricity supplied consequences to the environment. At the 1974, I can only conclude that mankind has comes from a clean source), but this is up 2015 Imperial Climate Conference, the UK been extremely lucky.” to 3 times as energy-consuming as steam Green Party’s Deputy Leader Amelia Womack Relying on technology to solve ecological reformation. Tis is a typical case of a was asked about the Green Party’s stance on problems can also be incapacitating however, technology that allows the user to feel good nuclear fusion, a process that could potentially because it is actually much more efective to while doing very little (if anything) towards provide far more energy that nuclear energy change human behaviour than to develop solving our ecological woes. with potentially less waste products. Despite technology to compensate for our destructive I have painted a typically dualistic picture not having heard of nuclear fusion before, lifestyles. In his book Sustainable Energy of this problem. Certainly in this day and age Womack’s response was to simply dismiss it. Without Te Hot Air, the late Sir David Mackay we should however be wary of such simplistic Changing our behaviour or trusting in sets about constructing an approximate energy representations. Indeed, ecological movements science to come up with solutions is not a balance for the United Kingdom. What is and attitudes are as diverse as the people who question of either/or. Te technologies we use striking about this endeavour is how easy it is to support them, be they rural conservatives are merely tools, and they are only as useful add to our energy consumption in comparison from England’s countryside, angry hipsters as the people who wield them. To place the to how difcult it is to add renewable sources in New York or climate refugees in Southern blame on our current problems squarely on of energy. For example, devoting three quarters Bangladesh. Te solutions (if they indeed them misses this crucial point, and denies us of the United Kingdom to biomass production exist) to our ecological woes are similarly not the use of some of our greatest achievements. wouldn’t be able to cover the energy required if black or white. Knowing when and how to use these tools is everyone took a transatlantic fight once a year. Tis fact is not lost on most people who the challenge we now face, and it is one that A more technical example may shed more identify as green, and hence the arguments laid we must all rise to. light on the matter. Buildings globally account for almost 40% of total end use of energy. Sebastian Gonzato is fnishing his 4th Year of Chemical Unsurprisingly these is therefore interest Engineering at Imperial and is Station Manager of ICRadio. in employing sophisticated controllers in While he is at his happiest solving technical problems, his buildings in order to regulate temperature keen interest in the humanities makes him refect often on the while minimising energy consumption and impact technology has on our society. If his essay seems quite therefore emissions. Tese model predictive confused, it is because he was trying to sound more intelligent controllers (MPC) control systems by trying than he is, while being in two minds about most of what he was to achieve some objective while satisfying saying. If he is unsure about what he wants to do in the future, constraints and obeying the systems dynamics. he does know that he wants to become more involved with the Te building is the system, the objective is pressing environmental and social challenges of our times, and to minimise energy consumption while the to get more opportunities to write in the third person. constraints are to keep the temperature at a
Imperial ENGINEER Autumn 2017 13 FEATURES IMechE Simulation and Modelling Conference 2017 Three members of the Imperial Racing Green Shell Eco-Marathon team were able to attend this conference in Birmingham in September, thanks to fnancial support from the OC Trust. They each told us about their experience at the conference and why it was helpful to them personally and for the team. This article is compiled from their individual replies. Laura Cattaneo, Hasan Amin and Oisin Shaw were repesenting the team that are aiming to compete in the Shell Eco-Marathon (SEM) in London in 2018, which pitches ultra- efciency vehicles developed by student racing teams against each other. Tey are competing in the hydrogen fuel cell concept class, which seeks solely to minimise fuel consumption while completing a given course. In this article, they will try to highlight the most important concepts of the Simulation and Modelling 2017 Conference, held by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers on the 12-13 September at the National Motorcycle Museum, in Birmingham. Te two-day event was divided into talks on diferent topics and included two panel discussions per day. Tis article is structured in sequence by the presentations attended in chronological order, with comments and observations from Laura, Hasan and Oisin. Photo: Hasan Amin Hasan Photo: Our reasons for attending Hasan Amin, Laura Cattaneo, Oisin Shaw at the IMechE Conference in Birmingham Preceding the conference, an outline of the learning outcomes and participation impact Day One, 12 September External Airfow Simulation in Automotive was produced, highlighting the specifc areas Simulation in Design and Innovation Engineering Development: Current Practice, of interest as members of the student-led Simulation and modelling for cost reduction Future Prospects; Adrian Gaylard, Technical Imperial Racing Green SEM team: at design stage; Steve Fletcher, Global CoE Specialist for Aerodynamics, Jaguar and • Learning outcomes: Learn to develop Director – CAE, Tata Technologies Land Rover modelling and optimisation techniques. Steve Fletcher’s talk highlighted the Te entirety of the design process of a product Hear about the latest projects in design, relationship between accuracy and cost was explained and divided into the main areas development and testing across the diferent technology and methods of optimisation of a of Concept, Design, Perfection and Preparation engineering sectors. Engage with leading vehicle, by reduction of weight through early of Production. A graph of high/low probability manufacturing companies including stages of the design and architecture. He said against time showed the relationship between Jaguar and Land Rover, Rolls Royce and they saw a 10% reduction in weight increasing cost responsibility, degree of freedom for Lamborghini. fuel economy by 10%. Optimisation was decision, real product knowledge and ideal • Areas of interest include: summarised in the following formula: production knowledge. As time goes by, cost − Optimisation and integration of Right performance + Right Price = responsibility and product knowledge (both simulation and modelling across Right Material + Right Amount + Right Place real and ideal) increase, however freedom for engineering disciplines. In other words, choices of materials decision decreases. It was shown that the real − Simulation in design and innovation. to optimise vehicle weight were made by product knowledge could be achieved thanks − Full vehicle body modelling. considering the performance required at a price to simulation techniques. Adrian Gaylard − Simulation for powertrain development point and looking at the amount and sourcing emphasised the use of simulation to generate and testing. required for the material. Te performance more knowledge, earlier. Te automotive − Testing and Validation. of material is found by setting targets and industry has a signifcant drive via time- • Enhancement to personal development: optimising the space topology (defning based competition, with a single day delay Familiarise with the latest breakthroughs primary load paths with e.g. OptiStruct). potentially costing $1M. in manufacturing, structural analysis, His talk presented the increasing confdence Tis was one of the particularly interesting powertrain engineering and systems and in simulation software and its advantages presentations. Adrian Gaylard outlined how the control, allowing the development of a clear in design, however it highlighted also the Jaguar XE model saloon had been completely team vision. Build up confdence around disadvantages of simulation versus physical designed using computational fuid dynamics the topic which can further enhance team testing and prototypes, such as reduction of (CFD), as opposed to the traditional method performance. physical contact on products, loss of control of using CFD for frst approximations, and a • Participation beneft and impact: Get an of tolerances and difculty when leading with wind tunnel for validation and fnal design. It insight into design processes of leading fatigue and rupture. was particularly interesting hearing the details manufacturing companies, possibly An interesting point was made comparing of how particular physical phenomena had inspiring new changes in the current vehicle stochastic modelling to determinism. Efort to be introduced to the model, for example and aiding their implementation, focusing must be made to move away from single shot bonnet futter or surface fouling. in particular on dynamic modelling and runs. Nominal truths do not necessarily exist One of the reasons this talk was so simulation for the 2018 competition. and should not be expected: instead, model a interesting was that wind tunnel testing is far Benefts include broadening of knowledge family of analyses to understand where design beyond the resources of our race team in the in the area and skill development. sits within a normal distribution. foreseeable future, but we have an existing
14 Imperial ENGINEER Autumn 2017 FEATURES Aero design and CFD team, and could the limits of understanding between industry, Tis was another particularly informative potentially aford time on a computing cluster. academia and software providers. talk, presenting the use of “Hardware in Tis will undoubtedly be instrumental in the Loop” (HIL) systems, in which complex formation of long term plans by the team. Simulation for Powertrain Design boundary limits or components are simulated We need to look at aerodynamics and cooling Tis session of two presentations was run at by combining real time simulations and fows. At 70 mph, 70% of resistance is drag; the same time as Systems and Control across hardware. Te example used by Dr. Burke at 40-50 mph, aerodynamic losses are equal to Transport. Since it presented more value and was the complex turbulence conditions all other losses combined. Aerodynamic loads application to the team, it was decided to produced by a turbocharger. For the ultra- are also induced, pulling panels like doors and attend the Powertrain session. efciency vehicle, the fuel cell is by far the windows outwards. Efort needs to be made by most expensive component in the system, but Imperial Racing Green to avoid this, although Simulation and Testing of Complex Engine is not overly complex to model. Using HIL, our operating speeds are usually under 30 Boosting Systems; Richard Burke, Senior it would be possible to incrementally test mph. Lecturer, University of Bath the system, and iterate the design, validating Adrian noted that, in the development of Engines are more efcient at high loads. during the process. Dr. Burke also discussed the Jaguar F-Type, more efort was put into Boosting challenges include using HIL models to more quickly map the lift management than drag management. • Mechanical Pressure limit operating limits of a system, which is vital for Aerodynamic efciency must also be balanced • Mechanical Temperature limit a powertrain. with brake cooling, perhaps by including • Turbocharger limit (Compressor operating actuating brake doors. Active grill shutters are limit) Whole Machine Simulation for Of-Road also opened when engine load requires it. Hence, with a complex boosting system, vehicle Drivetrain Design; Igor Strashny, the lecturer highlighted the need to rely on Engineering Manager, High Efciency Te Industrialisation of High-Order Flux simulation to aid system design, which can Machine Research, Caterpillar UK Reconstruction Methods; Andrei Cimpoeru, however cause problems with model interfaces. Te talk focused on system modelling not CFD Engineer, Te Centre for Modelling It was also pointed out the correlation of cost related to racing vehicles. and Simulation, CFMS and complexity to realism, and the difculty Tis talk focused mainly on demonstrating the in reproducing it in simulation. Te current Simulation for Engine Development beneft in using High-Order Discretisation for modelling solutions allow one to “study Volcan: a Simulation tool for Iterative CFD applications and considering high fdelity the interaction to create simple models to Calculation of Engine Termal Bound- CFD and High Performance Computing integrate with other models”. Tese are ofered ary Conditions; Tom Deighan, Principal (HPC) solutions. Te topic was very technical by current software such as Matlab, Simulink, Engineer, Ricardo UK but not applicable for the SEM car projects. C code, Ricardo Wave and GT Power. Future Volcan is an analytical tool developed to visions will incorporate High Order models, provide improved accuracy of component PANEL – Does the specifcation ft the need? which would be parameterised to Low Order temperatures with a physical basis. Te Te panel discussion focused mainly on the models to allow a Control Optimisation. calculation is based on physical models and challenges facing software users in industry Finally, turbocharging is the key enabler of semi-empirical correlations, hence is predictive – addressing the diferent requirements of a fuel reduction, and future systems will require and allows detailed design parameters. Te product at application stage – and questioned complex design and energy management. database methods are quick and simple and Photo: Laura Cattaneo Photo: The conference was held in the National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham
Imperial ENGINEER Autumn 2017 15 FEATURES Photo: Imperial College Photo: Imperial Racing Green’s Shell Eco-Marathon (SEM) team currently competes in the Prototype Hydrogen class of Shell Eco-Marathon. For the 2016/17 they entered the car ICHV01. The car is a hydrogen fuel cell/supercapacitor hybrid vehicle: Fuel cell – H-200 Horizon stack, 200W nominal output; Supercapacitor bank – 18 x 100F capacitors, total 5.5kJ of energy; Motor – Maxon RE 50 24V 200W; Chain drive. they use limited input data. In summary, improved democratisation. processes would include globally distributed Volcan: integrated product teams, standardisation • Is predictive Day Two, 13 September of individual simulation tools with clear • Has quick run-time Optimisation, Integration and Validation interfaces, standardisation of design rules, use • Boundary Conditions by iteration can be Integration of Systems and Software for of central storage and computer capacity. For performed quickly Seamless Workfows; Akin Keskin, Chief of the long term future, design processes would • Captures all engine heat paths in detail Virtual Engine Design System, Rolls Royce include intelligent design systems – Simulation • Can be used to model heat transfer plc as a service (SaaS), artifcial intelligence, fully temperature changes in pistons, rings, Akin Keskin’s talk looked at how to manage probabilistic. Current and future challenges grooves etc. simulation systems to create the best results. include: It focused mainly on connectivity between • Simulation verifcation and validation Simulation SABRE: Designing and diferent simulation and modelling systems, • Digitalisation and connectivity Modelling a novel Aerospace Engine as an challenges arising from incompatible systems • Data storage and search SME; James Barth, Lead Aerodynamicist, and requirements for future simulation and • Large data analytics Reaction Engines Ltd modelling software in design, validation and • Cybersecurity SABRE uses advanced heat exchangers manufacturing processes. Understanding • Supply Chain integration to double the speed of current jet engine initial goals and requirements is essential Rolls Royce use a matrix structure with technology and reduce fuel consumption. to increase the usefulness of simulations. It functions (e.g. aerodynamics) against projects Heat exchanger technology was presented, highlighted the trade-of needed between (e.g. a specifc engine). Use of this sort of such as Microchannels. Te software used for product design challenges, with the following planning would greatly beneft Imperial the combustion modelling is CFD++. analyses for aircraft engines, which have Racing Green by more efectively categorising parallels to our racing car: projects to ensure their goals are sensible, and Development and Testing • Performance: given as specifc fuel to better realise them. Left Shift Product Development with Virtual consumption, fuel consumed per unit Reality; Paul Dainty, Business Development thrust. Mainly driven by aerodynamics. Accelerated Optimisation and Validation Manager for Virtual Reality and Ground Run diferent CFD solvers for diferent for High Performance Brake Design; Chris Transportation Account Manager, ESI UK parts of engine accordingly. Hebert, Engineering Director, D2H Aero Ltd • Weight: hit weight target, keep an eye on Te talk focused on the importance of brake Virtual Reality is here applied to engineering: weight constantly throughout development. design in a vehicle’s design process. Te the new platform IC.IDO allows global VR Increase confdence level