The latest copy of The Journal (December 2025) is now available to members online. You can see a list of all available online copies of The Journal here.
Due to some enhancements in our web site, we are now able to upload higher-resolution images as part of the Journal. All 2025 Journals are now available in the new, higher-quality, format.
Online back issues of The Journal now go back to 1962.
After a recent software update, it appears that the password reset mechanism stopped working. This has now been resolved. If you have been seeing problems when trying to reset your password (and this particularly applies to new members who are asked to change their initial password the first time that they log in) then you are invited to try again. Apologies for this.
If any member sees a problem with the web site (and despite best endeavours this does happen – we do not have a full-time staff looking after things!) then please report it to me via email – webmaster@sm-ee.co.uk. This address is also on the “Contact Us” page of the web site which is accessible whether or not you are logged in.
SMEE Webmaster
Please note that a recording of the September 2025 Digital Group online meeting is now available and may be viewed by SMEE members via this link.
Please note that our library of scanned issues of the Journal is now complete back to 1962.
You can see a list of all available online copies of The Journal here.
Please note that recordings of the January and February 2025 Digital Group online meetings are now available and may be viewed by SMEE members via this link.
I am sorry that the web site has not been available over the Christmas holiday period. I did a small amount of maintenance work just before Christmas and although I tested it and left it in working order, shortly afterwards something happened that took us over the permitted disk usage quota and the site was automatically taken offline. This also meant that I was unable to get to the management dashboard to correct the problem and have had to wait until our service provider restarted normal office hours today (2nd January). I believe that normal service has now been resumed, and I am sorry for the interruption.
Our service provider is investigating why I lost access to the site management facilities and once this is resolved, I hope that the situation will not happen again.
Webmaster, 2nd January 2024
You may have noticed that the Events Calendar has been blank for the second half-year. This is because of problems with the software we have been using to store and display it. We have now changed the software we use and the second half-year has been populated. There are one or two small bugs still to be ironed out but these should not affect the basic functions; please bear with us while these are resolved. However, we felt it better to have a slightly imperfect but functional calendar than none at all – our apologies for the delay in making this available.
Please send any observations or reports of problems to webmaster@sm-ee.co.uk – it is notoriously difficult to spot all the errors in your own work and comments and suggestions are welcome.
You can find information on publications available directly from SMEE on the new SMEE Publications page.
The SMEE competition rules have recently been updated and the latest version can be found here.
Thanks to the sterling work of Mike Tilby and Chris Hammerton, we have now completed the process of making stored copies of The Journal searchable. This means that if you download them as PDF files, you can use your PDF viewer (Adobe Acrobat Reader for most people although other readers are available!) to search for specific words or phrases.
Chris is also looking at possible ways to add an index to the set of online Journals to make them even more useful.