We had another great season of events last year. You can find a record of the events below. Where we were able to get hold of slides or other presentation material, we have provided it!
On behalf of the IET Sussex Committee, we thank the speakers for their time in preparing and giving these talks.
Sep 24th 2013 - Lessons from Buncefield
This talk was presented by Colin Howard, istech consulting ltd.
Oct 1st 2013 - Safety in the Skies
This talk was presented by David Hawken, Director NATS Operations.
Oct 15th 2013 - Future Network Performance and Resilience of the GB Transmission Network
This talk was presented by Dr Vandad Hamidi, National Grid UK.
Event Slides are available.
Nov 7th 2013 - Managed Motorway
This talk was presented by Robin Cordell.
Nov 19th 2013 - The Bluebell Railway
This talk was presented by Richard Salmon of The Bluebell Railway.
Nov 26th 2013 - Paradox - The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Science
This talk was presented by Professor Jim Al-Khalili, University of Surrey.
See the talk on IET.tv!
Jan 7th 2014 - Fifty Years of Development in Control Engineering
This talk was presented by Prof. Derek P Atherton, University of Sussex.
Lecture slides
Jan 21st 2014 - The Return of the Vulcan
This talk was presented by Dr Robert Pleming FRAeS MIET MBCS, CEO Vulcan to the Sky.
Lecture slides
Feb 4th 2014 - Pigs, Pipelines and PLUTO
This talk was presented by Tim Whittle BA, BSc, C.Eng, FInstMC.
Feb 11th 2014 - Glyndebourne Backstage Tour
This talk was presented by Simon Yapp.
Feb 18th 2014 - Malware – Does it really matter?
This talk was presented by Mr. Kerry Davies BSc MSc CEng CITP CDir FBCS FIOD CISSP.
Download Slides. Links shown at the lecture were Malware infection the new Pearl Harbour, Symantec STUXNET demonstration and Malware attacking a Power Plant.
Mar 14th 2014 - Tour of NATS
Apr 1st 2014 - Airborne Early Warning (AEW) Radar Systems – AEW does it all ways, always!
This talk was presented by Edwin Cowley, FIET, Thorn EMI now Thales, Crawley.
Lecture Slides
Apr 15th 2014 - Accidents that don’t happen – How does IEC 61508 help?
This talk was presented by Chris Dale, Safety-Critical Systems Club Meetings Coordinator.
May 6th 2014 - The Birth of Satellite Outside Broadcasting
This talk was presented by Malcolm Harman C.Eng, MIET, formerly BBC R&D.
Download Slides (80MB)
May 20th 2014 - Powering the future - how different will it be?
This talk was presented by Professor John Loughhead FREng FCGI, FIET, OBE - IET Energy Sector Chairman.
Jun 3rd 2014 - Satellite & Fibre Communications - a Solution for Africa
This talk was presented by Prof. Chris Chatwin, University of Sussex.