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Are you interested in a PhD in particle accelerator research? Want to work for a company or national laboratory that makes particle accelerators or their components?Find out more at our virtual National Particle Accelerator Open Day 3rd February 2021 . Science encompasses an extraordinary diversity of disciplines, capabilities and facilities, each contributing to the drive for new knowledge and for new solutions to existing and emerging challenges. For over half a century, particle accelerators have been at the heart of that drive. It is estimated that over 25,000 accelerators are currently in operation around the world. Some have even become household names, like the The Large Hadron Collider at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Switzerland, other accelerators are much…
G’Day all This year COVID-19 pandemic has brought changes and challenges to our lives, experiencing something that is very difficult and unpredictable. My thoughts and prayers to everyone who has been affected by this terrible virus. With the year 2020 ending in the next two weeks, on behalf of CCAP members, I would like to wish you and your family a happy Holiday Season, Merry Christmas and a joyous New Year. May the holiday season fill your home with joy, your heart with love, and your life with laughter. Thank you for all your kind support, commitment and dedication in these unprecedented times in 2020 and hoping that 2021 would be better for all of us. Stay healthy and take care! Warm wishes
We look back over the work of the last four months in an article designed for you to share.Over the last three months the Plain Language Guide editorial board have been developing a guide to product data for manufacturers. As part of that process, over the last three months we have written articles and held open zoom calls about them, inviting contributions from across industry. We have also held a number of valuable conversations offline with individuals and organisations. This article describes this work and how you can get involved in the production of the Guide. About the Project We are writing a Plain Language Guide for the CEOs of Manufacturers of all sizes and their advocates, in order for them to prepare for the changes to come in their industry. Key Messages of the guide are: Why…
Watch the video of the call about the seventh article in our series on manufacturers' product data, recorded on 11th December 2020This video is a recording of a call to discuss the seventh article in the series about manufacturers product data. You can read the article and subscribe to further updates here: Avoiding Failure: Product Data Post Grenfell Join the conversation on the blog, on the calls (registration link in each blog post) or via LinkedIn and Twitter using the hashtag #ManufacturersPLG.
13th December 2020 - The Institution of Engineering and Technology Brunei Darussalam Network held its 23 rd Annual General Meeting (AGM) last Sunday, 13 th December 2020 at Radisson Hotel, Brunei. The AGM received the Chairman’s Report and the Treasurer’s Report for the Session 2019/2020, and also the election of the new Office Bearers, Management Committee Members and Auditors for the term 2020/2021. The new management committee is comprised of professionals from both the government and private institutions. Ir. Haji Jailani bin Haji Buntar has been elected as the Honorary Chairman for the Session 2020/2021. Also elected was Dk Roselawati binti Pg Haji Halus as the new Honorary Vice Chairman, Muhd Aminuddin bin Mohd. Yussof as the Honorary Secretary, Major (R) Wan Farhan bin Ibrahim as the…
“The current damage taking place on earth is the equivalent to 5 atomic bombs going off every second” explains Dr Emily Grossman, Honorary STEM Ambassador, internationally acclaimed science author, public speaker and TV personality, at the IET Central London Network Christmas webinar hosted by David Tabor. Global temperature records started in about 1850, the last 4 years have had the highest average hottest years recorded. This means that since the start of the industrial revolution, the Earth has increased its heat energy by 1°C - that's like 5 atomic bombs going off every second - and this trend is increasing. Other trends show that whilst solar radiation is not increasing, CO2 levels are proportionally increasing to align with the 1 degree heat increase, prompting Milankovitch-Cycle theories…
This event focus is primarily on students, early career, young professionals with the presentation focus being aimed at this audience. This session is designed to introduce the main and basic concepts of railway signalling and why this is important in such a safety-critical system like railways. Our speaker is Nick Rodney. Nick is a senior railway signalling engineer with more than 25 years of experience in engineering projects around the world and has recently moved to the education sector as the senior curriculum lead at the national college for advanced transport and infrastructure. Nick will explain how this has been progressed since the beginning and how young engineers can be involved in this demanding and innovative field. These online events are to help us inspire, inform and influence…