and accuracy coefcient of friction of a pad brake depends on realtime co-operation, facilitating design through the design process. the temperature, pressure, rise time and speed. conception and development. • Cost (material, operating etc.): achieve Tis is difcult to model computationally targets to avoid negative efects on other as the coefcient of friction for disc brakes Bloodhound SCC: the role of Simulation parts of the product. varies even at the same temperature and the and Modelling in Development and • Life: products need to go into service and same combination of materials. Te design Testing; Mark Chapman, Chief Engineer, hit targets, number of take of/landings considerations include aerodynamics, weight Bloodhound SCC (cycles) for aeronautical industry. reduction, durability, component selection, Te whole project of Bloodhound is entirely • Product Service: products will need regular reduced cost and better performance. reliant on simulation. “All models are wrong – maintenance – Rolls Royce sell engines with Tis was one of the most useful talks as it some are useful” (George Box) a ‘total care’ contract. looked at how to consider performance with • Manufacturability: focus on efciency and racing circuits. Models should be made of PANEL – Democratisation and Usability cost reductions. existing or new race circuits. Te following Te Panel discussion highlighted the How can we design faster and ensure quality analyses can then be made: Brake thermal importance of how simulation should not with a lower workforce? It can be achieved model – physical model, lumped parameter replace an engineer’s work, but should be used through standardisation of design tools, models; Transient solution for conduction, as a tool to make the engineers achieve their by reducing waste and improving design convection and radiation; Physical testing for work. Te session focused on overcoming capability, and by ensuring a better link correlation. the challenges in simulation and modelling between design and manufacturing, assembly, One of the best insights granted was adoption across the engineering disciplines and test and service. Lead time can be reduced by mentioning hardware and driver in the loop on improving software usability for diferent using more simulation capability, by creating technology. Digital twins are being created to engineering functions. With an improvement cross-functional and multi-skilled teams run in parallel with races, to simulate when to in software availability, engineers and CAE and by introducing Agile development and change brakes in race in real time. Te ability to expert will be able to work better together for surgical teams. For the near term future, design perform analyses in real time will be a driving
16 Imperial ENGINEER Autumn 2017 FEATURES focus of Imperial Racing Green this year, and Engine Design; Adele Nasti, Structural we shall attempt to implement telemetry and Design System Lead, Virtual Engine Design information transmission systems. “As a recent graduate, soon to Systems, Rolls Royce plc be starting a research based Again, the presentation highlighted the Confdence in Optimality for Complex postgraduate course at Imperial, Design Framework (Conceptual design, Electrifed Powertrains through Synthesis having the opportunity to attend Preliminary design, Detailed design - Systems, and Selection; Jonathan Wheals, Chief sub-systems, components) and the need of Engineer – Innovation, Ricardo UK this conference was invaluable. multi-skillled engineers. Identifying the best combination of elements As with almost all experimental for electrifed driveline during the selection research projects, my postgraduate Best Practice process for the automotive industry is extremely project has a modelling phase prior PANEL – Developing Best Practice across important. Te talk particularly focused on an to the design of the test rig. Tis the Engineering Industries approach to tackling complexity arising from informs the required variables Te Panel discussion focused on cross-industry Hybridisation. Te V-cycle selection method and parameters of the test rig, and learning for simulation and modelling, is proposed. An examination process of the it is therefore important that the and that knowledge sharing is critical for products was divided into phase 1 (Failure to modelling has the correct scope and engineering development and future, engaging meet a constraint), phase 2 (Objective Merit with engineers for better understanding and ranking) and phase 3 (Optimisation). Tis focus. My role as a postgraduate usage of physical and digital resources. Te process allows design solutions to be quickly advisor for Imperial Racing session also focused on the future of Computer fltered and reduced. Green (specifically the Ultra- Aided Engineering and how to further the An option to iterate and redesign our passive efficiency team) will benefit from use of virtual manufacturing to improve hybrid transmission (which utilises a hydrogen the knowledge gained from this industrial outcomes. Tis includes modelling, fuel cell with supercapacitors) would be with conference.” simulation, calibration, validation, sensitivity synthesis and selection, as explored in this talk. – Oisin Shaw analysis, uncertainty, dissemination, and Synthesis occurs with a computer generation understanding future applications. Te panel of all hardware candidates (potentially millions also discussed the limit on how much best of topologies to combine a set of given nodes). practice can be shared and on how much it is Selection is then made by ranking according to wanted to remain private. highest scoring attributes (previously set), and thermal resistance) assessing against constraints and objectives. • refrigerant cooling (dielectric, light) Conclusions Tis sometimes leads to counterintuitive but Battery ageing was also analysed, and was In conclusion, simulation can: higher performance solutions. divided into calendar ageing and cycle ageing, • reduce cost the capacity loss being dependent on storage, • improve confdence PANEL – Ensuring Rigorous Simulated climate, driving cycle, utilisation mode etc. • support innovation Testing in Conjunction with Physical Testing Finally the new Williams FW EVX was Increased stochastic approaches can improve Te Panel discussion focused on understanding presented. Tis electric racing car includes a simulation. Engineers need to develop the complementary relationship between battery pack, an efcient powertrain, a cooling knowledge among other disciplines but also simulation and physical testing and the system to maximise efciency and reduce drag not live in a virtual world, as simulation needs crucial importance of the latter, especially and a lightweight structure. only to be used as a tool. with incoming new regulations even if more Te conference was incredibly interesting expensive and difcult to perform. Te Minimising Risk through Integration and valuable for the team. A good insight of limitations of simulation in a test environment Fast High Fidelity Modelling Tools; James leading manufacturers showed the current were discussed and it was concluded that best Towers, MBSE Consultant, EnginSoft UK technologies in the automotive sector which practice and lessons learnt come from past case Ltd will be useful for the future development of studies. Te talk highlighted how nowadays everything the car. Some vital points were highlighted is model-based system engineering, however of which we would otherwise not have Simulation for Powertrain Validation and structure and interfaces are not enough for been aware, and this should increase the Analysis the description of the required part. EnginSoft performance of our car and the success of An Integrated Approach in Termofuid allows fast, high-fdelity and multi-domain future team members. It was also a great Dynamic Simulation of High Performance modelling. insight into how industry approaches research Electric Vehicles; Roberto Della Ratta and development, and how the balance of Rinaldi, Senior CFD Engineer, Williams Streamlining the Manufacturing Process simulation and testing is struck. Although Advanced Engineering Simulation and Concept Development: some presentations were somewhat specifc Te four types of powertrain confguration are how and why to Build up Trust in the early to the CFD area and for this reason not very Petrol, Diesel, Hybrid and Fuel Cell. Te talk Stages of a Project; Riccardo Parenti, Head applicable to the SEM vehicle (at least not also showed how the battery and chassis can be of Concept Development, Lamborghini yet), it was overall a great experience and we designed holistically to produce a system that Te talk focused on the design stages necessary are all very grateful to the OC Trust for letting works together and allows seamless integration, for product development and the challenges us be able to attend. while optimising battery architecture. Te which need to be faced, such as ensuring integrated EV Simulation would have then to quality at the lower cost. take into account the range (A/C), the mass, the resistance (rolling and drag), the charging Stress and Structural Analysis Laura Cattaneo is a third year MEng (ambient), the cost and the performance Dynamics and Tribology in Efciency and Mechanical Engineering student. (drive cycles, ambient). It was also highlighted NVH; Stephanos Teodossiades, Professor how battery cell performance is dependent on of Non-Linear Dynamics, Loughborough Hasan Amin is a third year MEng Mechanical temperature and presents thermal challenges University Engineering student. (optimal range 20-35 degrees). Cooling Tis session focused on complex dynamics options were presented: systems and case studies, not particularly Oisin Shaw (Mech Eng 2013-17) was SEM • air cooling (lighter, low cost, simple) useful for the team. team principal for the 2016-17 season and is • liquid cooling (high performance, low Structural Simulation in in Preliminary now postgraduate advisor.
Imperial ENGINEER Autumn 2017 17 FEATURES A Cappella at Imperial After rave reviews of The Techtonics a cappella group when they performed at the CGCA annual dinner in March (as reported in IE26), we thought it would be interesting to fnd out more about them. In the process they told us about the Imperial A Cappella Society which is one of the largest university a cappella societies in the UK, with fve well-established groups.
The Techtonics Te Techtonics group was founded in the summer of 2008 by Christian Carter and Ed Brightman, who jointly lamented the lack of quality contemporary a cappella at Imperial College and decided to start an all-male group. Teir aim was to combine funky grooves with funky socks with a repertoire ranging from 70s rock classics to dubstep bass drops. Te Techtonics performed their frst gig at ‘ArtsFest’ (an annual celebration of arts at Imperial) in February 2009. Tey went on to perform at their frst full concert in December 2009 in the Imperial College Christmas concert, which has since become an annual fxture for the group. Martinez Joe Photo: Winning the ICCA World Championship Finals in New York 2016 In February 2010, Te Techtonics competed in their frst competition, Te Voice Festival UK (VFUK), and won the award (Contemporary A cappella Recording Awards) Techtonics competed both times. In 2016, the for Outstanding Arrangement, awarded to in Boston, MA, USA. In September they group placed frst in the UK, and went on to Christian Carter for the arrangement Come returned to the US for another East Coast win the ICCA world championships in New Undone. In August 2010, the group performed tour. York. for the frst time at the Edinburgh Fringe In March 2014 they reached the national Te following summer, the group performed festival. Teir frst international tour was to fnal of the Voice Festival, winning the award for a second time at the Edinburgh Fringe Croatia in August 2011. for Outstanding Soloist for Peter Noden. In festival with their show Don’t Push the Button, In February 2012 at Te Voice Festival September they returned to the US for a tour which was awarded 5 star reviews. they won the awards for Outstanding of California, their frst on the West Coast. From March - April 2017 the group went Performance for Earthquake and Outstanding In January 2015 they released their on tour to Hong Kong to perform as a part Soloist for David Verhoeven. 2012 also saw frst single, Let Her Go, from their second of the Hong Kong International A Cappella their frst US East Coast tour in September studio album Clockwork. Te album was Festival. just after releasing their debut studio album released in October and was promoted on In April 2017, the group recorded a cover of Groundbreaker. their Clockwork Tour of North America in Bang Bang (Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Tey won more awards at Te Voice Festival September. Minaj song), arranged by Kyle Alexander in March 2013, with Outstanding Soloist In 2015, the International Championship Hogan, former member of the University of for David Maguire and Outstanding Vocal of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA) began Rochester YellowJackets, for the UK TV series Percussion for Max Hunter. Tat was swiftly hosting annual live competition rounds in Tonight at the London Palladium, which aired followed in April by the award for “Best Male the UK. Imperial College A Cappella Society on 19 April 2017. Collegiate Song” for Earthquake at CARA hosted the semi-fnals in 2015 and 2016. Te Having toured both coasts of America, they plan to head back to the States again. Whether they’re performing on Broadway or busking on Portobello road on Saturday mornings, the characteristic energy of the group will have you walking away with a smile on your face. bit.ly/IE27-Techtonics bit.ly/IE27-TechtonicsICCA2016 bit.ly/IE27-TechtonicsBicycle Photo: Amici Photography Photo:
Photo: Hong Kong International A Cappella Festival (HKIAF) Festival A Cappella International Hong Kong Photo: Busking on Portobello Road on Saturday At the Hong Kong International A Cappella Festival in 2017 mornings
18 Imperial ENGINEER Autumn 2017 FEATURES Te Techtonics were ineligible to become a society of the Imperial College Union (ICU), because it was too small and single gender. Tis led to members of the group in November 2010 starting the Imperial College A Cappella Society, of which Te Techtonics would be part, with the wider aim of making the activity of a cappella open to all ICU members and to encourage other groups to form. It belongs to the Arts and Entertainments Board of ICU. Apart from Te Techtonics there are now 4 other main groups: Photo: Marc Emmanuelli Marc Photo: The Imperielles Imperial’s frst all-female group was founded in 2011 and have fung themselves onto the UK a cappella scene with intriguing mash-ups and a whole new level of sass. As close friends on and of the stage they have been laughing and harmonising ever since. With a hugely successful Comic Relief video and their very own music video, Imperielles are always looking for new and innovative ways to perform a range of popular music. bit.ly/IE27-Imperielles bit.ly/IE27-ImperiellesRedNose Photo: The Imperielles The Photo: The Scopes Founded in 2011, Te Scopes are Imperial’s premier mixed contemporary a cappella group, singing a wide repertoire from jazz standards to Bruno Mars. Tey can often be found busking at Portobello Road Market on Saturdays, and have also been active in international a cappella competitions, including the UK ICCA. As a group which regularly releases singles on Spotify and SoundCloud, the Scopes aims to bring their own brand of fun and madness to the a cappella world! bit.ly/IE27-ScopesVideo bit.ly/IE27-Scopes Photo: The Scopes The Photo: Take Note Take Note is one of Imperial’s newer a cappella groups, having started in 2013. It’s a close-knit all-girls group which specialises in Barbershop music, as well as modern music with fun Barbershop twists. Take Note brings even more variety to Imperial’s spectacular a cappella community with this jazzy genre, aiming to entertain with a sound diferent to contemporary a cappella, providing students with a wider range of music. bit.ly/IE27-TakeNote Photo: Marc Emmanuelli Marc Photo: Surcery Surcery is Imperial’s newest group, having been formed only in 2014, but claim to have the most interesting vibe! Combining aspects of Western music, and Hindi music, Surcery sing a fusion of genres, creating an engaging and exciting performance. Having performed at East Meets West, and soon to be expanding into the a cappella concerts and more competitive venues, Surcery is full of enthusiasm and fare. bit.ly/IE27-Surcery bit.ly/IE27-SurceryVideo Photo: Marc Emmanuelli Marc Photo:
Imperial ENGINEER Autumn 2017 19 FEATURES Self-ePublishing (not to be confused with Selfe-publishing) An introduction by Imperial ENGINEER’s Editor, Peter Buck (Computing 1976-79) When I’m not having to do some consultancy to pay the bills, the work that I most enjoy – even more than editing Imperial ENGINEER – is helping Alison to run an independent science fction and fantasy publisher. Tis seems to be a subject which quickly attracts attention in conversations at alumni reunions etc., and it is obvious that many engineers feel they have (at least) one book inside them waiting to get out. For most of us, it is incredibly difcult to fnd an agent or a big fve publisher (unless you’re a celebrity with a guaranteed audience for your salacious memoirs). So self-publishing has become very popular; indeed quite a few of the authors that we publish started by self-publishing their books.
