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  • This Is Direct Television From Alexandra Palace!

    If you’re a frequent user of the Great Northern train line out of Kings Cross then no doubt you’re quite familiar with the sight of Alexandra Palace sitting atop the hill as you trundle past Finsbury park and on your way northwards. The palace is known for being an outstanding and successful event venue but I wonder how many passing commuters are aware of the part it played in the history and birth of television…? Often referred to as ‘Ally Pally’ or ‘The People’s Palace’, Alexandra Palace was opened in 1873 as a centre for public recreational activities. Unfortunately just 16 days after its grand opening, it was destroyed by a fire that broke out in the central dome. The palace was quickly rebuilt however and re-opened on 1st May 1875 now containing a concert hall, art galleries, a…

  • Speaker Highlight - Professor Alison Noble

    The Healthcare Technologies TPN is delighted to announce that once again we are collaborating with the IPEM and IMechE BMeD to run the Peter Wells Memorial Lecture. This year the inaugural lecture will be given by Professor Alison Noble of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Oxford on the subject of 'Human Image Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, and Shifting Perceptions of Medical Ultrasound”. For more information on this event and to register please visit the event webpage . Professor Alison Noble Biography Professor Alison Noble OBE FREng FRS is the Technikos Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Oxford University Department of Engineering Science, Associate Head of MPLS Division (Industry and Innovation), and a Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford. She is…

    Gemma Hadley
    Gemma Hadley

  • CAWE 2018 - Speakers

    The  The 6th Colloquium on Antennas, Wireless and Electromagnetics - CAWE   event is just a couple of weeks away! This event will provide a look at some early stage research on antennas and propagation, 5G, IoT and related topics.  We have an exciting line up of speakers for the event including: Richard Rudd Richard Rudd is a Director at Plum with a particular interest in the modelling, measurement and underlying physics of radiowave propagation. Richard has managed many studies that have led to the development of new propagation models, generally based on measurements made in-house. He has developed a range of experimental equipment ranging from wideband channel sounders and bi-static radar systems to long-term data loggers and software defined radio systems. Richard has been an active participant…

    Former Staff Member
    Former Staff Member

  • TV Connect is now in full swing!

    On Tuesday the MMC ran two workshops at Savoy Place for TV Connect delegates and today, the first of the two exhibition and conference days, we have been raising the IET and MMC profile at TV Connect.  We have a stand - B52, very easy to remember - so do please come and see us if you are at TV Connect.  Today Ian Nock, who ran one of the workshops, was a panel member during a 'Codec Wars' discussion session, and at lunchtime Ian, Bob Gentry and I set up a around table discussion, which for logistical reasons as much as anything was rather poorly attended.  However Rikki who has been running our stand has found there is a good degree of interest in the IET in general and the MMC in particular, so it will be interesting to see how much post show follow up we get.

    Graham Turner
    Graham Turner

  • Active And Passive 2018

    The Active and Passive RF Devices Seminar was held this year on 30th April 2018 in Savoy Place, London The delegates were treated to a full day of speakers discussing a wide variety of topics – if you were there, tell us what was the most interesting thing you learnt during the day! During the breaks we had a poster session and networking – it was great to see so many people discussing the posters with the presenters! The day ended on a high with presentation to Wenzhang Zhang for Best Student Paper! The prize was a laptop, kindly donated by Toshiba UK – well done Wenzhang! Thanks to our exhibitors from National Instruments for joining us and thanks also to our speakers, presenters and all the delegates for coming along The TPN plan to run this annual event again next year – make sure to keep…

    Former Staff Member
    Former Staff Member

  • IET Techbite On Sustaining Airworthiness In Ageing Aircraft

    Following on from our second seminar on ‘Sustaining Airworthiness in Ageing Aircraft’ which was joint with MOD Abbeywood in Bristol, the Aerospace Network have now produced this  tech bite on the subject. They’d also like to thank Giles Huby, Managing Director, Copernicus Technology, Professor Steve Reed, Technical Fellow at DSTL and Jeff Jones, Safety Consultant, QinetiQ for their contributions to this document. Please feel free to share this with your colleagues/contacts. You can still catch up with the filmed presentations from the 2016 event here.

