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  • Digital Transformation, The Pragmatic Approach To Industry 4.0 Implementation, Productivity Boosts & Quick Wins

    The “Digital Age” is a hot topic with possible future applications and implications being discussed daily across popular media. Where do you start amongst the buzz words of “autonomation”, “Industry 4.0”, “Big Data”? How can the fantastic sci fi solutions being promised be used in real life business applications?    Some would say that the future is already upon us. Who would have thought at the start of the computing age that our lives would managed by the small gadgets in our pocket? Some of us barely use phones simply to call someone anymore. We’re using them to manage our home and work lives all the time, and it’s become commonplace to see people using them to manage maintenance, track medical scans, and all sorts of applications where we benefit from having technology at the point of use…

    Gemma Hadley
    Gemma Hadley

  • CC-AP Meeting At Taipei

    A CC-AP meeting was held at Medison Hotel, Taipei on 29 April 2017. In addition to regular discussion on CC-AP operational matters, in this meeting, the upcoming Community Volunteer Conference 2017 (CVC 2017) that going to be held at Auckland, New Zealand in August 2017 has been tabled as one of the key items for discussion to finalise the local arrangement, logistics preparation and the event schedule.  The CC-AP committee are very much appreciated to the attandence of Taipei Local Network committee members to join us for a casual lunch meeting and networking. Particularly to Prof. Jen-Shiun Chiang, the Chairman of Taipei Local Network who has given a presentation about the latest development of Taipei Local Network and their past and upcoming activities to the CC-AP committee members. Further…

    Matthew Teow
    Matthew Teow

  • 2017 STEM And The Arts Career Showcase

    For the fourth year running, volunteers from the SoCal Local Network  partnered with OC Vital Link (@vitallinkoc) to particpate in their three day STEM and Arts Career Showcase as part of the 2017 OC Fair Imaginology event held at the OC Fair & Event Center , Costa Mesa, April 21 - 23, 2017. OC Vital Link is a California based not-for-profit whose vision is that all students will graduate with an understanding of their career potential, and through interactive programs, expand their resources to select their future career, and their mission is to be the link between industry professionals and educational organizations to prepare students for the successful transition to a meaningful career and help them explore, discover, and connect to their future career.   The IET Booth at the 2017 STEM…

    David
    David

  • Member news

    Member news link: http://email.ietinfo.org/q/11njKEen4dfo88tgkQyLACY/wv Some interesting and perhaps controversial engagements reported in the UK centric member news. Some good events, particularly the IET Junior Board. We have the same problems right here in Canada so why can't we do some horizontal integration across the IET globally and have this program internaional in scope?

    David Mann
    David Mann

  • Approaching A Ransomware Compromise.

    The chosen theme of field based devices and their ability to provide commodity services can only be successful if the core infrastructure and the devices themselves remain operational. Ransomware was a reoccurring theme at the cloud expo reported on a few blogs ago and can effect devices so that business services are diminished. Below are some points for review on responding to a ransomware compromise: Based on the size of your geographical network, a two, three or n tiered approach can be used to respond to ransomware attack. Prioritisation will be key to be effective, such as ; (i) Identify effected/reported core business networks, then engage in your DR plan to bring online backed-up data in a clean environment. This will let your business continue its operations, albeit within limits. Your…

  • John Logie Baird Lecture and excitement at Savoy Place

    The MMC TPN held our annual John Logie Baird lecture at Savoy Place yesterday in the extremely nice surroundings of the Turing Lecture Theatre.  The event was a great success and earlier in the day we thought all the press outside Savoy Place must have been there because of the excitement generated by the lecture!  However, it turned out to be because the Labour Party shadow cabinet and NEC were meeting in Savoy Place.  If you take a look at newspaper reports you'll see Jeremy Corbyn on the steps at Savoy Place and also some pictures of the cameraman whose foot was run over by Corbyn's car!  Next year perhaps we can generate the press excitement on our own without needing to involve political parties.