Whereas even ten years ago self-publishing But let’s skip forward to the 20th century take notice. would have been regarded as tantamount to when Desktop Publishing started, thanks to Meanwhile a trade association for digital vanity publishing, it is now seen as evidence Apple’s LaserWriter coupled with Postscript publishers developed an open standard for of the democratisation of publishing. Either and word-processing software on a Mac. electronic books, called EPUB, which is based way, it is now both very popular and very easy. Having cracked production, the advent of on XML, XHTML and CSS – technologies In some ways it is too easy, enabling people easy network communications and cheap used for displaying information on the web. with neither literary skills nor any aesthetic storage technology meant that the distribution Tis has subsequently been adopted by most or qualitative profciency to upload a poorly of documents in a digital format became of the major manufacturers of eBook readers, written and badly formatted document and more common. However, you still needed including Apple, Kobo, and Nook, as well as have it uncritically published as an eBook! a computer with the right software to read by many apps on tablets and smartphones. In In many ways, far from democratising, self- the document. Te commercialisation of the fact the only notable exception is Amazon – so publishing has highlighted the value of internet, especially the Web, acted as a catalyst now the multiplicity of formats has more or publishers as a form of quality assurance. and then the arrival of mobile technologies less come down to two. As engineers (especially those of us made the sci-f trope of an electronic Why should you care about any of this? who consult), we fnd a large part of our book seem achievable. At this point a few Tere is still a distinction between the professional life is spent writing, and most ‘interesting’ things happened. format(s) used by Amazon – who subsequently of us have written far more words than A number of companies started to produce developed a more feature-rich format called many accomplished authors – there is an oft- display technologies that could be used Kindle Format 8 (KF8), based on HTML5 repeated maxim that a writer needs to have somewhat like an electronic version of paper and CSS, and then upgraded it to version 10 written at least a million words before they – write some text to the display then remove (KFX), which their more recent devices can have learnt their craft. I’m sure that most of us the power and the text remains visible. As support – and most other devices and apps have written well over that number of words contrast improved and resolution increased it which use EPUB. If you wish to publish your fairly early on in our careers! became feasible to use this in a mass-market book on any platform other than Kindle you So, if you have a yen to write something device that could store the text of a book and will need to produce an EPUB format version. more exciting than a technical report or display it, on demand, one page at a time. A However, if you also want to publish on the management recommendation, whether it’s variety of devices were launched, although Kindle you can upload the EPUB version a thriller, fantasy or even just your salacious they all sufered from a dearth of books to read and KDP will automatically convert it into memoirs, my intention in this article is to on them. Each one used a proprietary format Amazon’s own formats (although there are give you some pointers as to how you should for its text to enable it to include a modicum some limitations). go about it. When you have published your of formatting – but mostly they took the masterpiece, let us know so we can review it in view that a book just consists of a sequence Some other things to worry about IE and pass on the good news (hopefully) to of words and all the efort that the author and An Act for the Encouragement of Learning... your fellow alumni. publisher put into the design and layout of the ...so starts the Statute of Anne from 1710 book was unimportant frippery. It was hardly which introduced copyright and formalised First, some background surprising, therefore, that the major publishers legal deposit to the Royal Library (now the It is (as I’ve already said) very easy to publish were unconvinced that it was worthwhile British Library). Before I go any further I almost anything as an eBook. You might want publishing electronic editions of titles that must make it clear that I Am Not A Lawyer ;-) to enjoy the feel of a real book, the smell of the were selling perfectly well as paper copies – In many countries, any book that is fresh ink and newly cut paper, and the weight especially as it would require the production published needs to have one (or more) copies of a tome in your hands, but printing brings of a separate version in each of the multiple deposited with a legal deposit agency. In lots of costs with it (production, storage, formats in order to be readable on all of the the UK there are six legal deposit libraries; distribution, shipping etc.) By comparison, diferent devices. a copy of every UK print publication must once you’ve produced an eBook, it costs no One of these formats was developed by a be given to the British Library, and to the more to sell one copy than a thousand copies. French company called Mobipocket which was other fve libraries if they request it within a Tere are dedicated online retailers for eBooks subsequently bought by Amazon and became year of publication. Since April 2013 there (Kindle, iTunes, Kobo, Nook, Google Play, the basis of the initial Kindle device. Amazon is an equivalent entitlement on the legal etc.) many of them operating globally, and realised that the early pioneers had sufered deposit libraries to collect UK-published they are generally very keen to sell your book from a lack of suitable books, but the major electronic publications, but at the moment at no cost to you. So let’s start with a bit of publishers were still not particularly interested no mechanisms are in place for self-publishing book history and the current state of eBooks. so, along with the introduction of the Kindle, authors to deposit their publications. In the beginning was the word... they launched a free service to enable authors Does this afect you? At the moment, not ...which was typeset in hot metal and to bypass publishers and publish their books if you only publish your book as an eBook. If printed manually by Johannes Gutenburg. directly in an electronic edition available for you produce a printed edition then you will Actually China and Roman Egypt had been the Kindle. Known as Digital Text Platform, need to deposit a copy with the British Library. printing centuries before Johannes came it subsequently became what is today known Copyright is an area that many people don’t along, although they used wooden blocks. Te as Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP). With the fully understand, even though it is intrinsically earliest known example of printing is probably huge retail presence of Amazon, the Kindle very simple. If a piece of work is created, as the still-indecipherable Minoan Phaistos disc was able to kick-start the market for electronic soon as it is ‘fxed’, that is written or recorded from the Bronze Age (before 1000 BC). books and the big publishers fnally started to on some physical medium, its author is
20 Imperial ENGINEER Autumn 2017 FEATURES automatically entitled to all copyrights in or poem) that is not in the public domain, you – but this is a sure-fre route to disaster and the work until the author disclaims them or must obtain permission from the copyright potentially the end of a beautiful friendship the copyright expires – this was enshrined in holder of that work to use it. If you cannot (or two). Tere are plenty of freelance editors the 1886 Berne Convention which ensured get in touch with the author directly, the available (just look on the Internet) who can recognition of copyrights between nations. publisher will usually be able to handle your give you an independent and unbiased view of Under the Berne Convention, copyright must query. Make sure it is clear what you are your text and ofer constructive criticism and be automatic, prohibiting any requirement intending to use and why – most authors/ corrections. of formal registration. Most nations were publishers will give you a free waiver for a If you think that this is unnecessary let signatories, although the US refused to sign short quotation, especially if it’s for use in a me tell you about my friend Desmond (not as they insisted on registration of copyright low sales volume book rather than one from his real name). He wrote a novel and had it and mandatory copyright notices. Just over a a large commercial publisher! You may have ‘proofread’ by his son (because ‘he is good at hundred years later, in 1989, the US became heard the US term ‘fair use’ used in relation grammar’) and a close friend (who ‘reads a lot one of the last developed nations to sign the to using copyrighted material. It is similar to and is very pedantic’). Following their handful Berne Convention. Tus, if you are an author the UK term ‘fair dealing’ (e.g. using a limited of corrections he published it on Kindle and you automatically have copyright in your work amount of copyrighted material for non- then sent me a copy and asked me if I’d write a once it is created – unless the work was made by proft educational purposes, private study or review. As I read it I made notes of the errors an employee in the course of their employment, research, or for critical or satirical purposes) that I found (yes, I am that annoying). In in which case the copyright is owned by which only applies to non-commercial use. the end I sent him 27 A4 pages of notes on the employer. In the case of commissioned Tis, therefore, does not give you licence to the errors in the book – which ranged from works the ownership of copyright would use such material in a book you’re going to sell. a character changing name halfway through, normally be established in the contract One doth not know how much an ill word may another character’s hair colour changing between the commissioner and the contractor. empoison liking... repeatedly with no explanation, multiple Te rights granted to a copyright owner ...so says Hero in Much Ado About Nothing typographical errors, and a couple of (albeit fall into two categories; economic rights and when considering deliberately slandering minor) plot holes. He was shocked that his son moral rights. Te economic rights are what her cousin. Libel is, of course, the written and friend had missed all of these. Needless allow authors to make money from their work equivalent and it is the responsibility of a to say he re-edited the book and re-issued it – they have the right to control reproduction, publisher to ensure that nothing is published in a corrected version. Te moral of this story sale, rental, broadcast and adaptation of which is actionable. is that relatives and friends will be subjective their work, and can take action to prevent Tis is not likely to be of much concern if and biased and are essentially reading it as an or claim compensation for infringement. you’re publishing fction, but if you’re going to entertainment, whereas an editor will read Te economic rights can be sold or licensed be producing an eBook with essays on politics through it multiple times as a professionally (which is what authors will generally do in or history it would be advisable to make sure objective and independent reader. Te job of the contract with their publisher). Moral that they don’t include anything that could an editor is not to change the story or afect rights protect non-economic interests of be considered libellous. As the publisher the author’s ‘voice’ but to make sure that the the creator of a work – in the UK there are you will be held responsible – which is why text itself is clear, concise, correct, consistent three recognised moral rights: the right to be commercial publishers will include a clause in and complete (the 5 Cs of editing). Tis identifed as author of the work (“the right the authors’ contract ensuring that the author can include correcting syntax errors (such as of paternity”), which needs to be asserted by indemnifes the publisher against claims grammar, spelling, punctuation); correcting the author; the right to object to derogatory including plagiarism and libel. semantic errors (such as using the wrong treatment (“the right of integrity”); the right character’s name, inconsistent spelling of a to object to false attribution. Now, down to the writing name, or anachronisms); improving use of In the UK, copyright protection for an Lay on, MacDuff… language (such as poor sentence structure or original literary work lasts for the life of the Of course, the frst, and most time-consuming phrasal ambiguity); trimming unnecessary text author plus 70 years from the end of the year part is actually writing your book. You (such as repetition); ensuring plot elements in which the author dies – if there are joint already know what you want to write about, are not missing. Tey can also help with issues authors then it is determined by the date of but before you start it is worth establishing such as formatting consistency and layout death of the last surviving author. Once the some structure and a style-sheet so that you suggestions. copyright has expired, the work is considered are consistent all the way through (chapter Once you have the text edited (and to be in the public domain and use of it will titles, standard paragraphs, quotes, etc.). You if possible, separately proofread – most not infringe copyright. For example, John can use some tools (like Scrivener) to help professional publishers will have proofreaders Dryden’s 1697 translation of Virgil’s Aeneid is you write in the form of a book, but using who check the manuscript after it has been in the public domain, but David West’s 1991 standard software like Microsoft Word or edited, but it is essential that they haven’t been translation is still under copyright protection. Apple Pages is perfectly good enough. You involved in the editing so they come to the RCS alumnus H.G. Wells died in 1946 so can use tools within these packages such as the text fresh) you will need to ensure that it is his Te War of the Worlds (1898) remained in spellchecker (set to the correct language), but I consistently formatted. If you set up and used copyright until the end of 2016, while Jules would recommend turning of the autocorrect a style-sheet at the outset this will be easy. Verne’s Le Superbe Orénoque (also 1898) is facility as this invariably leads to unintended Remember that books are generally not A4, long out of copyright as he died in 1905. words being substituted, and if you’re a touch so lay out your text so that it will look good Although there is no requirement to register typist then you may not even notice that it has on a typical book-sized page. One of the most copyright, it is a good idea to include a changed what you typed! useful components of a text, but frequently copyright notice with your work (using the © When you have fnished writing it is essential overlooked, is white space – i.e. the gaps between symbol, the name of the copyright owner and to get an editor to go through it for you. and around words, sentences and paragraphs. the year the work was created). Tis ensures However good you think you are as a writer, Tey give a shape to the text and contribute that it is clear when the copyright protection however careful you think you are as a typist, to the rhythm and timing when it is read. started and who to approach for permission it is a fundamental truism that you CANNOT So you have your book written – how do to use the work. You should also include successfully edit and proofread your own you turn it into an eBook? You can sign up an assertion of the right of paternity for the work alone. Many self-publishing authors to Amazon’s KDP and just upload your Word author. are tempted to get their partner/parent/best fle. However if you want a good ‘product’ If your work includes material from other friend to do this, on the grounds that they you’re better of doing the conversion yourself. work (for example, a quotation from a book read a lot and ‘have a good grasp of grammar’ But that’s a whole other article…
Imperial ENGINEER Autumn 2017 21 FEATURES Meet Hugh Kendrick (Mech Eng 1958-61) What was the career trajectory that led a mechanical engineer from City & Guilds to be elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society cited for innovations in nuclear materials safeguards and nuclear non- proliferation (as reported in the Spring issue of Imperial ENGINEER)? Hugh Kendrick’s studies at City & Guilds seemed that Hugh worked almost 24 hours a were funded by an apprenticeship with day 7 days a week to fnish his doctorate but Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Limited’s (VA) found time to play for U-M’s rugby team. By South Marston Works where he helped build the time he graduated, he and Wendy had 2 twin-engined Scimitar fghters for the Royal children, Stuart and Amanda, but his rugby Navy. Hugh has had a life-long interest in career had ended with a serious ankle injury aviation and fulflled a childhood dream during a tournament in Chicago. when he learned to fy in the University of His frst job in 1968 was in the Linear London Air Squadron, part of the Royal Air Accelerator Division of Gulf General Atomic Force Volunteer Reserve. He planned for (GGA) in San Diego, California. Kendrick his National Service to be in the RAF and and his family drove across country and contemplated a career in either the RAF or camped in as many National Parks as they commercial aviation. could on the way. At GGA, Kendrick’s His interest, however, was piqued by the research in measuring neutron and gamma prospect of nuclear engineering when Professor ray spectra from concrete slabs bombarded by Peter Grant initiated a graduate course at high energy neutrons was related to radiation Imperial. Kendrick obtained leave from VA environments in Minuteman missile (ICBM) to spend a summer at the Atomic Energy Wendy and Hugh in the Shetlands silos. He was also involved in developing and Research Establishment (AERA) Harwell, to holidayed together in the huts of the Fell and applying non-destructive assay measurements which VA later became a contractor when the Rock Climbing Club, to which Hugh still of the uranium-thorium fuels for GGA’s High Scimitar programme ended. belongs, in the English Lake District where Temperature Gas Reactor (HTGR). Te Besides fying, Kendrick’s outside activities his mother had been born. Within a year, they measurements were for the Quality Control focussed on rugby which he played regularly were – and still are, 54 years later – married. (QC) and nuclear materials safeguards of the for City & Guilds and occasionally for IC as When his apprenticeship was drawing to an fuel for the 300 MW HTGR at Fort St. Vrain well. end, Hugh was told that he would be paid on in Colorado. Contemplating new career choices, an age scale by VA at South Marston. When Leaving GGA, Kendrick went to work for Hugh sought permission from VA for an he expressed surprise because he now had a a new start-up SAI which later became SAIC, MBA at Harvard, but was frmly told that Master’s degree, he was told “that education is and which he helped build to be a $5+ billion “engineers should be on tap not on top!” the key to the door.” Fortunately, he was able all employee-owned company with more than So he applied for the Master’s programs in to transfer to a more compatible environment 40,000 employees and ofces world-wide nuclear engineering at both the Massachusetts at Vickers Research (VR), where he helped when he retired in 2001. Institute of Technology (MIT) and the design, build and test L-, S-, and X-band Kendrick soon moved to the Washington California Institute of Technology (Caltech). electron linear accelerators. Unfortunately, DC ofces of SAI and conducted research Caltech ofered him a Teaching Assistantship Kendrick learned he was to return to VA and analysis programs to assess environmental and he completed an MS there within a year. South Marston at the end of that year because impacts, safeguards and security, risk and While there was no rugby at Caltech, there VR was to be disbanded. safety evaluations as well as the economics were enough ex-pats from the UK and other By now disillusioned with the old world primarily of nuclear power reactors and Commonwealth countries to sport a cricket attitudes prevalent in industry at the time associated nuclear fuel cycle facilities. team which Hugh joined. Another member in England and already attracted by the He became progressively more interested of the team was Richard Wade, and their two vitality he had seen in his time in the USA, in nuclear safeguards and the risks of nuclear families have remained friends ever since. he decided to apply to graduate schools proliferation particularly associated with the Richard and Hugh even ended up working in the US to conduct a PhD program. An nuclear fuel cycle. Analogous to probabilistic together in the same company, namely Science experimentalist by nature, Hugh had obtained safety assessment of nuclear power, he Applications International Corp. (SAIC). a recommended list of nuclear engineering pioneered the application of probabilistic Hugh remembers that he and his best (and schools before leaving Caltech. Tellingly, approaches to safeguards. He worked for most life-long) friend at Imperial, Brian Launder, powerful multi-megawatt research reactors of the US Government Agencies in these felds sailed together on the Queen Mary to New were already in operation at universities in the including the Atomic Energy Commission York in the summer of 1961, he to go to US by 1957, whereas IC’s much less powerful (AEC) and its National Laboratories, the Caltech and Brian to MIT. In those days, First kilowatt reactor was not commissioned until AEC’s Nuclear Regulatory Ofce (later the Class passengers, about 1/3 of the passenger 1965 or later. Ofered a lucrative fellowship Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Te Energy total, commanded almost all the space on the by the University of Michigan (U-M), he and Research and Development Administration QM, so he and Brian used to steal through the his by-now-6 month-pregnant wife, Wendy, (ERDA) which became the Department of dog kennels between two of the QM’s funnels emigrated in August 1963. Energy (DOE), the Environmental Protection into the First Class area in the evening to Kendrick’s research was in solid state physics Agency (EPA), the Bureau of Radiological watch flms and play ping-pong. Even though (condensed matter physics as it is now called). Health (BRH), the National Science dressed in their Sunday-best suits, they stuck He worked during the summers for the Ford Foundation (NSF), the Ofce of Technology out like sore thumbs and were soon asked to Motor Company’s Scientifc Laboratory Assessment (OTA), and the Department of go back where they belonged! and his two mentors there, Sam Werner and Defense (DOD). At the end of his year at Caltech, Hugh sailed Tony Arrott, and he conducted a program As an engineer, Hugh always liked the home on the Queen Elizabeth to be reunited of magnetic neutron scattering experiments challenge of solving difcult problems, and with his fancée and love of his life, Wendy, on the 2 MW reactor donated to U-M by came to realise that nuclear non- and counter- who was training at St. George’s Hospital to Ford. Together, they discovered the frst- proliferation presented the most challenging be a nurse. At his mother’s suggestion, they order magnetic phase change in chromium. It and important problems which he ever faced.
