Calendar: 1973-1974 Page 434

Annual Report of the Delegacy lxi Counsellor to the and Republic of Ireland Section Dr Deeley continued to serve on the Executive Committee of the Council of the British Association for the Advancement of Science Dr Lindsay was invited to serve as representative of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers on the organising com- mittees of the International Conferences on Displays' University of Loughborough 1971 and 'Infra-red Techniques' University of Reading 1971 He was also asked by the Institution of Electrical Engineers to serve on the organising committee of the Summer School on 'Lasers and Optical Electronics' Southampton 1972 Professor Jolly who continued to give valuable assistance to the department as part-time visiting teacher completed biography of Marconi to be published in October 1972 Department of Mechanical Engineering Dr McVeigh former student in the Department has been appointed Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Brighton Polytechnic Mr Κ Scrimshaw at present part-time research student in the Department has been appointed Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at the Kingston Polytechnic Dr Adler former student in the Department has been appointed Lecturer at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Haifa Israel The Department's research work has continued in number of fields During the session has made available Research Grant in support of the investigation concerned with the behaviour of air in small radial in-flow turbines and has awarded Research Assistantships to two postgraduate students working on problems in powder technol- ogy Commonwealth Postgraduate Scholarship has been awarded to research student who will take part in an investigation of the behaviour of very highly pressure-charged diesel engine The work on cylinder gas flow patterns and their influence on combustion and heat transfer which was mentioned in last year's report has made good progress During the session two research stu- dents were awarded Ph degrees for work in this field and paper prepared by two members of staff and research student was presented to the Automotive Engineering Congress at Detroit in January further stage in the investigation involving comparison between the swirl mea- sured in steady flow tests and the swirl encountered in real engine has begun with view to the evaluation of' steady flow swirl tests' which have been fairly widely used in industrial applications Additionally