Thank You!

A very big thank you to all our guest at at our AGM tonight! It has been a great success and it couldn't be better without your presence. We hope to see more of our members actively involved in our highlighted activities in the AGM.

Thank you once again and we sincerely apologize for any misconduct or discontent.

Student Member Newsletter - September 2010

It's been a busy summer for the IMechE, with the announcement of an exciting sponsorship deal with the Bloodhound Supersonic Car project, as well as the annual Formula Student competition at Silverstone. In this month's newsletter, we interview Bloodhound team member and Vice-Chairman of the Edinburgh Young Member's Panel Jenna Gaff, and launch the Dissertations and Project Reports pages on the IMechE website. We also take a look at the unfolding Chilean miner rescue story in our interactive Topic of the Month.

Spotlight on our young members

IMechE Member Profile: Jenna Gaff, final-year student at the University of Edinburgh, working on the Bloodhound SSC project

How would you sum up Bloodhound in a sentence?

Bloodhound SSC is a truly awe-inspiring British project to both break the world land-speed record and to provide an iconic project to inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers.

How did you get involved in the project?

Luck! I approached them for a placement as they started to look for students to work on the design team.

What's your role on the Bloodhound team?

I'm responsible for the design of the pedals and the offboard cooling. There is a huge variety of other things you become involved with from being a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths) Ambassador to supporting events. I'm continuing to work on the design team for my final year project, designing and optimising the secondary air system.

What are the biggest challenges facing the team?

Keeping the car safely on the ground, we don't want it to become a plough or a plane! Finding the right shape is crucial to succeeding and we now have a stable car throughout the mach no. range.

Would you recommend other young engineers get involved in Bloodhound?

I'd definitely recommend other students get involved. You can learn more about the project and find out how you can get involved here.

The A and O: Members in Asia and Oceania

Comment on this articleThe Institution is always keen to highlight the work of its members across the globe. Here, Ken Tushingham, the Chairman of the Asia and Oceania Forum gives an update about activities by members from the region, including a lively Speak Out for Engineering Final.

“The Asia and Oceania Forum has made good progress this year, recruiting 1300 members in the year to date. This represents half of the total number of new members who were recruited worldwide.”

“Our main focus was the second Asia and Oceania Forum Meeting, held early in April in Singapore. The programme of events was orchestrated by the committee of the Singapore Branch and included the Regional Final of the 2009 Speak Out For Engineering (SOFE) competition. The whole event was a great success and our hosts are to be congratulated for the job they did.”

“Branches in Australia, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia and Singapore were represented at the meeting, as were China and Sri Lanka through their Corresponding Members. Maria Taylor, the Institution’s Senior Executive for International Operations, attended the Forum Meeting.”

“The meeting was held over two days and the main item of debate concerned a Trustee Board decision in February to adopt the recommendation of the International Structure Review Working Group. Recognising the rapid growth of international member numbers, and the need for a system of governance that could accommodate future changes, it was decided that the existing four international fora would be renamed ‘regions’ with a similar standing to UK Regions, and that the Asia and Oceania Forum would be split and restructured.”

“Many aspects were considered by the delegates taking into account the range, diversity, and particularly the potential, of the countries involved. The preferred, unanimously agreed, final outcome was that for geographic, cultural, and general practical reasons the A and O Forum should be divided into four. The new regions being:


Southern Asia: India, Bangladesh, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

North East Asia: China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea N&S, Macau, Taiwan

South East Asia: Borneo, Brunei, Burma/Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia/Sarawak, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam

Oceania: Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands

The transition to the new structure will take place over the next nine months launching in May 2011.”

“Other issues discussed concerned the Institution’s International Strategy, IT and website improvements, Affiliate and Associate member recruiting and transfer action, reinstatement of prize monies, and a prestige lecture tour for the region.”

			September 2010

Welcome to the world! In the Institution’s annual Trustee Board and Council elections earlier this year, Stuart Cameron was elected to the role of Vice President. With his considerable international experience, it was apposite that within his Vice Presidential remit, Stuart should take on the role of Chairman of the International Strategy Board.  Here, Stuart outlines his initial thoughts on how international strategy should develop. Read more

Meet the team Here, we introduce the teams based in the IMechE headquarters in London and in our Hong Kong office who provide advice and guidance to volunteer members. Hong Kong Branch News Hong Kong Branch has established four sub-committees for China, Mechanical Engineering Week, membership and branch activity to enhance the effectiveness member recruitment and retention strategies. IMechE Activity in Middle East and Africa (MEA) The African continent has been a buzz of activity with the successful launch and hosting of the 2010 football World Cup.  Here, we get an overview of activities from the MEA. The latest from Benelux We focus on the Benelux Branch’s efforts to put on a calendar of events based on the four key themes of environment, energy, transport and education.

Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri

The IMechE UNITEN Student Chapter would like to wish all our Muslim members, friends, tutors and lecturers Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri!

Have a safe journey home to your hometowns too.

Advance Crash Course - Feedbacks and Suggestions

In IMechE UNITEN Student Chapter it is all about how we can help you or in other terms the mechanical engineering students of UNITEN. To start off with, we would like to hear more feedback from you students on the type of activities that you would like us to organize. Among our next planned events would be a crash course on a certain engineering-design based software. Thus, we would like to get feedback from the students on which engineering-design based software, they would like to learn about. This would be a good opportunity for students to learn about a new software and to brush up knowledge of students who have already learned a particular software in the past. We have listed a few choices of software’s and would like your feedback as on which software would be the most beneficial to you.

1) Pro-E
2) AutoCAD
3) CFD
4) Working Model
5) Pro-M

Then again, these are only suggestions from us as we are open to any other suggestion. You can contact us at imeche.uniten@gmail.com or send us a message on our facebook group. 


Thank you

August Newsletter