22 Imperial ENGINEER Autumn 2017 FEATURES He became involved with SAI’s work in nuclear a big clumsy fellow should stop such activity certifcates during his service with the Federal weapons, particularly warhead security and and broke down! Government. the potential use of tactical nuclear weapons to To replace running, he and Wendy took up He is a member of the American Nuclear counter the Soviet threats in Europe. He was trekking in mountains, the bigger the better. Society, a Fellow of the American Physical struck by the fact that doves and hawks in the Travel, to see wild animals and wild places, Society, a member of the American Chemical arms control arena had similar assessments of is an enduring passion. Tey trekked in the Society, the Society of Sigma XI, and a past the risks of nuclear proliferation arising from Himalayas in Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan, and India, member of the Institute of Nuclear Materials the civilian nuclear fuel cycle. and in the Karakoram of Pakistan; across the Management (INMM), and the American Wanting to devote himself to these Alps in France, Switzerland and Austria; the Association for the Advancement of Science. problems, Kendrick left SAIC in 1977 to work Pyrenees from Bilbao to Barcelona; and the He is a past member of the Nuclear Safety in ERDA and DOE for 4 years. He developed Torres del Paine in Argentine and Chilean Committee of the National Research Council. ways to assess the risks from, or resistance Patagonia. Tey climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. He is a past member of the Committee to to, proliferation from diferent nuclear fuel Tey visited the Galapagos and have safaried select DOE’s Ernest O. Lawrence Award. cycles. Assessing the risks from materials in Africa perhaps 20 times, and visited more He was a member of the Safeguards involved in civilian nuclear facilities led to the than 100 countries, and Antarctica. Committee of the Atomic Industrial Forum. fnding that there is “no non-weapons usable Kendrick was frequently called upon to chair plutonium.” He studied the ways nation-states or be a member of risk management (so-called Publications. developed or tried to develop nuclear weapons “Red”) teams conducting oversight reviews When he graduated with his PhD, Kendrick capabilities e.g. Taiwan, South Korea, India, and making recommended remedial actions. had authored or co-authored at least 9 papers Pakistan, South Africa, Brazil, Argentina, At SAIC, these teams were always made up in refereed journals including Physical Review Iraq, Iran. Earlier, he had been involved in of technical experts who were leaders in their Letters, Physical Review, Journal of Applied helping Argentina to develop plutonium felds as well as business experts, and stressed Physics, and Nuclear Instruments and Methods. recycling capabilities that could have been the technical quality of the work reviewed as Subsequently, he was a frequent contributor diverted to weapons purposes. Eventually, he well as a full spectrum of the risks involved. to journals of the American Nuclear Society was responsible for producing a 10 volume Te teams might assemble on a one time basis including Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc. and INMM report based on research programs involving or be constituted periodically. For example, on various topics in radiation transport and 35 diferent government and commercial NASA asked SAIC to conduct a probabilistic dosimetry, nuclear materials safeguards and entities assessing many diferent fuel cycle assessment of the Shuttle following the security, and nuclear fuels. In addition, he concepts. He personally authored 2 volumes Challenger disaster. SAIC had an earned authored or co-authored project reports at that dealt with proliferation resistance and reputation for probabilistic safety analysis GGA, and numerous contract-sponsored ways to counter the risks of proliferation of from which a team of experts was selected. reports for many Federal Government nuclear weapons from civilian nuclear fuel Tey found the overall risk of catastrophic Agencies on such topics as nuclear reactor and cycle facilities by terrorists or nation-states. failure to be of the order of 1 in 100, clearly fuel cycle alternatives and strategies, low- and In addition, he led the proliferation resistance orders of magnitude more risky than that high-level waste management alternatives, methodology that the US applied during the assumed by NASA’s top management at that environmental and economic assessments, and International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation time. Kendrick was a member of that team nuclear safeguards and nuclear proliferation. (INFCE) program. Kendrick believes it was which concluded that the work was technically He has been an invited author, speaker, and this body of work that resulted in his election supportable, and took the responsibility to panelist before public, professional, industry, to be a Fellow of the American Physical Society. brief appropriate members of SAIC’s Board of and academic audiences which have included: In 1981, Kendrick retired from DOE Directors to ensure there would be no surprises the Aspen Institute; the American Nuclear as the Director of Plans and Analysis in the when the results were provided to NASA. As Society (including its International Executive Ofce of Nuclear Reactor Research in order another example, Kendrick chaired a team Conferences); the American Institute of to return to SAIC where he held various staf that regularly conducted safety and other risk Chemical Engineers; the American Society positions. As Vice President of Marketing, reviews of three on-going major programs: of Mechanical Engineers; the Ditchley he developed a new commercial electric support to DOE’s program to develop, build, Foundation; the Presidential Management utility business which involved novel real- and license the High Level Nuclear Waste Interns; the Brookings Institution; the time safety parameter display systems that Repository at Yucca Mountain (a program Military Operations Research Society; the grew out of SAIC’s work in ballistic missile he feels was summarily and groundlessly University of Michigan; the University of tracking for DOD. As Director of SAIC’s cancelled during NRC’s licencing review by Chicago; Georgetown University; the George Internal Research and Development program, the Obama Administration); support to the Washington University; Harvard University’s he managed a portfolio of 20-30 research US Army’s program to demilitarize chemical Center for Strategic and International Afairs; projects annually chosen by a committee he weapons (Kendrick was also a member of the Nineteenth International Space Congress; chaired which included experts from academia DOD’s independent review of the incinerator and the Atomic Industrial Forum. His subjects as well as SAIC researchers. As Deputy Chief operations on Johnson Island that destroyed have included energy alternatives and energy Operating Ofcer, he directed company-wide US stockpiles collected from around the world policy, the prospects for nuclear energy, US cost control activities and monitored business except within the US); and of SAIC’s support nuclear energy programs, the relationship and performance from the top-level Sector to the National Cancer Institute’s Research and between nuclear energy and international down through Group and Division levels. Development Center at Fort Detrick which security, and nuclear non- and counter- He developed a suite of management and included the manufacture of ton quantities of proliferation. project training programs, and, as a founding the HIV virus and its distribution to research After his return to SAIC, and in retirement, member of the Employee Ethics Committee, laboratories world-wide. Kendrick has retained his interest in nuclear he developed and delivered the mandatory non-proliferation in which the company was company-wide ethics training program. Honours and Awards. continuously involved. He recently attended During his time at the DOE he had turned At IC, he was awarded a First Class Honours a 2-day seminar of 24 talks on “Nuclear to running as a relaxation and competed in degree, the Associateship of the City & Guilds Weapons and Other Security Issues” back in road races at distances from 10K to marathons of London Institute, and the Henrici Medal his old stomping grounds in Washington DC. eventually running about 10 of them including for Mathematics. And he will attend the annual conferences New York, London, the Marine Corps in He won scholarships and fellowships of the American Nuclear Society and the Washington DC, and fnally, Big Sur in throughout his academic career, and American Physical Society and its Forum on California. Eventually, his body insisted that outstanding achievement awards and Public Afairs.
Imperial ENGINEER Autumn 2017 23 FEATURES Development, advancement and alumni engagement in the Faculty of Engineering Sharp-eyed readers will have noticed in the interview with Teresa Sergot in IE25, that Nic Katona was mentioned as taking over Teresa’s role for Imperial ENGINEER, and that he is now the contact name on the inside cover. You may also remember that he wrote an article in IE22 (spring 2015) about philanthropy and what he was hoping to achieve in his new role as Head of Development for the Faculty of Engineering. So we thought it would be timely to catch up with Nic, to re-introduce him to IE’s readership and fnd out how his frst three years at Imperial have been. Nic also wanted to introduce his team who will be supporting us. We met up with Nic and two of his team members Andy Cox and Andrew Mackinnon and had a long and interesting conversation. So long, in fact, that it won’t all ft into one issue of IE, and so interesting that we don’t want to edit any of it out! So instead, we are splitting it into two, with Part 1 in this issue and Part 2 in the next.
IE – Nic, I guess the first time you hit two years is build on the strong relationship everyone’s consciousness in Imperial that Teresa had with the Associations, and ENGINEER was a couple of years ago when work diligently to engage the Associations you wrote an article about Philanthropy and as strong strategic partners in building your plans for what was going to happen, a strong and robust alumni community. as your team was just being established. So And so I’m very pleased to say that the maybe we can talk a little bit about how that working relationship that I and my team has gone – whether your plans have changed? have with the presidents and the executive NK – At that time it was just myself in the committee of both Associations is strong. Faculty of Engineering, so I think we were Tis wouldn’t have been possible without starting to talk about the opportunity of all the dedication and work done by Teresa expanding the team. Te Advancement over many years! We certainly have moved Division had about 30 members at the time, from a time of suspicion and apprehension and two years later I think we’re into the to one of collaboration and partnership. You upper 70s in terms of number of staf. Te know there are days where some old feelings reason for the 70 is a reorganisation within or suspicion pops up but I think it’s much College, bringing several diferent existing better. We work to engage the Associations entities under the Advancement umbrella, in conversation at the executive level as much with the idea of streamlining processes as we can on big strategic decisions, or talk and streamlining the work, to make an to them about how they can work together
organisation that was externally facing so Imperial College Photo: on alumni engagement opportunities. We’ve the engagement of Alumni would be a more Nic Katona is Head of Development for really worked with them to not just map professional operation and the Alumni the Faculty of Engineering. He hails from ‘what does it look like for Imperial over would have a more positive experience of Wisconsin in the United States. He holds the next fve years’ but ‘what does it look how they’re engaging with College. Te a BSc in Political Science and Prevention & like for Imperial and the Associations over Advancement operation brought together Care of Athletic Injuries and a Masters in the next fve, ten years’, as we start coming alumni relations, events and supporter Political Management & Fundraising. In his into some rocky waters with Brexit and the engagement (stewardship of alumni and spare time, he enjoys eating, running and new data-protection and privacy laws that of donors). It also expanded the number travelling. are coming into play in May of 2018. Te of Development professionals – you know, data protection and data privacy laws could people who are going out to have those one- signifcantly impact alumni relations and on-one interactions with alumni – into the now with our heads of departments, with our the Associations, so we’re trying to work various faculties to help provide our alumni academics etc. – that has helped to open the together to tackle these issues. We’re working the best experience possible. So through that doors of Imperial to the alumni community to hold hands and march together into an process I was lucky enough, and the Faculty and we’ve started welcoming alumni into the unknown and uncharted territory right of Engineering was lucky enough, to get a Faculty and departments more. We’ve taken now, so that both Associations can maintain comprehensive team of fve people, myself, a lot of the events that already existed, like the robust numbers they have. Hopefully Emma Edsall our development assistant, and lecture series and networking nights and through our work, and working together, we three front line development professionals – started to turn them more external and say can increase those numbers; especially with Andy Cox, Andrew Mackinnon and Claire ‘well, why aren’t we welcoming in those who younger generations of alumni. We need to Kidd. Te Faculty of Engineering has the are closest to us – our engineering alumni?’ work collaboratively to meet the goal that we largest alumni population, we’re about We started communicating more often with share, which is a strong, engaged and robust 95,000 at this point. We have the largest our alumni through the alumni e-newsletters alumni community within the Faculty of number of departments, 10, so because of which go out on a quarterly basis now. Engineering. that it takes a lot of work and we needed to Simple things like that just to inform and On all of those big strategic points, I think have more staf to facilitate that. engage our alumni about ‘here are the things we’ve moved quite signifcantly over the past So two years on, I’d say we’ve seen marked that are going on at Imperial and here are two years... more work has to be done, but growth, both in alumni engagement as well the things that are going on within your I think we’re at least on sure footing and a as philanthropy. We’ve seen strong growth as department’. I think one of the crucial things solid foundation now to tackle the next far as the internal relationships that we have that we’ve really worked to do over the past challenges that come about.
