Annual Lecture 2026

Annual Lecture 20 March 2026

The KCLEA Spring event is a Prestige Lecture for KCLEA members and a wider community

 – showing the Role of Kings Engineering and its Alumni in making a better world

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KCLEA is hoping to announce the speaker of this prestige lectureatthe AGMon 2 December 2025

Kings Engineers have done so much in the world – andthis event is just one of the ways in which the roles of KCLEAmembers can be shared with a wider community. 

The KCLEA Team is looking for contributions for the KCLEA Bulletin - typically three or four Paragraphs or a LinkedIn re Posting about how you, a Kings Engineer have achieved something of worth to the world, your career or company.Whilst we are looking for current works – some more reflective notes on anachievement from the past that hasstood the test of timeare also welcome.

And if you would like to be considered to give this Lecture in following years – or do a webinar which shows your role in advancing the Art and Science of Engineering and Technology or to share with the KCLEA community something that has changed you or your business area in its widest sense – Please contact President@KCLEA.org.uk

This event is open to all interested in Entrepreneurship, Infrastructure, Project Management, Engineering at Kings 
or Kings College London Alumni  and its free to attend - but to help us with numbers please register
 

Registration will open in 2026 


Alumni will need you Alumni Number found in Alumni office emails - Others will register without the number

Friday 20th March 2026


6pm to 6:50 pm Arrive and start meeting others over a Drink in the Council Room


6:50pm to 7pm Move to the Nash Theatre


7pm Welcome by Peter Weitzel President of KCLEA  

7:10 pm Lecture

8:10pm Networking and Refreshments in the Council Room


Event end 9pm

Registration will open in 2026 

The Meeting will be held on the Nash Theatre which commemoratesProf JKT Nashwho spent much of his career at Kings
 - Lecturer, 1946-1951, Reader, 1951-1961 Professor 1961-1981 Head of Department of Civil Engineering 1971- 1981; 
Assistant Principal, King's College London, 1973-1977.  He died suddenly at Home on 24 April 1981 – his 59th Birthday. 

Kevin Nash had a lifelong interest in Soil mechanics and a devotion to Engineering education. 
His Intuitive feel for soil mechanic problems made him an international expert – and much demand as a consultant –
 and as General Secretary of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering.
He was an inspiring teacher whether in lecture or in labs and research – drawing on his vast experience and analytic mind.

How to get to the Strand Campus

The Event will be held on theStrand Building Entrance off the pedestrianised Strand at the Aldwych. https://w3w.co/gears.pinch.third

Please enter and go to the KCLEA deskand then follow directions via the Entrance Hall of the Kings Building to the First Floor – or by the South lift.
The Council Room is on the South end and the Nash Theatre towards the North end of the Kings building overlooking the Quad (under which there are the Engineering labs)

KCL Strand Campus is served by a vast number of Buses From North, South, East and West.
 See TFL site: https://content.tfl.gov.uk/bus-route-maps/aldwych-a4-300923.pdf

 And the following Tube and National Rail:

Temple (District and Circle line ) 7 min walk

Holborn (Central and Piccadilly line) 7 min walk

Covent Garden (Piccadilly line) 8 min walk

Charing Cross (Bakerloo and Northern line and National Rail) 12 min walk

Tottenham Court Road (Elizabeth. Central and Northern line) 14 mins walk

Waterloo (National Rail, Jubilee Northern and Bakerloo lines)18 min walk

Farrington (Thames Link and Elizabeth line) 20 mins walk.

KCLEA inaugurated the concept of an Annual Lecture on Engineering topics after the Faculty of Engineering was closed in 2013. 

Various branches of Engineering were reinstated later, so today KCL has Courses and Research in General Engineering and Electrical & Electronic Engineering at the Strand Campus, and in Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Science on St Thomas and Guys

Details of previous KCLEA Annual Lectures can be found here