Railway Network - Welcome To The New 2016-17 Session From The Community Manager

We started the new 2016-17 session with a change of leadership in the Railway Network.  Jon Hemsley,  Head of Fleet Project Engineering (Services), WMA Engineering, Bombardier Transportation has recently handed over the Chairman’s role to Dr Martyn Chymera ,  Maintenance Performance and Reliability Manager, Crossrail Operations Team, London Rail, Transport for London. I'd like to thank Jon for the help and support he has given me during his time in office and welcome Martyn to his term as Chairman.    During September, we had a couple of excellent visits, one to the South West Trains-Network Rail Training Campus at Basingstoke, organised by Peter Sheppard     Peter and the other participants on the visit seem to have had an excellent time on the simulators and exploring the other training facilities…

IET Wellington Network 2019 Committee

Paul Bagg, Chair Darren Baxter, Vice Chair Keegan Hampshire, YPS Chair Neil Haydon, Treasurer Roger Brady, Committee Member David Owen, Committee Member Ranmal Wilson, Committee Member Murray Milner, Committee Member Quinn Ho, Committee Member Norbert Nziramasanga, (Privacy and Media Coordinator) Chris Lambell, Committee Member

Welcome the 2016-17 YPS Committee & Congratulations to Swinburne Sarawak (Best On Campus group Malaysia)

The IET YPS AGM for 2016-17 was successfully held on 15th October 2016 at Armada Hotel, Petaling Jaya. A new YPS board of committees for the new term 16/17 was then elected as per table below (scrolled down to the bottom). (pic:  IET Malaysia YPS AGM 2016 group pic) Annual Dinner whereby was held after the AGM in the evening. The event started off with the welcoming address by Ir. Dr. Matthew Teow, IET Malaysia Chairperson and YPS opening keynote by Mr. Yong Boon Heng, outgoing IET YPS Malaysia Chairperson. (Immediate Past Chairman Michael) During the Annual Dinner, the Best IET On Campus Award 2016 was awarded to the Swinburne Sarawak IET On Campus, winner of this award for the 2nd consecutive year. UTAR IET On Campus won the 1st runner up place while University of Southampton Malaysia Campus…

International Academic Accreditation

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is one of the world’s leading professional societies for the engineering and technology community and IET accreditation is recognised around the world as an indicator of quality. More information can be found in the attached file and this link

Highlights from IBC 2016

Graham Turner, Chairman of the IET Multimedia Communications Network has provided us with some insights from the International Broadcasting Convention. From the point of view of our time at IBC, and the recordings, here are some of the major points that arose:   The fact that most media (and other) enterprises don’t realise they’ve been the subject of a cyberattack until after 80 days on average (and of course we know it was much, much longer than that for Yahoo).   The amazing stack of 50 or so different types of set top boxes delivering pirated television services that we saw.   The strong presence, and perhaps hype, for VR, but without too much of a clear view as to how it could be used (except perhaps for Dolby’s virtual cinema / theatre concept).   Great acceleration for the introduction…

‘Google Map of body’ will fight disease

A programme backed by the founder of Facebook aims to create a “Google Maps of the human body” to sketch out the workings of every type of cell. Read more...

The power of parity: Advancing women’s equality in the United Kingdom

Bridging the gender gap in the United Kingdom could increase GDP by billions of pounds over the next decade and add 840,000 female employees to the workforce.  - McKinsey & Company Read more...

Apply now to Join the WISE Young Women’s Board and help to make a difference

The WISE Young Women's Board (WYWB) make a real difference to WISE achieving its purpose to enable and energise people who increase the participation, contribution and success of women in the UK's STEM workforce from classroom to boardroom. Read more...

Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Planning

In early October, the Southern California Local Network was treated to a talk by Ian G Mills on his career in Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity, including some examples based on what to do when you are helping run the IT infrastructure in a government ministry when your country is invaded… The Insurance Information Institute suggests that about 25% of businesses that close following a disaster do not open their doors again, and as a disaster could befall a business directly, or its partners. Ian explained that businesses should prepare contingency plans for scenarios both within, and outside each companies control, as a supply or distribution chain disruption can also cause problems so businesses need to plan for their failure too. For example, the road to a distribution center might…

Air Traffic Collision Avoidance Systems (TCAS) Event

On the 13th of October, a group of members and non members attended the Wales North LN Annual Safety Lecture which was held at Glyndwr Optic. This year, our speaker was Ron Pierce a Safety Consultant who gave a fascinating talk about "Air Collision Avoidance Systems". This started with the first air collision in 1922, developments in World War 2, use of VHF Radio, the hazard rating scale used by Air Traffic Controllers before moving on to modern communications systems. We heard about TCAS operating principles, audible alerts in the cockpit plus many other features. There are, at any one time, five million people flying in passenger aircraft and we were all reassured about the safety of this for of transport. We are very grateful to Ron and judging by the depth and quality of the questions,…

The Cyber Peak; Expectations Of Market Size And Projections.

I recently researched the potential growth of the Cyber Security market;   1.The Europe Cyber Security Market is expected to grow to $35.53 billion by 2019 and will contribute to 27 % of the global market by 2019. 2.The Middle East and Africa Cyber Security Market is expected to grow to $13.43 billion by 2019 and will contribute 7.19% of the global market by 2019. 3.The Asia Pacific Cyber Security Market is expected to group to $13.43 billion by 2019 and is expected to contribute to 17.21% of the global market by 2019. For something to peak, it is implied that there has been a shift from a baseline. A modern day laboratory would take a specimen sample (something unknown) and identify peaks. The peaks contain functional groups and the lab would identify the chemical makeup of its compounds.…

IET-UK New President: Professor Jeremy Watson

Volunteers needed for Young Professionals Network

The Young Professionals Network is one of the active communities, which provides opportunities for like-minded people to network, share ideas and expertise, collaborate, learn and keep abreast of news and views. YP committee members are a group of young engineers and scientists from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines living and working in the Greater Manchester region. We organise a range of events throughout the year which are targeted at IET members and non-members in the early stages of their careers. Some are social and others are informative (technical lectures by industry experts; IET workshops focusing on career development and Chartership; technical tours to engineering organisations etc.). Would you like to be part of the Young Professionals Network? We are looking for volunteers…

IBC Review - The Forefront of Technology in International Broadcasting

IET Central London Evening Lecture, Savoy Place, 12-Oct-2016 A joint event between the IET and RTS, The Royal Television Society   The aim of this panel discussion was to provide a review of, and feedback from, the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) held in Amsterdam in September.   Being completely ignorant of the RTS and IBC, I was fearing some drear recap of conference proceedings. Luckily it was the opposite, and I found myself being informed, entertained and energised. I found the enthusiasm of all the speakers infectious. I really wished that I'd been at the conference and exhibition itself.    For me, the format was novel and effective: We had a knowledgeable and easy-speaking anchor man in Nigel Walley (of Decipher Media Group). After setting the scene, Nigel called up each…

Speaker News - Prof David Wallom: Big data analytics for smart power networks

On 8th November we have our Big data analytics for smart power networks  seminar which is being held at our flagship venue IET London: Savoy Place    Our next speaker highlight focuses on Professor David Wallom: About the speaker: Prof David Wallom is Associate Professor and Associate Director – Innovation of the Oxford e-Research Centre, where he leads two separate research groups Energy and Environmental Informatics and Advanced e-infrastructure & Cloud Computing. He has led over 45 research projects in areas such as Energy Analytics, Cloud computing, Smart Grids, Research data management, Green IT, cybersecurity and institutional repositories.  He is a member of the GCHQ recognized University of Oxford Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security and the academic Board Member of the HEFCE…

Those Magnificent Men And Ladies In Their Flying Machines

With our Addressing Ageing Aircraft Sustainment Issues Seminar  coming up on 26 October, one of our volunteers has started this list of Aircraft Clubs/Trusts in relation to Vintage Aircraft, some of which are still airworthy. Apart from the wellknown ones like: Shuttleworth Collection at Biggleswade, Beds  IWM Duxford , Cambridge  Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovilton, Somerset  Vulcan to the Sky Trust , Doncaster      He also came up with the following: Vintage Aircraft Club Aims and History.  The present Vintage Aircraft Club has evolved from the Vintage Aircraft Group, which was originally formed in 1964. The change of name in 1974 reflected the expanding membership and scope of the club. The aim of the Vintage Aircraft Club is to provide a focal body for owners, pilots and enthusiasts of vintage…

Could Robots Replace Human Employees?

