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  • Speaker Highlight - Annual Event 2021 - Dr Francis Lockwood Estrin - "Superconducting Thin Films For Accelerators"

    Today's update focuses on  Dr. Francis Lockwood Estrin. Dr. Francis Lockwood Estrin is a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant working as part of the University of Liverpool and part ASTeC in Daresbury Laboratory. His role is to research the A-Symmetrical HiPIMS and its application for superconducting thin films, this is split between work In Daresbury producing thin films and work at Liverpool investigating the plasma conditions. Prior to this Francis worked at QinetiQ on Ion Thrusters a space propulsion technology. During this period, he worked on the BepiColombo mission mercury among other projects.Bulk niobium has been the material of choice for superconducting RF-accelerators as it is the highest critical temperature (Tc = 9.25 K) and highest lower critical field (Hc1 = 0.18 T) of the pure…

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • Explore the Solar System - Q&A from Webinar

    Explore the Solar System - Q&A from Webinar

    Andrew Dodd
    Andrew Dodd

  • Eat, Sleep, Engineer, Repeat: Join Air Marshal Sir Julian Young For This Year’s President’s Address

    Get ready to “Eat, sleep, engineer, repeat” on 14 October, as Air Marshal Sir Julian Young takes the stage for the international online broadcast of his President’s Address.The main address is at 1pm BST, and he will challenge you to think about how we keep inspiring generation after generation of engineers. What is the role of engineers as influencers and drivers of a sustainable, digital world? How do we ensure that we learn from and mentor each generation of engineers – both ahead of us and following on? And what can engineers do more of to support 21st century society, promote an ethical and diverse profession and help solve the big societal challenges? Then at 6.30pm BST, Julian will be joined by our 2020-21 President, Danielle George, and 2020 Young Woman Engineer of the Year Ella Podmore…

    EngX Editorial
    EngX Editorial

  • Speaker Highlight: Annual Event 2021

    Today's speaker highlight focuses on Rita Morgado da Silva MEng CEng Rita Morgado da Silva is a Mechanical Engineer, currently working as Lead Systems Engineer, MR Linac Beam Generation, Elekta Ltd where she has worked for the past 8 years. Her current area of professional experience/interest include Beam Generation, Reliability, Hardware & Infrastructure and Covers & User Interfaces, Environmentally Conscious Design- circular economy and eco design. Prior to working at Elekta, Rita has worked for Pfizer, Volkswagen and University of Surrey Medical Engineering Department. Out of work, Rita enjoys playing competitive volleyball (indoor and beach), travelling the globe, snowboarding, cooking (and eating), hiking, reading and listening to music. Rita will deliver her presentation on Designing…

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • Cambridge Eco Homes

    If you are interested in how home owners have improved their homes and energy efficiency take a look at a series of talks run by Cambridge Eco Homes. cambridgecarbonfootprint.org/.../

    David Blake
    David Blake

  • Upcoming Webinar - Industrial Decarbonisation: The HyNet response: Tuesday 21st September at 7:00 p.m. BST

    Professor Joe Howe, Executive Director Of Energy Research Institute at the University of Chester will provide an overview of recent UK energy related policy initiatives that have emerged over the last year.   He will considering the emerging initiatives from the UK's industrial clusters and provide a detailed insight into the HyNet North West proposition. HyNet North West is an innovative low carbon and hydrogen energy project that will unlock a low carbon economy for the North West and North Wales and put the region at the forefront of the UK’s drive to net zero. Come and join us for a webinar on building the Hydrogen Network in the northwest of England. To register for the event, please click REGISTER NOW!   It would be great on if you could join us for this free to attend webinar on an important…

    Rob McDonald
    Rob McDonald

  • Particle Accelerator Engineering Network Annual Event 2021

    Our Annual event is coming soon - 9th and 10th November The online event will take place over two half days and will be delivered via Zoom.  Over the next few weeks I will highlight some of our amazing speakers, so do please keep checking back  9th November 2pm - 5pm 10th November - 9.30am - 12.30pm  The first speaker highlight is on Carl Andrews who will be presenting for us, covering "Modifications and limitations of the DCF beamline hot cell to allow for high temperature irradiations". There has been an increased focus into simulating damage in advanced materials including potential structural materials for use in fusion/fission reactors. These materials are often subjected to high levels of radiation damage at high temperatures (upwards of 1000°C). In order to meet the constantly changing…

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • CPD Certificate for "Wow that's bright!!"

