GB Region
About
About the region
The Engineers Ireland GB Region provides members and prospective members in mainland Britain with a point of contact with Engineers Ireland. We provide opportunities for continuing professional development and networking through talks, visits and events hosted by the GB Region as well as jointly with sister institutions.
We maintain strong links with the third-level institutions in the region including Imperial College London, which plays host each year to a number of our network events.
We have strong links with other professional associations/organisations including the Institution of Civil Engineers
An important part of our role is in the encouragement and guidance of graduate members towards their professional reviews and Chartered Engineer, and we look to provide interview panels for professional reviews.
We seek to identify and celebrate excellence in engineering, and in particular excellent Irish engineers in our region. A highlight of our 2009-10 season was our nomination for, and the conferring in May 2010, of Fellow on three prominent engineers in our region: Tim Chapman, Dervilla Mitchell and Raymond O’Rourke.
This year, our network started a chartership mentoring scheme amongst Irish Engineers based in the UK. By inviting experienced UK-based Engineers Ireland chartered members to mentor younger members who have not yet achieved CEng status, we hope to provide valuable guidance to graduate engineers during the initial stages of their career.
We look forward to seeing as many members and non-members as possible at our events over the course of the 2010-11 season.
Who can join
- Engineers and engineering technicians working in the region
- Engineering consultancies and support servicing companies
- Local authority workers involved in engineering
- Academic researchers, lecturers and students
How to join
If you are already a member of Engineers Ireland, and gave a correspondence address in Great Britain when you joined, you have automatically been affiliated with this network.
If your correspondence address is outside the region, you can still join our network through the Members Area
It is free to join our network. Once you register as a member of a network, you can choose to:
- receive email updates on all events being run by the West Region network
- use our network's discussion forum
- post comments on articles written by other network members
- comment on our network blog
- send messages to other members of our network
Contacts
Chairman & Council Representative
Don Keigher
Chartered Engineer
Mob: +44 788 7993214
Email: Dominic.p.keigher@carillionplc.com
Vice Chairman, Secretary & Liaison Committee Representative
Dr Katherine Cashell
Mob: +44 781 2927978
Email: GBRegion@engineersireland.ie
Treasurer
Robert Lane
Tel: +44 751 5467068
Email: Robertjlane@gmail.com
PR Officer (Members)
Dr Catherine O’Sullivan
Chartered Engineer
Mob: +44 794 4633004
Email: Cath.osullivan@imperial.ac.uk
PR Officer (Institutions)
Patrick Mulvihill
Chartered Engineer
Mob: +44 783 1097805
Email: Patrick.mulvihill@oxfordshire.gov.uk
Events
Presidential Address: Building a Sustainable Recovery
Date: 8th February 2012
Time: 6.00pm
Venue: Institution of Civil Engineers, One Great George Street, London SW1P 3AA
Admission: Free. All welcome
About the speaker:
PJ Rudden Chartered Engineer - President of Engineers Ireland
About the event:
Each year, the President of Engineers Ireland shares his/her views on an area of particular interest to the President, that also encompasses developments in the engineering sector.
The Address will focus on what changes are required to our national educational and spatial planning systems to drive a more sustainable recovery in job creation in resource efficiency and environmental terms. This requires that engineers take a holistic integrated approach to future infrastructural policy and developments in transport, water, energy, waste and communications. It will also highlight the very positive contribution that ongoing innovation in energy, biomedical, pharmaceutical and ICT engineering is making to job creation and economic recovery.
Please feel free to bring along any of your colleagues who might be interested.
The talk will be followed by an informal drinks reception
Contact: Katherine Cashell, Vice Chairman & Secretary GB Region
E: gbregion@engineersireland.com
The programme for the 2011-2012 session is under ongoing development and details of forthcoming events for our members in the GB Region will be posted here as the programme develops - watch this space!
For a full listing of Engineers Ireland events, please visit the Events Calendar.