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 to National Grid Control Centre

Our grateful thanks to Sthitadhee Sarkar of National Grid (Centre)

 

Thursday, February 15th. 2024 = Ethics of Connected and Automated Vehicles - Paula Palade, JLR

 

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 to National Grid Control Centre

 

Thursday, 20th. February, 2025, The History Of The Land Speed Record

Willy Goldschmidt, BSc. MSc.

39mph in 1898 to 763mph in 1997

Sildes

 

Thursday, 20th. March, 2025, Aircraft Carriers, from their earliest beginnings to the present day.
Dr Andrew Syson, Retired University Lecturer.
Slides