EEE Festival of Research and the Mildner Lecture 2024

 Agenda

Following the Mildner lecture is a celebratory dinner for attendance by invite only. This will be at Senate House (University of London) close to campus, the meal will begin at approximately 7pm.

Poster Presentations

A highlight of the day is our poster presentations delivered by the entirety of our research student cohort. With Centres for Doctoral Training across subjects including Photonics, Quantum Technologies and Advanced Materials Characterisation, along with students undertaking research across the breadth of our work, this session will engage you in research and outputs that are developing the future of Electronic and Electrical Engineering and it’s applications. 

This session is also open to members of the public with an interest in the technical nuances of electronic and electrical engineering, so join us for an afternoon of knowledge gathering and innovation.

Academic Talks

Academic talks will present the cutting-edge research of the department. Talks will be split into sessions, with each session focusing on a particular theme.  

Talk content TBC

Networking reception

Following the talks and poster presentations, we will hold a reception in the UCL Jeremy Bentham Room. The reception provides an opportunity for our members of the department and partners across academia and industry to congratulate and network with the research students who will have spent the earlier part of the day presenting their posters.

Awards Ceremony and the Mildner Lecture

Following an afternoon exploring EEE’s research, guests and members of the Department will move to the Darwin Lecture Theatre. The Head of Department, Professor Sarah Spurgeon, will welcome guests followed by the presentation of the following awards:

The Fabrizio Lombardi Prize

Awarded for the best thesis of a recently graduated PhD student, in honour of Professor Fabrizo Lombardi, former MSc and PhD student of the department.

Cullen Prize

Awarded for the best student poster, in memory of Professor Alexander Cullen, former head of department and Faraday Medal recipient.

Mildner Memorial Lecture 2024

Presented by Alan Newby MSc CEng FREng FIMechE FRAeS
Director of Aerospace Technology and Future Programmes at Rolls-Royce

Alan is the Director of Aerospace Technology and Future Programmes at Rolls-Royce. In this role he leads the integration of new product development across the aerospace businesses globally and optimising product and technology strategy. He also has accountability for the formulation and the delivery of the supporting research and technology programmes many of which involve global collaborations.

Prior to this he held a number of engineering leadership roles throughout the product lifecycle both in the UK and overseas. These included EVP Technology and Future Programmes, Engineering Director Rolls-Royce Deutschland based in Berlin, and Chief Engineer on the collaborative IAE V2500 engine. He joined Rolls-Royce in 1987 having worked on steam turbine design with NEI Parsons in Newcastle.

External appointments include non-Executive Director of the Henry Royce Institute and Aerospace Technology Institute and Chair of the Derby Branch of the Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust.

 

About the Mildner Memorial Lecture

The Mildner Lecture is held biennially in memory of Raymond Charles Mildner [1907-1977] who, having obtained a BSc (Eng) [1927] and an MSc (Eng) [1931] from UCL, started his distinguished research career as the holder of the Robert Blair Fellowship. He made major contributions to the technology of power and communication cables, his work spanning an interdisciplinary spectrum from electromagnetic theory through to materials science. In 1969 he was empowered by the Dow Chemical Company to nominate the recipient of a $2,500 gift. He nominated the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at UCL and the then Head of Department, Professor Alex Cullen FRS, instituted the Mildner Lecture. The first Lecture was given by Harold Barlow in 1972.

Alongside the Mildner Lecture, we also celebrate the current research of the Department with a Research Poster Display. The research work carried out by both postgraduate and post-doctoral researchers is a vital element of all leading research departments and we showcase presentations of the work of our staff, Masters, PhD, and EngD researchers.