Graduates & Students

ICE London’s Graduates and Students (G&S) Committee is made up of around 4,000 graduate and student members in the London region, and represents more than half of our regional membership. 

If you are a graduate or student member with a postal address within the area governed by the Greater London Authority, then you are automatically a member of the G&S.

The G&S Committee represents the G&S members within the institution and exists primarily to help engineers in the early stages of their career to develop in order to achieve professional member status within the institution. The G&S committee is run by volunteer graduates and students. Through their hard work these engineers help others - and in doing so, help themselves - to be better engineers.

Our activities fit broadly within three strands: membership, which focuses on bringing new members into the institution, helping them discover the benefits of joining and providing opportunities for members to meet each other; development, where the focus is on providing training opportunities for our members; and communications, keeping everyone inside and beyond the institution abreast of our activities. You can read more about these strands on the respective pages on this site.

The G&S committee forms part of the London Regional Committee which has overall responsibility for all grades of membership in the capital. This structure is historical. The G&S started life as the Association of London Graduates and Students (ALGS) in 1908 and during its 97 year existence saw many distinguished engineer- former members pass through its ranks. In 2005 the ALGS was subsumed into the newly formed ICE London Region and was given its new name. Since the merger the G&S committee has retained a distinct identity and is a hot house of activity.

G&S committee meetings take place monthly, usually on the first Tuesday of the month – but it is always worth checking the exact date on our events listings. Much of the planning for our activities is carried out in smaller working groups according to the three strands described above. The monthly committee meeting is a great way to meet other volunteer engineers and find out how you can become involved.

 
 

Oliver Broadbent, G&S Committee Chair, ICE London

Oliver Broadbent, G&S Committee Chair, ICE London

My name is Oliver Broadbent and I am chair of the ICE London G&S Committee. As chair, it is my responsibility to coordinate our strategy as an organisation and to ensure that we deliver as per that strategy. I rely on the hard-working members of the committee who are responsible for specific strands of our activities to achieve this.  I often chair the G&S Committee meetings, and I represent the views of the G&S at regional level.

I started life as a chemist, who then saw the light and re-trained as an engineer. After two and a half years working as a graduate engineer with Expedition, I am now using my engineering knowledge and skills to run Think Up, Expedition’s sister education and training consultancy, whose activities are closely related to the education and training of engineers.