2021
Low Carbon Aviation
The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Engineering 1 March 2020 Low Carbon Aviation Discussion over Zoom Chair – Professor the Lord Broers Speakers: • Paul Stein – Chief Technology Officer, Rolls Royce • Professor Rob Miller – Chair in Aerothermal Technology and Whittle Lab Director, University of Cambridge Lord Broers began the meeting by thanking everyone […]
Networking in the Livery
Past master Ken Sanders is regularly invited to a Parliamentary working group, the All Party Parliamentary Engineering Group. More details can be found at: http://appeg.co.uk/. It stages discussions over luncheon or dinner, in the House of Lords, on various engineering topics, to involve politicians from both houses, school students and young engineers to be involved […]
2020
COVID-19 and Engineering
The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Engineering 17th November 2020 COVID-19 and Engineering Discussion over Zoom Chair – Professor the Lord Broers Speakers: • Andrew Peters – Managing Director at Siemens Digital Factory, Congleton • Pam Cheng – Executive Vice President and President of Global Operations and IT, AstraZeneca Recording: Covid-19 and Engineering Lord Broers began […]
The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Engineering
The Changing World of Nuclear – Discussion over lunch in the Cholmondeley Room, House of Lords
2019
Hydrogen – for the supply, storage and distribution of energy 2019
Report of the discussion on the 26th April 2019 in the Cholmondeley Room, House of Lords
Chair – Professor the Lord Broers
Speakers:
• Hugo Spowers – Chief Engineer and founder of Riversimple
• Jon Salmarsh – Head of Built Environment Technology and Systems within the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
• Mike Muldoon – Head of Business Development & Marketing for Alstom UK & Ireland
2018
The year of Engineer 2018
Report of the discussion held on the 28th of November in the Cholmondeley Room, House of
Lords
Chair – Professor the Lord Broers
Speakers:
• Stephen Metcalfe MP – Government Envoy for the Year of Engineering,
• Hamse Hassan – Trainee Technician at AECOM
• Laura Reardon – Senior Safety Consultant at Atkins SNC-Lavalin
• Professor the Lord Mair
The Year of Engineering 2018
Report of the discussion held on the 12th June 2018 in Cholmondeley Room, House of Lords
Chair – Professor the Lord Broers
Speakers:
• Stephen Metcalfe MP, Government Envoy for the Year of Engineering
• Chi Onwurah MP, Shadow Minister for Industrial Strategy
• Oxana Grigoryeva, Business Development Manager, Robert Bosch Limited
• Ruby Holmes, Assembly and Manufacturing Leadership Development Trainee, Rolls Royce
2017
Can the huge data breaches be prevented?
Report of the debate held on 7th November 2017 in the Cholmondeley Room, House of Lords
Chair – Professor the Lord Broers
Speakers:
- Professor Andy Hopper CBE, Professor of Computer Technology and Head of the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge
- Dr Alistair Beresford, Reader in Computer Security at the Computer Laboratory and an Official Fellow at Queen’s College, University of Cambridge
- James Hatch, Director of Cyber Services at BAE Systems Applied Intelligence
Exciting advances in medical imaging
Report of the debate held on 21st March 2017 in the Cholmondeley Room, House of Lords
Chair: Professor the Lord Broers
Speakers:
- Professor Andreas Fouras, Chairman and CEO of medical technology company 4Dx
- Professor Kevin Brindle, Professor of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge
- Professor Mark Lythgoe, Founder and Director of the Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging (CABI) at University College London
2016
Decarbonising our energy systems?
Report of the debate held on the 22nd November 2016 in the Cholmondeley Room, House of Lords
Chair: Professor the Lord Broers
Speakers:
- Professor Loughhead OBE, FREng, FIMechE, FIET, Department of Energy and Climate Change
- Mike Thompson, Climate Change Committee
- Lord Oxburgh KBE, FRS, HonFREng, All Party Parliamentary Climate Change Group and Science and Technology Committee
AGM 2016
Minutes of the Annual General Meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Engineering from Thursday 7 June 2016.
2015
Defence Spending and the Economy
Report of the debate held on 29th June in the Cholmondeley Room, House of Lords
Chair: Professor the Lord Broers
Speakers:
- Bradford Yelland, Head of Engineering at BAE Systems.
- Iain Gray, Chair of Bristol Aerospace & Director of Aerospace at Cransfield University.
Biomedical Engineering
Report of the debate held on 18th March in the Cholmondeley Room, House of Lords
Chair: Professor the Lord Broers
Speakers:
- Chris Toumazou, Regius Professor of Engineering at Imperial College London
- Molly Stevens, Professor of Biomedical Materials and Regenerative Medicine at Imperial College London
2014
Engineering a British Victory in the America’s Cup?
Report of the debate held on 25th November in the Cholmondeley Room, House of Lords
Chair: Professor the Lord Broers
Speakers:
- Sir Ben Ainslie, Olympic sailor and Founder of Ben Ainslie Racing
- Andy Claughton, Technical Director at Ben Ainslie Racing
The grand challenges for engineers over the next 50 years
Report of the debate held on 17th June in Committee Room 14, House of Commons.
Chair: Professor the Lord Broers
Speakers:
- Sir John Parker, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering
- Professor Robert Mair, Head of Geotechnical Engineering at Cambridge University
- Professor Sir Peter Gregson, Chief Executive and Vice-Chancellor of Cranfield University
- Dr Eleanor Stride, Fellow at Oxford University
Are major data leaks inevitable?
Report of the discussion over lunch held on 17 March 2014 in the Cholmondeley Room, House of Lords
2013
Energy update: a progress report on wind, nuclear and fracturing
Report of the discussion over lunch held on 9 December 2013 in the Cholmondeley Room, House of Lords
Exciting opportunities for young engineers in industrial R&D
Report of the discussion over lunch held on 4 June 2013 in the Cholmondeley Room, House of Lords
Engineering for growth: meet the innovators
Report of the debate held on 16 January 2013 in Committee Room 9, House of Commons
2012
Career opportunities in the engineering world
Report of the discussion over lunch held on 1 November 2012 at the Cholmondeley Room, House of Lords
What engineers does industry want?
Report of the discussion over lunch held on 1 May 2012 in the Cholmondeley Room, House of Lords
2011
Smart transport
Report of the debate held on 22 November 2011 in Committee Room 12, House of Commons and over dinner in the Cholmondeley Room, House of Lords
The importance of design to our economy
Report of the discussion over lunch held on 11 May 2011 in the House of Lords
2010
Will we be able to pay the price for our energy strategy?
Report of the discussion over lunch held on 9 November 2010