On Wednesday 18 th November the IET Young Professionals Network hosted their first virtual careers event called: Level Up Your Career. Click to read all about the panellists and the kind of advice that was imparted at the event... On Wednesday 18 th November the IET Young Professionals Network hosted their first virtual careers event called: Level Up Your Career. This event brought a panel together to speak about their experiences including: who they are, what their current role is, their career journey to today, what they wish they knew at the beginning of their career and other Student/Young Professional friendly advice. The panel was made of a people at different stages in their career and from different backgrounds. This ranged from Industry to Academia, and from early career to retirement…
Railway Young Professional Webinar Series These event focus is primarily on students, early career, young professionals with the presentation focus being aimed at this audience. These online events are to help us inspire, inform and influence the global community of young professional engineers, supporting and promoting technology innovation to meet the needs of society. We hope to contribute to content that young professionals will find interesting and useful and improve communications to young professionals. Friday 4 December, 13-14:30 Railway Engineering a New Horizon to Successful Future Career Andrew Boagey who is an expert in railway systems engineering with more than 25 years of experience in managing railway projects and leading engineering programmes will introduce the concept of…
Project Management and Quality Management are seen as being complimentary bodies of knowledge as both disciplines seek stakeholder satisfaction based upon the underlying aim of delivery which is on time, on budget and achieves all of the attributes as defined in the project's statement of requirements (SoR). Project Quality Management (PQM) is defined as the process through which quality is managed throughout the project. However, what constitutes 'Quality' varies to some extent by the client's expectation of the project deliverables which can carry a broad spectrum of requirements. This blog post seeks to offer an understanding of what PQM is and how it compliments the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) in the delivery of given projects. In PQM there are three distinct phases…
Local networks in the UK have been busy hosting webinars since May 2020. If you have missed some of them, or would like to have the opportunity to watch them again, please see below what's available. Don't forget to also head over to the Technical Network Hub where you can register for upcoming webinars or watch on-demand. Gain CPD and learn about the latest developments in transport, healthcare and communications. Smart Buildings 26 May 20 East Midlands Network An Appreciation of Quantum Computing 3 Jun 20 Sussex Network Simple cyber security – stay safe online 8 Jun 20 Hereford & Worcester Network Smash your career goals 10 Jun 20 London Network Electric Vehicle Charging 16 Jun 20 North Yorkshire Aerial mapping 17 Jun 20 Surrey Network The Near Future of Conversational AI 18 Jun 20 Berkshire…
If you wish to attend an event, please ensure you register and book a place via the link on the event page. This will ensure you are sent a Zoom link via IET systems. We are currently working on a You Tube page so recordings of talks can be downloaded. Will be available in Mid Dec 2020.
What is happening to post-Grenfell regulation and what construction product manufacturers should consider The Plain Language Guide project began four years ago with an attempt to look at the journey of product data through the construction and built environment ecosystem, with the Product Data Working Group set up by the UK BIM Alliance. That project reported in 2018 and you can read the report here. From the beginning this work on Product Data, both the working group report and the Plain Language Guide , was inspired by the need to address the challenges raised by the Grenfell tragedy, that has shocked so many of us and challenged us to think again about how our industry works. We’ve left writing specifically about Grenfell quite late in the series because we wanted to set out some principles…
At the IET, volunteers are at the heart of our organisation. International Volunteer Day is the perfect opportunity to reach out to the volunteers you work with and thank them for their hard work and support! In 2020 our volunteers have helped us achieve a lot throughout a very testing year! We have over 4500 IET volunteers who this year have: Helped 2,600 people gain registration accredited degrees globally that reach over 160,000 students awarded 185 scholarships awarded 13 achievement medals You can read more about the incredible work our volunteers do and how they are making a difference on our Volunteer Hub . Please help us celebrate our volunteers and thank them for their dedication by sharing our thank you video on social media – look out for it on twitter @TheIET. Also, as part of…
Did you know about our webinars?Keep an eye out for our latest upcoming webinars! All our past webinars are available to view On Demand (please note you'll be asked to register to view these): Peter Wells Memorial Lecture Annual Healthcare Lecture AHT 2020
