Understanding the concerns of an ageing population to guide artificial intelligence-based solutions

By 2050, the worldwide population of adults over the age of 65 will have more than doubled, reaching a staggering 1.6 billion people, with the majority of the increase occurring in emerging countries. This growth will be one of the most significant social, economic, and political transformations of our time. This will have a significant impact on existing healthcare, government, and social systems, which are currently either not designed to accommodate an ageing population or are not built to the scale required to accommodate it. However, we can begin to make investments in our support systems (which are enabled and scaled by technology) that include a coordinated response from governments, society, academia, and the commercial sector, as well as a coordinated reaction and action from the…

IET T&T/IEEE - Seminar Series- “Key Elements of Safe to Work Practices (STOW) for Graduates of Tertiary Education entering in Industry”

2022 E-Seminar Series- Seminar 1

The Route to Zero Emission Buses

I’m attaching a recording of the excellent webinar give by Jane Wright of Transport for London hosted by the London Hammersmith Network on 21 st October 2021. In it Jane describes TfL's journey towards a zero-emission fleet by the early 2030's. The journey includes a retro-fit programme to a better-than Emission 6 standard fleet, trials on hydrogen fuel cell buses, the introduction of efficient hybrid buses and ultimately an all electric bus fleet. She also explains the operating and infrastructure constraints and TfL's solutions to dealing with these.

Supporting Event: International Coding Education Festival (ICE Festival)

Organized by: International Coding Education Foundation; The Hong Kong Association for Computer Education; Cyberport Hong Kong Supported by: IET Hong Kong; Centre for Information Technology in Education, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong; Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong; EdUHK Department of Mathematics and Information Technology; Hong Kong Metropolitan University; School of Science and Technology; Hong Kong Metropolitan University; School of Science and Technology; Hong Kong Metropolitan University School of Science and Technology; Hong Kong Education City; The Academy for Bright Future Young Engineers, HKUST; InnoSapce, Hong Kong Productivity Council; Hour of Code Hong Kong; Office of the Government Chief Information Officer; The Association of Hong Kong…

Call for Paper - The 12th APSCOM Conference 2022

The 12th IET International Conference on Advances in Power System Control, Operation and Management (APSCOM 2022) Call For Paper Invitation On behalf of The Institution of Engineering and Technology Hong Kong (IET Hong Kong) APSCOM Organizing Committee, we are delighted to inform you that APSCOM 2022 will be held on 6-10 November 2022 and you are cordially invited to submit paper for the conference. Since the conference’s inception in 1990, APSCOM has been the flagship event of IET Hong Kong and serves as a forum for professionals and specialists to share ideas, innovations and experiences on promoting the high performance & resilience power grid. To address wide range of challenges faced by power and energy industry around the world, papers of quality are invited to present original…

Soft Robotics and AI are driving a Revolution in Agriculture

In this talk, Professor Fumiya Iida will introduce some of the research projects in his laboratory in Cambridge that make use of soft robotics and machine learning techniques, for addressing the complex problems in robotic applications such as those in agriculture. Soft robotics research has made considerable progress in many areas of robotics technologies based on deformable functional materials, including locomotion, manipulation, and other morphological adaptation such as self-healing, self-morphing, and mechanical growth. While these technologies open up many new robotics applications, they also introduce a number of challenging problems in terms of sensing, modelling, planning and control. Because of the general complexity of the system based on flexible and continuum mechanics and a wide…

Heat Pump Choices Video Recording

The talk by Warren Pope to the Cambridge Network on 21 January was an excellent introduction to heat pumps and other forms of electrical heating. There were over 1150 registrations and 850 attended. A recording of the talk is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfhy1MLiuJM ./ Slides which include links to various suppliers and opotions for graants are on Google Drive at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j7dPlq9UaPf4pzd37MWiZoCFaJMw7_c4/view?usp=sharing

