Professor Roland Clift, CBE on "Engineering for Sustainable Development". The term "sustainable development" embodies an important ethical principle which includes the concept of responsibility to present and future generations. This has signif

Lecture 14: Innovation, Spin-out Companies and Nanotechnology

Aug 12th, 2008 1h 2m

Professor Peter Dobson on "Innovation, Spin-out Companies and Nanotechnology". Innovation is what happens between the invention stage and the generation of revenue arising from the invention. For a knowledge economy such as in the UK, it is imp

Lecture 13: Designing for Strength: A Century of Solid Mechanics Research in Oxford

Aug 5th, 2008 55m 40s

Professor Carlos Ruiz on "Designing for Strength: A Century of Solid Mechanics Research in Oxford". In 1908 C.W. Jenkin was appointed to the first chair of Engineering Science in Oxford University. He followed in the tradition, established by H

Lecture 13: Designing for Strength: A Century of Solid Mechanics Research in Oxford

Aug 5th, 2008 55m 40s

Lecture 12: The Centenary Lubbock Lecture

Jun 13th, 2008 59m 19s

Lord Browne of Madingley, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering "On being an engineer". As President of The Royal Academy of Engineering, Lord Browne's prime goal during his five years in office is 'to move engineering towards the centr

Lecture 11: History of the Department of Engineering Science

Jun 10th, 2008 1h 7m

Dr Alastair Howatson on the "History of the Department of Engineering Science". The lecture inclined to the earlier days of Oxford engineering rather than the more familiar recent history. The University produced engineers, not always so-called

Lecture 10: Advances in Biomedical Engineering

Jun 10th, 2008 1h

Professor Lionel Tarassenko on "Advances in Biomedical Engineering". Biomedical Engineering is a relatively new subject but advances in body scanners (from CT to MRI) in the last 2 decades have had a major impact on the practice of medicine. Ox

Lecture 8: An Early Structural Engineering Problem: the Oxford Connection

Jun 10th, 2008 53m 39s

Professor Guy Houlsby on "An Early Structural Engineering Problem: the Oxford Connection". The lecture followed the history of a structure often known as a "Serlio Frame" from its earliest mention (around 1270) to modern times. The structure is

Lecture 7: Engineers at War

Jun 10th, 2008 58m 27s

Lieutenant Colonel (Retd) Christopher Pugsley on "Engineers at War". Many of the most prominent man-made historical features in the landscape are the work of military engineers. Hadrian's Wall, Windsor Castle, the coastal fortifications, even t

Lecture 6: Hydraulic Engineering - How We Use Hydraulics to Solve Real Life Engineering Problems

Jun 10th, 2008 49m 58s

Dr Jane Smallman on "Hydraulic Engineering - How We Use Hydraulics to Solve Real Life Engineering Problems". Hydraulics is used extensively to provide solutions to engineering problems. In this presentation the focus was on civil and environmen

Lecture 4: "The Greatest Mechanick of this Present Age": Dr Robert Hooke and the Origins of Engineering Science in Oxford

Jun 10th, 2008 1h 3m

Dr Allan Chapman on '"The Greatest Mechanick of this Present Age": Dr Robert Hooke and the Origins of Engineering Science in Oxford'. "When his Oxford friend, John Aubrey, described Hooke as the "Greatest Mechanick" of the Age, he acknowledged

Lecture 3: Keep it cool! 38 years of gas-turbine research

Jun 10th, 2008 58m 36s

Professor Martin Oldfield on 'Keep it cool! 38 years of gas-turbine research'. Unusual short-duration wind-tunnels have been used to research, in a split second, results that normally need expensive hours. The work of one of the most successful

Lecture 1: Introduction to the Jenkin Lecture

Jun 10th, 2008 17m 55s

Patron of the Centenary, Lord Jenkin of Roding's inaugural Centenary lecture. Lord Jenkin of Roding, the grandson of the first Professor of Engineering Science at Oxford University, Frewen Jenkin, formally launched Oxford's Centenary of Enginee

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