A report by the World Economic Forum (WEF) earlier this year claimed that the rise of robots and artificial intelligence will wipe out 7.1 million jobs by 2020 , with the greatest losses in white-collar office and administrative roles. These losses will be partially offset by the creation of 2.1 million new jobs - mainly in more specialised areas such as computing, mathematics, architecture and engineering - but this still equates to 5 million net job losses. - Daily Mirror The IET’s Paul Davies talks to the Daily Mirror about the rise of robotics and AI following a report from the Science and Technology Committee Read more...

IET Brunei Network YPS Committee 2016 - 17

YPS Chairman    Ong Boon Jing YPS Vice Chairman Tay Shieh Cherng YPS Secretary    Lo Yuan Sheng YPS Treasurer  Onn Hui Jin Committee Member    Onn Hui Jin Committee Member    Ms Tieng Chwei Peng Committee Member    Khairul Anwar Bakar Committee Member    Ak Mohd Abd Aziz Pg Hj Hassan Committee Member    Muizz Alipah Committee Member    Hj Muhammad Noor Azmi Hj Suhaimin Committee Member    Mohd Khairuddin Jaya Committee Member    Freddie Tong Committee Member    Tan Kah Wee

IET Brunei Network Committee 2016 - 17

Honorary Chairman      Simon Leong Kian Ann Honorary Vice-Chairman   Lt Col (U) Schufin Hj Brahim Honorary Secretary     Hj Jailani Hj Buntar Honorary Assistant Secretary     Major Wan Farhan bin Hj Ibrahim Honorary Treasurer     Pg Hj Masle Pg Hj Hamid Committee Member     Hj Amrinal bin Hj Amir Committee Member     Md Khairul Anwar Committee Member     Freddie Stephen Tong Committee Member     Dr. Tang Shi Siong Committee Member     Dr. William Voon Committee Member     Lim Sam Lee Committee Member     Muhd. Aminuddin Mohd. Yusof Committee Member     Tan Kah Wee Committee Member     Mohammad Hilmi Hassan YPS Chairman            Ong Boon Jing

IET Victoria Network Committee 2016

Chairman:  Mr Arthur Baoustanos  Vice Chairman: Mr Raj Ranasinghe Secretary:  Dr Priyantha Karunadasa  Treasurer:  Ms Michelle Zhao YPS Chairman:  Evan Barrett Committee Member:  Mrs Maria Vukovic Committee Member & IPRA:  Mr  Mr Jananthan (Jana) Ratnasabapathy Committee Member:  Mr Mahinda Wickramasuriya  Committee Member: Mr Weibin He (David) Committee Member:  Mr Robert Tatton-Jones Committee Member:  Mr. Peter Reven

Ada Lovelace Day Photos

Ada Lovelace Day 2016 was held at the newly refurbished IET Savoy Place building. IET Vice President gave the opening speech to the event. View the images

Images from the Robot Wars Best Female Role Model Award

Professor Noel Sharkey launch a new award, sponsored by the IET Women's Network, Mentorn Scotland and in association with Responsible Robotics, to celebrate the Best Robot Wars Female Role Model. View images

IET Merseyside and Western Cheshire Newsletter

The latest newsletter is now available as a flip book.  Click the link to see the newsletter on-line:- Newsletter

Big Data Analytics For Smart Power Networks - Speaker Update

Today, I have another speaker update for you for our Big Data Analytics for Smart Power Networks event coming up on 8th November. Douglas Wilson, PhD; Chief Scientist WAMS, GE Grid Solutions  About the speaker : Douglas is Chief Scientist for WAMS with GE Grid Solutions. He is involved in strategic innovation projects within GE and with industry partners worldwide.   He joined Psymetrix Limited at its startup in 1998, and was Chief Technical Officer up to the company’s acquisition by Alstom Grid in 2011. Douglas was involved in creating and applying the world first real-time oscillation management system. Douglas was designated a Senior Expert in Alstom Grid, and received awards in the Alstom’s Innovation programmes.  Douglas has been involved in various consulting projects with customers,…