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 - Dr Lampros Giourntas (Baker Hughes)

Jointly with Welding Institute N Scottish Branch

Composite Wind Turbine Blades -  Andrew Carlin (Scot Power Renewables)

Rolls Royce Inchinnan