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  • IET President delivers his Perspective On Innovation

    IET President Andy Hopper visited the IET Victoria Local Network on the 12th September 2013 to deliver a presentation on innovation as part of the EEEVic lecture series. This lecture series has been in existence for over 30 years and sees the Victorian sections of IEEE, Engineers Australia ITEE College and IET collaborate to jointly host lectures every month. Andy presented "A Perspective on Innovation" (presentation available here) . In his presentation, Professor Andy Hopper gave the audience an assessment of the global context of innovation as an important topic being discussed by companies and governments in their quest for economic growth. He followed with examples of innovating companies based on his personal experience from both his academic and industrial careers. His presentation was…

    Rowan P
    Rowan P

  • YPS Leadership Program Launch

    As an opportunity to provide engineering students from universities across Victoria with project management and teamwork/leadership experience while being involved with the IET, the Young Professionals Section (YPS) Leadership Program kicked off on Saturday 31 August at the State Library in Melbourne. Interest was overwhelming for the program, but only the top sixteen applicants made it through in the end. Over the next six to eight months, participants will be paired with a mentor from the YPS committee and develop their soft skills, whilst helping organise and run events for the YPS in Victoria. They will learn the skills necessary to successfully manage projects and how to apply them in their studies and future careers. There is also an Event Proposal competition with a $500 prize on offer…

    Rowan P
    Rowan P

  • Congratulations To Our 2013 Scholarship Winners:

    The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) can today reveal that £2 million is being invested in the UK’s up and coming engineering talent. The Diamond Jubilee Scholarships have bee n awarded to 540 of the UK’s top students from 382 schools who are starting an engineering degree at 27 UK based universities this autumn. Out of the 540 Award winners, a whopping 19% were women! Congratulations to one and all. Read more...

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  • Britain’s Got Talented Female Engineers

    To help encourage more women into engineering, Atkins led a unique survey in partnership with the Royal Academy of Engineering, Rolls-Royce and BP to ask 300 professional female UK engineers what ins pired them to choose a career in engineering and how they feel about their choice.The result is the ‘Britain’s got talented female engineers’ report which provides fascinating insights, statistics and views which we hope will prove to be a hugely popular tool in inspiring a new generation of female engineers. Download the report

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  • 10 Fully Funded Scholarships Available For An Engineering Doctorate In Advanced Manufacturing

    Hello, We have yest another great opportunity to share with you! The University of Strathclyde is currently looking for graduates to commence in October 2013 and January 2014, who have achieved or are expecting to achieve; a first or second class Honours degree in Engineering, Science or Technology, or a Masters in Engineering. This innovative Engineering Doctorate programme provides a combination of research and industrial training. It is an opportunity for aspiring graduates to undertake world leading research within international global companies to develop research interests in the latest technologies for the UK's aerospace, energy, marine and automobile industries including aircarft components, cars, ships, medical devices and power generation equipment. The outputs from these projects…

  • New Opportunity - Shadowing Scheme

    Hello, We have received another great opportunity that we would like to highlight to you. Please find attached and below details of the WISRNet shadowing scheme, which may be of interest to you or your students. We should be most grateful if you could also circulate this amongst your research networks. Historians Shadowing Scientists Scheme Are you a UK-based early career or doctoral student in the history of science, technology and medicine with an interest in the role of gender in science? Would you be interested in participating in an opportunity to shadow a working woman scientist to gain a better understanding of what scientists do and the challenges women scientists face today? WISRNet, an AHRC sponsored research network, is investigating how improved knowledge of the historical role…

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  • Get Started with Professional Registration

    Many engineers and technicians aspire to achieve professional registration but without the proper planning it can remain an abstract goal. Make a commitment to work toward professional registration by letting the IET know your intention to apply for professional registration and we can help you plan your development and keep you on track. See How to Register Your Intent in Career Manager. Consider your progress so far UK-SPEC is the standard that you need to demonstrate for professional registration, but it takes time to develop the required competence. A structured approach will assist you to build the required knowledge, skills and experience for professional registration in an efficient way. You may already have some knowledge and skills that will set you on the path to professional registration…

  • How To Submit An Intent To Register In Career Manager

    1. All IET members have access to Career Manager, our online professional development planning and recording tool. Simply visit our website www.theiet.org/career-manager and log-in to enable the Access IET Career Manager button. 2. Select the IPD menu from the Quick Launch Tool on the homepage. Select Submit my Intent to Register to go to the menu. 3. To register your intent you must first select the registration category that you want to work toward. You will be able to select either CEng, IEng, EngTech or ICTTech from the menu options. 4. You will be taken to the Intent to Register Checklist once you have selected a registration category. You will need to complete all mandatory fields in order to submit the form to us. Please provide as much detail as possible so we can provide the best guidance…

