WCSIM Web Editor, Author at The Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers

WCSIM Group to All-Party Parliamentary Engineering Group in House of Lords

by WCSIM Web Editor28/02/2023

On Wednesday 22 February, Liveryman Ian Gilbert, Freeman Edward Talboys and Apprentices Noa Barcons Daniels and Oliver Bridge were hosted by Professor The Lord Mair CBE at the All-Party Parliamentary Engineering Group (APPEG) discussion and lunch in the House of Lords. The discussion for this event was around ‘Skyscrapers’, where there were short presentations from Professor Hanif Kara OBE and Marta Galinanes-Garcia, both from AKT II, and Natasha Bellamy from Laing O’Rourke.

Support for the next generation at City, University of London

by WCSIM Web Editor20/02/202320/02/2023

City, which received its royal charter in 1966 and became a part of the University of London five decades later, has always been held in high and proprietorial regard by the City of London, with the position of Rector reserved to the serving Lord Mayor. So it was that, on 16 January, fifteen Worshipful Company Masters from the City, including myself, made our way to the Barbican to witness the installation of the Rt. Hon. The Lord Mayor Alderman Nicholas Lyons as Rector of “our” University.

WCSIM Webinar – Rebecca Canning – Window on galaxy formation

by WCSIM Web Editor10/02/202310/02/2023

Copy of the recording can be found here

Passcode: KqMcs?R0

Primary Engineer Training Day

by WCSIM Web Editor08/02/202308/02/2023

Primary Engineer Training Day, 3^rd February 2023, Glaziers Hall

Launch of the Centre for Underwater Acoustic Analysis

by WCSIM Web Editor06/02/202306/02/2023

Press Release Coltraco December 2022 – from Liveryman Professor Carl Stephen Patrick Hunter OBE

Liveryman Prof Lisa Hall awarded MRC Prize

by WCSIM Web Editor11/01/202311/01/2023

Congratulations to Professor Hall, Professor of Analytical Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge, as one of only two winners of the 2022 MRC Millenium Medal. She is recognised for her pioneering multidisciplinary work and key translational impacts in biotechnology and biosensor design. Click here to read more.

Past Master Ken Reay profile

by WCSIM Web Editor06/01/202306/01/2023

The Company is pleased to share the following link to the Washington, Old County Durham, local history site which has recently posted a profile of Past Master Ken Reay titled Memories of a Washington Physicist/Astronomer.

SIM Hon Liveryman admitted to Order of Merit

by WCSIM Web Editor05/12/2022

Sir Paul Nurse, who is an Honorary Liveryman in the Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers, was one of six people whom the King appointed, in November, to the Order of Merit.

WCSIM Webinar – John Tyrer

by WCSIM Web Editor30/11/202208/02/2023

Please go here to access the video of John Tyrers webinar Quantitative Structural Shearography delivered Thursday 24th November 2022.

Passcode: c.BAwBR5

Oxford Hub meeting

by WCSIM Web Editor29/11/202204/09/2023

The SIM Oxford Hub held a meeting on the 22^nd November at the Rose and Crown. As usual there was good and informed conversation, catching up with everyone’s news and progress, and generally putting the World to rights. The evening finishes with a curry next door.

From left to right, Richard Hartley, Roger Sutton, me, Sarah Hughes, Annie Davies, Tom Davies, Roger Goldsbrough and Simon Flower.

The next meeting with be soon after Christmas.