SWIEET sponsored this year’s Zienkiewicz Lecture, which was given by Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff FRS of Nottingham University on the subject of Supercriticality: From Blue Fluid to Green Chemistry.Supercritical fluid phenomena was discovered in the 1890s but has only relatively recently taken off in industrial processes. It was held on Wednesday, […]
Read more →As the demand for future engineers increases across the UK, Engineers have a responsibility to educate, inspire and convince young people to become the next generation of problem solvers. SWIEET sponsored the Institution of Civil Engineers in South Wales, as part of Tomorrow’s Engineers week to do […]
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Arkwright Awards Arend Dafydd Franssens, Ioan Peake-Jones, Dr Jarmila Davies (Trustee), Jake Gore, Xoaquin Castrelo-BrignellRead more →
Prof Hywel Thomas (Cardiff University who proposed the vote of thanks), Lord Robert Mair (Cambridge University who delivered the fifty ninth Menelaus Lecture), Phil Hourahine (Chair of SWIE(ET)2007) and Prof John Tucker (Swansea University master of ceremonies) after one of the South Wales Institute’s finest events.
Read more →Dr Jarmila Davies and our Chair meeting with the successful competitors at the Engineering Employers Federation schools F1 challenge.
Read more →Menelaus Just before Christmas 2018, a deputation visited Penderyn to celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of William Menelaus’s, our founder. The mission was to present a plague about Menelaus to Richard Noble, Landlord of the Red Lion in Penderyn. Menelaus has a modest grave in the […]
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