COMMITTEE ROLES 2015-16 - Your chance to get involved!

Congratulations to the new committee who will take over as of September 2015!

Committee 2015-16

The Midlands Young Members’ Group is run by a volunteer group of young members in the region. If you would like to get involved and fancy having a go at one of the still vacant positions outlined below, please let us know by email at istructeymp@gmail.com. New members to the group are certainly welcome, no previous experience is required for all roles except the role of Chairperson.

Communications officer - VACANT  

·         Create flyers for all events      

·         Email out flyers for all events      

·         Collate / write reports for all events     

·         Update the Facebook page     

·         Update the LinkedIn page     

·         Update the blog      

·         Update the Twitter feed    

·         Update events on Combined Calendar      

·         Update events on IStructE Website    

·         Work with Chair to manage incoming emails

STEM representative - VACANT

Lead the promotion of the IStructE, engineering & STEM in schools

Undertake school visits and/or workshops (content can be provided)

Student Representative - VACANT (University of Birmingham)

Assist in the organisation of annual student lectures         

Facilitate the hosting of regional events at universities

Advertise events to students in coordination with Communication Officer

Joint Event - Hidden Spaces (Summer 2015)

This sell-out exclusive evening view of this year's Hidden Spaces exhibition took place on Wednesday 24th June.

You may have seen a preview at New Street Station - a fascinating collection of images and short films of 24 of Birmingham's treasures will be on displace, within the stunning setting of the former bank.

Guest speakers from Make Architects, plus a variety of other events, were there in support of LoveBrum.

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Project Talk (Summer 2015) Slipstream Sculpture

On National Women in Engineering Day we were delighted to be able to hear from:

Ralph Parker - Price & Myers

Completed in 2014, this 78 m long structure is now suspended in the new Heathrow Terminal 2 building. The sculpture is based on the movement of an aerobatic stunt plane flying through the terminal’s entrance space.

Spanning between four steel columns, 20 m above the floor and clad in riveted aluminium, Slipstream has a hidden armature structure that supports its continuously undulating plywood stress-skin surface.

We find out about this structure, which has over 32,000 unique steel, plywood and aluminium parts, together with over a quarter of a million rivets carefully positioned across its surface. 

Two and a half years and £2 million was spent on the design and construction of this fantastic sculpture, which will be seen by 20 billion a year as they pass through Terminal 2.

For further information, please contact us at istructeymp@gmail.com or find us on:

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Networking (Summer 2015)

At the start of June we held our summer networking event!

The event provided the opportunity to network with professionals in the region from a variety of construction and engineering related courses and careers. 

There was also food, drinks and a themed quiz, which everyone participated in - congratulations to the "Pink" team for winning. They were awarded prizes of wine and Amazon vouchers for their success.

Scores were:

1st:     Pink 28.5
2nd:   Red 28
3rd:    Blue 26
4th:    Purple 24.5
=5th:  Green & Orange 19.5
7th:    Yellow 18

For further information or to get a copy of the quiz answers, please contact us at istructeymp@gmail.com or find us on:

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Post author: Tasha