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Freshers' boiler suit rave

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 17:49:13 +0000

By webmaster / 1 comment

On Wednesday, a group of freshers decided to put aside their fashion sense and wear their boiler suits to lectures. Whilst posing in the foyer, it seems like they happened across Professor Sherwin, and dragged him down to their level. Crazy freshers.

Software links

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:10:48 +0100

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Hope you're all enjoying term so far. Just thought I'd share a few things with you - there are some programs we use in the department which are available commercially, but are free for students. You'll find it very useful to have these on your laptop as well as on the computers in the department so you're not stuck in ACEX a week before every deadline!

Matlab and CES https://www.imperial.ac.uk/ict/services/software/shop/index.asp (requires Imperial login)

Abaqus http://www.simulia.com/academics/learning-community.html (requires photo of Imperial ID)

Pro/ENGINEER (now Creo Elements) http://www.ptc.com/company/community/education/schools/ (just keep clicking the links to download free software, you'll need to register with PTC)

Welcome to the AeroSoc website!

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 10:31:30 +0100

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The website should be ready for use now. The "Aeronautics Tips" function doesn't work at the moment (and probably won't for the foreseeable future), but that's pretty much it. There's also no "Contact" page yet.

But forget all that for now... Allow me to introduce to you your committee for this academic year:

If you're a fresher just joining the department, feel free to join the…

WEBSITE UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:10:15 +0100

By webmaster / 4 comments

Hey all,

Sorry if you've visited this website in the last few years - it's been quite broken. I'm currently updating all the code behind it (if you're interested, mostly find/replace to change one word to another which seems to fix 80% of things so far :P), so bear with me... Feel free to have a look around, but no complaining if the website suddenly disappears for a bit!

Sam
(AeroSoc Webmaster)

Upcoming Bar night

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:27:44 +0000

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This Wednesday (24th March) is Engineering football tournament, meeting at 12:30 in Hyde Park

1pm AERO vs CHEM
2pm AERO vs CIVIL
3pm CHEM vs CIVIL

5pm Union Bar Night - �3 for alcohol, �1 for soft drinks, free entry for lecturers.

There is also a trip to the RAF museum in London on 12th May (Wednesday) priced at �2 per person plus cost on transport - check back soon for news on signing up.

Airbus Trip photos

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:21:42 +0000

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Rolls Royce Trip photos

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:27:33 +0000

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Model Plane Competition

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:49:32 +0000

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If designing, building and flying your own model aircraft in a bid to win a competition appeals to you then take a look at the letter we have received above & click here to check out some more details of the two different categories you can enter into.

Aerosoc Christmas Dinner

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 02:38:11 +0000

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This year the christmas dinner is being held at My Old Dutch, Covent Garden. It will take place on Tuesday 15th December & will cost no more than �15.
A sign up sheet will be available on the aerosoc website homepage for a period of time, please put your name down if you want to come!

Events, events and yet more events!

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:42:25 +0000

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We have plenty of events coming up including next weeks PIZZA HUT CHALLENGE, a trip to the Imperial War Museum at Duxford, a Bar Night, the Annual Christmas Party and Go Karting!
sheets are up on the new aerosoc noticeboard (outside 266) to register your interest for the Pizza hut challenge (we need an idea of numbers) and shortly for the Imperial War museum trip (date to be announced soon)

The Squash Ladder is now active

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:31:47 +0000

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Aerosoc is proud to present our new squash ladder
Everyone in the department is welcome to join and start challenging their friends or even complete strangers to attempt to prove yourselves as the departments greatest squash player!

Detailed rules are available on the ladder site. (http://sports-ladder.net/aerosoc)

Website back up and running

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:52:10 +0000

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Welcome back to the aerosoc website, you will soon be able to find here listings of upcoming events, the squash ladder and the latest departmental news.

The committee for this year are as follows:

AeroSoc Chair: Jakub Ernt
AeroSoc Treasurer: Ram Chawla
AeroSoc Secretary: Oliver Berthoud
AeroSoc Events Officer: Christopher Field
AeroSoc Industrial events coordinator: Artur Jarzabek
AeroSoc PR Officer: Vimal Patel
AeroSoc Webmaster: Ryan Williams

And Gilbert Dougherty will be our Aeronautics department representative for this academic year.

