Visiting Lecturers in London
The following Visiting Lecturers are available to book at further education colleges in London. Don't forget, the booking should be made by a lecturer.
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Jenny Wind Turbine Control Engineer |
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I chose a career in engineering partly because I wanted to make a difference to the world, partly because I wanted a job that was different every day, but mainly because I wanted to work on exciting projects. Happily I have found that working as an engineer has met all my expectations. My talk will focus on 3 of the engineering projects I have worked on over the last 8 years: Spy aircraft the size of a human hand, a vehicle designed to fly 3 times faster than Concorde and wind turbines taller than St Paul's Cathedral. I will introduce each technology, stressing the cutting edge engineering involved, before explaining how a wide range college and university trained engineers made each project a reality.
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Benoit Civil Engineer |
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I have been working as a Civil Engineer for about 8 years. Back when I was deciding whether I wanted to go into engineering, I was influenced by lecturers’ stories of building harbours in Bermuda, field work in Somerset, site visits to construction sites and work experience. I will discuss the challenges of constructing new escalators and access passages at King’s Cross underground station, that tie in to the existing live platform tunnels of the Victoria, Northern and Piccadilly Lines. This makes an exciting case study of how engineering is not just about building new things, but also about working around and upgrading existing infrastructure, some of which is over 100 years old, without inconveniencing or endangering the public.
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Simon Traffic Engineer |
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I work at the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) and provide advice and analysis to the people responsible for the UK’s roads, particularly major roads like motorways. Motorway traffic is an intriguing thing. The movement of any individual car is entirely determined by the hugely complex – and largely independent – thought processes of its human driver. However, when viewed as a whole, it behaves almost like a fluid, even to the extent that waves can be seen to propagate through it. In recent years there has been a shift away from road-building towards using technology to better utilise the capacity of the roads already in existence. I will discuss my role at TRL and how engineers contribute to the understanding traffic and use this knowledge to develop new technologies for the benefit of road-users, the economy and the environment.
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Tania Chemical and Process Engineer |
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My degree was in Chemical and Process Engineering and I currently work in BP’s Exploration and Production business as a Process Engineer. My first job after obtaining my degree was in marketing, where I helped sell more petrol using fluffy toys and coffee - no joke! I worked in the downstream business for BP for a year before I realised a change to engineering was my best career option. I have worked offshore in the North Sea, in a central technology group, on major projects, in contractor’s offices and travelled internationally as part of my job (to Italy, Azerbaijan, USA, Germany, France and Norway). My four years working as an engineer have been largely focused on the upstream oil and gas industry, except for 8 months when I worked on the front end engineering design of a hydrogen power plant (with carbon capture).
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Greg Environmental Analytical Engineer |
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I advise architects and developers on how to reduce the environmental impacts of new buildings by minimising the amount of natural resources that buildings consume throughout their lifetime. Part of this work involves numerical modelling of the air and energy flow inside buildings. The other part involves developing new analysis techniques and software. I love the fact that I have an almost clean slate. Buildings are so fundamental to society, that making improvements to them has the possibility of producing a huge impact on the world and environment. In addition, modern analysis techniques are really starting to become accepted and return huge dividends.
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Ann Woulfe Civil and Marine Engineer |
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I am a Marine engineer working on sea and coastal projects. After doing Civil Engineering 4 years ago I went into marine and coastal work. At the moment I’m on site building a power station and jetty on the River Thames.
I will attempt to throw some light on the expanding role of engineers and possibilities open to those qualifying from all disciplines of engineering. I will look at our role in developing solutions to today's and tomorrow's challenging problems. In particular, areas of rapid advances such as materials, where the chances to be at the cutting edge of engineering are ever present. The presentation will show some alternative applications sometimes forgotten.