In Person lectures

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Are held at the University of York (normally in room P/L/001) with details either in the lecture flyer available to members or on the York University Open Lecture Website.

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Online lectures

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Joining / registration details will be provided in the lecture flyer.

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Please open the relevant document for joining instructions.

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2025 lectures 

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Thurs 3rd Apr 2025    – York Minster Heritage Estate – Alex McCallion
                                         – Director of Works and Precinct, York Minster.

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Thurs 6th Mar 2025    – York Central project -Matt Leigh
                                         and/or another team member from York Central.

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Thurs 6th Feb 2025     – Small Modular Reactors  - Dr. Rob Harvey
                                         –Head of Production Systems at Rolls Royce SMR.

 

Thurs 16th Jan 2025   – Title of talk TBC
                                         – Alex Ewart of Mason Clark Associates.

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2024 lectures 

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Thurs 12th Dec 2024 – Novel Catalytic Technology to convert CO2 into Sustainable

                                           Aviation Fuel by 1-step Process

                                        –Tiancun Xiao - CTO of OXCCU Tech Ltd.
(Please note the change of venue and date from the date previously stated in the YSE website)

 

Thurs 7th Nov -None

 

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Thurs 3rd Oct 2024  - Aldbrough Hydrogen Pathfinder (AHP) by Paul Walker

                                         Engineering Manager: Hydrogen Project Engineering

                                         SSE Thermal Engineering & Asset Management​​

 

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Thurs 4th Apr 2024  - Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) project,

                                        Ferrybridge - SSE Renewables

 

Thurs 7th Mar 2024  - Fusion Technology - Head of Operations of the Fusion

                                         Technology Facility, Rotherham - UKAEA

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Thurs 15th Feb 2024 - Materials and Manufacturing in Aerospace and Defence

                                          -Past, Present and Future - Chris Botting, Chief Materials

                                         Engineer of Marshalls Aerospace

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Thurs 1st Feb 2024   - Airlander Hybrid Air Vehicle - Andrew Barber,

                                      Head of Airworthiness at Hybrid Air Vehicles​

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2023 lectures          

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Thurs 2nd Nov 2023 -  Communicating with the Voyager Spacecraft

                                           by Professor Emeritus Andy Marvin

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Thurs 5th Oct 2023   -  Challenges in the Design and Development of a combat UAV
                                           by Jon Parker FRAeS and Annalisa Russell-Smi

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Thurs 6th April 2023 - Flight not Fancy
                                          by Tim Clarke

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Thurs 2nd Mar 2023 - Tunnelling
                                         by Ewart Pritchard – Design Manager, Joseph Gallagher Group

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Thurs 2nd Feb 2023 - York Central

                                         by Leon Guyett and Natalie Webster

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Thurs 5th Jan 2023 - Conserving our Built Heritage – an engineering approach

                                        by Gez Pegram

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