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  • Last Chance to Apply for the IET YWE Awards!

    You have until Thursday  to apply for the IET Young Woman Engineer of the Year  Award! Do you want to: win £2,500; boost your engineering career; inspire the next generation of engineers? Then why not apply for the Young Woman Engineer of the Year Award?    There are two other prizes to be won:  The Mary George Memorial Prize for Apprentices (£750) Women’s Engineering Society (WES) Prize (£750) All award winners will receive a trophy and a cash prize, which will be awarded at the prestigious YWE ceremony on  1 December 2016,  at IET London: Savoy Place . If you have started your application and wish to complete it, please do so here .

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  • Engineering skills: the building blocks of toy design

    Earning big bucks for playing with toys might seem like a pipe dream but it’s actually an integral part of the job description for an increasing number of engineers, computer scientists and industrial designers. Read more... The IET Women's Network collaborated with Debbie Sterling, founder and CEO of GoldieBlox - The construction toy for girls,  in 2014.  Check out the video here.

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  • Comment: Inspiring girls into engineering

    Liren Li works as a reservoir engineer for BP, ensuring maximum recovery from their oil and gas field operations. You would think this keeps her quite busy, but with National Women in Engineering Day 2016 upon us, she explains why it’s also important for her to spend time mentoring students at the Space Studio School in Feltham. Read more...

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  • Emily Swatton, UKAEA

    Emily Swatton, a second year mechanical engineering apprentice at UKAEA, is keen to show school pupils what life is like for today’s young female engineers! Read more...

  • Future engineering leaders win Academy awards

    Five young engineers who have made a major impact in their respective fields very early in their careers will each receive a prestigious award this week at the Royal Academy of Engineering Awards Dinner at the Tower of London on Thursday 23 June. IET Young Woman Engineer of the Year Award 2015 winner, Orla Murphy, was among those selected and was the only woman engineer out of the five winners! Well done, Orla :) Read more...

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  • Top 50 Influential Women in Engineering List 2016

    An inaugural list of the top 50 Women in Engineering will be published in the Daily Telegraph for the first time on 23 June 2016 to coincide with National Women in Engineering Day. Read more...

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  • IET Member and Structural Engineer, Roma Agrawal opens the Agrawal Building

    On Monday 20 th June Roma Agrawal opened a new building at Ark Chamberlain Primary Academy which pupils had chosen to name after The Shard structural engineer. Read more...

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  • Photos from the launch of the Top 50 Women in Engineering Event

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  • IET Appeals for Increase in Published Works by Female Engineers

    The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is calling for an increase in the number of female engineers who have their expertise published in industry journals on National Women in Engineering Day 2016. Read more...

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  • Did You Know That IET Glasgow: Teacher Building Has IET Member Facilities Available?

    Make the most of your membership and the Member facilities offered in Glasgow. As an IET Member, you can benefit from the following when visiting us at IET Glasgow: Teacher Building. Meeting rooms on a Monday or a Friday* at no cost As an IET Member you and up to five people can hire a room for a maximum of three hours, on a Monday or a Friday, for absolutely no cost.  Members’ private lounge An inspiring space designed exclusively for you, this professional, self-contained office environment is aimed at making your business meetings as productive as possible.  For priority use by our members, this dedicated meeting space allows you to do business without the stress. Flexible booking options You don’t have to reserve the facilities months in advance or even commit to weeks of usage. The Business…

    Lynsay Callaghan
    Lynsay Callaghan

  • Volunteers Wanted For STEM Week As Part Of The Scottish International Airshow

    Are you interested in becoming involved in the first ever Scottish International Airshow STEM Week? This event is on from Monday 29 August until Friday 2nd September and is open to schools from across the west and central Scotland and the IET are hoping to host a Career Stand in the Careers Zone and we are looking for members who will engage with the pupils to discuss careers / options / routes into engineering and personal careers observations.   More information on the event can be found at Scottish International Airshow STEM week.   What we are looking for is a call for volunteers to establish that we can provide stand cover and once we are confident that this can be done we would confirm the time slots, order the materials, pupils and teachers literature and stand dressing equipment, and…

    Lynsay Callaghan
    Lynsay Callaghan

  • We Are The "Most Operationally Excellent Network"

    Congratulations to all of my colleagues on the TT LN executive as well as our local IET members and supporters for working as one team enabled us to be awarded the "Most Operationally Excellent Network" at the 2016 IET GVC. We also thank Sean and Gerald for representing us at the event. Our hard work being recognised! These pics from Sean highlight the grandour of the IET Savoy and those who contributed to engineering. Some of the past IEE presidents. A magnificent view from the IET! Thanks Sean! For more information about the event, click here 2016 Global Volunteers Conference and you can view pictures and tweets here .

    Jason Robert Rameshwar
    Jason Robert Rameshwar

  • A Tour Of The World’s First And Brightest Hard X-ray Laser

    On Wednesday June 22nd, IET NorCal members and guests had a fantastic tour of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Linac Coherent Light Source ( LCLS ). The group was given an initial 40 minute presentation by Dr Mike Dunne describing the history of SLAC and the introduction in 2009 of LCLS. The initial development of SLAC required some novel thinking and a significant leap in the physics of the day in order to make the accelerator a reality. This included the construction of a freeway bridge over the accelerator for the future I280! A view of SLAC from the air with a bridge waiting for a freeway to be built! Since its 2009 launch, LCLS has drawn researchers in a wide array of scientific fields from around the globe to explore the innermost workings and properties of common and exotic materials…

    Allan Casey
    Allan Casey

  • Have you thought how IET Connect can help you?

