Reports from our recent social events can be found below. Every year we hold the following:-
- Annual Dinner ( 2017 was our Golden Jubilee Dinner)- a black tie event.
- Golf Day- combined with Herts Section
- Chairman's Bite Nite - an informal social evening in a pub,
- Wine Tasting- our pre-Christmas evening exploring the complexities of wine.
2017 -December- Annual Wine Challenge yet again Andrew Mulford (Master of Wine) attempted to broaden our education in this complex field. Please keep it up Andy!
2017 - November -Chairman's Bite again held at the Railway Tavern near Liverpool St. A sell out event, a great evening for catching up with old friends, networking and the latest industry gossip. Many thanks to all those Suppliers for their generous donations to the raffle.
2017 - April -50th London Section Annual Dinner
The Event was held in Lancaster London Hotel which was under re-development and will be shortly gain it Royal Charter and therefore will be renamed ‘The Royal Lancaster Hotel’
However the re-developments didn’t affect the excellent venue for our 50th Annual Dinner.
We were grateful to Emerson Process Management as our main event sponsors , Honeywell , Pepperl+Fuchs, Rockwell and Turck Banner for their contributions to the Student and Raffle sponsorship respectively.
With regards to Outstanding Academic Achievement Sponsors & Award Students , we would like to congratulate the students below and appreciate the efforts of the supporting Universities.
Student | University | Sponsor Company |
Ms Nuria Cano Girones | City, University of London | Honeywell |
Mr Muhammad Humza Tanveer | City, University of London | Turck Banner |
Mr Benjamin Fitch | University of Reading | Pepperl+Fuchs |
Mr Julio Ponte | University of Greenwich | Rockwell |
Considering the Market conditions the event was well attended with attendance of 250 slightly down on the 2016 figure.
Malcolm George provided an interesting insight and update of the London Section and the on-going activities . Martin Belshaw kindly stepped in for our President Sarah Spurgeon.
Martin has had many years in the Energy sector and is Vice President of the Inst MC . He too gave us a wider presentation of however our great institute is working to provide support to our industry.
After another excellent meal the floor was left open to our evening was left to our Guest Speaker Dr Peter McDonald who is a consultant gastrointestinal surgeon at Northwick Park & St. Mark's Hospital in London.
He is a past President of the Royal Society of Medicine, Surgery Section and of the St. Mark's Association. His observational and hilarious take on the inner sanctum of the medical world and today's NHS was very well received.
Chairman's Wine Challenge - Thursday 15th December -2016
Another wonderful evening , with Andrew Mulford ( Master of Wine) leading us through the delights to be found in in Aldi, Tesco, Co-op and Majestic. And it wasn't always the more expensive voted the best. An interesting and entertaining evening for 50 members.
Bite Nite 2016
held on Thursday 24th November 2016 at the Railway Tavern, was a sellout. 120 Members enjoyed a convivial networking evening, enlivened by a Champagne Raffle, with over 20 prizes provided by over 20 our supplier supporters. Many thanks to Alfy Patel for organising the event, and to Rebecca Hubbard and her niece for energetic raffle sales.
Photos to follow.
49th Annual Dinner 2016
The London Section 49th Annual Dinner was held on 14th April 2016 at the Lancaster London Hotel, with over 250 guests from across the measurement and control industry attending to make it another memorable occasion. We had the pleasure of again welcoming Professor Sarah Spurgeon -P Institute President, to our top table.
Our President presented the London Section Prize for an Outstanding Contribution to Instrumentation Engineering to Mr David Otterson for his leading role in the creation of the of the “Tech Talk” series of basic real world application techniques in measurement and control. His work and commitment to the Institute were also acknowledged : Institute Vice President, Member of Board of Trustees, Member of Communications Board, Member of Professional Registration Committee.
The raffle was generously supported by all guests, the proceeds going to support the work of the Institute
As in previous years the London section took the opportunity to honour students from sponsored universities. These students were presented awards all of whom have outstanding achievements in their particular Measurement and Control subjects.
The Outstanding Academic Achievement Award Students and Company Sponsors were:-
Miss Erum Hoque City University –London Hima-Sella
Mr Jieng Ye City University –London Swagelok
Mr Jean -Philippe Limoi University of Greenwich Honeywell
Mr Aidan Hallett University of Reading Rockwell
Prize winners with former President, John Morley, Dr. Sanowar Khan, Stewart Yang and Robert Jenner.
The formal part of the evening was wrapped by entertaining speech from Alfie Moore, a serving policeman on a sabbatical.
Many thanks to our organiser, Brian Jones, already hard at work for our 50th next year. Book early to avoid disappointment.
48th Annual Dinner
The London section 48th Annual Dinner was held on 16th April 2015 at the Lancaster London Hotel, with over 300 guests from across the measurement and control industry attending to make it another memorable occasion. We had the pleasure of welcoming Professor Sarah Spurgeon -President of the Institute, to our top table.
As in previous years we took the opportunity to honour students from our sponsored universities. These students were presented awards for their outstanding achievements in their particular subjects.
Our President presented the London Section Prize for an Outstanding Contribution to Instrumentation Engineering to Ron BellOBE, BSc, CEng, FIET for his leading role in the development of the international standards for integrity of Design and Installation of Safety Instrumented Systems.
The Outstanding Academic Achievement Award Students and Company Sponsors were:-
Gabriela Soffer City University –London Yokogawa
Joseph Akl City University –London Hima-Sella
Stephen Collin University of Greenwich Honeywell
Mathew Hopkins University of Reading Autronica
The raffle was generously support by all guests, the proceeds going to support the work of the Institute.
A Special mention was given to the sad news of Ian Parry’s passing away on the 6th April. Ian was known to by many of us in the Institute and will be greatly missed.
The formal part of the evening was preceded by an interesting and witty talk from our guest speaker and former Yeoman Warder at the Tower of London - Bill Callaghan.
The Committee wish to thank all the sponsors for their support.
Brian Jones
Event Organiser
(Visit our Photo Gallery to view the past photographs).
Golf Day
16th Anniversary Annual London / Herts Local Sections Golf Challenge 22nd September 2017
15th Anniversary Annual London / Herts Local Sections Golf Challenge 9th September 2016
The 15th Anniversary of this very popular local sections event was held this year at Redbourn Golf Club Redbourn, Hertfordshire on the 9th September and proved to be another very successful event.
16 teams and 64 players participated in a shotgun start occupying the entire golf course.
Overall individual winner with 39 stableford points and the winner of a handsome trophy and a set of golf clubs was 15 year veteran organiser Steve Evans playing on the Valve Solutions team. Second was Jonathan Martin also playing on the Valve Solutions team with 37 stableford points beating Adrain Maelzer on the Eaton Valves team into third place on countback.
The winning team was Valve Solutions with 95 points. Joint second were Eaton Valves and GE OIL and Gas with 89 points, followed by Yokogawa NLS in third with 86 points.
The organisers would like to thank all of this year’s companies and team participants with special thanks to all the sponsors:
- Alderley - bar and wine at table
- GE Oil & Gas - Goody Bags
- OGSL - individual first prize
- Protex Systems - second individual prize
- Valve Solutions - third individual prize
- Eaton Valves - first team prize
- ABB PA - second team prize
- Pepperl and Fuchs – third team prize
- Able Instruments – four nearest the pin prizes and the two longest drive prizes
- Koso Kent Introl – best front nine
- Yokogawa Marex – Best back nine
- Metso – the two nearest the pin in 2 prizes
- Yokogawa NL – Sum of the par three prizes.
Next year’s event will be the 16th Anniversary to be held on Friday September 22nd 2017 at Redbourn Golf Club