Historic Civil Engineering in Essex

The Essex Branch of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) has just published a leaflet and matching poster highlighting 17 sites of historic civil engineering in Essex.  It is the third in a series of leaflets produced in the East of England region to complement those for Hertfordshire and Suffolk. The poster / leaflet was …

ICE Essex Mini Presentations evening – the slideshows

I recently organised a Mini Presentations evening for the Esssex Branch of the Institution of Civil Engineers.  You can read more about the event itself here and the background and organisation of the event here.  I have included on this blog page the presentation slides in case anyone is interested. The slideshow above is the …

Graduates Communicating

Tuesday saw me at the Institution of Civil Engineers East of England graduates Communications Competition held at the Harry Potteresque Engineering Department of Cambridge University.  The competition sees teams of graduate civil engineers presenting on one of five prescribed scenarios as if at a public meeting.  I was pleased to see two teams there from …

ASE Conference

Today I was at the Association for Science Education Eastern Region annual conference which was held at Stewards School in Harlow.  I was there in my capacity as Chairman of the Essex branch committee of the Institution of Civil Engineers and I was due to speak to delegates in the 1st breakout session from 11am …