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  • IET Kent 2014/15 Events

    The IET Kent Committee has planned an exciting Programme for 2014/15. Our Programme Booklet will be delivered to all Kent Members very soon. Details of our Programme also appear on this web page and include our regular Retired Members morning meetings at Bromley, plus a series of evening events. We are pleased to be supporting the University of Kent 50th Anniversary Celebrations with the first Jennison Lecture. Professor Roger Jennison was a Fellow of the IET and the first Professor of Physical Electronics at the University in 1965. Within a year he established the Electronics Laboratory (later Department of Electronics and now School of Engineering and Digital Arts) at the University. The 2014 Jennison Lecture is being given by Rhys Phillips - a Research Engineer in the Lightning & Electrostatics…

    Brian Dury
    Brian Dury

  • David Hampson-Ghani on the New Bus for London

    On 28 th August 2014, East London held the New Bus for London event. The speaker David Hampson-Ghani shared with us his biggest challenges whilst working on this project as well has predicting the next progression for buses. Can you tell us a little bit about your background? I’m a civil engineer by qualification; I have a degree from The Imperial College. I have a background in heavy civil engineering, from nuclear power stations to the Channel Tunnel. I have moved into transport and have worked on High Speed 1, London Underground and now London buses. What is the biggest challenge you have faced with the New Bus for London Project? The biggest challenge [during the New Bus for London project] was getting the designer Thomas Heatherwick and his team who have never worked on a bus project before…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Meet The Volunteers

    The IET Satellite Technical Network organises an annual programme of engineering activities covering the industry. All of these activities are made possible by the efforts of a dedicated group of volunteers.   If you would like to know more about our committees, or would like to be a volunteer for us, please get in touch with our Community Manager, Deborah-Claire McKenzie Updated: 6 October 2020 Executive Team    Chris Brunskill   Past Chair Dave Davis - Chair Anthony Baker Aravind Kilaru David Orr David Jowsey David McQuiggan Deborah-Claire McKenzie   Community Manager Dominic Lasko Ian Raper   - Space University Network Representative Mansi Joshi Mark Loveday Michael Fitch   Millie Ayesh-Meagher Paul Wells - Vice Chair Technical Advisory Panel  Chris Welch Diana Mathew Duncan McCoig Imran…

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • Railway Network Volunteers For 2016-17 Session

    The IET Railway TPN organises an annual programme of engineering activities covering the Railway industry.     All of these events and activities are made possible by the efforts of a dedicated group of volunteers. We are currently looking for mid-career members to join the Executive team.  if you are interested please contact our Community Manager, Lynsay Callaghan.   Executive Team Martyn Chymera   Chairman Jon Hemsley   Past Chairman Andrew Hunter Chris Marshman Crinela Pislaru George Clark Graham Neil Helen Thompson John Easton Mark Newton Paul Tice Peter Sheppard   Robert Wilson Lynsay Callaghan Community Manager Natalie Sullivan Community Event Producer Young Professionals Group Matt Bagshawe  - Chairman David Lawes - Vice Chairman Henry Lam Konstantinos Banias Martin Halligan  Mohammed…

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • Meet The Volunteers

    The IET ARTS TPN Executive team organise a programme of engineering activities covering Automotive & Road Transport Systems.   All of these events and activities are made possible by the efforts of a dedicated group of volunteers. If you would like to know more about our committee or would like to be a volunteer for us, please get in touch with the Community Manager, Deborah-Claire McKenzie . List updated on 25.5.2021   Nigel Schofield   Chairman Alan Stevens Vice Chairman Andrew Fisher - Highways England Representative Andrew Pickford  Committee member Andrew Walker Committee member Angus Lyon  Committee member Deborah-Claire McKenzie Community Manager Graham Gest Committee member Jeff Peters - Committee member Matthew Clarke   Past Chairman Mike Burden Committee member Paula Palade Committee…

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • EMEA Community Volunteer Conference Review

    First of all, I'd like to say a big "thank you" to everyone who made this conference happen. This includes all of you who gave up your time to travel to Dublin, the EMEA-CC who worked tirelessly on the programme, my colleagues within the IET who took care of all logistics and advised us on the agenda, and of course our wonderful hosts from the Ireland Local Network . For many of us the proceedings kicked off a day early to watch the EMEA regional Present Around The World final. Congratulations to everyone who made it to the regional final, and especially to Laura Barrabia Gil from Switzerland who won and Josef Grech from Malta who was the runner up. Our CEO Nigel Fine opened day one of the CVC with an inspirational speech focusing on the IET's vision, mission and values. EMEA-CC chairman Iain…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Links To Lecture Slides

