Coventry and
Warwickshire Retired Engineers
Past Events
Thursday, October 19th. 2023 = Manufacture Of First Composite Armoured Vehicle Protection by NP Aerospace, Coventry
Roger Medwell, MBE CEng. FIET
Thursday, November 16th. 2023 = Death In The Desert = Institute of Traffic Accident Investigators - Dominic Harris, FITA
Thursday, January 18th.
2024 = Visit
Our grateful thanks to Sthitadhee Sarkar of National Grid (Centre)
Thursday, February
15th. 2024 =
Thursday, March 21st.
2024 = Improving the Performance and Lifetime of Batteries for Next Generation
Electric Vehicles.
Dr. Muhammad Ans, M.Eng, PhD, University of Warwick.
Visit to Echills Wood Model Railway – 24th. May 2023
Thursday, 17th.
October, 2024 = The Long Silence Falls – Dr. John Moyle
The History of
Maritime Communications until 2000
Thursday, 21st.
November, 2024 = The Antikythera Device – Steve Phillips
The Antikythera mechanism is an Ancient Greek hand-powered model of the Solar
System described as the oldest known example
of an analogue computer used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses
decades in advance.
Steve Phillips will describe its use and also has a working model
Antikythera Presentation Slides
Thursday, January 16th.
2025 = Visit
Thursday, 20th. February, 2025, The History Of The Land Speed Record
Willy Goldschmidt, BSc. MSc.
39mph in 1898 to 763mph in 1997
Thursday, 20th. March,
2025, Aircraft Carriers, from their earliest beginnings to the present day.
Dr Andrew Syson, Retired University Lecturer.
Slides