Details of the correspondence received by the association
LAE 2025 Annual General Meeting The minutes of the AGM held at our Morley venue on Thursday 24th April 2025 will be published at a later date but in the meantime members might be interested in reading a short report presented by our Membership Secretary Malcolm Murray:- 2024/2025 Annual General Meeting Secretary’s Report “I would like to start my report … Continue reading “The 2025 AGM Membership Report & Statistics…..”
The eagle eyed amongst you will have noticed that the Home Page no longer has the slideshow with ‘Mallard’ etc. As software is updated not all items are compatible and the slideshow was causing a problem with an update. So to ensure continued use of the website the slideshow has been deleted, but will return at a later date with … Continue reading “Some Changes to the Website…..”
Keighley Association of Engineers December Events John Pankhurst of the KAE has kindly forwarded details of forthcoming events. Click on the links to see further details. Here are John’s comments:- . Tuesday 3rd December 2024 visit to Stells Cardboard Tubes and Cores starting at 6.30pm….. Stells visit 1224 . Tuesday 10th December 2024 Xmas Cheer Buffet and Mingle at the … Continue reading “Keighley Association of Engineers December Events…..”
Report on the visit to The Leeds Welding Company on 31/10/24 Member Neil Cobbold has kindly sent this report on the visit….. “Last night the Leeds Association of Engineers had a fantastic visit to The Leeds Welding Company premises which started with a brief talk followed by a factory tour led by managing director, Richard Eaglen. The visit started with … Continue reading “Report: Visit to The Leeds Welding Company….”
A letter from the president for the start of the 2024-2025 session of events:- To all members and guests, Starting the Leeds Association of Engineers’ 160th Year, I would firstly like to thank the past president Ross Town, what a cracking job he has done stepping in as he did, then to find himself running for several years, seeing us through … Continue reading “A Letter from the President…..”
Council Member (and now Trustee !) Barrie Yates keeps us up to date with some of the latest developments in Science and Engineering. You will recall he reported on an IET lecture on Graphene a few years ago. It was a fascinating lecture on a remarkable development in Materials Science. Barrie reports below on another development bearing similar qualities … Continue reading “‘Goldene’ a New Development in Materials Science…..”
Council Member Andrew Kibler has a friend, Huston Ludlum, who has spent his career in engineering in the United States of America and he has forwarded a summary of his work experiences to Andrew who thought this memoir would be of interest to members and it is published here in two parts……. ************************************************************************ Huston Ludlum – The Path I … Continue reading “Engineering in America – A Career Memoir….”
At the 2022 Anniversary Dinner we were joined by George Scholes, grandson of Council Member Ian Scholes. The following year in 2023 George was to join a Scout trip to a Jamboree in Seoul in South Korea. A collection at the dinner was taken and donated to George who was busily gathering sponsorship for this exciting trip. … Continue reading “A Message from Scout George Scholes…..”
One of the association’s aims has always been to help those people in need of assistance, mainly its members, but also to offer help to our fellow engineers, wherever they may reside. Council Member and Trustee Ian Blakeley has an acquaintance whose son is an engineering graduate and is actively searching for a position. The graduate’s name is Jonathan … Continue reading “Can you help a young engineer with his career search ?”