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • Cars, Cars And More Cars – Haven’t I Been Here Before?

    A few weeks ago, I experienced a case of deja vu at the Coventry Museum of Transport when I came across their pre-war collection of cars.  Preferring vintage cars (a Bugatti T35 over a Veyron any day for me!) I always seem to gravitate as if on remote control to these vehicles.  I realised of course that I’d been there the previous year when the ARTS TPN held their first ever seminar on ‘Electrification in Motorsports’. With the 2017 event such a success, it was never in any doubt that they should organise a follow-on seminar in 2018.  Angus Lyon our lead volunteer, linked up with the Motorsports Industry Association (MIA) and together they came up with a great line-up of speakers.   Angus started the seminar with a presentation on ‘Inside Electric Motorsports’.   Steve Sapsford from Ricardo…

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • DIY FARADAY CHALLENGE ROUND 1 - 29TH APRIL 2018

    Sunday, 29th April 2018, Bandar Seri Begawan. Total of 48 students from 8 local secondary schools participated in DIY Faraday Challenge Round 1 that was held in Universiti Teknologi Brunei.Sunday, 29th April 2018, Bandar Seri Begawan. Total of 48 students from 8 local secondary schools participated in DIY Faraday Challenge Round 1 that was held in Universiti Teknologi Brunei. This annual event, organised by The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Brunei Darussalam Local Network, gave an opportunity to the students to flourish their knowledge and creativity to solve problem based on real life engineering work. This challenge also provided a platform for the participants in each school to build a functioning prototype which was demonstrated at the end of the event. Chung Hwa Middle…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • National Aerospace Library Book Sale 24 May 2018

    An  Aviation Book Sale is to be held at the National Aerospace Library  at Farnborough  on Thursday May 24  2018, 10:30 – 4:30pm. Entry is free and a vailable for purchase on the day will be many  100s  of new / second-hand donated books  and  heaps  of aviation magazines - a  wide range of  aviation history books, autobiographies, biographies, histories of  individual  aircraft  types  /  aircraft companies,  old  journals,  books on the  history of  RAF, technical textbooks etc. - a sheer abundance of aviation titles.    Most of the books will be sold between £1.00 and  £5.00  and the magazines will be 25p each or 5 for a £1.00;  the  money raised from the sale of these  donated  books will be used towards the conservation of historic aviation material in the Library’s archives.  This year…

    Anne Locker
    Anne Locker

  • Technical Visit -- Darlington Nuclear Facility

    Visit Mock up taining facility

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • PhD Award 2018 - Seeking nominations

    So, it's that time of year again when we start to look for nominations for our Doctoral Dissertation Prize. The Prize recognises 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 2016 up to 30 September 2018 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 1st October 2018. Need any more encouragement to nominate someone?   Read what our previous winners have to say in our blog section.   Last year's winner Wenlong Ming had…

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • Meet Our Community Members

    I'm always fascintated to hear about our wonderful and diverse community members and how they came to be doing the job they do today, so, I thought I'd hand over this blog to David Leng .   David joined the platform in April 2016 and below he tells us more about himself. Looking back on my working life two things strike me: I’ve been incredibly fortunate to have always managed to get paid to do things that I would actually spend my own time doing; and secondly that being in the IET gives me a genuine sense of pride. Not in a big headed, “I’m the great I am” way, but as a quiet achievement after putting in a lot of spade work. I left school at 16 to work at British Steel, Rotherham.  It was great to be earning a wage, but after a while I was frustrated at not knowing where the various engineering…

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • Predictably Irrational. (IET Harrow).