24 Imperial ENGINEER Autumn 2017 FEATURES IE – And how do you relate to the college- alumni network; allowing alumni to engage wide alumni organisation? with the students. We work with Alumni NK – We all sit together, so the great part Relations to engage key student leadership, now is that... when I frst came in, Alumni whether it be CGCU or RSMU leadership, Relations were over there, and my team were or some of the departmental societies (Dept over here, and we had little interaction, dare Socs), which is kind of a newer piece. So I say. Now that we’re all under the same while the two constituent student unions umbrella, Andy, Andrew, Emma and Claire remain strong, we’re also seeing some of the sit downstairs on the frst foor with the Dept Socs really coming up and growing Alumni Relations team so there’s constant quite signifcantly. Andy can talk about the engagement with one another. Alumni work that we’ve been doing with the Faculty Relations have really embraced the strategy of Engineering departmental societies. that we’re implementing within the Faculty of Engineering – we have embraced their AC – We gathered the Dept Socs at the strategy and goals for College. We all recognise beginning of last academic term for a pizza that there are some unique diferences within evening, where we talked about the role of our the Faculty of Engineering that we need to team and the wider Advancement Division take into account when planning events and what it means to them now and when or thinking about how we message folks. these guys will graduate. We also wanted Especially, dare I say, some of our senior to take time to understand the events that Photo: Imperial College Photo: alumni. We need to recognise and appreciate they run throughout the year. Tey try to do Andy Cox is a Development Manager. He the Associations’ heritage, traditions, strong networking evenings for career opportunities grew up in Kent before embarking on a law name recognition amongst that community, or areas of interest, they undertake a load degree at Durham University. He has spent and acknowledge that the Imperial brand of extracurricular activities and all of these time living and working in Hong Kong, York, is not something that resonates with all of various diferent events are opportunities for Manchester and now London, completing our graduates – we need to acknowledge and alumni to connect back into the department an MA in Confict, Governance and recognise RSM and C&G when we talk to and something that we will look to push International Development in the process. our alumni – and continue to engage with forward as we continue to implement the In his spare time he enjoys playing football the two Associations. I’m very pleased to say programme. So certainly the students beneft and squash, cycling and pub quizzes. that my colleagues in Alumni Relations are from that style of alumni engagement a huge helping to promote and, behind the scenes, amount, seeing alumni who’ve been through to facilitate the CGCA annual dinner and the exact same experiences they have and NK – We look at it as a way to advise and the RSMA annual dinner. We also provide have gone on to really interesting, really help the students because… you know when some soft guidance and logistical support successful careers is something that we hope a student is trying to reach out to a CEO around the decade reunion luncheon and can beneft both the alumni community of a company or a vice-president of Shell or some other Association events. So we’ve as well as the student population in many something like that, they sometimes miss worked hard to weave a strong relationship ways. We try to facilitate that with people we key pieces around professionalism or tone, between the two of us to ensure that our already have some sort of relationship with; or how do you get the attention of someone alumni beneft. listening to their experiences and interests like that who’s getting hundreds of emails IE – Many of us know Jess Adams, who and matching with opportunities to come a day – how do you stand out from that? attends committee meetings and is a great back and talk to students. Te Dept Socs are We’ve talked to them about that, we work help at events like the Alumni Weekend. She an obvious opportunity to do that. very diligently to make sure that we are works for Alumni Relations? viewed as trusted advisors to them and to our NK – Yes, Jess works in Alumni Relations alumni. So when we’re bringing something and has been again, one of the key people to them, we’re hoping it stands out because we work with. She’s gotten to know the we’ve heard what the alumni are interested Associations very well and has been a strong in doing, we’ve matched that to something partner in supporting the Associations that’s available, we’ve almost validated the and fostering those positive relationships. event for the alumnus or alumna so that they We’ve become the Association ‘experts’ that realise that it’s not going to be haphazard, it’s colleagues turn to for a crash course in all not going to only have four students show things RSM and C&G. We make a good up. Tey know it’s something that will be team because Jess would wear the Alumni well done, and because of that we’re helping Relations hat and I would wear the Faculty Imperial College Photo: to bring in alumni that can guide some of Many alumni know Jess Adams from Alumni of Engineering Advancement hat and we these students. But also it removes some of Relations. She came to Imperial from New would work together to make things happen. the pressure on the student of having to go Zealand in 2010 and has been an enthusiastic Don’t get me wrong, Jess and I have many and do all the LinkedIn searches themselves, Alumni Engagement Offcer since 2014. She people working with us to make this all trying to send hundreds of emails and then has been an invaluable support for alumni at possible, and we would not be where we are not getting anything and wondering ‘why is various events such as the Alumni Weekend, without them, but we just became the go to this happening’. In certain instances we work as well as behind the scenes with both folks when it was regarding the Associations. with the departmental societies to promote alumni Associations. Jess has unfortunately (See box, right.) some of their events. We can advertise those (for us) just moved on to pursue a PhD at IE – And do you work with the current batch events in e-newsletters that go out, so it Birkbeck, University of London, studying the of students, to prepare them, make them reaches a larger number of alumni as well. politics of participatory art. aware of what’s available once they leave? It’s an an area in which more work can be All of us here at Imperial ENGINEER wish NK – Yes. Tat is again where we work done but we really enjoy engaging with the her well for the future, and good luck with with Alumni Relations because we are very students! We have to tread that fne line of her research. Maybe she’ll tell us about it keen on building a soft ‘alumni-in-training’ not encouraging them too much to do these when she’s got her doctorate? mindset amongst the students, helping them events all the time, because at the end of the to understand the benefts of the Imperial day they are students and their primary focus
Imperial ENGINEER Autumn 2017 25 FEATURES in each department, which is great, and my of the two Associations with something that team know these staf members which is nice we haven’t found the best platform for yet, – and in some instances where they couldn’t which is sharing news about themselves. We fnd people we suggested names. It’s been a have yet to crack that nut, of how do we set really good synergy and hopefully that will up a system that allows alumni to write and, pay of. At the CGCA AGM the student dare I say, brag about themselves a little bit attendance increased signifcantly – that’s a – and what does that look like? You know, really positive sign! I’m very used to a ‘class notes’ section from IE – I was there and I was talking to Claudia my time at institutions in the US, it was just Caravello, the new CGCU president. Tey’re a thing that was done by decade, and people starting a new newsletter with her presidency, just wrote in their little update - ‘John had Te Bolt, so she was quite keen to share some his second child and he’s been promoted to of the articles from Imperial ENGINEER, the VP of X company’. It was brief, just two and the reverse as well, we’d get some things or three sentences. from them from their students to try and mix IE – Te Triodes do that. Tey’re Elec Eng the communities up a bit more, which I hope graduates from 1973 and they have a reunion will work quite well. every year, and Martyn Hart sends me a copy NK – Tat’s a prime example of a challenge of his ‘report’ and a photo. Obviously it’s in working with student groups, that year mostly of interest to people who know them, on year it changes. So you’re always getting but it’s a nice approach and I think it appeals Photo: Claire Kidd Claire Photo: new blood in, which can be a positive thing, more widely. Claire Kidd is a Development Manager. but at the same time it loses some of that NK – You’d be surprised who would be Claire grew up in Leeds. She completed her historical memory. So what we try to do is, interested. Alumni like knowing that they undergraduate studies in Global Politics at at least in those initial meetings that we have are part of an institution that has a strong the University of Brighton before moving to with the departmental societies, we almost alumni community. Tis is an example of the University of Sussex to study her masters try to give them a bit of a “Don’t reinvent the community coming together and we in Confict, Security and Development. In the wheel. Let us inform you about what is need to share this more often! her spare time, Claire enjoys spending time in place or what is available to you already, IE – I keep hoping that it’s going to promote with her family and friends. so that you’re not having to spend your frst the idea to other year groups from other four months in ofce thinking ‘we have to departments to do the same sort of things, should be on their academics and research do a newsletter, we have to do this we have because it would be great – I’d be quite happy, and enjoying London. We never want to be to do that’” – it’s about softly educating I think everyone would, to add extra pages viewed as using our students as a means to the students about “Oh did you know into Imperial ENGINEER to have more an end – but those that are quite keen, those that Imperial ENGINEER exists?”, “Did items like that. that want to put in the time and efort, we’re you know that quarterly e-newsletters are AC – And there are other classes doing that coming alongside and helping out as much happening?” – not to stop them, but just to as well, that we’ve heard of, not necessarily as we can, and that will beneft the wider make it more strategic and utilise their time through college or in concert with college, alumni community. more efectively. I think you’re absolutely who are just going to the pub each year, or IE – Because the Associations are working right – where there are opportunities or something like that. with the departmental societies as well to try where there’s enthusiasm, we really try to and do the same sort of thing. nurture that to say “yeah, great!”. If you’re NK – We’ve started talking with the going to suss out some stories within the Associations about that. When I had student community, please do, we would love conversations with Judith and the CGCA to share them, because one of the key things executive team, that was one of the questions. we try to talk about in the e-newsletters is CGCA has tried numerous diferent models student stories – what’s happening within – frst they had professional staf they the student body – because our alumni are were utilising as links in each department, keen to hear that. that were ebbing and fowing and maybe IE – Tat’s right, we know that alumni are weren’t working as well as they wanted – really very interested in stories of what’s going and they had a keen interest in the need to on at College. So that’s why we have the pages get the ‘younger generations’ engaged with about faculty news, pages about student and CGCA to ensure the continuation of the college news, as well as the alumni news… organisation. We’ve talked about some of and obituaries. our eforts with the departmental societies, NK – Exactly. I have given all my team and we shared some of our stories, and I the Imperial ENGINEER, because it’s an
think the CGCA took it on board, saying, interesting way for us to see how information Imperial College Photo: “okay, well, clearly we have engaged students is presented diferently, or in some new and Andrew Mackinnon comes from Edinburgh, who are moving into these leadership roles, really interesting ways. You guys have sussed Scotland. He studied toward his degree how can we augment the relationships to out stories that we haven’t heard about – in Politics and International Relations at dive deeper into the departments while still either because of connections that you have Georgia State University and the University respecting our constituent student unions in the department, or the connections that of Aberdeen whilst working in alumni and still working through them?”. It was you have developed with alumni. People relations and fundraising. He decided a this hybrid approach of continuing to share news with you in a diferent way than move into major gift fundraising was what work with CGCU and RSMU but dipping they share with us. And it’s really interesting. he wanted and was delighted to join the into these departmental societies as well, Andy came back after reading the last one Faculty of Engineering Development Team at because sometimes the societies do carry a and said there were three or four articles Imperial in June as a Development Offcer. In louder voice in their specifc department. that he didn’t know about, and it was a his spare time, he enjoys exploring London, Additionally, they’re revitalising the really interesting read. But I think that the trying new restaurants and reading Stephen approach of having a dedicated staf member Imperial ENGINEER provides the members King.
26 Imperial ENGINEER Autumn 2017 FEATURES IE – Sometimes we get a photo and a which sort of coincides with you being paragraph, sometimes we get nothing, and here. So is that because you’ve been acting then sometimes, like the Triodes, we get a as a catalyst, or was the fact that the Faculty full article. brought you in the first sign of this change NK – Exactly, exactly! So that is something happening, or was it a bit of both? where I think there is room for further NK – What I’ll say is that College made collaboration: alumni reunions, mentoring the right strategic decision when they and other volunteering. recognised and identifed that alumni IE – We had an article in IE about the relations and alumni engagement is crucial Alumni Mentoring Scheme when that started to the continued success of Imperial. It was some time ago, and we’ll follow that up with an area of opportunity for us to increase an update on volunteering. Because I think and better ourselves. I think they realised there’s a natural reticence in some people. that the small and compact Imperial of old Some people are quite up front and they had evolved, and that our alumni had many want to be involved, and they’ll approach you diferent loyalties and afnities. College straight away, but I’d have thought having acknowledged that many alumni resonate met many over the years, that the majority strongly with their discipline and made Imperial College Photo: would be a little more reticent and would the decision to bring in teams to embed Emma Edsall comes from Brisbane, Australia. assume – certainly the older ones – that they’d within the faculties, to help nurture and She completed her undergraduate and be out of date and so on. But then there are develop those afnities and loyalties. As postgraduate studies in Law at Queensland people like Roma Agrawal. Her employers we continued to listen to our alumni, we University of Technology, before becoming give her a day a week to go out to schools and recognised and strongly embraced the idea admitted to practice as a Solicitor in outreach. that people have a strong afnity to their Queensland. Emma decided that it was time NK – And a lot of them do. Surprisingly, in home department(s). And so we needed to for an adventure and moved to London a lot of the fnancial institutions some of the help augment the voice of the departments where she was welcomed into the Faculty benchmarks they’re even rated against are as well, and bring those forward. So I think of Engineering Development Team at ‘What is your philanthropic activity, what is through some of the eforts and outreach that Imperial as Development Assistant. In her your community service, your engagement we made, of working closely with the Dean, spare time, she loves to travel, watch live with the community?’. So I think we need to Heads of Departments, the academics, etc., music and keep active. take advantage of those opportunities. Tis they started to understand what we were is an area that we are working to actively trying to do; which is to build long-term and executive board members out on some of continue to grow, and I think that’ll tie into sustainable relationships with our alumni their stuf and sometimes they do the same the other big piece that’s coming about but across the board, from the youngest member to me. We have gone through a bit of a probably not until 2018. Te launch of a new to the most senior member, engaging them catharsis, of venting, sharing, and educating and more interactive, and more current-day, in one way or another. Not every single – me acknowledging some of their concerns alumni portal, which will enable alumni to alumna/us is going to have the opportunity as very valid but also being able to sidestep really engage in a true interactive community to engage with my team unfortunately, just some and say, “You know, that wasn’t me and through a new online portal. It will allow sheer bandwidth issues, but making sure I don’t want that put on me because that’s alumni to do things like, say, ‘Do I want that we are starting to communicate and not how I or College is going to operate with to share information more broadly?’, ‘Do I open the doors to alumni is College’s goal. you”. So, to go back, long-winded answer to want to join various interest groups?’, ‘Do I Teresa did a wonderful job of nurturing the question, I’d say it’s maybe 75% system want to volunteer?’ or ‘What does my profle the relationships with the Associations, – that College strongly endorsed outreach to look like?’. Tat’s at the college-wide level, and I think the renewed focus on Alumni the Associations, and then maybe 25% my not just the Faculty. We’re talking with the Relations and Advancement within College personality and my team in helping move Associations about what are the Associations’ gave me a louder voice to quickly pick up this forward. But we certainly wouldn’t footprint within that community, so we can the work that she had done. And start have been where we were if Teresa hadn’t have members of CGCA and RSMA saying speaking quite loudly about the importance been such a strong partner and taken the ‘Yes, I’m a member’, or ‘I want to join the of the Associations who have a robust and time to validate me to the Associations. She group’. It may allow the Associations to get engaged alumni body already. Why would dedicated so much time to shepherding me new members because someone may say ‘Oh we keep them at arms length? Let’s start to through this process and educating me every I wasn’t aware’, or ‘Look how easy it is for repair the relationship, but know at frst it’s step of the way. I don’t think I, or my team me to learn about CGCA or RSMA’, they not going to be easy. Early on in my tenure, would have been successful if she hadn’t can look at it, say ‘Are you a current member I had a bit more bandwidth to take on and laid the framework before she retired. I’m yes, no, and do you want to join?’ and it’s address some of the issues and concerns certainly indebted to her for doing that, and done. Will it work just like that? Probably of the Associations. It also was a great I think the Associations, rightfully through not, but it is the mantra we are working with opportunity where I was new and didn’t have the awards they’ve given her, have recognised at College. We want to simplify the process any baggage. Granted I had the baggage of her strong contribution in developing our and make it easier for alumni to engage. Tis being American, and I think some in the relationship with the Associations… cordial new alumni portal is another way that we’re Associations were quite concerned about friends moving forward in this journey, working and talking with the Associations what that meant. You know, an American together. on the front end about their interests, and coming in and how aggressive or how bolshie their needs, and how can we help facilitate was I going to be, or how was I going to try Part 2 of this conversation will be in the that. I think that we’ve moved light-years to change the Associations. But I think, next issue of Imperial ENGINEER, covering from probably two or three years ago, when hopefully, they’ve seen that I’m true to my philanthropy, the difference between UK and such conversations may not have occurred. word and that my team members are true to US alumni relationships, and some of the Now the Associations are being key players our word, that we, the Faculty and College aspects of this year’s Alumni Weekend that in helping us determine how can we work really are focused on building a robust made it better than ever. together to facilitate this new portal. relationship. Sometimes that means we have IE – It’s interesting that you’re talking about frank conversations – sometimes that means We’d like to especially thank Emma Edsall the change over a fairly short period of time, we sit around a table and I call some of the for her help in producing this article.
