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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...
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…
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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…
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...
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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…
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/
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…
Our third speaker for the joint IET Vision and Imaging Network and the Knowledge Transfer Network event, Intelligent Imaging has been announced! Ken Primrose , CEO at ITS plc, will be speaking at the one day seminar on the 14 October 2016 at IET London: Savoy Place . About Ken: A successful CEO with over a decade of experience, Ken Primrose took a small incubator company that was responsible for commercializing technologies developed by the University of Manchester and grew it into into Industrial Tomography Systems (ITS): the world-leader in tomography-based process visualization tools. With a degree in chemistry paired with an MBA from a premier business school, Ken brings detailed technical insights into the challenges his team faces, enabling him to spearhead R&D projects and to provide…
By 2020, there will be 1.4 million jobs available in the computing-related fields, yet women are on track to fill just three percent of those jobs. In the video above, learn why we need to encourage girls to learn how to code to help close the gender gap in the computer sciences and technology fields. Read more...
The ISA Working Group, a collaborative group working under the IET, IMechE, BCS and SaRS, has produced new guidance on planning the assessment of a safety case or similar safety assessment document. The new material supports the groups previous guidance on procurement of Independent Safety Assurance services, and is intended to be used by anyone who needs to make a judgement on the adequacy of a safety case, whether independently or otherwise. The new document is available in the Independent Safety Assurance Factfiles area of the IET website, at http://www.theiet.org/factfiles/isa/guide-isa-plan-page.cfm
As a female chemical engineer, Frances Arnold was already a rarity. After all, only about 16 percent of chemical engineers are women. But now that she has become the first woman ever to win the prestigious Millennium Technology Prize — it was awarded in Helsinki, Finland, on May 24 — Arnold is truly one of a kind. And she knows that in addition to a big cash award (1 million euros, or about $1.3 million), the prize brings an opportunity to spotlight the gender gap in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) careers and to be a role model for other women. Read more...