    In Out In Out ...Opt it all about!. Attending the Predictably Irrational, The Impact Of Relativity event organised by Harrow IET, David Chong from GSMA discussed the different ways of 'opting in and opting out' in numerous consent based scenarios. An interesting stat presented showed that more countries within the EU had a larger number of health donors than for example in the UK - the main difference? Persons are under the Opt Out framework. The session covered that human behaviours can be predicted to choose relative outcomes based off presented data - including how the decision making process can be tailored to a give a focused outcome. Whilst this is typically seen in UX Design efforts, the broader digital world is also going through an Opt In/Opt Out overhaul - namely, GDPR. We know that…

    Rimesh Patel
    Rimesh Patel

  • A Is For Academic Study – Support From The IET (TWAVES)

    Although many people complete their studies first (whether it is a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree etc.) and then look for work experience opportunities or employment, some others do two things at the same time and go for extramural studies (or online learning) and work (sometimes even full time!) as well, with others completing sandwich programmes which offer industrial placements as part of the qualification, or even work based learning qualifications. Some people would even consider working and doing a PhD at the same time or they would simply focus on their doctoral research - on condition that they can afford it or get enough funding. There are so many options…. but which route is the best one? If you wish to share your experience with others please leave your comments below. Again, despite…

    Matylda
    Matylda

  • Get To Know The Auckland Network Committee And Thank You!

    It was great meeting up with the Auckland Network committee: Old friends and many new faces : ) Learned about the good activities the Network is organising:  Project X, Technical talks and visits.  YPS will organise the PATW NZ Final.   Congratulations to Julia who is now taking on a bigger role:  Vice Chairperson for the ANZ Young Professionals Campaign!! During the meeting, an Outstanding Volunteer Certificate was presented to Frank Lewis who contributed a lot to the IET, thanks Frank!!! It is also very interesting to find out the diverse cultural backgrounds of the Committee Members, they all live in Auckland but some of them have families or originally from other countries: Warren (Chairman) - South Africa George (Treasurer) - Sri Lanka Chris (Committee) - New Zealand (Palmerston North…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Technical Talk: Big Data Analytics and SMEs 21st April

    The Institute of Engineering and Technology, Malaysia Local Network (IET) has successfully organised a Technical Talk on Big Data Analytics and SMEs at Symphony Suites Hotel, 41 Lapangan Symphony Business park, Jalan Lapangan Symphoney, 31350 Ipoh, Perak on Thursday, 21st April 2018. We are pleased to record the total Attendance of 18 pax consist of 5 IET members and 13 non-members. Present are our Committee Member Ir. Chan Cheong Loong as the moderator for this event.  The Speaker for the event is Dr. Tan Su Wei who is a Principal Consultant at Iconix Consulting Sdn Bhd.  Dr. Tan has more than ten years of teaching and research experience in the area of telecommunications. His research interest is in the general field of data analytics, data communications and wireless networking, in which…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • IET WA History & Get To Know Our Culturally Diverse Team!

    Do you know that IET WA historical links (previously known as STEE) can be dated back to 1886? A copy of IET WA meeting minutes in 1886 At the STEE Council meeting 11 November 1886 it was resolved that Mr D J McGauran, Member, having indicated his willingness to accept such office be and is hereby appointed Local Honorary Secretary & Treasurer of the Society in Western Australia.  Diverse Cultural Backgrounds of the team: The Committee members come from a diverse cultural background and is such a great team!  There are about 16 - 20 committee members.  They have done excellent events such as Bike Charger Event at different universities, Leadership programme, How to win a job, Engineering Challenge.  3 On Campus groups established:  UWA, ECU and Curtin. They plan to set up more On Campus groups…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • IET Bowling Tournament 2018 - IET Malaysia President Cup

    The Bowling Tournament is organized to create a platform of social event for the IET members and non-IET members. This is also created to make a networking session between IET and other engineering institutions, also to spread the awareness of Institution of Engineering and Technology to the public through the Facebook Promotion. This Bowling event creates opportunity to enhance the engagement between IET members of Main Committee, YPS and On Campuses. Group pictures of all the participants The event had participations from the Student On-Campus, Main Committee and external institutions that joined us. The external institutions received our Event Promotional Advertising through the emails and Facebook. The participation of the day including On-Campus from Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Universiti…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Cyprus Local Network Supports F1 Education Initiative