Imperial ENGINEER Autumn 2017 27 ALUMNI NEWS & VIEWS Leading electrochemical Singapore Deputy PM hails 40 years of alumni excellence engineer is new Dean of thinking...but do it in your own way. Engineering You must know how to understand these things so you appreciate your own discipline and have the humility to take on other ideas outside your feld.” Current and future students rubbed shoulders with alumni
Photo: Imperial College Photo: leaders from Hong Kong, Beijing, Shenzhen and the wider region, as One of Imperial’s most active and we can reap some of our returns well as Singapore. They were joined longest running alumni groups has from earlier investments, including by Britain’s High Commissioner for celebrated four decades of success. long term ones like funding PhDs at Singapore Scott Wightman. Singapore’s Deputy Prime Imperial,” he said. Imperial’s new Dean of the Minister Teo Chee Hean (MSc The DPM commented on Faculty of Engineering Professor
Photo: Imperial College Photo: Comp 1977) addressed 300 alumni Singapore’s move towards a cashless Nigel Brandon, who is also a visiting Professor Nigel Brandon has been and friends at the 40th anniversary society, the potential for Internet professor at NTU, met with alumni, appointed Dean of the Faculty of gala dinner of the Imperial College of Things tech for public services including his former student in Mech Engineering. Alumni Association of Singapore including smart streetlights and Eng, Teo Eng Dih, who now serves as An Imperial alumnus, Professor (ICAAS) . ASEAN’s prospect for growth, a senior advisor on climate change Brandon rejoined Imperial in 1998. The gala dinner took place one while underlining the importance of in the Prime Minister’s Offce. Becoming Professor of Sustainable week after Imperial celebrated the “people like the alumni of Imperial Singapore has one of the highest Development in Energy in the offcial opening of LKCMedicine, the College [who] are comfortable with concentrations of Imperial alumni Department of Earth Science and College’s joint medical school with technological change.” per capita anywhere in the world, the Engineering, he was the founder Nanyang Technological University He spoke of his “secret happiness College’s 2,700+ alumni including and Director of the Energy (NTU) in Singapore, and was when young people quit steady jobs the Republic’s Acting President JY Futures Lab. He has served as Vice attended by the School’s Dean at multinationals to try a startup…” Pillay (Mech Eng 1956) and Business Dean (Research) in the Faculty Professor James Best. something that growing numbers leader Koh Boon Hwee (Mech Eng and, most recently, as Director The evening was organised by of Imperial’s Singaporean alumni 1972). of Imperial’s Sustainable Gas Jayson Goh (EEE 1998), President and students are doing, “…, and be Singapore’s frst ever Schwarzman Institute. His research is focused on of ICAAS, and his executive willing to fail in the process.” scholar Lejon Chua (Chem Eng electrochemical power sources and committee. Mr Goh, who also 2014) also graduated from Imperial. his expertise is highly sought after serves on Imperial’s Court, said: Many of those responsible by industry. “ICAAS can continue to be the link for Singapore’s dynamic national A Fellow of the Royal Academy between Imperial College and our planning and infrastructure were of Engineering, he was awarded many graduates who are pushing the in the audience, including alumni an OBE for services to UK-China innovation frontiers.” Siow Chong Goh (Comp 1995) science, for his work in developing During Mr Goh’s speech, the and Wen Tung Chiu (MEng Chem collaborations between the UK and audience applauded Professor Phua Eng and Chem Tech 1996) who China in the areas of climate-change, Kok Khoo, the founding president work together at Singapore’s Urban energy, and environment. of ICAAS, who initiated the group Redevelopment Authority. Professor Brandon will now be in 1977. Imperial College Photo: Several alumni looked back responsible for providing strategic Attending the gala event, Prof Imperial has more than 400 fondly on the opportunities – for leadership, planning and coordination Alice Gast, President of Imperial Singaporean students: the highest their careers and wider lives – that for the Faculty of Engineering, and College, said: “Imperial and the UK proportion at any UK university. 40 Imperial and London afforded them. for driving continuing excellence in enjoy a deep and special relationship current students, all members of Yang Yang Zhang (PhD Bio Eng research and education. with Singapore....I admire Singapore Imperial College Singapore Society, 2009), now Director of Debt Professor James Stirling, Provost, and Singaporeans. attended the gala, including a group Capital Markets for Bank of China said: “At a time of uncertainty “You are worldly yet loyal to of musical performers. International, developed her interest and rapid change, society needs your homeland. You are innovative When asked for his advice to in fnance as a student, interning at innovations in engineering more yet realistic. You celebrate current Imperial students, the DPM Barclays in London. Originally from than ever. Our Faculty of Engineering wisdom and age while giving young said: “There’s a new world with China, Dr Zhang stays in touch with is developing solutions to some leaders a tremendous amount of many opportunities...When you many Chinese and Singaporean of the world’s most challenging responsibility. You are inspiring to go to a university like Imperial you Imperial alumni via WeChat. problems and driving advances in us at Imperial and I believe that our learn two things: frst, the specifc Yu Han Wong, COO of A-Smart energy security, climate change, excellent university is enhanced subject you major in; the other thing Holdings, said his career gained from clean and effcient transport and the by our Singaporean students and you learn is how to organise your “the rigorous training of the mind” challenges of an ageing population. alumni.” knowledge and thinking. You learn in his Mech Eng degree, “but most It is also training the next generation Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee rigour and the method of how to importantly,” he added. “I met my of science and engineering leaders. Hean, outlined his vision for science think about the world around you. wife at Imperial.” “Nigel has demonstrated and innovation as new engines of “It’s important to have a discipline bit.ly/IE27-Singapore exemplary leadership. He is the ideal economic growth, staying on for a of your own to structure your person to lead the Faculty through lively Q&A session. He also took the this exciting next stage.” chance to reminisce about his “very Professor Brandon said: “It is a good year at Imperial College”, and tremendous privilege to be asked his pleasure at seeing some of his to lead the Faculty of Engineering. old classmates at the ICAAS dinner. Imperial has hugely talented staff and He spoke about Singapore’s fantastic students, and I am looking historic “shift from a labour- forward to us all working together intensive to a skills-intensive to realise the opportunities ahead in economy, now transitioning to an both teaching and research”. innovation driven economy.” The bit.ly/IE27-Brandon nation is “reaching a point where Photo: Imperial College Photo:
28 Imperial ENGINEER Autumn 2017 ALUMNI NEWS & VIEWS Book Review Electrical Engineering class of ’81 annual reunion
The Electrical Engineering class he joined a High-Tech startup in many years until selling the business of 1978 to 1981 held their annual Cambridge working on networked in 2016. reunion on Saturday 16th September, graphics processors, and survived Marek Stuczynski is now meeting in Beit Quadrangle and the transition from a multinational with a US data centre products afterwards for dinner in the Thai to a roller-coaster life in a VC and technology company where Square, South Kensington. The group funded silicon and systems company, he works as a Solutions Architect have met every year since graduating and is currently Director of Systems designing IT solutions. in 1981. Since many of the group are Engineering at DisplayLink (UK) ltd. Alan Higginson worked in the now retiring and have more time, Ian Tyes, after 20 years running electricity distribution industry until from now onwards they will meet his own computer business, studied 2012 when he took early retirement. up twice a year – in September and law and qualifed as a solicitor. He was quickly bored and went April. Nearing retirement, Ian is about to back to work for Wessex Water emigrate to China to teach English managing their central engineering Being 36 years since graduating, as a foreign language. services department. He will retire, there was much to talk about. Going Robert Powell works for permanently this time, at Easter 2018. round the table (see photo): National Grid. As Engineering Roger Edwards had a 2 year Yogesh Joshi works for the Manager on the North Wales spell working at an observatory in BBC NEWS in Newsgathering Connection Project he is responsible the Canary Islands. Roger returned Operations being part of a team for connecting a new power station to the UK to develop and market Travel and Tales of an Engineer bringing “LIVE” & packaged National on Anglesey to the National Grid. travel document readers, and takes by Louis M Solway & International News to our homes Krishna Thakrar had a delight at seeing his products in use for BBC TV, Radio and Online. number of different roles ranging when he enters many countries in Cedar View Press, 2017 Sunil Morzaria has spent the from being part of the commissioning the world. He is currently Product ISBN 978-1-54813-430-3 Kindle ISBN 977-1-84396-450-6 last 17 years as owner and Managing team on the JET project to Manager at Gemalto responsible (Available from Amazon, Kindle, Kobo) Director of an IT company working developing microprocessor systems for the complete life cycle of their closely with lots of Advertising for high speed non contact inkjet whole document reader range. He It’s not often that one reads such Agencies and Creative companies in printers to developing electrical also spent a lot of time with Young a refreshingly honest biography. London. and control systems on high profle Enterprise helping Year 12 students Adapted from material prepared Trevor Hall worked at Philips projects, currently working for set up their own company for a year. for twenty-eight years after leaving Bosch Rexroth Ltd. for his children so that they University, ending up in applied Bernard Ashpole ran the Anyone wanting to contact the might better appreciate exactly research on SoCs and embedded family Engine reconditioning and group should email: what their father did, this short software. On leaving Philips in 2008 Precision Engineering business for [email protected] book chronicles many aspects of Louis’ career working around the world as a civil engineer engaged principally on water-related projects. As such, it provides both fascinating insights into his world – its challenges, surprises, opportunities and satisfactions, as well as telling us something of the actual engineering – and of how such a career is viewed by the central character. For older readers there is the joy associated with looking back over a very varied, never uninteresting and always rewarding (in the true sense of the word) set of experiences; for younger readers there is that sense that similar adventures and excitement might come their way were they to opt for this sort of career. Alas it won’t be the same, but 21st century opportunities will simply be diferent, not, providing good Clockwise in the photo are: Yogesh Joshi, Sunil Morzaria, Trevor Hall, Ian Tyes, Robert Powell, decisions are made, any the less Krishna Thakrar, Bernard Ashpole, Marek Stuczynski, Alan Higginson (holding the Imperial College satisfying. London teddy bear), and Roger Edwards. Tis is an ideal book for a train journey or a relaxing afternoon in a deckchair – amusing and frank, informative and interesting If you have arranged a reunion of your classmates or contemporaries, – where else could you gain such please send us a photograph and a report. We would love to hear from insights into life in Ghana, Iran, you and there may be other alumni who would like to join you when you Hungary, Libya, China, Brunei, Trinidad and Redditch? have your next reunion. See the next page for information about how the College Alumni Relations team can help. David Nethercot Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering
Imperial ENGINEER Autumn 2017 29 ALUMNI NEWS & VIEWS Flat Pack Alumni Reunions DIARY If you’d like to arrange an alumni reunion for contemporaries or classmates, the Wed, 1 Nov 2017 Tues, 21 Nov 2017 Alumni Relations Team is keen to help. Dept of Mech. Eng. Dept. of Life Sciences Sir Hugh Ford Distinguished Lecture: How Science Got Women Wrong, Angela In our conversation with Nic Katona requirements. Adventures in Glass, David Cormie, Arup Saini, Science journalist and his team (see page 24), we were • They can let you know if your 17:00-19:30, Lecture Theatre 200, City & 12:30-13:30, SAF Building G16 Guilds Building, Sth Ken Campus Open to visitors, please register at: pleased to discover that help with proposed reunion clashes with Open to all bit.ly/IE27-Saini reunions is one of the things that other important College dates or Fri, 3 Nov 2017 Wed, 22 Nov 2017 they now offer. Nic explained: if there are other alumni events UAE alumni Montreal alumni “One of the key pieces that you may be able to combine with. Informal barbecue in Dubai First alumni social in Montreal Alumni Relations has worked on • When you’re trying to fnd old Details and to register: bit.ly/IE27-Dubai 18:00, Kampai Garden, Montreal Details: bit.ly/IE27-Montreal is offering a more robust reunion friends, they can help by searching Sun, 5 Nov 2017 th opportunity for classes. The reunion their database of 190,000 alumni. CGCU Team Bo Fri, 24 Nov 2017 London-Brighton Veteran Car Rally RSMA classes still need to do a lot of the They can’t give out contact details, Starts Hyde Park at 7am, ends Madeira Annual Dinner, 7pm-11pm heavy lifting as far as the organising but can provide you with the Drive Brighton (via A3, A24, A23) Rembrandt Hotel, Sth Ken. Booking form enclosed. and all of that, but College has put names of all the alumni for whom Tues, 7 Nov 2017 together a pretty good ‘how-to’ they have contact details – and Alumni reception in Paris Sat, 25th Nov 2017 kit. And they’re able to send that then get in touch with them on Hosted by President Alice P Gast CGCA ‘5 & 10’ Reunion Lunch out to everybody. ‘Okay if you’re your behalf, to gauge their level Empowering next generation brain machine interfaces, Dr Tim Constandinou (Dept of 12:30 for 13:00, Queens Tower Room C, Sherfeld Building interested in having a reunion, here’s of interest, and also seek their E & E Eng.) Booking form enclosed the things you need to think about, thoughts regarding the type of Rewiring wounds to heal, Dr Ben Almquist here’s what College can provide, event and location. Then ask them (Dept of Bioengineering) Wed, 29 Nov 2017 here’s where we come alongside of to respond to you directly. Using healthcare data to track transmission Dept. of Civil and Env. Eng. and predict AMR infection, Dr Céire Research Showcase you.’ So it will look simple to the • They can promote your reunion, 12:30-19:00, Skempton Building Costelloe (Dept of Medicine) Open to all, please register at alumni – we hope it’ll look simple to such as a listing it in Imperial’s 18:30-21:30, Pierre & Marie Curie bit.ly/IE27-CivShowcase the alumni! We know there’s a lot online event calendar. 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Level 5 Mon, 11 Dec 2017 if not, that’s fne – and here is just needing to coalesce the different Sherfeld Building, Sth Ken Campus College Christmas Carol Concert a pack, we ship it out to you. For entities of Imperial together, but Open to all with Imperial College Chamber Choir 18:00, Holy Trinity Church, Prince the organiser, here’s how we can we’re starting. The Alumni Volunteer Wed, 15 Nov 2017 Consort Rd. Followed by drinks and Inst. for Sec. Sci. and Tech. help, here’s what we need you to page gives some high-levels of ways mince pies. All welcome, details: 2017 Vincent Briscoe Lecture: Big Data bit.ly/IE27-Carols do, etc. And even better if there’s an to do that, such as the Alumni needs Big Ideas, Professor Bill Durodié, additional step of ‘send us a photo of Mentoring Scheme, which was University of Bath Wed, 13 Dec 2017 Dept. of Earth Sci. & Eng. your reunion, send us some blurb’, featured in Imperial ENGINEER 17:30-18:30, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Sth Ken Campus Inaugural Lecture: Professor Stephen and we’ll share it both with Alumni when it was launched. There are the Free, please book at: bit.ly/IE27-BigData Neethling Relations so they can promote it, but institutional opportunities that my Details (tbd): bit.ly/IE-ImperialEvents Thurs, 16 Nov 2017 also start sharing it with everyone, colleagues in Alumni Relations do, CGCA Jo’burg lunch Thurs, 14 Dec 2017 Alumni reception in Dubai via Imperial ENGINEER. across the faculties. Baron & Quail, Woodmead, Johannesburg, 18:30-21:30, The Oberoi, Al A’amal “The Plan Your Own Reunion page “There are bespoke opportunities SA Street, Business Bay, Dubai on the Imperial website explains that my team tries to offer as we Contact Richard Gundersen for details Details: bit.ly/IE27-ReceptionUAE [email protected] that if you’re interested in doing get to know individuals. Finding Thurs, 15 Feb 2018 Mon, 20 Nov 2017 CGCA Jo’burg lunch reunions you should get in touch out what their interests are, and Design Engineering Baron & Quail, Woodmead, Johannesburg, with one of our colleagues in Alumni how does that map in, and does Collaborating with Technology Start-ups, SA Relations (there’s an email link on that meet a strategic need of Graham Brett, therefore consultants Contact Richard Gundersen for details the page). My colleague collects various departments or the faculty 18:00-19:00, Skempton LT 201, Sth Ken [email protected] Campus some basic preliminary information, as a whole etc. So we’re coming Free, must book place in advance: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 then sends out a physical pack of at it from two approaches, the bit.ly/IE27-Brett CGCA Annual Dinner ‘here’s what you need to do, here’s folks that just want to slot into Mon, 20 Nov 2017 Principal speaker: Nigel Brandon OBE what we’re able to facilitate etc.’, and something existing and those folks BCS Roger Needham lecture 2017 FREng then if they want to come on board who... their time may be limited, Many-core programming: How to go 18.45 Ironmongers’ Hall, Barbican for the reunion activity, we work they may have a narrow focus on really fast without crashing, Dr Alastair Booking form enclosed Donaldson, Imperial College, London with them along the way. Then, a something, you know, they may be 18:00-21:30, The Royal Society, 6-9 Sat-Sun, 28-29 Apr 2018 week before the actual event, we interested in diving really deep with Carlton House Terrace Imperial Festival / Alumni Weekend send them another pack which has us both from a time, a talent and a bit.ly/IE27-Needham balloons and badges and bunting and treasure component, then we kind Tues, 21 Nov 2017 An up-to-date calendar of events of Centre for Blast Injury Studies so on.” of step in and say ‘maybe a bespoke interest to CGCA and RSMA members 2017 annual networking and research opportunity is appropriate, what is always available on the CGCA and update event: Care across the Continuum, RSMA websites. Imperial College So, if you’re interested in organising does that look like, how can we from Point-of-injury to Recovery a class reunion, what sort of help can facilitate it and move it forward?’” 09:00-19:00, The Great Hall maintains a calendar of college events at the Alumni Relations team provide? Open to all, register in advance at: bit.ly/IE-ImperialEvents and the Friends bit.ly/IE27-CBIS of Imperial regularly organise events • Advice about fnding the best If you’re interested in volunteering of interest to alumni (see bit.ly/IE-FOI) accommodation, or an expert or mentoring, check out the Alumni Imperial contact to help organise Volunteer page: For more information follow links, or see page 2 for contact details your College venue or catering bit.ly/IE27-Volunteer