    While I was at the IET Global Volunteer Conference (more of that to follow), I saw a booth advertising IET Connect .  I thought IET Connect services were not applicable overseas and was very happy to be informed that bar legal advice, the services that they provide are available to IET members in Northern California. This is a summary of their services . They may be able to help with health and wellbeing, education support, debt advice to name but a few of their services. If you have questions or are unsure if they can help you, drop them an email at contactus@ietconnect.org.

    Allan Casey
    Allan Casey

  • JLB 2016: From Concept To Screen

    When Charles Francis Jenkins projected a film of a dancing girl on to his wall in Richmond, Indiana on June the 6 th 1894 the audience looked for the trickery behind the scene, yet today we’re more awed by adding another remote to the growing collection on the coffee table - how else are you to access all of the content available through your television just over 100 years later? The sold out Multimedia Communications Network 2016 John Logie Baird Lecture: From Concept to Screen was held at Savoy Place, London and brought together SMPTE President, Barbara Lange and Nagra Kudelski’s SVP of Marketing, Ivan Verbesselt, who discussed the past and future of television whilst celebrating SMPTE’s Centenary year and presenting John Logie Baird’s Grandson, Iain Logie Baird, with the framed document…

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  • Aero Space Kinross Centre

    Aero Space Kinross is a new venture planned to provide an educational and visitor centre with a focus on all aspects of aerospace located centrally in Scotland.   ASK is intended to fill an educational gap in an entertaining way and is closely linked with the local community and local schools.  The centre will be staffed by a young post-graduate crew who will enable access to the application of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) of flight, astronomy and space exploration. ASK would welcome support from any interested Aerospace Community members with regards to potential exhibits, programmes, links or further contacts within the Aerospace world who may be interested in contributing to (or following the development of) an Aerospace centre.   If you are able to help please contact…

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • Formula E - grab your complimentary tickets for 2 and 3 July!

    Motorsports’ ground-breaking electric championship is coming to London on 2 and 3 July in what promises to be one of the most exciting weekends of the year. Demonstrating the best in electric technology and driving skills, this year’s championship has already seen thrilling races take place in China, Malaysia, Uruguay, Argentina, Mexico, the USA, France and Germany. Unlike other car races hosted outside the city because of their noise and pollution, Formula E’s environmental friendliness means you can watch all-electric racing in the heart of the British capital.   The London event will host the biggest eVillage yet, featuring a whole range of fun events and live music, including a children’s zone, racing simulators and a range of interactive activities to enjoy. All 18 drivers will also take…

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  • Future of Medicine - the role of the doctor in 2025

    On 19 May 2016 the IET Healthcare Technologies TPN and the Telemedicine and eHealth section of the RSM held a fantastic joint one day seminar on the future of medicine. A summary of the online tweets and pictures taken can be viewed below. This seminar follows on from the event of the same name which took place in May 2015. More information can be found on this event here . We also created a TechBite on the subject.

    Gemma Hadley
    Gemma Hadley

  • Win a Scope Rider oscilloscope or one of 10 GoPro cameras

    Rohde & Schwarz are initiating a quest to find the most innovative and unusual uses for their Scope Rider - a new portable lab spec oscilloscope . Suggest a fun use for the scope in this competition and get the chance to make it happen, and win a scope or GoPro camera. Filmed by IET.tv R&S have sent a scope on a journey to near space and back whilst measuring its altitude and external temperature, pressure, and acceleration. There are two versions of the film, a 2 minute video to launch the competition and a full 10 minute documentary. 2 Minutes 2 Win  - competition entry clip 10 Minute Documentary  - IET tv documentary Details of how to enter and what you need to do are at the end of the 2 minute video. The competition step one closes 1st August 2016.

    Alex Macleod
    Alex Macleod

  • Appeal For More Female Engineers To Have Their Work Published

    On National Women in Engineering Day 2016, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is calling for more female engineers to capitalise on their knowledge and expertise by having their work published in its world-renowned publications and information services. The IET publishes a range of widely respected publications and information services for engineers and technicians, and is making the appeal due to the worryingly low number of female engineers contributing to its publications. For example, only 1% of the 800 editorial board members serving across the IET’s journal portfolio are female. Read more...

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  • The webinar has now finished

    We will let you know when the recording of this session becomes available!  :) Thank you for tuning in!!

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  • The IET in the National Media for National Women in Engineering Day

    Naomi Climer appeard on Women’s Hour (she’s on 2:45 into the programme) this morning and she is also due on Sky News at 14:45 today.  The subject of both interviews are National Women in Engineering Day (NWED) and Naomi’s placing in the Daily Telegraph’s Top 50 Women in Engineering list, published in today’s Daily Telegraph.  Other IET members in the list include Faye Banks, our youngest female Fellow and Eleanor Stride, previous winner of the A F Harvey Prize.   In addition, we have also arranged for Abbie Hutty, previous IET YWE winner to appear on Sky News this evening at 18:30, again on the subject of NWED. Read more...

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  • NWED - ASK AN ENGINEER: FREE LIVE WEBINAR

    There is still time to join the webinar, taking place this afternoon for National Women in Engineering Day.

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  • Happy National Women in Engineering Day 2016

    National Women in Engineering Day (#NWED2016) is now an International awareness campaign to raise the profile of women in engineering and focus attention on the amazing career opportunities available to girls in this exciting industry. It takes place annually on 23 June. It's your day so get involved. In 2016 we celebrate NWED for the third year, and it just happens to coincide with the referendum this year!   Read more...

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