  • Calendargrads

    calendar grads has been created with the sole intention of encouraging more young female graduates to pursue a career within the SET industry, opening e yes to possible careers and therefore working towards a more balanced, talented and enthusiastic workforce. Some of our IET women members have volunteered to be a part of the keynote speaker panel, in order to suppoort this fantastic campaign, speaking at several universities. The focal point of the calendar grads campaign will be our unique and exciting graduate calendar. There is a significant shortage of role models in both academia and industry. This calendar has been sponsored by some of the top firms within the industry, including Rolls Royce plc. Atkins Defence, DBD ltd and nucleargraduates. Each month will focus on female role-models…

  • Introducing The CPD Logo

    With the launch of our new Continuing Professional Development (CPD) monitoring scheme, we are working hard to raise awareness of the many different types of activities that can count towards your CPD. Through the IET, you have access to a comprehensive range of high quality knowledge resources, which can provide an excellent source of CPD. To highlight this, we have designed a CPD logo which will start to feature across many IET products and services that can help contribute towards your on-going professional development. 1. The CPD logo will feature on knowledge resources, such as the E&T technical articles and E&T white papers. There is no set amount of CPD you may obtain from accessing these types of knowledge products; it will depend on how much you need to learn. For example, if you simply…

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  • Communities Volunteer Conference (CVC), Toronto, August 2013 - Photo Gallery

    Created with flickr slideshow . Open this blog post to view a slideshow of photos from the CVC in Toronto.  There are some brilliant photos from the events, thank you so much to Sue and Edwin for making it possible to share images from the weekend.

    Fiona Dew
    Fiona Dew

  • Member News Case Study On Forming The Purdue Student OnCampus Chapter, August 2013

    The brand new student chapter at Purdue features in Member News online .  It is a great case study into how to start a student chapter and hopefully it will be the first of many in the region.  We are really looking forward to working with Rachel to get the new student chapter going in the coming academic year - well done to everybody involved.

    Fiona Dew
    Fiona Dew

  • SoCal recognised in Member News - May 2013

    Well done to our volunteers in Southern California who have worked so hard to get their Local Network up and running again. Their efforts have been recognised in this Member News article from May 2013. If you’re interested in becoming a committee member or just finding out more about the SoCal Network be sure to head to the SoCal MyCommunity page .

    Fiona Dew
    Fiona Dew

  • Professional Registration: What you need to know

    If your goal is to achieve CEng, IEng, EngTech or ICTTech you will need to demonstrate evidence of competence as set out in the UK Standard for Professional Engineering Competence ( UK-SPEC ). As part of this you are required to demonstrate your technical knowledge and understanding at the appropriate level to underpin the competences. If you have an accredited or approved academic qualification for your desired category of registration this shows that you have the relevant underpinning knowledge. If, like many others, you do not hold a formal qualification or your qualification is not fully accredited then you may need to undertake some form of further learning. Further Learning The IET are not prescriptive with our approach to further learning or how this is achieved. It can be undertaken…

  • What would you do?

    If you can spare only 5 minutes from your busy life on the Toronto webpage, what would you do?

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  • Members' voices

    You are welcome to write here to express your opinion or suggestion.

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  • A Sticky Situation....

    Calling all you Mobile Phone Engineers out there! I need some advice… Without going into great detail, I’ve had a bit of an accident with my mobile phone (a six year old Nokia 6111) involving my rucksack and a bottle of very sugary grape juice with a leaky cap. I think the juice has infiltrated the insides as the phone is now doing some very strange things… If I take the battery out, take the phone apart and swish it around in a bucket of soapy water, let it all dry thoroughly for a few days then put it back together again, what are the chances of it working afterwards without wiping off the data held internally on the memory chips etc? Now I know you’re all going to say ... “Just buy a new phone you cheapskate” but my father has promised to give me his iPhone 4 when he upgrades to an iPhone…

    Lisa Miles
    Lisa Miles

  • Mid-year Review: More To Come In 2013!