30 Imperial ENGINEER Autumn 2017 OBITUARIES Bastion of traditional mining engineering training gold, platinum, coal and antimony basic elements and then illustrate dusty response. He pointed out that operations (including Cons Murch) the points from a vast store of he was brought up on the Highveld as Chief Consulting Engineer. It was apposite anecdotes. and if Grasberg at 4,000 metres left from this elevated appointment and Right up to his last month, we him unaffected then Peruvian mines poised to reach the top position in were delivering team teaching to would not be a problem. JCI that he and Tuulike decided that postgraduate students and he was It was in Botswana that he their young family would have a scheduled to deliver a continuing suffered a stroke and died, in brighter future outside South Africa. professional development course Johannesburg on 21 April, at the age Tuulike’s family was originally with me in July. He provided direct of 82. A transient ischaemic attack from Estonia and the consequences support for three MSc dissertations he had had three years ago might of political uncertainty on their lives last summer. have been a warning but if so he did was perhaps a driver. This is how Tim Tim understood the need not not pay it much heed. found himself as a Professor at the to rest on his laurels and always That refected the essence of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the kept himself academically and man – a thirst and an enthusiasm for mid-1970s and essentially having to professionally up to date. He life. While I consciously attempted start a completely new career. attended MINExpo 2016 in Las Vegas to capture Tim’s fund of knowledge After the death of Robert Pryor in as part of the meeting of the Society and experience in a new e-Learning Prof. TIM SHAW (Staff 1980-2017, 1979 the Chair of Mining Engineering of Mining Professors of which he course we have only just launched on Emeritus Professor of Mining at the Royal School of Mines fell was a founding member. The visit EduMine, there will be no substitute Engineering at Imperial College) vacant and Imperial College were to America included the usual mine for having him present in the lecture Prof. Shaw was appointed to able to offer the appointment to visits. He was constantly updating room. He will be sorely missed but the Chair in Mining Engineering Tim so he and his family made his teaching slides and incorporating his legacy will continue through the at the Royal School of Mines in their next big, but last, move. current technical developments many students he taught. 1980. Prior to that he held an Tim went on to act as a bastion from personal observation. Dennis Buchanan academic appointment at the of traditional mining engineering Tim’s knowledge of information Emeritus Professor of Mining Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He training at Imperial College. He technology and the application of Geology, RSM entered the academic environment also served a period as Dean of the computer and operations research after a successful career in the Royal School of Mines which gave in the minerals industry spanned South African mining industry him the confdence to continue the period from his time as a young Highly where he reached the level of to use the crest on business cards engineer with JCI (when he set up Chief Consulting Engineer with notwithstanding later offcial their frst mainframe) through to the respected the Johannesburg Consolidated disapproval. The guidance was that modern age of the Internet. He was Investment Company. He had only the approved Imperial College always harvesting the very latest in engineer extensive experience as a technical London font be used under the audio-visual material for his teaching, consultant and company director re-branding and re-organisation putting considerable strain on the BARRY WOOTON STAYNES (Civ and held honorary doctorates from that was implemented after his processing resources of anything Eng 1954-55) PhD, DIC, Eur Ing, two Central European Universities. retirement in 2001. He was but a top-of-the-range laptop. Yet CEng, FICE, FIStructE Tim was born into a mining delighted when the use of the RSM he also became fascinated with Barry was born 18 January 1934. family and spent part of his school crest was subsequently reinstated the archaeology of ancient mining He became an internationally days at the Consolidated Murchison and the building again became an through working with academics at recognised expert in the feld of gold-antimony mine in South Africa, institution not just an address. Tel Aviv University. specialist concrete, and a highly where his father was General The slow demise of the He secured numerous research respected Civil and Structural Manager. Tim was educated at undergraduate mining engineering grants in the feld of dimension stone Engineer. Bishops Diocesan College in Cape degree at the RSM was due to and non-explosive techniques in He was a modest man but his Town before going on to study society’s ambivalence towards mining. His academic achievements professional credentials were mining engineering at the University mining, not Tim’s commitment. He were recognised by the award of anything but modest – he was an of the Witwatersrand, where he launched the European Mining two honorary doctorates. enthusiast with a quiet but keenly met his future wife Tuulike through degree with several institutions on Tuulike’s death in 2009 hit Tim competitive spirit. their shared love of music. He then the Continent, including in Delft and hard and his screen saver was a He worked in education, joined Johannesburg Consolidated Aachen. This legacy continues as picture of her which was projected rising to become Director of the Investment Co. Ltd. He was given the Joint Master European Mining, at the start of every lecture he gave. Civil Engineering Department at study leave by JCI to complete an Minerals and Environmental Program. He was never maudlin about her Brighton Polytechnic, where he was MSc in mineral exploration at McGill He contributed to the teaching passing though – she was simply part involved in organising international in Montreal, Canada. to MSc in Metals and Energy Finance of his life past and present and his conferences on concrete, including The traditional training in JCI’s students together with College’s annual presence at Glyndebourne some on the use of polymers in underground Witwatersrand related continuing professional was a tradition he continued to concrete. gold mines gave Tim a detailed development programme. He observe on her behalf. In the early 1990s, Barry understanding of the practical demonstrated time and again that It was invaluable working with left education to become an aspects of mining. This also left him the theoretical relationship between him on the many shared professional independent consultant. not only with a wonderful ability to mining fnance and technical risk I assignments we took on as he Barry enjoyed music, attending communicate with all levels in the taught was simply re-visiting real was never happier than when numerous shows, and sport – hierarchical structure of the South scenarios that he had been involved undertaking a site visit – the more cricket, rugby and golf. He was a man African mining industry, but also a in when with JCI. When it came remote and challenging the better. who accomplished much, had the legacy of collateral damage to his to the transition from technical He was quite miffed that his family deep respect of his colleagues and hearing. Regardless of the proximity and fnancial to business leadership holiday in Botswana last month friends and enjoyed life to the full. of rock drills and blasting operations, roles at a board level, his extensive clashed with my request that he A kind, gentle and a devoted ear protection was not considered experience as a company director carry out a site visit for me – in Peru. husband, Barry died peacefully at necessary. brought in the importance of sound In offering some comfort to him that home on 12 April, 2017, at the age Tim’s rapid rise within JCI gave decision making in value creation. the mine was at 5,000 metres and of 83. He will be sadly missed by his him eventual overall technical Tim could also take a complex case perhaps it would not be prudent for wife, Sandra, daughters Caroline and responsibility for their large history and break it down into its him to go up to that altitude I got a Rachel and all who knew him.
Imperial ENGINEER Autumn 2017 31 OBITUARIES particularly the German varieties!” “A colossus...and a They summarise Tony as follows: “One of a kind...not afraid to Fond speak his mind.” man of integrity” “Didn’t suffer fools lightly and he memories met quite a few during his career – HENRY JAMES SAMUEL MASON both corporate and otherwise!” (Elec Eng 1935-37, 37-38) “Always tested the boundaries Henry was born on 24 November, and was not afraid to go against the 1914. herd mentality.” He always looked back with “A workaholic.” affection on his College days, having “Didn’t hold the view that gone up to what was then City and ‘clothes maketh the man’ and grew Guilds in September 1935. the bushiest beard in WA.” Whilst at Imperial, he lodged “Had a lifelong partner in Sylvia.” with a Mrs. Greening who lived on Nic Lottering (Jr) respected Brixton Hill. Henry remembered: Tony for intellect, humour and “She provided all the meals I low tolerance of idiocy. His father wanted. I stayed there during term always tells a story of how people time for the three years I was at focked around Tony when he had College and cannot speak too highly something to say, as it was always of the way I was looked after. Not abundantly clear that he knew what only did I have a bedroom, but a fre he was talking about and you could was lighted in another room where only learn from him. I retired each night to study. And all “He was a true stalwart of his that for £1 7s 6d, which in modern time and I believe a huge loss to currency is £1.37½!” engineering, common sense and Getting to the College by public intelligence and in fact to mankind transport was complicated, so itself”. Henry soon bought a bicycle – Adam Johnston says: and nearly missed one of his fnals “When I was fresh out of school examinations when a tyre burst! and of little experience, he showed “Naturally, as the subject was me how to use science and thinking engineering there was quite a lot to solve problems. Tony had a of lab work as well as lectures tonne of operating experience, but and tutorial periods. Professor still used his calculations and broad Fortesque lectured on electrical knowledge of science to think things engineering theory. Usually a one- through before jumping in. hour lecture was followed by a two- “Tony loved travelling, fxing hour period of tutorial work where Dr. TONY FRANK MASON Projects and stayed with them for mineral processing plants and we worked on questions and called (Metallurgy 1965-71) seven years. drinking beer. He loved sharing his in a tutor to help when we got stuck. Tony was born in 1947 in Oxford, With these years of experience experiences and was a great teacher. Lab reports had to be prepared and After school, he went to the Royal behind him, Tony started his own If he could spend half the standard this was where a lot of evening time School of Mines, to study metallurgy. consulting company, Mineral approach and get the same results was spent.” After completing his honours Processors, based for 12 years in he was happy. He was proud of “At the end of each year there degree in Engineering, he stayed Johannesburg before he emigrated working with his wife and supporting were examinations. Unlike the on at the RSM, joining the to Western Australia and set up her with all her accomplishments.” present day system all the exams Hydrometallurgy Research group to business in Perth. These sentiments do justice to a were done in a week, usually two a study for a PhD under Dr A R Burkin. Tony had found his niche, namely true Minesman, both intellectually day; three hours each, one morning Professor John Monhemius dense media separation. But that and as a personality. and one afternoon.” remembers Tony from this time, frst did not stop him applying his depth Tony’s support of RSMA activities During his time at Imperial, Henry as a lecturer in the undergraduate of knowledge to other areas of and the Chaps Club, of which he was became involved in athletics. He years and later as a colleague in the mineral processing as well. President during his post-graduate also joined the College Dramatic Research Group. He interacted Tony’s contribution to Mineral years, continued throughout his Society, appearing as a policeman with Tony in the laboratories and Processing and life in general is best life. Winter Braais -– the South in J.B.Priestley’s ‘Bees on the Boat daily research group morning coffee summed up by comments made by African version of a barbecue, with Deck’. sessions, which were very social. those who knew him. a variety of animals on a spit like He recalled his graduation: He remembers Tony as very much Professor Tim Napier-Munn says: lamb, springbok, wild pig or ostrich “On the 10th May, 1939, I hired an RSM man having spent 6 or 7 “I was always impressed not only by fllets – held by Tony and Sylvia a cap, hood and gown, and with years at the place, during his UG and his knowhow, but also the energy at their house in Kelvin, Sandton, hundreds of others assembled in PG studies. Tony was a renowned and enthusiasm with which he are well remembered. Those who the Albert Hall to have my degree member of the Chaps Club, which is shared it. I’m glad I was able to have have spent time in South Africa, will conferred on me. Now I was at the heart of the RSM worldwide a technical exchange with him even have enjoyed the RSMA Summer H.J.S.Mason BSc, ACGI, DIC.” network. right to the end”. Sundowner parties hosted by Tony After graduation, Henry On leaving the RSM, Tony Will Blair and Dave Willets and Sylvia. worked for Post Offce Telephones joined Johannesburg Consolidated say: “Tony’s achievements and Tony was always to be found at the throughout his career. Investment Company (JCI) in South experience worldwide in the mineral bar in Kelvin House in Johannesburg While playing tennis at Banbury, Africa and worked in various of processing feld were vast. He was and later at the Celtic Club in West Henry met his future wife. They their operations in South Africa a colossus in his own right and we Perth on Fridays, always with the were married in 1943, and had two and in what was then South West will remember him specifcally as Chaps Tie. sons. Africa and is now Namibia. It was one of the last few world experts Tony and Sylvia were made Sadly, Henry’s wife died in 1990, here that he met Sylvia, whom he in dense media drum technology. for each other. They ran Mineral at the age of only 72, while Henry later married. The couple settled in His technical knowledge covering Processors in Perth as a great team. himself lived on to the age of 101½, Randfontein, South Africa. a range of disciplines was huge and His departure is a loss to the dying of old age at home, looking After six years with JCI, Tony he was a man of integrity. Tony was industry and many will sorely miss out at the garden, on a beautiful joined Mitchell Cotts International quite partial to the amber liquid – him. summer’s day: 3 July, 2016.
