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Winter programme

Visitors are very welcome.
   

2009 - 2010

   
date
speaker

title

time

venue

Wed 7th Oct
Morna Cannon
Marine renewables - Technology & Sector Developments§
6.30
Garth
Wed 28th Oct
Alex Gunn/Sandy Mess
AGM & talk by Sandy Mess "The Apprenticeship Scheme - a short History"

6.30

 C601

Wed 11th Nov
Eamon Sheehan  
NW Hutton Decommissioning§

6.30

Garth

Wed 9th Dec
John S. Reid
What the 19th century telegraph did for us

2.00

Venue tba

Wed 27th Jan
Ben Marsden
James Watt - Discoverer, Lawyer or Engineer?
6.30
Garth H234
Mar
 

6.30

Wed 21st Apr
Carl Everard

Damage Detection or Damage Prevention - What is the Objective?  Condition Based Operations§

6.30

Garth

Sat 22nd May
 
Summer visits start with an excursion to the Museum of Communication, Burntisland. See Summer 12.30  

Lectures take place this year in the locations below. Most 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.

MA07 is Room MA07 of the The Robert Gordon University, Technical Building, Schoolhill site, Aberdeen. Enter in the same door as you would for C601 but then go left. The room is close to the entrance.

"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.

"Garth H234" is Room H234 of the Faculty of Health and Social Care, The Robert Gordon University, Garthdee Campus, Aberdeen

"Satrosphere" is at 179 Constitution Street, Aberdeen.

§ Joint meeting with the local branch of the I.Mech.E. and, for some meetings, the Institute of Quality Assurance, the Institution of Engineering & Technology, The Institution of Chemical Engineers or the Offshore Energy Centre

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

Meeting schedule, including some Minutes, for 2000/2001, 2001/2002, 2002/2003, 2003/2004 , 2004/2005, 2005/2006, 2006/2007, 2007/2008 and 2008/2009 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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