{"id":262,"date":"2015-10-01T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.exeter.ac.uk\/technicalservices\/?p=262"},"modified":"2015-10-01T12:00:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T11:00:06","slug":"october-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/technicalservices\/2015\/10\/01\/october-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"October 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dave Baker<\/h2>\n

Ken Evans (PVC, CEMPS) said:<\/p>\n

“It is with great personal sadness that I have to announce the recent death of Dave Baker who passed away on Saturday evening.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dave spent his entire working life at the University. He joined, as a Junior Technician, in August 1967 and had a long and successful career at the University for 47 years, most recently as an experimental officer, before leaving the College at the end of June this year.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dave provided outstanding, highly-skilled, technical support to the University for many years. With a humorous and positive attitude to life he supported students and staff in engineering and elsewhere in the College, facilitating many creative solutions to a wide range of technical problems.<\/em><\/p>\n

During his last years at the university Dave had to deal with a serious, chronic illness and it was to his great credit that he was more bothered about how this might interfere with how he helped others than the effects on himself. In recent months Dave, reluctantly, decided to leave the university and we all hoped that he would be able to get some enjoyment out of a well-earned retirement. Unfortunately, this was not to be.<\/em><\/p>\n

Personally, I have known Dave for many years, most recently through his activities within X-AT and, before that, the Polymer Centre of the South West, providing a wide range of skills in mechanical engineering, polymer processing and additive manufacture. I am mourning his passing not only as an outstanding professional but also as a fine person, whom it was a pleasure to know”.<\/em><\/p>\n

The funeral will take place at 12:15 on Monday, 2 Nov 15 at Exeter Crematorium.<\/p>\n

IST membership<\/h2>\n

As part of our continued commitment to our technical staff and their personal\/professional development, Technical Services have now agreed to cover the costs of initial membership<\/a> fees to the Institute of Science and Technology (IST).<\/p>\n

Whilst Technical Services will pay for the initial IST membership, if and when technical staff are ready to apply for their professional registration, individuals will be required to pay to cover their own individual registration fee (from \u00a335 for RSci\/RSciTech to \u00a345 for CSci) and subsequent annual fees<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pilot scheme<\/h2>\n

We have initiated an IST membership\/registration pilot scheme to test the IST accreditation of our pathways within the Technical Services development framework.\u00a0 The pilot group consists of the following staff:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Name<\/th>\nRole<\/th>\nCollege<\/th>\nCampus<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Corrina Lowry<\/td>\nLaboratory Assistant<\/td>\nCLES<\/td>\nPenryn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ian Leaves<\/td>\nLaboratory Assistant<\/td>\nCLES<\/td>\nStreatham<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Samuel Bailey<\/td>\nLaboratory Assistant<\/td>\nCLES<\/td>\nSt Luke\u2019s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jordanna Broom<\/td>\nApprentice Technician<\/td>\nCEMPS<\/td>\nStreatham<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Katherine Smith<\/td>\nLaboratory Assistant<\/td>\nCEMPS<\/td>\nPenryn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Malcolm Spence<\/td>\nLaboratory Technician<\/td>\nCEMPS<\/td>\nPenryn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Joseph Faulks<\/td>\nResearch Technician<\/td>\nCLES<\/td>\nPenryn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Daniela Farina<\/td>\nResearch Technician<\/td>\nCLES<\/td>\nPenryn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Natascha Steinberg<\/td>\nResearch Technician<\/td>\nCLES<\/td>\nStreatham<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
David Milner<\/td>\nLaboratory Manager<\/td>\nCLES<\/td>\nStreatham<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Andrew Foster<\/td>\nLaboratory Manager<\/td>\nCLES<\/td>\nStreatham<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
David Colridge<\/td>\nLaboratory Technician<\/td>\nCEMPS<\/td>\nStreatham<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mark Heath<\/td>\nExperimental Officer<\/td>\nCEMPS<\/td>\nStreatham<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Yogesh Chaudhari<\/td>\nExperimental Officer<\/td>\nCLES<\/td>\nStreatham<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The Pilot group will become members of the IST, funded by Technical Services and supported through our Technician\u2019s Development programme.\u00a0 We will be utilising the new tools we have developed and purchased from HEaTED, with the ultimate aims of:<\/p>\n