Institute of Measurement and Control

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Institute of Measurement and Control

The Institute of Measurement and Control (InstMC) is a professional organization for individuals and companies that operate within the measurement and control theory industries. It was founded in 1944 and incorporated by the Royal Charter in 1975.^[1] Its objective is to advance the science and practice of measurement and control technologies and their various applications. The institute is both a learned society and a professional qualifying body.^[2] InstMC is registered with the Engineering Council and is one of the licensed member institutions allowed to register Chartered Engineers (CEng)^[3]

The institute is the UK member body of the International Measurement Confederation (IMEKO)^[4] and is the secretariat to the United Kingdom Automatic Control Council (UKACC).

This Institute currently has a range of Special Interest Groups that organize conferences, seminars and training courses on subjects in the measurement and control fields.

Current Special Interest groups include:

• Cybersecurity
• Measurement
• Functional Safety
• Flow Measurement
• Standards
• Automation and Control
• Digital Transformation
• Systems

Notable former presidents of the Institute of Measurement and Control include:

• Sir George Thomson MA FRS (1944–48)
• Sir Harold Hartley GC VO FRS (1957–58)
• L. Finkelstein MSc (1980–81)
• MJH Sterling BEng Phd DEng (1988–89)
• Prof W S Bardo FREng HonFInstMC (2010–12)
• Lord Oxburgh KBE FRS Hon FREng (2012 - 2014)
• Prof Sarah Spurgeon OBE

• International Measurement Confederation (IMEKO)
• United Kingdom Automatic Control Council (UKACC)
• National Physical Laboratory (NPL)
• Trade Association for Instrumentation, Control, Automation and Laboratory Technology (GAMBICA)
• Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers (SIM)
• British Standards Institute (BSI)
• Parliamentary and Scientific Committee

• Information engineering
• Control Engineering
• Instrumentation Engineering

• Engineering Council, UK. ECUK Institution Details Archived 2007-06-08 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed on 13 July 2007
• Institute of Measurement and Control. History and Heritage. Accessed on 13 July 2007

• Institute of Measurement and Control