Programme of Meetings and Visits for 2024/25

The Association hosts the majority of the lectures online via MSTeams.

Some of them are recorded at the speakers discretion.

Registration links are available in the relevant meeting information.

AGM & Young Engineering Night (on-line).

Controlling residual stress during manufacturing -  Dr Salah Rahimi 

Salah is a Technical Lead at the University of Strathclyde’s Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC)

He is an expert in measurement, modelling and control of residual stress and in the mechanical and microstructural characterisation of materials. A key theme of his research is to control material characteristics and residual stress during the manufacturing processes of forging and forming

Sustainable Steel - Professor Claire Davis

Claire holds a Royal Academy of Engineering / Tata Steel Chair in Low Energy Steel Processing at Warwick Manufacturing Group, University of Warwick.

She was recently made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. 

Ultra-short pulsed laser welding - Dr Richard Carter

Dr Richard Carter (Heriot Watt Uni)

Jointly with Welding Institute Scottish Branch

Application of digital tools to streamline Additive Manufacturing production in highly regulatory industries - Dr Lampros Giourntas (Baker Hughes)

Jointly with Welding Institute N Scottish Branch

Continuous casting technology for non-ferrous alloys -  Mervyn Cooper, Operations Manager, Rautomead.

Established in 1978, Rautomead Limited has evolved to become the world's leading and most experienced supplier of continuous casting technology for non-ferrous alloys.  Its continuous casting machines are used internationally to deliver continuous casting of Copper Wire and Copper Cable, Alloy Wire, Engineering Alloys, Precious Metals, Copper Magnesium and Copper Chrome Zirconium Rod.

This presentation will review developments in the technology over the past 40 years.

How can the Mining Sector address its public image? 

Andre van den Berg, Chief of Staff at Anglo American plc

on Thursday, 15th May 2025 at 19:00 hours start

The Larch Lecture Theatre, Nucleus Building, University of Edinburgh King’s Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3FG

Registration

If you wish to attend, please register your attendance by emailing Angus MacGregor, Honorary Secretary of the Mining Institute of Scotland at mis.secretary@iom3materialscycle.org  with the subject “Annual RW Thomson Lecture”. -  Scottish Association for Metals: R W Thomson Prestige Lecture 

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