    CPD Certificate for "Wow that's bright!!" an IET Buckinghamshire LN Webinar on Tuesday 14th September 2021

    Andrew Dodd
    Andrew Dodd

  • Honorary Fellowship Awarded To Former NASA Engineer And YouTube Sensation Mark Rober

    YouTube STEM sensation Mark Rober has become the newest IET Honorary Fellow for his outstanding contribution to aerospace engineering.Mark is an American YouTuber, engineer and inventor. He is known for his YouTube videos on popular science and do-it-yourself gadgets and has over 18 million subscribers. Before YouTube, Mark was an engineer with NASA for nine years where he worked on the Curiosity rover at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Mark also worked for Apple in their Special Projects Group undertaking Product Design as Mechanical Engineer. He recently received the IET’s STEM Personality of the Year award in a worldwide competition that celebrates an inspiring individual who is changing the narrative on what it really means to be an engineer or technologist. On receiving Honorary Fellowship…

    EngX Editorial
    EngX Editorial

  • Explore the Solar System

    Here are some links that Ross Hockham referred to during his excellent presentation on Tuesday 7th September 2021. Two links to sites that are good for dark sky hunting: https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/#zoom=6.89&lat=52.0669&lon=-0.1286&layers=B0FFFFFFTFFFFFFFFFF https://www.darksky.org/our-work/conservation/idsp/finder/ Another app that Ross mentioned is called ScopeNights for smart devices and it tells you if the weather is good for stargazing and has a dark sky map:  https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/scope-nights-astronomy-weather/id540120977 This is the YouTube channel play lists for UK Astronomy: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQperDOkTrm2FhXwfx55Q9w/playlists

    Andrew Dodd
    Andrew Dodd

  • ICMS 3

    With the construction environment responsible for around 40% of the global carbon emissions, it is crucial that sustainable practices are adopted to achieve net-zero ambitions. The Project Controls Network (PCN) has worked with 49 globally prominent organisations to develop ICMS 3 - a world first for cost and carbon management in engineering and construction from concept to completion and beyond.ICMS 3 is pioneering sustainable practices that assist the engineering and construction industry to manage and mitigate climate-related risk.  ICMS 3 will contribute positively to efforts to decarbonise the engineering and construction sector in the most cost-effective way. Through ICMS 3, professionals will for the first time be empowered to deliver a globally consistent method for carbon life cycle…

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • CPD certificate for 7th September

    Here is the CPD certificate for 7th September, a Bucks LN Webinar "Explore the Solar System" presented by Ross Hockham

    Andrew Dodd
    Andrew Dodd

  • Sustainability - A Smash-hit **** TV Series?

    If reality was a TV series, when is the big reveal going to happen? If this was a TV series, then the end of the previous season would have ended with the news that Climate Change was confirmed after all, and the closing shot would be all the main characters looking shocked: believers and deniers alike. The next, and final, season would start with the usual TV trick of not addressing the cliff-hanger at all, and instead, would show some flashbacks of the main characters, from which we piece together that there is a smart solution, and that’s what then happens in this season, neatly finishing with a grand resolution.  Unfortunately, and sorry for the spoiler in the run up to the long-awaited 4th ‘Matrix’ movie, but this is reality, and so there isn’t a neat twist waiting in the wings. Unlike…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Manufacturers’ Plain Language Guide Set To Publish

    As publication nears for the Plain Language Guide we thought we’d share with you a quick update on what is happening this Autumn. Scroll down to see details and how you can get involved.The Plain Language Guide will be entitled: Digitisation for construction product manufacturers: a plain language guide How manufacturers can structure and share data safely and sustainably. If construction is to meet the challenges of a digital future and respond to the requirements of a new building safety regulatory system, it needs manufacturers to structure and share their data safely and sustainably. The Plain Language Guide will help them make the right decisions. The guide aims to help decision makers in manufacturing identify: Why structured data is important. How to avoid poor investment decisions.…

    ManufacturersPLG Team
    ManufacturersPLG Team

  • TV’s Sustainability Challenge – Engineering A Better World

    The recent IPCC report (Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change) makes clear that we now face a “ Code Red for Humanity” and if you are not convinced by mere words, pictures of wildfires from the Mediterranean to Siberia and “ heat domes” over the Pacific Northwest should be enough. Climate change is just one of the areas where humanity is pushing at natural environmental limits. Pollution and reductions in biodiversity are other examples where our collective abuse of the environment is now only too apparent. While governments need to act, we as media engineers, technologists and practitioners can and must play our part. The IET Media Technical Network is running a year long series of events designed to help our members, fellow engineers and colleagues understand these issues, analyse the…

    David Short
    David Short

  • Perspectives On Audio (IET Cambridge Local Network)

    Bob Stuart from MQA, gave deep-insights in understanding if digital audio is as good as it can be, during an online lecture jointly organised by the AES UK Section Cambridge Group and IET Cambridge Local Network. His talk explained that by better defining objects we can achieve better sound recording and playback abilities. He started by explaining how the fundamentals of psychoacoustics and neuroscience from auditory sciences help us understand pure tone frequencies/harmonics and contrast them against vocalisation and stimulated sound. Advances in neurosciences, is now letting us do more, like dealing with more natural signals. When humans encode, for example, the intensity of sound to 'loudness', it is nonlinear, like when we encode frequency to the subjective element of 'pitch'. Our frequency…

    Rimesh Patel
    Rimesh Patel

  • TfWL innovation accelerator programme, cohort 3 Demo Day

    The TfWL Cohort 3 demo day event will showcase the MVP's that their 5 start-ups have developed during the programme, as well as highlighting the success that cohort 1 and 2 alumni had had.  Lab by Transport for Wales proudly presents their cohort 3 virtual demo day event! Demo day is a showcase of the innovative ideas, products and solutions that have been developed over the Transport for Wales Innovation Accelerator Programme, to aid and improve Transport for Wales Rail.We’ll also be announcing recruitment for cohort 4 on our demo day event.   Where & When: Friday September 3rd - 13:30-15:30. Live Streamed on Youtube.  You can register for the event here >  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/166169165447  You can follow us on F6S for updates >  https://www.f6s.com/tfwlaborg  To discover more about…

    Lynsay Callaghan
    Lynsay Callaghan

  • Your Particle Accelerator Engineering Network Needs You!

