Programme of Meetings and Visits for 2025/26

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.

Young Engineers Colloquium - In Person
Christine Blackmore, IOM3 President, will be our guest. 

The programme will include short presentations from post-graduate materials students plus displays from undergraduates active in extra-mural engineering student societies. 

At JW606, James Weir Building, University of Strathclyde, Montrose St, Glasgow G1 1XJ

To register for this meeting, please complete the form below.  
Registration will close at 5pm Weds 10th September.

AGM & Presidential Address

Tiziana Marrocco - President (SAM), University of Strathclyde

Knowledge Exchange Manager at the Advanced Materials Research Laboratory (AMRL), Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining (IOM3).

Space Materials -  Dr Leah-Nani Alconcel, University of Birmingham

Dr Leah-Nani Alconcel is a spacecraft engineer and associate professor in the School of Metallurgy and Materials where she leads the MSc programme in Space Engineering. Dr Alconcel has won research and public engagement grants from the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK Space Agency and EPSRC 

Transforming Steelmaking at Port Talbot -  Richie Hart (Process Technology Manager for Tata Steel UK).

Richie will describe a fundamental change for the site which is on a par if not more significant than the transition from open hearth to LD steelmaking, or from ingot route to continuous casting. 

Welding  & Metallurgy of Cast Steel Nodes - Joe Veale, Head of Technical at Sheffield Forgemasters UK

Jointly with Welding Institute Scottish Branch

Sheffield Forgemasters probably needs no introduction.  The company specialises in designing and manufacturing high integrity forgings and castings solutions, offering a ‘one-stop-shop’ for steel production from a single site in the UK.  A range of global markets are served including Defence & Marine, Civil Nuclear, Steel Processing, Offshore Oil & Gas, Renewables, Power Generation, High Pressure Reactors, Steel Plant and Ingot & Bar.

Surface Engineering

Jointly with Welding Institute N Scottish Branch

Prof Stuart Lyon is our speak at our forthcoming webinar on Thursday 26th February @6pm.

Stuart is well known in the materials and corrosion community having spent his career at the University of Manchester Corrosion and Protection Centre.  Stuart is Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining and Hon. Life Fellow and former President of the Institute of Corrosion. In 2020 he was elected to Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering and received the European Corrosion Medal (a premier award of the European Federation of Corrosion) primarily for research on corrosion protection using organic coatings. He has worked with numerous companies and organisations during his career, publishing over 200 journal and conference papers and supervising over 60 PhD and around 100 MSc students.

Starting from the Forth Bridge (pictured), and with examples from the infrastructure, automotive and aerospace sectors, this talk provides an historical overview of protective coatings from antiquity to the present day.  It explains how paints work, why they sometimes don’t, and why modern corrosion protective organic coatings are smart, sustainable materials, critical in the protection of engineering and infrastructure assets and for extending their useful lifetimes.

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