Overview

The Aberdeen Members Group invites you to join their annual awards ceremony, which this year will take place virtually.

This year's awards are:

• The Chairperson’s Award
• Best Technical Presentation Award
• Young Chemical Engineer of the Year Award
• Diversity & Inclusion Award

Prior to the awards being presented we are delighted to welcome our speaker; Professor Michael Kelly FRS, FREng who will be giving a talk on climate change: An Estimate of the Assets Needed to Deliver a Net Zero UK Economy by 2050.

If we have a net-zero emissions economy in the UK by 2050, three large engineering projects will have been completed:

• ground transport will have been electrified; 
• heat, both residential and industrial, will have been electrified; 
• the electricity generation, transmission and distribution sector will have been doubled in size to enable the first two projects to operate. 

In this talk, he will estimate the costs, human resources and materials needed to complete these three projects, and argue that none of the three can be provided in time to deliver the net-zero economy in time.

Speaker

Professor Michael Kelly, University of Cambridge

Michael was the Prince Philip Professor of Technology in the University of Cambridge from 2002 until his retirement in 2016. He was also Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department for Communities and Local Government, and a non-executive director of the Laird Group plc., both from July 2006.

Michael studied mathematics and physics to MSc level at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, and completed his PhD in solid state physics at Cambridge in 1974. After a further seven years as post-doc working on the electronic structure of metals and semiconductors, he joined the GEC Hirst Research Centre in 1981. During 2003-2005, he was the Executive Director of the Cambridge-MIT Institute, an £80M project which brings together academics from Cambridge and MIT to work on research, education and industrial outreach for the benefit of the UK economy.

Michael is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society of New Zealand. Michael is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and Senior Member of the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineering in the USA. Michael has won prizes for his work from the Institute of Physics, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society.

The material presented in this webinar has not been peer-reviewed. Any opinions are the presenter’s own and do not necessarily represent those of IChemE or the Aberdeen Members Group. The information is given in good faith but without any liability on the part of IChemE.

Time 

18:00—19:30 GMT.

Software

The presentation will be delivered via GoToWebinar®. 
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This webinar is free of charge and open to all to attend. If you wish to access the slides and a recording to replay on demand, you will need to be a member of the Aberdeen Members Group.