32 Imperial ENGINEER Autumn 2017 OBITUARIES Work hard, play hard – “Work is happiness” CYRIL JEWITT (Elec Eng1949-52) Undeterred, he applied again from moved to Sales and Contracts. In Employing his highly logical Cyril Jewitt was born in Etherly Germany. On being turned down addition, Cyril taught HNC students brain and drawing on his Dene, near Bishop Auckland, on 18th once more he wrote a “letter of at Bradford Technical College two engineering training, Cyril brought August 1929, the second child of protest” and received an invitation nights a week. a forensic detail to his genealogical Matthew and Edith Jewitt. for an interview on the following From Bradford, Cyril's career investigations. Although his was not the most Monday. Cyril managed to get took him to GEC in Birmingham, In the days before the Internet affuent start in life, he had good compassionate leave for seven then fve more years with English and online records, he taught parents and a mother, determined to days, and arrived for the interview Electric, during which he spent some himself how to read and transcribe have the best for her children, who just 10 minutes ahead of time. His time working overseas, mainly on parish records and other historic sent him to what she believed to be endeavours paid off; he received a the Indian sub-continent. His fnal documents, spending every a better school than the local village letter of acceptance the very next move was back to the North East to Wednesday in Durham County school. And there, at Cockton Hill day. work for NEI Parsons in Byker. Records Offce. He also made many Primary, began Cyril's lifelong love of Cyril looked back on his school Cyril enjoyed a long and busy trips elsewhere in the pursuit of learning. and higher education with pride retirement with June (née Burrows) particular pieces of information as After passing his 11+, he moved and fondness. Not so long ago, a student from King's College of he strove to fnd every Jewitt in the on to King James Grammar when one of his grandchildren Household and Social Science county. School in Bishop Auckland where was considering an application to (KCHSS) whom he met at a In time, Cyril managed to trace he threw himself into everything Imperial, Cyril explained to him Students’ Union dance just behind the family directly back to the 17th both academically and in sports, that he would be “worked hard the Royal Albert Hall. century and from here he widened in particular football, which there”. From a man whose mantra Continuing a lifelong drive to the search, to make the family tree remained very important to him was “work is happiness” this was a keep both brain and body active, not only long but very broad. throughout his life. He was the living commendation not a warning. his post-retirement pursuits But underpinning all of this embodiment of the phrase 'work After completing his degree, included badminton, sequence activity was his own immediate hard, play hard'. Cyril joined English Electric as a dancing, Sunderland AFC, and family. Cyril was absolutely devoted His characteristic determination graduate apprentice in Bradford, genealogy. Additionally, Cyril acted to June, his four children and eight and academic ability, won him a spending two years on the shop as a lay member of a Military grandchildren, who greatly miss place at Imperial College London, foor working on every aspect of Pensions Tribunal Board, a role to his warmth, humour, strength and straight from his National Service in electric and diesel locomotives. This which he applied himself with his support. Hamburg. He had applied while at was followed by two years in the characteristic commitment and Cyril died on 31 May, 2016 at the school but had not been accepted. Design Department, after which he dedication. age of 86. Two careers: engineering and local government JOHN LESLIE WILSON (CTEC Council in 2001 as a Conservative 1960-65) member for the Ferndown W J McAuley recalls: division. He served in a number John and I were contemporaries of roles including chairman of the in Chem Eng at the debut of the Corporate Services Overview/ Swinging Sixties. John was a solid Policy Development Committee Yorkshireman of great good nature between 2003 and 2007. He was who, like the rest of us, took studies elected as vice-chairman of the seriously but not too much so. County Council in 2005 and became The only time I recall him chairman in 2007. He chaired the becoming experimental was when full Council and represented the he got himself a perm (common authority at civic and ceremonial now but rare then) and turning up functions. for lectures sporting this triumph John was active in several other of the coiffeur’s art. This prompted civic and social organisations. He unseemly derision with one of our was a member of East Dorset number shouting “who’s taking you District Council and was previously out tonight, John?” a Ferndown Town Councillor. Following graduation, John In addition, he was also a member returned to Leeds where he of the Dorset Fire Authority, a married his school sweetheart, governor of Ferndown Upper Lesley, and settled into his career. School and an active member of the After a couple of years they moved Lions Club. to Ferndown in Dorset where John John stood down as County joined the family’s motor business. Council chairman in April 2016 He remained there for the rest of for health reasons but remained a his professional life. county councillor until his death. It was in retirement, however that John died on 20 June, 2016. He is his second career blossomed. survived by his wife, Lesley and their He was elected to Dorset County daughter, Dianne.
Imperial ENGINEER Autumn 2017 33 OBITUARIES From boating novice to elite rower ANDREW (ANDY) HILL (Chem MSc in Nuclear Science and also to after, where he was based for fve to row, with Kingston, Thames, Ross- Eng 1969-72, MSc 1972-73) become Captain of the Boat Club. years. Various projects led to on-Wye, Nottingham and fnally Andy was born on 18 February, At the end of his university days, periods living in Taiwan, Brazil, India Loughborough Boat Clubs. 1951. Raised in Sheffeld, he came to he had successfully completed his and East Germany. He returned to It was on 17 September, 2016, Imperial in 1969 to study Chemical studies, risen to elite status in rowing the UK to work initially for Davy following a race at Milton Keynes for Engineering. and had represented Imperial three Ltd, then Engelhard Industries and Loughborough Boat Club that Andy At the Freshers’ Fair he joined times at Henley Royal Regatta. Courtaulds. suffered a heart attack, collapsed the Boat Club as a complete His frst employment was with His next position was for 12 and passed away. novice. A natural leader, he was DuPont in Northern Ireland during years as MD of Atraverda, a start-up Andy was a member of Imperial soon appointed crew leader in his very troubled times there. In 1975, company developing new batteries, College Masonic Lodge and frst boat. By his third year he had he returned to London to marry amongst other technologies. He Nottingham University Lodge for progressed to the 1st VIII and Vice- Shirley, whom he had met through followed that with 9 years as MD many years. Captain of the Club. Successfully rowing. He joined Scientifc Design of Novacel, developing surface He leaves behind Shirley, his son passing his exams, Andy stayed on London and was transferred to protection coatings. Jonathan and daughter Jennifer who in Chemical Engineering to take a Scientifc Design New York shortly After university, Andy continued miss him greatly, as do so many.
the First Class Honours list of ticularly in Eastern Europe, behind A Life in Metallurgy Graduates. the Iron Curtain. At a dance in Chelsea in the early Alan returned to studying for Steel 50’s, he had met the love of his life, a his Masters in 1970 and later ALAN PATRICK (Metallurgy 1948- very attractive, cultured and talented continued part-time employment 52) young woman, Rosemary Warren. as a lecturer for agencies such as Alan Walter Patrick, was born After graduation, Alan stayed Lloyds Register of Shipping on steel in the Midlands, at West Bromwich in London, joining Guest Keen welding technology related to ship on 25 March, 1927, the only son of Nettlefold, to work in their construction. Walter Patrick, a book binder. He galvanised steel division (John All his life, Alan was keen to keep had one sister, 4 years his junior. Lysaght Ltd), becoming a technical ft. He used to swim a mile before On completing his secondary specialist in the application and work when he was in London, refusal to become computer schooling at West Bromwich use of galvanised iron, especially played badminton until he was 80 literate. Instead, he persisted with Grammar School, he was called up corrugated iron. GKN became and walked to Eastham Ferry every hand written letters in an almost for National Service in the Army, just part of the nationalised British Steel day for as long as he was ft enough. indecipherable scrawl. as the war was ending. Corporation in 1967. As a true Midlander, he continued to Following his retirement, Alan and In 1948, Alan went to the Royal He visited the GKN subsidiary, follow the ups and downs of West Rosemary moved to Bromborough, School of Mines to take the BSc John Lysaght Australia in the mid- Bromwich Albion. Merseyside in 1988. They had no Metallurgy course. He was awarded 60s and travelled extensively over He was an avid reader and had family. Sadly, Rosemary passed away the Bessemer medal in 1952 for the next twenty years promoting an extensive library. One surprising just 12 months ago. jointly topping (with Roy Barleggs) the use of galvanised iron, par- idiosyncrasy was his absolute Alan died on 23 May, 2017.
Six of the twelve Metallurgy graduates of 1952, at the RSM Centennial Ball in 1951. Standing, from left to right, are Bres Barry, Bas Pile, Roy Barleggs, Charlie Easteal, Alan Patrick and Ron Butler
34 Imperial ENGINEER Autumn 2017 OBITUARIES A legendary and inspirational teacher on its way to a 10/10 mark, as it only to be disappointed when he matched Garrard's own master would turn it upside-down. He had tracing; however the student marked a clever trick of packing his pipe so it 'carboniferous', the lower case sin tightly with tobacco that he could resulted in a 6/10. turn the bowl upside down and Students who were lucky enough continue to smoke in the rain during to go on the Kinlochleven feldtrip feldwork! with Paul – a trip he ran for 25 Paul was a gentleman geologist, years with John Cosgrove – will still with pipe and fat cap, who was have feld notebooks in which each apparently carved from rock. diagram and locality is adorned by The commitment that Paul put helpful advice in red ink. They will into his teaching came from his remember his patient explanations love for Geology and of a job done and his habit of making folds, boudins right. Paul knew that the legacy and and even entire mountain belts using reputation of the Royal School of his over-sized hands. Mines is not just in scientifc and One student joked, “It took 30 engineering developments, but in million years for the Alps to form, the quality of its graduates and their but I saw Paul make them with his impact on the world. hands in 30 seconds”. Away from Geology, Paul was a Paul worked students hard and huge supporter of the students of Dr. PAUL GARRARD (Geology In 1965, Paul joined Anglo never saw why a little rain, even if the RSM in terms of general student 1957-60, 65-68, Staff) American Cu mines whilst at the ‘falling’ horizontally, should ruin a day wellbeing and was President of the In the late spring of this year, Paul same time working on his PhD at of geology. The students knew that RSM Rugby club for many years. Garrard died at the age of 79 after a the RSM. the weather would only end a day’s On his retirement, 10 years ago, tragic fall whilst walking his pet dog. At beginning of the 1970s, Rex feldwork if Paul’s pipe went out. Paul moved to Cornwall with his Paul will be remembered by many Davies, the then Prof. of Mining In the harshest weather, students wife, Shelagh. He is is survived by staff and students as a dedicated Geology offered Paul a position as would watch the smouldering pipe Shelagh and their sons, Mike and Ian, and talented teacher who helped a lecturer in Mining Geology. His for signs of an early return home, and will be greatly missed. ensure that graduates from the specifc role was to run the feld Royal School of Mines are the most work programme and in particular capable in the world. Paul’s legacy feld mapping. He was the perfect is the thousands of students that he man for the job. taught who have gone on to shape Paul remained at Imperial for the world. the next 30 years as lecturer then Paul was an RSM man through Senior Lecturer. During this time and through. Prof. Dick Selley, an ex- his gift for teaching and inspiring head of department said of him “If students became legendary. His Paul was a stick of rock you would valued contribution to teaching was fnd the letters ‘RSM’ embedded in recognised by the College when in it from end to end.” Paul came from 1995 the ‘College Teaching Award a working-class background and for Geology’ was bestowed upon obtained a degree from the Royal him. School of Mines in Geology in 1960. Paul will be remembered by He went on to spend 5 years most staff and students as a kind mapping the Precambrian basement but demanding teacher, whose Dick Selley in Rhodesia for the Geological expectations were high and whose L to R – Dick Selley, Paul Garrard, John Cosgrove, The Survey – a time where he perfected feedback and help was second to Bouncing Czech and Chris Halls taking a break from the mapping skills that would none. For example, one hapless feld work in Sidmouth. become legendary amongst students. student’s cross section was well Recognition for the engineering profession DENIS GRANTHAM MAXWELL Denis served as a Pilot Offcer in a P.O.W. in Stalag Luft III, in Poland. offcial recognition of engineering as (Materials 1937-40) Spitfres of the RAF’s 602 Squadron. From the late 1960s, Denis a self-governing profession. Denis Denis was born on 14 February, Returning from a mission over was involved in the development served on councils, including the 1919. He studied at Imperial, northern France on 1 May, 1942, his of the South African Council for Professional Advisory Committee becoming a member of the RSMA. squadron was attacked. Denis was Professional Engineers, formed after on Mining Engineering. In 1941, after graduating, shot down and captured, becoming the SA government signalled its He died on 16 June, 2016. Mining in Costa Rica An addendum MICHAEL SEAWARD (Mining Retiring to San Jose, he Following publication of an obituary to be coached by him when I rowed Geology 1963) occasionally consulted and for DAVID HART McLELLAN (Chem in the IC eight in 1969 and greatly Mike was a member of the Chaps developed a successful wine import Eng 1943-44, Elec Eng 1944-46) in appreciated his encouragement and Club. business. IE26, Richard Deavin (Civ Eng, 1966- frm discipline. He spent much of his career at Mike died in September, in San 69) has written to add the following: We had some success in early Rosario Dominicana’s Pueblo Viejo Jose, Costa Rica. “In the late 60s/early 70s, Major heats but did not make it to the fnal. mine until it closed in 1991 due He is survived by his wife Mac was the Imperial Rowers’ However, in other years around that to falling grades and metallurgical Margaret, daughter Elizabeth, son Henley Coach, with a number of time, IC chalked up some signifcant diffculties. Michael, and their families. successes. I was fortunate enough results.”
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