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  • Aerospace Network gets off to a flying start at ADS Futures Day

    Together with David Lindley, Chairman of the Aerospace TPN, I represented the TPN at the Farnborough International Air Show 2016, Futures Day on 15 July 2016.     Futures Day  has been designed by the ADS (Aerospace, Defence, Security & Space) organisation to give groups of young people aged 11 – 21 a chance to find out about the exciting career opportunities available in the dynamic sectors of Aerospace and Defence.  Throughout the day, groups from schools, universities and youth associations visited the Innovation Zone where they were able to experience the aerospace technology of the future and meet with academic institutions.    A steady stream of celebrities and officials also visited the Zone during the day, including the Secretary of State for Defence, Commandant Air Cadets, the Red…

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • Speaker Highlight: Automation And Factories Of The Future - Where Next?

    So, it's  September already and with just slightly less than two weeks to go to our  event, we are delighted to provide more speaker details: Steven Carter - Manufacturing System Specialist - SMART Factories for Rolls-Royce Plc  Steve's presentation is entitled  "Industry 4.0, an end-user’s perspective” and will focus on Industry 4.0 from a Rolls-Royce Plc prospective and what we see as current state capabilities, challenges & future developments. Steve also sites on the the IET Controls & Automation Exec Panel Team.   He is a professional accredited engineer with over 18 years’ experience as a technical specialist of delivering integrated automation-manufacturing systems and developing manufacturing processes, within the Aerospace & Automotive industrial sectors.   Having worked for an array…

  • Graduate engineers have some of the highest salaries according to new report

    It has been revealed that graduate engineering roles are among the highest earning jobs in the UK according to Glassdoor’s 2016 report. According to the report, graduate software engineers earn approximately £28,370 per annum, mechanical engineers earn £26,949, graduate engineers earn £26,500, civil engineers are at £25,000 and structural engineers earn circa £24,993. The top graduate salary in the report was a graduate analyst, whose salary is roughly £34,366 a year. Read more...

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Great engineering expectations

    Nearly one hundred years ago, Beatrice ‘Tilly’ Shilling was beginning an electrical engineering apprenticeship. A pioneer in more ways than one, what does her legacy mean today and are things any different for today’s female engineering apprentices? Beatrice ‘Tilly’ Shilling crossed boundaries. A ground-breaking aeronautical engineer and successful motorcycle racer, she had known by the age of 15 that she wanted to be an engineer. Then again, this was 1920s’ Britain and Shilling had chosen a profession that wasn’t easy for a young woman to enter, however skilled - she had already been maintaining her own motorcycle for several years - or however great her enthusiasm. - E &T Magazine   Read more...

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • IET Backs International Baccalaureate To Tackle A-level Decline

    A-level results out today in England, Wales and Northern Ireland reveal a decline in the number of young people studying subjects like maths and physics which the IET says highlights a need to rethink how the education system is addressing the national engineering skills shortage. - E&T Magazine Read more...

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Speaker Highlights - TechAAL 2016 (Part Two)

    The Keynote speaker for Monday 24th October 2016 has been announced! Following the success of last year, the IET International Conference on Technologies for Active and Assisted Living (TechAAL 2016) is running for a second time this year!  The two day conference will consist of invited keynotes along with several author presentations. We are delighted to announce that our Keynote speaker for Monday 24th October is: Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze , Professor and Deputy Director of UCLIC .  About Nadia: Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze is a Full Professor in Affective Computing and Interaction at the Interaction Centre of the University College London (UCL). She received her PhD in Computer Science for Biomedicine from the University of the Studies of Milan, Italy. Her research focuses on designing technology…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Household appliances order their own refills ... but only on Amazon

    Dishwashers, washing machines and home printers will soon be able to order detergent and ink directly from Amazon without their owners having to lift a finger. - The Times Read more...

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Rolls-Royce to replace Boeing Dreamliner engine turbine blades

    Rolls-Royce will over the next three years replace turbine blades on the entire fleet of Boeing 787 Dreamliners powered by its Trent 1000 engine, after corrosion and cracking problems were discovered on some passenger jets operated by Japanese launch customer ANA. Read more...

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Robots will create virtual crime scenes for juries

    Juries could soon be given virtual reality headsets to “visit” murder scenes from the court room and view footage shot by robots of corpses and evidence as they were found by detectives. - The Times Read more...

  • Drug-dispensing contact lenses offer hope to glaucoma patients at risk of going blind

    Drug-dispensing contacted lenses could offer new hope to people suffering from glaucoma, which causes blindness, after they were found to be at least as effective as eye drops. - The Telegraph Read more...

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Gap Kids U.K. ad highlights the problem of women who want to be scholars

    It’s ironic that the company whose gender equality efforts landed them the 2016 Catalyst award (an award that they shared with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau) can’t seem to get it just quite right. A new Gap Kids ad from the U.K. has come under fire in the past week for labelling girls as “social butterflies” and boys as “scholars.”   Read more...