    It's been a busy year for IET Victoria, but there's plenty more to come! Upcoming events in Victoria for 2013 include : September 12, 2013 : A Perspective on Innovation IET Victoria is proud to be hosting Andy Hopper (global President of the IET) in Melbourne for one evening only to present his perspective on global innovation within companies and governments. Tickets are limited, and available now by following the link above - don't miss out! November 2013 : Present Around The World (Victorian Final) December 7, 2013 : Young Professionals AGM committee elections December 9, 2013 : IET Victoria AGM committee elections IET Victoria is also pleased to announce that it has been awarded the rights to host the Australian Final of the Present Around The World competition for 2014! The gala event…

    Rowan P
    Rowan P

  • How To Record CPD Activities Using Career Manager

    1. All IET members have access to Career Manager, our online professional development planning and recording tool. Simply visit our website www.theiet.org/career-manager and log-in to enable the Access IET Career Manager button. 2. Select the CPD menu from the Quick Launch Tool on the homepage. Select Record my CPD Activities to record work experience, volunteering, events and seminars and self-study activities. Training courses and Academic study are recorded in your personal profile as part of your CV information, but can also be accessed from the CPD Quick Launch menu and will show in your CPD Activity Reports. 3. To record your CPD activities, first create a folder to categorise your activities e.g. CPD Activities 2013. 4. Add your activities, filling in the required fields. 5. Add a reflection…

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  • John Logie Baird's birthday

    John Logie Baird's birthday is notable for two things in my mind. One of them is obvious: the pioneering inventor who struggled against the limitations of technology to achieve something incredible (several times!). The other may surprise you: for many years, the IET has produced an annual lecture concentrating on one aspect of the leading edge of technology, and it is called the 'John Logie Baird Lecture'. I'm convinced that if it had been running just under a hundred years ago, then John Logie Baird would have been giving one of the 'James Clerk Maxwell' (perhaps - or who would you nominate?) lectures. Because technology advances on a broad but chaotic wavefront, previous 'JLB' lectures have covered a diverse range of topics: from 3D cinema to the underlying technology behind the Internet…

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  • IET Postgraduate Winners 2013 - Three of the five winners were women!

    IET Postgraduate Winners 2013 - Three of the five winners were women! The IET awards up to five postgraduate scholarships annually, between £2,500 and £10,000. The scholarships are for IET members who have started their doctorate and are intended to reward excellence rather than alleviate financial hardship. They are awarded on a competitive basis: applications are assessed by the IET Scholarships Committee and short-listed applicants are interviewed. ... Alison Gibbings was awarded the IET Postgraduate Scholarship for an Outstanding Researcher of £10,000. Alison is a co-located PhD student at the Advanced Space Concepts Laboratory, University of Strathclyde and the Systems, Power and Energy research division, School of Engineering, University of Glasgow. Her research, which she started in…

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  • IET Local Network Prize - 2013 - Monash University

    Whye Leon Seng was this year's recipient of the IET Local Network Prize at Monash University. Leon graduated from Monash University with a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical and Computer Systems) in 2012, and was the recipient of multiple awards at Monash University in the final year of his Bachelor's degree, including the Graham Beard Memorial Prize, Ian Langlands Medal, Sir John Monash Medal and the University Medal for Undergraduate Academic Excellence. The ceremony was held on 12 June 2013 in the Sir Alexander Stewart Theatre at Monash University (Clayton Campus) as part of the Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering Awards Ceremony, recognising the academic achievements of its students. Rowan Pattieson (YPS Chairperson) presented the award on behalf of IET Victoria, with IET Victoria…

    Rowan P
    Rowan P

  • IET Australia PATW 2013 - Results

    Winner Kelsey Kennedy (University of Western Australia) "Imaging the mechanical properties of breast tissue" Runner-up Nicholas Venables (University of Melbourne) "Bionic vision simulator" You can view photos from the awards dinner by clicking here . Kelsey will now represent Australia in the IET Asia-Pacific Regional PATW Final in Brunei (tentatively to be held in August 2013) . We wish her the best of luck! Victoria will be hosting the 2014 IET Australia National PATW Final in May. We will be endeavouring to publicise the fantastic achievements of the competitors to a much wider audience to make this event an even greater success!

    Rowan P
    Rowan P

  • Cyber Security: Development of a Best Practice Guide for Process Safety Systems

    It is widely recognised that systems accessible over the internet are susceptible to on-line attack. The process control sector has generally controlled the threat through restricting access to critical systems, particularly where the systems provide safety protection or mitigation functions. However, for less critical systems the benefits of remote access for surveillance, diagnostics and upgrade activities makes it difficult to maintain a completely "closed" approach within the overall system architecture. Where control and monitoring systems communicate with safety critical systems, or where safety functionality is not strictly segregated from the control system, then vulnerabilities in the on-line systems could compromise safety functions. Recognising that industry needs to gain the commercial…

    James Inge
    James Inge

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