AeroSoc Pro Evo Tournament

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:32:35 +0000

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The evening of Monday 25th February saw the advent of the first Pro Evolution Soccer tournament hosted by AeroSoc. A dozen-or-so wiley competitors made their way to the Roderick Hall lecture theatres for the opportunity to win just under �20 doing what they'd probably be doing anyway! Two PlayStation2s had been rigged to the rooms' audio/visual systems to provide students with a break from slides about compressibility and bypass cycles.

The tournament format consisted of a number of league groups; players in each group getting to play at least two games each. The top players from these groups would…

AeroSoc Poker Night

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:04:29 +0000

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On Tuesday 19th Feb the Aero Common Room was once again taken over by the AeroSoc massive for the second hotly contested AeroSoc Poker Night of the year.

A good attendance was again dominated by 3rd year amateurs and people pondered about how rubbish the second years must be that they're just too scared to even turn up.

The evening began casually with a few drinks and some complimentary snacks laid on. The real action got started at about 6.30 with 3 tables of 8 players each. Re-buys were aplenty in the early minutes as alcohol-fuelled self-confidence boiled over. For…

AeroSoc trip to Airbus in Filton 6th Feb 2008.

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:02:56 +0000

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The day started with another hot cup of coffee and some tired-looking baggy eyes. Devang was actually early for the first time and with no Materials slackers to dilute the gene pool everyone was on time and at 07:40 the race began: Paul and Owen, head to head on their way to Bristol. The journey was sunny, bright and southern - in stark contrast to the journey to Derby on the previous AeroSoc trip which was cold, dark and northern.

On arrival at Airbus in Filton, students were immediately impressed to find an ex-British Airways Concorde sitting aside the…

Aerosoc Pancakes

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:15:32 +0000

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Yet another huge success, the pancakes went down a storm with the Aero faithful and even managed to attract some outsiders, navigating the salubrious route to the common room. Special thanks go to Sam, for the organisation, Tom for the flipping skills and Chris and Paul for managing the money.

On another note, Food Fridays are set to make a comeback so get in touch with ideas about where to go and look out for news of forthcoming Poker night, Pro Evo night and much much more.

Aerosoc Trip to Rolls Royce

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 11:53:02 +0000

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A good mix of students from Materials and Aero enjoyed a highly interesting day touring the vast Rolls Royce civil aerospace site in Derby. There were presentations, tours and chances to chat with current graduates. Just another example of what Aerosoc can do for you.

Christmas Party Tickets!

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:59:50 +0000

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Tickets for the AeroSoc Christmas Party are now available online on the ICU Website. Tickets will also be available for sale at the..

Festive Food Friday (Friday 30th November)
and the Poker Night (Monday 3rd December).

So there really is no excuse to miss out!

"I'm-a-coming! Pizza Hut is going out of business!"

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:30:06 +0000

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Friday 26th November saw the commencement of the 2nd annual Pizza Hut Buffet Challenge in High St. Kensington. At 12pm around twenty-five plucky challengers met outside the Roderick Hill Building to take on the reigning champion, 3rd year Mustafa Abdel-Gadir, and his 32-slice record.

Having phoned ahead Pizza Hut were very accommodating, seating us all together in one section of the restaurant. Placing orders all round of a Pizza Hut Buffet, accompanied mainly by, "a glass of tap water, please", all that was left was to start feasting.

Several students signalled that they…

Food Friday!

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:49:36 +0100

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From next Friday (26^th Oct) onwards AeroSoc will be holding regularly occasional lunchtime trips to various eateries around London.

The first will be at Pizza Hut on High Street Kensington - bring your mates! Other ideas include Nandos and Chinese buffet, if you have any then let us know!

Welcome to the brand spanking new AeroSoc website!

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 20:50:09 +0100

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Hopefully this website will prove to be a vast improvement on the previous one!

Head straight on over to the forum and register yourself as a member. Then you can start writing posts and adding comments to inane news items such as this one!

If you have any suggestions for improvements or changes then feel free to let us know, either in the forum or via contact form.