The Club was founded in 1986 to provide a social meeting place for retired Chartered Engineers and a means of keeping in touch with achievements and developments in engineering. The Club has links with other organisations including the University of Exeter where it presents Flux Awards, in memory of our founder Robert W. Flux FIEE, to the student making the best oral presentation of a project.

Membership is open to Chartered Engineers resident in the South West and currently includes over a hundred representatives from the Aeronautical, Chemical, Civil, Electrical, Gas, Marine, Mechanical, Petroleum, Structural and other disciplines.

Meetings are held each month in a comfortable venue with many facilities including extensive car parking, a bar and dining area where light refreshments are available before and after the meeting. Meetings commence at 10.30 am and after short reports concerning Club business there follows a presentation on a subject of engineering interest. Topics are as diverse as nuclear fusion reactors and Roman aqueducts.

Technical visits are arranged for the summer months and are very popular.

Informal coffee mornings are held monthly at a hotel in Exeter and a Christmas Lunch and a Summer Garden Party are annual events.

The Heritage Trail section researches the achievements of engineers with local connections and where appropriate arranges for the erection of plaques in their memory.

Prospective members are welcomed as guests at Club events.

For further information please contact us at honsec@rcec.co.uk

There are Clubs similar to ours in other areas of the UK and a list of those known to us may be reached by the 'Other Clubs' link.