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • UM-Flint’s Women of STEM: Samantha Grathoff

    Samantha Grathoff is a lab coordinator, community engagement liaison, and adjunct lecturer for the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in UM-Flint’s College of Arts & Sciences. She’s also one of the directors of the Curiosity Academy: a community club that engages middle school girls, mostly 6th to 8th graders, who have an interest in STEM subjects. The Academy aims to reignite the girls’ interest in science, technology, engineering, and math at an age when they may be moving away from such disciplines. Through fun projects and activities, the students are connected to educators and professionals in various STEM fields. Noted one recent student, “Curiosity Academy has been an amazing experience and I love that I got to do cool science projects with my friends. My favorite activities were…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Using Lego figures to build recognition for great women in STEM

    From making Lego figures to organising Wikipedia editathons, Maia Weinstock is looking to increase female representation and challenge bias.   -    How many of us – as children or adults – have spent hours building Lego towns for mini-figures to work and play in? Now, what if more of those mini-figures could represent women in leadership and scientific roles? This is something Maia Weinstock wants to make happen. The US-based science communicator has been making female Lego mini-figures, including some famous names in space science. Read more...

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • 'Belonging' can help keep talented female students in STEM classes

    Many women working in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) have faced a common experience at some point during their college days -- they walked into a classroom and found that they were among a small handful of women in the class, or even the only one. That kind of experience has the potential to make a talented, motivated student feel out-of-place, and compel her to search for more inclusive academic environments, according to Nilanjana Dasgupta, a psychology researcher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Questioning one's sense of "belonging" in an academic environment may contribute to why women are significantly under-represented in some areas of STEM. - National Science Foundation. Read more...

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • 5 Reasons You Should Get Involved With Your Local Network

    I just read this very interesting  blog on getting involved with your Local Network  - have a read and  get in touch  if you would like to be involved in the Scotland South West LN. There is another interesting article on ' Why Should I Volunteer'  that is worth a read.

    Lynsay Callaghan
    Lynsay Callaghan

  • 5 Reasons You Should Get Involved With Your Local Network

    I just read this very interesting  blog on getting involved with your Local Network  - have a read and  get in touch  if you would like to be involved in the Scotland South West LN. There is another interesting article on ' Why Should I Volunteer'  that is worth a read.

    Lynsay Callaghan
    Lynsay Callaghan

  • 5 Reasons You Should Get Involved With Your Local Network

    I just read this very interesting  blog on getting involved with your Local Network  - have a read and  get in touch  if you would like to be involved in the Scotland North LN. There is another interesting article on ' Why Should I Volunteer'  that is worth a read.

    Lynsay Callaghan
    Lynsay Callaghan

  • 5 Reasons You Should Get Involved With Your Local Network

    I just read this very interesting  blog on getting involved with your Local Network  - have a read and  get in touch  if you would like to be involved in the Scotland North LN. There is another interesting article on ' Why Should I Volunteer'  that is worth a read.

    Lynsay Callaghan
    Lynsay Callaghan

  • 5 Reasons You Should Get Involved With Your Local Network

    I just read this very interesting blog on getting involved with your Local Network - have a read and get in touch if you would like to be involved in the Scotland South West LN. There is another interesting article on ' Why Should I Volunteer' that is worth a read.

    Lynsay Callaghan
    Lynsay Callaghan

  • IET Improving Caribbean Education

    The IET has expanded it's accreditation presence in Trinidad & Tobago, starting with the renewal of the University of the West Indies Electrical and Computer Engineering programmes.     Now, the IET has accredited UTT's programmes. The IET - Informing, Inspiring and Influencing Caribbean Education

    Jason Robert Rameshwar
    Jason Robert Rameshwar

  • Self-driving Taxi Trial Kicks Off In Singapore - Sort Of

    It seems like everyone in the industry is trying to be at the forefront of the driverless car technology, but in Singapore, you can in fact hop into a driverless taxi and go for a ride. And it's even free. Is it really driverless - no, not at the test stage. There is still a driver in the front, but the cars are doing the driving themselves, and the driver is only there to monitor the performance and as a backup in case something goes wrong. It is still very much in the trial stage, only covering a 2.6 sq mile (4 sq km) area and it is by invitation only to book, but they are on the road with Uber planning a similar launch in Pittsburgh in the US in a few weeks time. Read more - BBC News

    Lynsay Callaghan
    Lynsay Callaghan

  • The IET’s Quest For Strategic National Cyber Security At The SSCS Event

    I am pleased to announce that Prof. Martyn Thomas, Livery Company Professor of Information Technology at Gresham College, will deliver an opening keynote presentation at the 11 th SSCS conference and collocated Cyber Defence and Security Seminar on 12 October (Savoy Place, London). Speaking at the conference in a personal capacity, Prof. Thomas will nevertheles share his impressive wealth of practical experience as a Director of the UK Health and Safety Executive, a former Director of the Serious Organised Crime Agency and a member of the Defence Science Advisory Council. (In 2007 Martyn Thomas was honoured as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to software engineering). I would like to welcome the IET Cyber Security Community members to join Prof. Thomas at the event…

  • Project Management Expo 2016

    I am looking forward to attending this years Project Management Expo  11th & 12th October 2016 Olympia, London The seminars are of particular interest this year with leaders in the field giving insight and guidance relative to Project Costing and Controls Details to be found: http://www.projchallenge.com/

    Louis Redding
    Louis Redding

  • The 5th International Conference On Through-life Engineering Services

    I am looking forward to attending the forthcoming Conference relative to TES. These applied technologies offer a pagadigm shift  for manufacturing organisations seeking to compete through ever greater levels of servitization.  I have attached the conference themes below. 1 st  & 2 nd   November 2016                                                                                                                                            Vincent Building,  Cranfield University, UK About the Conference The conference will be hosted at Cranfield on the 1 st  & 2 nd  November 2016. The International Conference in Through-life Engineering Services is in its fifth year and it has grown interest of both academia and industry. Recently published report from the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing…

    Louis Redding
    Louis Redding

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