    Graham Turner
    Graham Turner

  • THREE IET ACTIVITIES IN A WEEK, .. BAHRAIN LOCAL NETWORK

    Three IET Activities in a Week, .. Bahrain Local Network   This week was a busy week for IET Bahrain local network.  Indeed, the local network was busy either via participating, or in organizing events.   The three events are:    The first was on Sunday, the 7 th of May, and it was related to organizing an event about (Advanced Engineering Applications of Operations Research).  This event was presented by two distinguished academics from (College of Information Technology, University of Bahrain).   The event was attended by a number of   academics and engineers, and IET YP in Bahrain, whom they helped in setting and the running the event.  The second event came in terms of participating, that was on 8 th of May (Monday) morning till afternoon.  IET Bahrain local network was invited to talk…

    Prof. Ebrahim Mattar
    Prof. Ebrahim Mattar

  • IET TT LN 2017 LOCAL FINALS - SATURDAY MAY 27, 2017 AT 8.30 A.M. - UWI, ST. AUGUSTINE

    (IET) Trinidad & Tobago Local Network will be hosting the 2017 Present Around the World (PATW) local finals on Saturday 27th May 2017 and wishes to extend an invitation to you and potential participants. The winner of the local final will have an all expense paid opportunity to participate in the Americas PATW final in either Canada or USA 2017 (to be determined). The winner of the Americas Final will then have an all expense paid opportunity to participate in the PATW World Finals London in November 2017.   For more information on the IET PATW and our local network the following links are accessible:       http://www.theiet.org/patw Jennifer Maraj - Secretary IET TT LN (jmaraj@theiet.org)

    J. Maraj
    J. Maraj

  • An engineer’s guide to product development, patents and intellectual property

    Are you looking to protect your inventions from competitors and learn how to make best possible use of them? Or are you looking to master some thinking techniques for generating ideas, developing patented products and finding your way around other people's patents? If so, our ‘engineer’s guide to product development, patents and intellectual property’ training course could help you!   This one day course which is aligned with UK-SPEC competence B, covers several different areas including the following: •  What is intellectual property / patents; •  Different kinds of intellectual property and how they are useful; •  How to read patents; •  Stepping through the patent application process; •  What is TRIZ?; •  How TRIZ can help you protect and strengthen your patents; • Applying the Trends of…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Volunteers needed to help out on IET stand at RIAT 2017

    The Aerospace TPN is planning to link up again with the Swindon Network in relation to RIAT 2017  at RAF Fairford.   The joint stand has several interactive activities to promote STEM subjects to the complete age range from 5 to 19 and provide advice and guidance to other interested people and groups as well, on the Aerospace TPN, careers in aerospace/aviation, professional registration/membership etc.   We have morning and afternoon slots for staffing the stand based on the show being open from 8am to 8pm Friday, Saturday and Sunday (14th, 15th & 16th July 2017).  The times would be 8am – 2pm (morning) and 2pm – 8pm (afternoon) for each day.   If you would like to be involved in the event this year, then please reply letting me know which day(s) you can help and your preference on morning…

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • Speaker Highlight - The 3rd Annual Future Of Medicine – The Role Of Doctors In 2027

    Join us at  The 3rd Annual Future of Medicine – The Role Of Doctors In 2027  hear Professor Shafi Ahmed,  Laparoscopic and Colorectal Surgeon speak on " Disrupting Medical Education"   See Professor Shafi Ahmed’s biography below:   Professor Shafi Ahmed is a laparoscopic colorectal surgeon at The Royal London and St Bartholomew’s Hospitals. As a dedicated trainer, educator, and Associate Dean of Bart’s Medical School, he was awarded the Silver Scalpel award in 2015 as the best national trainer in surgery by the Association of Surgeons in Training. He is currently serving as an elected member of council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and is a faculty member of the International Foundation for the Advancement of Surgical Telementoring (IFAST)   He is always looking at ways of translating…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Nuffield Research Placements are looking for project providers

    Nuffield Research Placements provide over 1,000 students each year with the opportunity to work alongside professional scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians from a variety of universities, commercial companies, voluntary organisations and research institutions.  Year 12 students (studying in their first year of their first post-16 course) will spend 4 to 6 weeks over the summer holidays in a placement where they will complete a STEM research project that contributes to the work of their host.   The students will have gained good results at GCSE (at least 5 A* to B grades) and will be looking to study a STEM subject at university or have a STEM career.  They are enthusiastic and motivated, and historically have produced outstanding work for their project providers.  We prepare…

    Julie
    Julie

  • Science and the Universe!