    Are you keen to get involved in a project that gives young people ‘hands-on experience’ of engineering?  The Cyprus Local Network did just this when they recently supported the F1 in Schools Cyprus National Final.   F1 in Schools, an Education Partner of the IET, runs a challenge which requires teams of schoolchildren to design, manufacture and race their own model F1 car.  Competitors follow processes used by real Formula One teams, including Computer Aided Design (CAD), and wind and smoke tunnel testing. During the Cyprus National Final, held on 24-25 March 2018 at The English School, winning teams from regional finals exhibited and raced their cars.   Alkis Spyrou, a member of the IET Cyprus Local Network said... “Our local network wanted to support the competition because we felt it’s very…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Smart Cities Symposium, Photos, are uploaded

    Smart Cities Symposium 22-23 April 2018 Event Photos, are uploaded  :  https://www.smart-cities-2018.com/

    Prof. Ebrahim Mattar
    Prof. Ebrahim Mattar

  • Regional IMechE Dinner 2018

    The Annual regional IMechE dinner was once again held at the Cutlers Hall in Sheffield on the 20th April 2018. Based on the close collaboration between the local IET & IMechE, John Lawrence and I from the IET SYLN were once again invited as their guests for the evening. Since its inception, the dinner has been a huge success with around 200 guests attending through either regional Businesses or Academia sponsored tables. Keynote speakers at the dinner this year were the current IMechE president Carolyn Griffiths, the Master Cutler Kenneth Cooke and their present Regional chairman Alan Bratton. The Master of ceremonies for the evening was Denis Healy the IMechE Regional Business Development Manager. The whole event was once again organised by Nicky Baxter the regional IMechE Administration Manager…

    Alan Chater
    Alan Chater

  • IET YP Leadership Programme - Workshop One (MBTI)

    The WA IET YP Leadership Programme launched this month. Check out what participant Lachlan Strickland thought of the first workshop. Word by Lachlan Strickland, a participant The first workshop of the 2018 IET Leadership Programme in Western Australia had all participants meeting at the well-known engineering pavilion at Curtin University. As a graduate, I wondered if I would even be able to enter the pavilion on my own seeing as most university buildings require swiping a student card to enter. Luckily the building was open to anyone, and a few of the program mentors were waiting for new arrivals. Once everyone had arrived, we were ushered upstairs into an open, well-lit room.   The workshop was centred around understanding the MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator), particularly, how you can…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • TECHNICAL VISIT TO THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT, ROYAL BRUNEI AIRLINES SDN BHD

    Friday, 20 th April 2018, Bandar Seri Begawan.  The Instituition of Engineering and Technology (IET) Brunei Darussalam Local Network yesterday held a technical visit to the Engineering Department, Royal Brunei Airlines Sdn. Bhd.   The objectives of the visit was to understand and learn firsthand the organisation of the RB Engineering Department, its functions, challenges faced and how it goes about in achieving its mission and objectives. Around 20 participants from Brunei’s Science, Engineering and technology community took part and heard the opening remarks and briefing from Tuan Rosli.  There was also an opportunity for a walk around to the various engineering sections.   On interview with some of the participants who participated in the visit expressed 1) gratitude to RBA in allowing for…

    Siong Tang
    Siong Tang

  • TECHNICAL VISIT TO THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT, ROYAL BRUNEI AIRLINES SDN BHD - 20TH OF APRIL 2018

    Friday, 20 th April 2018, Bandar Seri Begawan.  The Instituition of Engineering and Technology (IET) Brunei Darussalam Local Network yesterday held a technical visit to the Engineering Department, Royal Brunei Airlines Sdn. Bhd.   The objectives of the visit was to understand and learn firsthand the organisation of the RB Engineering Department, its functions, challenges faced and how it goes about in achieving its mission and objectives. Around 20 participants from Brunei’s Science, Engineering and technology community took part and heard the opening remarks and briefing from Deputy Head of Engineering Tuan Rosli.  There was also an opportunity for a walk around to the various engineering sections.   On interview with some of the participants who participated in the visit expressed 1) gratitude…

    Siong Tang
    Siong Tang

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