UK transport a priority for new IME president

The UK's Institution of Mechanical Engineers' new president, Professor Roderick Smith, has outlined his priorities for the year as helping to solve the engineering challenges for UK transport, environment and energy.
February 29, 2012 Read time: 1 min
The UK’s Institution of Mechanical Engineers’ new president, Professor Roderick Smith, has outlined his priorities for the year as helping to solve the engineering challenges for UK transport, environment and energy.

He said: “I am proud to be the 126th president of this great Institution and hope that in my year as president we can push forward on helping to solve some of the big challenges facing the UK and the rest of the world in the areas of transport, environment and energy.”

Professor Smith is research professor of advanced railway engineering at Imperial College, London, and was previously head of mechanical engineering at Imperial College and Sheffield University in northern England.

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