    If you were watching BBC News this morning, you may have seen one of the Particle Accelerator Network team members, Graeme Burt, from Lancaster University,  talking about the Large Hadron Collider - which has recently undergone a mayor new, state of the art refit which will produce more collisions and therefore allow discoveries to be made faster. If you missed it, don't worry, you can catch it on IPlayer - fast forward to 2 hours 57 minutes.

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • Control & Automation Doctoral Dissertation Prize 2017

    We are once again looking for nominations for our Doctoral Dissertation Prize - recognising a student for their research excellence in the field of Control & Automation.  Do you know a student who deserves to win this year - the prize money on offer is £500! The award is open to all relevant students who were awarded their PhD in the general area of Control and Automation, at a UK university, between 1st October 2015 up to 30 September 2017 and nominations are now open.   Nominations must be made via the nomination form which is available for download in our files section and returned by 30 September 2017. Need any more encouragement to nominate someone?   Read what our previous winners have to say.  Giordano Scarciotti, 2016 winner “I am delighted and honoured to receive the 2016 IET Control…

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • Women In Engineering – STEM.

    Women In Engineering – STEM. Bahrain University if organizing a one day specific event, about Women In Engineering – STEM.  This event will run from 9:00 am till 3:00 pm, Monday 8 th of May.   The event will be attended by high profile directors, women in Tech and engineering,  other specialties, and officials in Bahrain, in addition to a number of speakers from the region.  Two IET female members from Bahrain will be participating also in this event.  This include the IET fellow Dr. Marium Jamaan (as a keynote speaker), and MIET Dr. Hessa Al-Juanid, from IET Bahrain local network committee (as an organizing member).    As IET member and a member of Bahrain local committee,  I personally have been also asked to speak about the IET in its global prospects, and its support to women in terms of…

    Prof. Ebrahim Mattar
    Prof. Ebrahim Mattar

  • Retired Members Visit The Wymeswold Solar Farm In Leicestershire

    Wymeswold Airfield Solar Farm is one of the largest solar power projects in the country. Rated at 35MW, it occupies 150  acres of the WW2 Wymeswold Airfield. It is owned by the Foresight Group and in April hosted a well-attended visit by a group from the IET East Midlands Retired Members section.     The visit started with an excellent lunch at the Windmill Inn in Wymeswold, after which Saadat Ullam, Foresight’s Asset Manager for the site, gave a presentation about the site and what we could expect to see. There are 130,000 individual solar panels on the site, arranged into blocks of 1.2MW. The DC power from each block is converted to AC by solid-state inverters and transformed up to 33kV. The site has a single 33kV connection to the local Grid.   When we arrived at the site, Roy Strong showed…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • IET NorCal learns all about Dropbox

    On Saturday, April 29 th , Tom Manville gave one of the most interesting presentations that the IET NorCal committee has had the pleasure of hosting to date. About 20 people attentively listened to his one and a half hour discussion on the architecture and technologies behind Dropbox.   His talk started by highlighting the size of the data problem that the engineers at Dropbox work with. For example, Dropbox has about 500 million users by the latest count and those users had access to about 500 petabytes of storage in 2016; a significant increase from 40 petabytes in 2012. 500 petabytes is a 5 followed by 17 zero’s worth of bytes. To put that into perspective, that is enough storage to hold 14,000 times the amount of text held in all of the books in the Library of Congress. (It’s a lot!). …

