Meeting Minds: Alumni Weekend in Oxford - 19 - 21 September 2014

Now in its eighth year, the annual Meeting Minds: Alumni Weekend in Oxford event continues to showcase the best and brightest of Oxford - past, present and future. On Saturday the 20th September the Department of Engineering Science is staging four special events for its alumni as part of the University of Oxford's 2014 Alumni Weekend.

When	Sep 20, 2014 from 11:45 AM to 07:00 PM
Where	Department of Engineering Science, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PJ
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Alumni Weekend at the Department ...

The 2020 Vision for Engineering Science in Oxford	Lecture on the RobotCar and tour of the Robotics Lab	Private view of the Marconi exhibition at the Bodleian Library	Meet faculty and fellow alumni at our drinks reception

Sat 20 Sept, 2.30pm Professor Lionel Tarassenko CBE FREng FMedSci, Head of Department (from 1st September 2014) will be talking about the future stategy for Engineering Science at Oxford University. How does Oxford Engineering compete not only with Imperial and Cambridge but also with Caltech, MIT and Stanford? Find out in the session on the five-year vision for the Department.	Sat 20 Sept, 4.15pm Professor Paul Newman, BP Professor of Information Engineering and Head of the Oxford Mobile Robotics Group will give this year's Jenkin Lecture (organised by the Society of Oxford University Engineers) on The Oxford RobotCar. Preceded by a tour of the Robotics Lab at 3.15pm.	Sat 20 Sept, 11.45am Engineering innovation: a private view of the Marconi Archive and the growth of wireless communication, with Dr Chris Fletcher, Keeper of Special Collections.	Sat 20 Sept, 5.45pm An occasion to meet and mingle with Professor Tarassenko, members of the faculty and fellow alumni, following the Jenkin Lecture.

All of these events are free and can be booked via www.alumniweekend.ox.ac.uk. Use the code AlumWknd14/EngS to access a tailored form where you can register for our free events. Please note that there is a fee if you opt to register for the full University Alumni Weekend. Places at these events will be allocated on a first come first served basis.