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March/April 2016 Post-earthquake Nepal: the lessons to be learned Sticking to the task: adhesives in aerospace GIVING A FRESH SPIN TO DESIGN MANAGEMENT Contacts Institution of Engineering Designers Courtleigh, Westbury Leigh, Westbury, Wiltshire, BA13 3TA Telephone: +44 (0)1373 822801 Fax: +44 (0)1373 858085 Email: [email protected] Website: www.ied.org.uk @InstEngDes Institution of Engineering Designers President March/April 2016 Ms Maggie Philbin Post-earthquake Nepal: the lessons to be learned Immediate Past President Sticking to the task: Sir George Cox HonFIED adhesives in aerospace Chair Dr Tania Humphries-Smith BSc PGDip MPhil EdD CTPD CEng MIED FHEA FRSA Immediate Past Chair Engineering Designer needs good articles on matters important to Simon BenHeld CTPD CEng CEnv design. Why not write one? You will receive help from the editorial team, FIED(PCh) should you need it. 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Contents Volume 42 Number 2 Regulars Features View from Nepal earthquakes: time for change 6 Sticking to the task 18 the Chair 4 Ramboll engineers Jeremy Foster and Sean Andrew Marks of 3M looks at the key The future and PEIs Smeltzer recount the destruction that criteria involved when choosing adhesives greeted them and their team when they for interiors applications A fair hearing 5 reached Nepal and the lessons to be learned Colin Ledsome kick Accelerating train design 22 starts our new series Gales batter Victorian pier 11 Tim Fryer reports on how Train Zero is of ‘Asides’ articles Is it too late to save this damaged and speeding up Bombardier’s development of with an unusual angle endangered Grade II-listed pier? the next generation of rolling stock, ahead on the APT of the arrival of Crossrail Light materials hit new heights 12 IED News 26 Solar Impulse’s fuel-free flight around the Battle for the skies! 24 Election of Council world has captured the imagination. But Sixteen student engineering teams are Your path to CTPD! how were the lightweight materials chosen? locked in combat to build the best Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) – and What’s COVER STORY then go head to head in a ‘fly-off’ Happening 29 Getting beneath the spin 15 Nanoparticles control Colin Ledsome looks inside the worlds of Something to chew on 30 soft robots ‘design’ and ‘management’ to reveal the New high-speed cooling tunnels are helping CAD Toolbox aids interplay and common ground that are one company to boost productivity around design optimisation often lost in a fog of confusion its chewing gum manufacturing process 6 12 18 24 VIEW FROM THE CHAIR ontinuing my theme of change, a discussion paper [3] has recently been circulated among Professional Engineering Institutions (PEIs) asking some very pertinent questions about the future of PEIs to 2025. The paper highlights that “the millennial generation does not Cthink in the same way as the baby boomers; their values and reward mechanisms are different. Over the last 18 months, there have been a series of papers … as to the value of the PEIs [1]…Coerver and Byers [2] … recommend that institutions overhaul governance and committee operations and speciEcally stop tinkering (my italics), stop the charade, stop the next big thing. They note the need to The future empower the CEO and enhance staff expertise, to rigorously redeEne the member market, to rationalize programs and services, and to build a robust technology framework.” and PEIs As my last column clearly set out, and this is reiterated in the discussion paper, there is no issue about the growing Change is inevitable and necessary, if demand for engineers. Interestingly, Sir Bill Wakeham at the PHEE/PHOMME Conference indicated that the outcomes of his Professional Engineering Institutions are latest report would include the notion that accreditation of to remain relevant and viable to those they engineering courses by PEIs was good practice and produces serve, says IED chair graduates that met the needs of industry. Tania Humphries-Smith So there appears to be an important function for the industry in PEIs undertaking accreditation. The issue, then, is about what those engineers and, for us, designers want from and think about professional representation. What is clear is that change is inevitable, if, as PEIs, we wish to remain relevant to you and, importantly, viable. The future is indeed something that has been exercising the Council and staff of the IED. Our CEO is already empowered by the Council to represent the views and needs of the membership on a number of external bodies, including EngineeringUK, Tomorrow’s Engineers, Society for the Environment and the Professional Engineering Committee. You will have noticed that we have made a few changes recently. We launched a new website that enables members to update their membership proEle, pay their membership and registration fees, submit CPD records, track their membership and/or registration applications, and enabled secure online sharing of papers and applications between committee members to help speed up the application and assessment process. We also launched our journal online and changed the way we manage subscriptions – these might be termed ‘tinkering’, of course. By the time you read this column, Council will have met at an Away Day to consider what should be the future focus of the IED, so expect to hear about more changes soon. 1 Universe of Engineering, Edge Report, Letters to the Times etc. 2 Race for Relevance by Coerver and Byers (ISBN 978-0-99034-335-0). 3 Engineering the Future about the Role of Professional Engineering Institutions (PEIs) in 2025 Get Involved If you would like to contribute to any discussions, write to: Dr Tania Humphries-Smith CTPD CEng MIED FHEA FRSA, Chair, at: The Institution of Engineering Designers, Courtleigh, Westbury Leigh, Westbury, Wiltshire BA13 3TA.