    Allan Casey
    Allan Casey

  • The North West Electrification Programme - Crewe

    If you didn't make it along to the IET Railway  North West Electrification Programme event in Crewe, have a read over what you missed. The North West Electrification Programme The engineering team from Network Rail give an overview of the background to the programme, how the option development and designs has been progressed, and  what the next steps are for the programme. Background The electrification programme in the North West will see over 300km of lines electrified, improving connections between towns and cities in our region and beyond. The first two phases of electrification are now complete with passengers enjoying new electric services from Manchester Airport to Scotland, Liverpool, and between Huyton and Wigan with subsequent phases well underway.  The talk covered Phase 3, 4 and…

    Lynsay Callaghan
    Lynsay Callaghan

  • Surgical Robotics - 27th April

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  • Leadership Program 2017 Workshop #1

    The first workshop of the 2017 IET Leadership Programme took place on the 22nd of April. Following the tradition of years past MBTI was the first subject on the billet. The Curtin Engineering Pavillion was a peerless site for the subject, the space feeling modern and open, with various engineering project of the students littering the ground floor. Hazel, the presenter from AIM, gave an engaging speech to the students, artfully weaving into her talk the likes of Father Ted , Spongebob , and Monty Python . All were laughing as she related anecdotes regarding her INFP husband's exploits.   Each student determined their Myers-Briggs personality type by sessions end, and had gained an insight into the thought patterns of their peers. Unlike previous years, dominated as they were by STJs, a wide…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • New Book In The Control, Robotics And Sensors Series

    The latest edition to the Control, Robotics and Sensors series is the Control of Mechatronics Systems, due to be published this month: Control of Mechatronic Systems Author: Levent Guvenc, Bilin Aksun Guvenc, Burak Demirel and Mumin Tolga Emirler This comprehensive book will introduce advanced students, with only a basic background in control theory, to an array of techniques they can easily implement and use to meet the required performance specifications for their mechatronic applications. Publication date: May 2017 15% early bird discount*: £72.25 / $114.75 Price: £85 / $135 You can see all the books available in this series online  One of the books available is on Cyber-Physical System Design with Sensor Networking Technologies published in 2016 and authored by Sherali Zeadally and Nafaâ…

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • UEA Enterprise Centre Tour

    Thursday 4th May, 18:00-20:00 The Enterprise Centre, TEC Lecture Theatre, UEA, NR4 7TJ The Enterprise Centre is one of the UKs most sustainable buildings and is one of the region’s hub for entrepreneurs, innovators and businesses that are committed to building a low carbon future.  Led by a member of The Enterprise Centre delivery team, this presentation and tour will provide detailed insight into the design, construction and operational processes of this truly unique building. Located at the gateway to the University of East Anglia, this 3,400 m2 ground-breaking building was the first large scale building in the UK to achieve both Passivhaus Certification and BREEAM Outstanding, two of the most rigorous sustainable built environment standards.  Through the innovative use of natural and recycled…

    Alex Barrett
    Alex Barrett

  • A Vision for Energy Storage

    On  Wednesday 10th May, Mark Goudie will be delivering a talk for IET London at Savoy Place on "A Vision for Energy Storage."  It is going to be a great event and we hope to see you there.  You can find out more details online . Did you know that the IET Standards team are publishing a code of practice on electrical energy storage systems, which is due out later this year?  The code will give in-depth guidance and aims to review the underlying technical, operational and safety issues relating to the application of electrical energy storage systems in buildings and power systems.    The scope covers all types of electrical and electrochemical energy storage systems; integration into low voltage power systems; industrial, commercial and domestic applications and systems aligned with existing…

  • Field Robots, Cloud Networks And Next Generation Automation. (IET Bedfordshire And Hertfordshire).

    Focusing on the theme of field based technologies; I took opportunity to attend a coherent event hosted by the IET Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire network. Derek Long of Cambridge Consultants explained how the concepts of cloud can be delivered to automate the functions of warehouse activities using robots over a private network using unlicensed radio frequencies.  A few blogs ago, I attended a seminar that reviewed how edge technologies will need to provide scale, quality and immediate responses to effectively manage its field nodes in order for them to provide quality services. Keeping in line with the theme of field based technologies and cloud networks; this event described a working solution of robots, networks and next generation warehouse automation. The solution created by Cambridge…

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