The IET 2020 Mediterranean Conference on Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution and Energy Conversion was held virtually between the 9th and 11th November 2020. The conference was originally planned to be held with physical attendance in Paphos, Cyprus. The 12th international IET MEDPOWER conference was organized by the IET Cyprus Local Network with the contribution of the IET Greece and Malta networks. It provided the opportunity to engineers, scientists, technicians, researchers, scholars and companies, to exchange ideas and discuss the latest research achievements in academia and industry. The conference also provided a forum to create opportunities for networking and collaboration through 17 technical paper sessions. 4 Keynote speeches, 4 Project sessions, and 2 plenary sessions,…
As I listened to a recent IET Webinar relative to this topic delivered by our Chairman David Perton it struck me that this topic is not often covered routinely in our forums or events. As I continued to listen several questions naturally arose some of which I list below: - What is Quality within the Project Space? - What are the cultural considerations that exist when seeking to drive a quality focus? - What Quality Tools are available for use? - What types of data exist and does this govern how Quality tools are used? - What are the distinctions between Compliance, Governance, Assurance, and Quality Control? As a Chartered Engineer and a Chartered Quality Professional I feel that I am able to offer some guidance on these issues. Going forward I will offer a monthly vignette of some of these…
From December 2020, the IET Tribology Technical Network are starting a new initiative to introduce the members of their Executive team to the wider Tribology community. We start this month with an introduction to our colleague Kranthi Maniam who has a doctorate in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. Besides the research compatibility, Kranthi has experience of setting a high industry benchmarks in its core competency by developing the products/process from lab/pilot scale to industrial scale and acknowledging the efforts. He also has industrial experience in an engineering consultancy and R& D industries such as Atotech and served as an Assistant General Manager- Technical at Vishnu Group, India. Kranthi’s primary research and engineering activities…
Reboot-Blog Alert! Rudolf has been re-fitting his fellow team with smart Covid-19 tracing mechanisms and also ensuring their sleighs have Covid-19 secure hygiene systems in place, he's updated the entire sleigh-fleet with new Industry 4.0 based GPS tracking devices. All software and hardware have also just completed vulnerability testing and he's working with the elves to address the remediation plan against the online delivery system that Santa engaged in earlier this yea r . Santa is accountable and responsible to ensure that all individuals will receive gifts this xmas - Rudolf and the elves are working through the risk register to help Santa reduce risks identified to make sure deliveries remain successful. Santa is a founding member of the Inter-Galactic-Tech-Standards (IGTS) steering…
IET YPS Malaysia 150 T-shirt Design Competition IET 150 th anniversary year has officially begun. IET Young Professionals Section (YPS) Malaysia kickstarting the IET 150 th celebration in Malaysia with this awesome T-shirt Design Competition. Entry Period: 29 th Nov 2020 - 17th Jan 2021 (submission before 12 noon) Who can participate: Competition is open to public (IET members and non-members from Malaysia) Prizes: First prize – Lazada Voucher RM250 + Digital Cert Second prize – Lazada Voucher RM150 + Digital Cert Third prize – Lazada Voucher RM50 + Digital Cert Notifications of Winners: Dec / January 2021 How to participate For T-shirt design, format MUST be in .AI and .JPEG (both required). Send your T-shirt design together with registration form to: wengmun.ng@ietvolunteer.org ; CC: TengHwang…
#PurpleLightUp Published #PurpleLightUp is a global movement that celebrates and draws attention to the economic contribution of the 386 million disabled employees around the world. 3 December is #PurpleLightUp day
Watch the video of the call about the sixth article in our series on manufacturers' product data, recorded on 20 November 2020This video is a recording of a call to discuss the sixth article in the series about manufacturers product data. You can read the article and subscribe to further updates here: Essential First Steps To Gathering, Coordinating And Organising Manufacturers’ Product Data Join the conversation on the blog, on the calls (registration link in each blog post) or via LinkedIn and Twitter using the hashtag #ManufacturersPLG.
In normal times we publish a programme booklet jointly with the IET Kent Network and the IMechE South Eastern Region. Also included are events held by the Retired Chartered Engineer Association (Sussex). For the 2020/21 season it was decided not to publish a booklet, so we have this list of events for the IET Sussex Network and links to other Networks and Institutions can be found here . At least until March 2021 all lectures are delivered via webinar and unless otherwise stated lectures start at 7pm. We will review the situation with regard to later lectures nearer the time. Entries on our home page have links that will take you to the place where you can register for the event. If the lecture is delivered via a webinar you will then be sent a link. Date Location Title Speaker Synopsis…