    The Particle Accelerator Engineering Network is a joint network run by the IET, and IMechE and with strong links to the IOP. The aim is to bring together professional engineers and technicians to network and hear about new developments in particle accelerators. The network runs an annual meeting, technician training, webinars and topical networks.We are seeking two new members of our committee, a communications officer to look after social media and other media communications and an ordinary member. Committee members should be engineers or technicians working in particle accelerators but can be at any stage of their career and be from labs, academia or industry. Applications from diverse backgrounds are encouraged. The committee meets 4 times per year (one of which is normally in person) and…

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • IET Mersey & Western Cheshire Local Network Events Newsletter For September 2021

    The IET Mersey & Western Cheshire Local Network Events Newsletter for September 2021 has been published .  The newsletter contains information on our upcoming events, past activities, information about the Local Network and Key Contacts.  Because of the restrictions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, our events will be online.   Booking for the webinar events will be via the IET Events webpages.  The newsletter is attached to this post as a pdf file.

    Rob McDonald
    Rob McDonald

  • South Yorkshire Online Engineering Extravaganza event 8th July 2021

    After considerable organisation, we finally managed to hold an online 'Engineering Extravaganza' event with 4 local schools. We went out to 12 schools initially but understandably, due to variety of issues, this was eventually whittled down to just 4. All these schools managed to accommodate sourcing all the necessary materials for all the activities we ran on the day. IET delivered the 'Motor Madness' activity which we've done live over several times previously and chose this being familiar with any potential queries that arose. All schools managed to complete the activity with just a steer from ourselves which on the day was Matthew Morton and Dan Hardy as STEM Ambassadors and myself  coordinating the whole day for IET SYLN, as required. We used MS 'Teams' for the online platform with breakout…

    Alan Chater
    Alan Chater

  • Scholarships And Bursaries

    Are you a student or apprentice?  Find out about the IET's Scholarship and Bursary programmes offering funding to students and apprentices at Bursaries .  The closing date for applications is 2 September 2021.

    David Blake
    David Blake

  • IET@150 EngTalk Auckland – Engineering A Better World

    Date: 21 August 2021 Time: 10:00am - 3:00pm  Venue: The University of Auckland, Engineering Department Programme:  1000-1100          Registration and Housekeeping  1100-1115          Presidents Address by Prof. Danielle George and Mr. Nigel Fine  1115-1125          Introduction of Eng Talks – “Engineering and Science in Healthcare”  1125-1155          Topic: "A.I in Healthcare" - Dr Angela Lim 1155-1235          Topic: "Revolutionising Healthcare Experiences with Digital People" – James Gower 1235-1300          Q&A Session 1300 – 1400       Lunch 1400-1430          #DifferenceMaker : "Do what you love, love what you do" – Elise Beavis 1430-1445          Q&A Session 1445-1500          Close and networking For further information, please visit here . If you have any enquiry, please feel free…

    Alison Siu
    Alison Siu

  • Aspidistra And The Broadcast Group Of The Diplomatic Wireless Service Including The Wartime Transmission Of Black Propaganda

    A talk that features our own Orford Ness aspidistra This is the story of Broadcast Group of the Diplomatic Wireless Service (DWS) which had its origins in the Political Warfare Executive (PWE) at the beginning of WW2.   In 1972 it was amalgamated into the administrative structure of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and was renamed Communications Engineering Department (CED).  The latter had two groups, Broadcast Group which was responsible for transmitters carrying many of the BBC’s World  and Vernacular services, and Communications group which provided radio communications to embassies for diplomatic traffic. In 1986 CED’s Broadcast Group was taken over by the BBC.  In this illustrated talk we will learn first about the transmission of black propaganda and associated activities during…

    Alex Barrett
    Alex Barrett

  • October half term sustainability project for children

    IET 150: My Sustainable Community Competition We’ve launched a competition for children aged 7-14 across the UK, where they can develop a sustainable community for up to 150 homes to be in with a chance  of winning the amazing new LEGO Education SPIKE set! Find out more... It is safe to say that sustainability and climate change are on everybody’s agenda and while us adults are now trying our best to do our bit for the planet, the main driving force behind the future is our younger generation! To help encourage these future difference makers, we have created the IET 150 Sustainability Community Competition, in partnership with Engineering Education Scheme Wales (EESW) as part of our 150th anniversary. We are asking young people from across the UK to consider their community response to sustainability…

    Charlotte Hounsom
    Charlotte Hounsom

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