    Links to the slides used at some of the lectures organised by the IET Manchester Network are given below. ♦ Cycling: Four wheels is good, two wheels better (22-09-2014) ♦ UK Fracking: Managing the Risks Seminar (20-05-2014) ♦ OLTC for Distribution Transformers (03-04-2014) ♦ SF6 in the HV Electricity Industry Seminar (25-03- 2014) The Basics on SF6 Gas Ian Naylor, EA Technology SF6 Legislation and European Impact David Crawley, Consultant Current Alternatives to SF6 Switchgear at Medium Voltage Phil Dingle, Eaton User Experience of SF6 in Medium & High Voltage Switchgear T ony Byrne, EA Technology Ltd ♦ Connecting Offshore Wind to the Grid (29-11-2012) - Siemens Presentation - TNEI Presentation ♦ LTE - Enhancing Mobile Broadband (23-10-2012) ♦ Security in the Cloud, BCS and CBM-TG (01-03-2011…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Meet Our Volunteers - Committee members for the 2016-17 session

    The IET Wales North Network organise a programme of engineering activities in the North Wales area. All of these events and activities are made possible by the efforts of a dedicated group of volunteers. If you would like to know more about our committees, or would like to be a volunteer for us, please get in touch with the Chairman or Community Manager listed below.     David Crawford – Chairman Glen Boulton – Vice Chairman Ardeshir Osanlou – Glyndwr University Representative David Stedham   Hugh Thomas Ian Cook Ken Newis – Schools Liaison Officer Stephan Sylvester  Tony McLoughlin Deborah-Claire McKenzi e  - IET Community Manager Tania Pomroy  - IET Community Event Producer

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • Manchester Network Volunteers

    The IET Manchester Network organise a programme of engineering activities in the Greater Manchester area. All of these events and activities are made possible by the efforts of a dedicated group of volunteers. If you would like to know more about our committees, or would like to be a volunteer for us, please get in touch with the Chairman or our Community Manager listed below.   Network Leona So  - Chairman Martin Caton   - Vice Chairman Keith McCabe  -  Immediate Past Chairman Chris Fox  -  PastChairman Julie Ashurst   - PastChairman Peter Hicks - Secretary Pat Lancaster - Treasurer Anthony Gaskill - New Start-ups Liaison Job Obiebi - Finance Support  Kyle Murchie - Schools Liaison Officer Lukman Abdul-Karim  - Business Planning Manager Rik Whitaker – IET Connect Representative Tania Pomroy…

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • EMEA Communities Volunteers Conference 2014

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    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • It Was Not E.T. After All!

    Some light Sunday morning reading. Scientists have determined how the moving stones of Death Valley actually move. And it was not E.T.

    Allan Casey
    Allan Casey

  • Speedy charging driving a global boom in electric cars

    Electric cars seem to be gaining ground in the UK and elsewhere. According to Ecotricity, the company that has installed a network of charging stations along the UK's motorways, we are seeing a "revolution". Figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders indicated that electric car sales have now topped the 10,000 mark in the UK. As well as government incentives that have cut ownership costs, a key development is the roll-out of a network of superfast chargers at motorway stations. Over the past year, Ecotricity say they have installed around 170 of these units, covering 90% of the network. These allow you to charge your car battery up 80% in 20-30 minutes. For more information on the BBC website click here for the full article Having not seen many charging points for a while,…

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • RFC Goes to War

    I liked this interesting and informative article on the RAeS website relating to the Royal Flying Corps crossing over to France in August 2014 at the beginning of the Great War, which I thought I'd share with community members. Those pioneer airmen were certainly brave flying such flimsy, unreliable and at that point unarmed machines. Sadly some of them didn’t even make it across the channel. Over the four years of the war, the aerial service developed into a force of nearly a third of a million officers and men, 378 squadrons and around 22,000 aircraft. To read the article please click here. Did any of your relatives serve in the Royal Flying Corps during the war? If you’ve any photographs of them in their machines, please share these with the community by uploading to the images section and…

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • Ideas For Future Presentations

    Members, last post of the day I promise (hopefully)! The NorCal committee is looking into future presentations for the membership. Ideas include " The Internet Of Things " and " Raspberry PI" . We want your participation in making this a real network in which we can connect with each other through our interests and work. With that in mind: Is there a topic that you are interested in that you would like to know more about? Do you have a presentation that you could give in person? Are you interested in Present Around The World for students, recent graduates, apprentices and young professionals aged 18-26 years? Do you have a link to something that highlights your interests and work? Let us know in the comments section!

    Allan Casey
    Allan Casey

  • NIF Features in Engineering and Technology Magazine

    Following our tour of the National Ignition Facility , the June edition of the Engineering and Technology Magazine carried an article titled "Fusion energy: promises and problems". If you missed the article, you can read it here .

    Allan Casey
    Allan Casey

  • Next IET NorCal Meeting Is Planned For 18th October!

    Hope you all enjoyed your summer! IET NorCal is pleased to announce that our next guest speaker will be Professor Arvind Kumar and he will be presenting his views and thoughts on Nuclear engineering applications. The meeting will be held in the cafeteria (building 10) of the Fairmont Hospital in San Leandro between 10am to 12pm. Attendees will be able to buy refreshments. Dr Kumar's biography and the campus layout of the Fairmont Hospital are attached. Hope to see you all there!

