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Aberdeen Mechanical Society

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Winter programme - March meeting has been re-scheduled for 4th April

Visitors are very welcome.
   

2005 - 2006

     
date
speaker

title

time

venue

Minutes

1st Dec
John McManus
University of Aberdeen New Environmentally Friendly Combined Heat and Power Plant, followed by AGM

6.30

 C601

 
16th Nov
Several
BP Rhum and Claire Developments§

6.30

Garth

 
14th Dec
John Edwards
Aberdeen's Maritime Heritage
6.30
C601
 
18th Jan
J. Griffiths
Testing Marine Renewable Energy Devices§

6.30

Garth

 
23th Feb
Dr Richard Neilson
Chaos - an Engineering Perspective

6.30

C601

 
4th Apr
Murray Duncan
Aberdeen's Railway Heritage

6.30

C601

 
18th Apr
David Moore
Dr Diesel - a History of the Internal Combustion Engine

6.30

C601

10th May
Maf Smith
The Energy Review - Lessons for Scotland's Energy Industry§
6.30
Garth
 
19th May
Neil Parnham
AMS annual dinner with IMechE

7.30

Woodbank House

Lectures take place this year in the locations below. Locations can be seen on the RGU site map.

"C601" is Room C601 of the Clarke Building at The Robert Gordon University, Schoolhill site, Aberdeen.

"C48" is room C48 in the St Andrews Street site of the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

"Garth" is the Garthdee premises of RGU, Faculty of Management, Room 226 or next door.

§ Joint meeting with the local branch of the I.Mech.E. and, for some meetings, the Institute of Quality Assurance, the Institution of Electrical Engineers and the Offshore Energy Centre

* in the Minutes column indicates that Minutes are on-line, accessible by clicking on the *

Meeting schedule, including Minutes, for 2000/2001, 2001/2002, 2002/2003, 2003/2004 and 2004/2005 can be viewed.


Other Engineering lectures in Aberdeen and surrounding district can be found on the
Professional Engineering and Technology in Scotland website.

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Initial design by John S. Reid j.s.reid@abdn.ac.uk
Last updated 23rd February 2006