We are a group of people with a common interest – we like to get down and talk engineering. If you would like to rub shoulders and even chat with someone who designed a suspension bridge or worked on nuclear power stations, then you would be at home with us. If you are a retired or near retirement professional engineer or related professional and would like to join our club, you will be very welcome.

NEW!! Lucilla Phelps’ talk and Christmas lunch – Dec 9th 2024

Fine Art Photography. As principal photographer of Sotheby’s auctioneers I talk about the huge and amazing castle auctions in Germany, France etc. one in Germany is in the Guiness book of records as having the most objects for sale. I also photographed the Duke and Duchess of Windsor’s possessions in Paris for auction in New York. Also some images of Princess Diana’s childhood home, Althorpe, with items that would go to auction.   I will bring some of the catalogues to show the images taken. At the end I show some catalogues that have changed history including new discoveries about Nelson and also the death of the Tsar’s family.

Being retired or near retirement is not mandatory, that would be ageism, but because our meetings are held on Monday mornings, pretty well all our members are in fact, retired. –

For further membership information, please complete our Contact form or email the club Secretary on [email protected].

Please note that the website hosting is in the process of renewal. You may not find too much information here right now, but be assured, there is plenty to find if you come along to a meeting. Do get in touch.

Upcoming Event

Our next meeting will be held on Monday 11th November 2024. The speaker will be Robbie Sillars on the subject of ‘Offshore Gas Liquefaction.

Our Club

The Club was founded in 1986 as the Retired Chartered Engineers’ Club to provide a social meeting place for retired and semi retired professional 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. We meet at the Exeter Golf and Country Club on the second Monday of each month, and occasionally organise site visits and social events.

Membership is open to mainly retired or near-retirement Engineers (we meet on Monday mornings!) and related professionals resident in the South West and currently includes around 40 representatives from the Aeronautical, Chemical, Civil, Electrical and Electronic, Communications, Gas, Marine, Mechanical, Petroleum, Structural and other disciplines.

Please complete the membership application form below and send it to the Secretary (Address on form).

Members assemble from 10.00am for an informal tea or coffee and the meeting starts promptly at 10.30am when short reports concerning Club business are presented by the committee. This is followed by a talk of approximately 40 – 60 minutes on a subject of engineering interest usually given by invited speakers or sometimes by members. Topics have been as diverse as nuclear fusion reactors and Roman aqueducts.

Social events take place throughout the year and technical visits are arranged for the summer months.

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

For further membership information, please complete our contact form or email the club secretary at [email protected].