We arrived at the George Begg Building, Room B8 , School of Mechanical, Aerospace & Civil Engineering, University of Manchester at 9.45 a.m. We were greeted by Dr. Eric Lou, the director of Internationalisation , School of Mechanical , Aerospace & Civil Engineering. The programme started at 10.00 a.m. where few lecturers also attended the programme. A welcoming speech was given by Prof Alice Larkin , Head of the School of Mechanical, Aerospace & Civil Engineering where she talked about the history of the University of Manchester and the school itself where The University of Manchester was created by bringing together The Victoria University of Manchester and UMIST, two of Britain's most distinguished universities, to create a powerful new force in British Higher Education. Manchester has a long tradition of excellence in Higher Education. UMIST can trace its roots back to 1824 and the formation of the Manchester Mechanics' Institute, whilst The Victoria University of Manchester was founded as Owen's College in 1851. After 100 years of working together, these two great institutions formally combined on 22 October 2004 to form a single university. She also shared some of the great research that has been done there where Sir Rutherford began his work there on splitting the atom (and later received the Nobel prize in 1908 for his work on radioactivity). The 'Baby', the world's first stored-program computer, and Manchester Mark 1 came into being here. It is the birthplace of Chemical Engineering.