Congratulations to Jason Kent who, as the best-performing student in Mechanical Engineering BEng (Hons) at Anglia Ruskin University, claimed this year's CSES Award. Jason's commendable engagement in his study has been admired both by the ARU teaching staff and his peers. We look forward to seeing what the future holds for you, Jason!
CSES sponsors an award made to the most promising student in BSc/BEng (Hons) Engineering each year. The 2015/16 award was presented to Jason by Vic Leverett, CSES Vice President at a ceremony held at Anglia Ruskin University on 12 October 2016.
Pictured: Jason Kent (centre) receiving his award from CSES Vice President Vic Leverett (left) and Professor Keith Jones, Head of ARU's Department of Engineering and the Built Environment (right).
First events to include a Raspberry Pi workshop, repair café and talk on ESA's Copernicus programme
We will shortly be announcing our programme of lectures and events for the 2016-2017 season, but in the meantime we are pleased to tell you about some events that are part of the 2016 Chelmsford Ideas Festival.
These events, in addition to My Smarter Essex on 6 October, are as follows:
- Monday 24 October: A talk by Paul Jerram on ESA's Copernicus Programme
- Sunday 23 October: Marconi Exhibition at Sandford Mill Science Discovery Day
- Saturday 29 October: Repair Café
- Saturday 12 – Sunday 13 November: Raspberry Pi workshop
Please see below for further details.
10:00-16:00, 6-7 August, 10 September and 23 October 2016, Sandford Mill
In case you missed the original Building the Wireless Age Marconi Exhibition (see link for photos if you did), this historic event is back for a limited time only at Sandford Mill's forthcoming open days.
Ted Sinclair has kindly loaned his replica of the Titanic Radio Room. A golden opportunity if you missed a visit to the Marconi Exhibition while it was running at Hall Street.
On the hour Tim Wander will be holding a talk about Marconi and the exhibits at the museum, and a tour of the 2MT hut.
Wednesday 22 June 2016, 19.00, Anglia Ruskin University
Announcing the next Institute of Physics (IOP) and CSES talk on the subject of Physics and the Electric Guitar with Nick Weaver.
Please see our events page for all the details.
Sat 14 – Fri 27 May 2016, Marconi Hall Street Works
As the hugely successful Building the Wireless Age exhibition continues, we are pleased to announce that the following events have been added to the programme:
- Sat 14 – Sun 15 May: Come and make a radio with CSES
- Fri 20 May: Amazing Ada: The Countess of Computers with Heidi Hards
- Fri 27 May: Riding the Radio Waves with Jane Humhpreys
These events all require booking: please follow the links above for more information.
Read more: Build a radio workshop and new talks added to Marconi programme
Thursday 5 May 2016, 19.00, Marconi Hall Street Works
Professor Danielle George, probably best known for presenting The Royal Institution 2014 Christmas Lectures, will give a talk about the impact of Marconi on the world of Radio Astronomy and the new age of instrumentation: The Square Kilometer Array (SKA).
Places are limited: book now!
Read more: Marconi and the Invisible Universe with Professor Danielle George
Hall Street, Open 11 March to 29 May 2016, every Saturday and Sunday 11am-3pm, FREE ENTRY
To celebrate the history and legacy of Marconi and the Marconi Company in Chelmsford, a free commemorative event entitled Marconi: Building the Wireless Age will be hosted over a period of three months in the original Grade II listed Marconi Factory in Hall Street prior to its conversion into residential and commercial units.
CSES will be running hands-on Science and Engineering activities and a series of talks have been organised (pre-booking is required).
Archival material from a variety of sources will be showcased, in many cases for the first time. Contributors include The International Marconi Museum in Bologna, The Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, the Essex Records Office, Chelmsford Museums and several private collections. Local families with their own small collections of Marconi-related memorabilia have also contributed.
Read more: Building the Wireless Age: A Unique Marconi Exhibition
CSES Presidential Dinner, Thursday 28 April 2016, 7.00 for 7.30 pm, The Warren Golf & Country Club
We are pleased to welcome members and their guests to our 2016 President's Dinner, and are now accepting bookings.
With a great menu and our speaker Professor David Humber (Provost of Anglia Ruskin University's Chelmsford Campus) due to deliver a talk intriguingly entitled Infectious diseases I'd rather not catch again!, this promises to be an excellent evening.
Videos of two of our most high-profile lectures are now available exclusively to CSES members.
We have uploaded the recordings of the following events:
- Making Waves: How Marconi's Wireless Legacy Takes us Ever Further Into Space (an exciting and well-attended talk by Marconi's grandson himself, Professor Francesco Paresce Marconi)
- Birth of the Signalling War: The Marconi Company's key role in WW1 (by the renowned Dr Elizabeth Bruton, a world-leading expert on the history of the Marconi Company, who gave a special talk in Chelmsford on this very subject)
If you are not yet a member, visit our membership section to find out how to join or register.
We are very pleased to release the coming season's lecture programme, organised in partnership with the IET, IMechE and IOP.
Please see our Events section for this year's programme.
Do keep an eye our here on the website for other events to be added soon, including the 2016 Schools' Engineering and Technology Competition.
- Heritage Open Days in Chelmsford: 10 - 13 September
- Essex businesses challenged to provide 500 experiences to highly-skilled youngsters
- Addition to the lecture programme: Our Dynamic Sun
- New talk added to our programme: The Birth of the Signalling War
- Photos from our Raspberry Pi workshop now available
- 2014-2015 lecture series to include a talk by Marconi
- FES FutureNetwork 2014
- Café Scientifique: The Night Sky
- IOP lecture: Particle Physics
- The inaugural CSES Café Scientifique