    Allan Casey
    Allan Casey

  • Preliminary Discussions With UWI Alumni

    (Standing LR: IET T&T LN: David Drakes, Jennifer Maraj, Anthony Chadee, Jason R. Rameshwar) (Seated CW: UWIAATT: Peter Poon-Chong, Lisa Feveck, Jerry Medford, Lana Spencer, Cheridan Woodruffe, Chantelle Pile) Members of the local network executive discussed the potential for establishing a formal relationship with the UWIAATT on Wednesday 27th August. The executive committee, of the UWI Alumni Association of Trinidad and Tobago chapter, was chaired by its president Mr. Cheridan Woodrfuffe and was interested in the key focal points highlighted by Mr. Anthony Chadee. These areas included the partnership to market the 2015 PATWs to existing Alumni and new graduates of the University, networking and mentorship between both parties and seminars on professional registration as well as the benefits…

    Jason Robert Rameshwar
    Jason Robert Rameshwar

  • Manchester Network Volunteers Workshop

    The Manchester Network have organised a Volunteers Workshop on Monday, 15 September 2014 to which existing and new volunteers are being invited to attend. The workshop will be held at the Manchester Conference Centre, Sackville Street, Manchester and there is a choice of two sessions i.e. one at 2-5pm and the other at 6-9pm, with a buffet dinner at 5-6pm for both sets of participants. The workshop will cover: · An overview of the Networks’ structure, its members, its aims, its groups and its events. · An opportunity to make a video clip/message for our MyCommunity website. · Network succession planning session. · Have your say! A session designed to provide members the opportunity to ask questions of the network committees and to provide feedback and suggestions for the next year. · The launch…

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • Volunteering Opportunities – Get Involved

    The IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation Network are appealing to professionals with an interest in this area to join the executive team and represent the technical community. As a registrant to this network, we would like to invite you to apply for this opportunity, to join the executive team you do need to be a member of the IET. What is the role of the network? This network provides a platform for the exchange of knowledge and information and networking within the area of radar, sonar and navigation. This is done through a number of physical and online activities, which allow you to: Learn about and extend your existing knowledge of the topic Network with like-minded individuals Receive information via the web Share knowledge and experience with others What is expected of an executive team member…

  • Monthly Networking meeting at Carr's

    Please note that there will not be a meeting in August as many people are on holiday. The next meeting will be on the third Thursday in September: the 18th. BR Phil

    Phil Dunbar
    Phil Dunbar

  • Join us for a visit to Munich's Underground

    Organised tour of Munich's underground The tour starts with a visit to a canal near Schloss Nymphenburg and then moves to Hirschgarten to see the spectacular rainwater storage caverns, the so-called "underground cathedral". It's suitable for children of 6 and over and will last approx 2 hours. It will be in German but translation will be provided. IET members and their families will be given priority. Travel between the canal and the storage caverns will be by public transport. There will be a chance to have lunch at the Hirschgarten after the outing. Expect some damp (but no sewage!), so wear sensible shoes and clothes. Please register by Friday 5 September 2014. Date: Friday 12 September 2014 Time: 10:00 Location: Tour starts near Schloss Nymphenburg Link for registration here .

    Howard Gray
    Howard Gray

  • Aerospace Committees

    The IET Aerospace Network provides opportunities for Aerospace Professionals to keep up to date with latest developments and insights in the world of aerospace as well as connecting with other professionals.  The Network covers  the human effort in science, technology and engineering that is associated with all aerospace activities across a multitude of commercial, industrial and military applications.  List updated on 23 August 2021 Aerospace Network teams  This group of dedicated volunteers organises an annual programme of technical events and visits throughout the year.   Executive Team Members  Ray Smith  -  Chairman/Transport Sector Representative Arnold Gad-Briggs - Vice Chairman David Lindley  - Past Chairman/Transport Policy Representative Andy Mills  - Joint Propulsion Group Representative…

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • Professional Development Courses: Have you got the write stuff?

    Whether you are working toward professional registration and want to develop you writing skills, or are an established engineer moving into a managerial role the IET offer a number of professional development courses that can help you understand the requirements and develop the writing skills required to fulfill your career potential. Technical Report Writing This highly practical two-day course analyses report preparation from the earliest stages of identifying the reader and the objectives to the effective presentation of the complete document. Delegates are asked to bring a sample of a report of technical document they have written and have the opportunity to discuss these individually with the tutor. Delegates have the opportunity to analyse technical writing in terms of style and grammar…

    Kathryn Bain
    Kathryn Bain

  • 5 Thing You May Not Know About The Shard

    On 14 th August 2014 the London Young Professional’s Network put on the Engineering Challenge whereby teams were invited to compete to build the tallest tower out of marshmallows and spaghetti. Prior to the challenge, Roma Agrawal presented on her experiences working on The Shard. Here are the top 5 fascinating facts you may not know about The Shard. The Shard sits on top of a geological fault line that has been there since the ice age. Fortunately, it is dormant. The Shard has 44 elevators. Since the building is used by private residents, businesses and tourists it is important that they do not cross paths. The Spire (the top part of The Shard) was originally called the Radiator. The intention was for water to be moved up to The Spire to cool it before being moved back down as a greener way…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

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