Amazing 60 years membership of ICE

It gives me great pleasure to share the news that one of our Project Controls Technical committee member, Roger Batten , has recently achieved 60 years membership of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE). The Project Controls Network is a collaboration between the IET and the ACostE with the joint aim of advancing the knowledge and understanding of Project Control to as wide an audience as possible. During 2020 and 2021, we produced a series of 8 webinars that covered the basics of Project Controls. These webinars are still available on demand – you can view them on our Technical Webinar Hub . Roger has been a long standing supporter of the committee, and alongside 60 years in the ICE, he has also been a member of the Association of Cost Engineers for nearly fifty years and a member…

First Lego League Midlands Heats Coventry

Our grateful thanks to Caroline Lambert who organised this event at Coventry University and to all the volunteers who helped. The local winners were Coundon Court STEM Club who celebrated with Derrick Willer, a volunteer IET Education Officer and STEM Ambassador.

Robotics Workshops 2022 hosted by IET Wellington & South Island Network

Will you create the next life-saving device? Or the next iteration of search and rescue robot? Help companies automate their manufacturing processes? All these things are possible if you become a mechatronics engineer‍‍. Please click here for further information. If you are interested in participating the workshop, please feel free to contact Mr Darren baxter at darren.baxter@ietvolunteer.org

Solid State Batteries

The recording of last week's online lecture on Solid State Batter ies presented by Surrey Local Network will be available on YouTube from 09.00 on Monday 24th January. The link is https://youtu.be/QOdDa-tetgs .

Why isn’t the Construction Sector implementing Digital Transformation?

Over the coming months, the Plain Language Guide Editorial Board will be publishing a series of opinion pieces and hosting open online calls to discuss them. In March we will be holding an exclusive in-person event for senior executives to address the issues these articles cover. This is your opportunity to participate in the debate. Scroll down to read more about the challenge of digital transformation for construction and find out how you can join us to discuss these important issues. What is Digital Transformation? Digital transformation is the development of new business processes for data – new business models. Beyond the simple concept of digitisation (which the Plain Language Guide describes on page 5), beyond making that data work for your existing business (digitalisation), digital…

Sussex Local Network Event Recordings 2021/22

Date of Talk Title of Talk Thumbnail Description Video Recording Tuesday 26th October 2021 How to use light to make aircraft lighter A talk by Dr Christopher Holmes, Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton. Next generation aircraft shall use more optical fibre technology in order to reduce an aircraft’s total weight. This weight saving shall make flight more efficient and so environmentally greener. This talk discusses the research being conducted at the University of Southampton including advances in new types of optical fibre for aerospace. https://youtu.be/-8-1ocjF8eo Tuesday 2nd November 2021 6G Wireless: A New Strategic Direction An interesting talk on 6G Wireless by Regius Professor Rahim Tafazolli FREng, Director of…

Letter to IET Victoria Local Network Members

Dear IET Victorian Members, The IET Victorian Network wishes you a happy, safe and prosperous new year! We hope this mail finds you well. Throughout the years the IET Victoria network has been organising activities to engage, educate and network for our members. All of this has been done by a set of volunteers, they are just like you, members of the IET. As you know Melbourne, Victoria as the most lockdown city in the world had a hard time during the past couple of years. During this time the network had to reinvent itself. We couldn't have face to face meetings, events or site tours. It took us a bit of time to adjust, but we persevered and managed to do some good online events. It appears this new normal is going to be there for a while looking at the COVID numbers state and nationwide…

IET Ireland ADCs/DACs: Design for reliability and robustness to avoid field failures webinar on 8th February at 18.30 (GMT)

Join IET Ireland for the first webinar of 2022 covering 'ADCs/DACs: Design for reliability and robustness to avoid field failures webinar'. This webinar dives into several key areas in order to avoid design failures in the field and to avoid expensive re-recall or retro-fitting and debugging of issues due to reliability and robustness over time. Speaker - Ching Man Staff Applications Engineer Analog Register to join us

Eco Clubs

Eco Clubs Nadhim Zahawi, UK Education Secretary Of State: “Climate change to be at the heart of education.” “A new Climate Award will also be opened up to children and young people, in recognition of their work to improve the environment. A prestigious national awards ceremony will be held every year.” Schools Liaison Community We are encouraging schools and governments world wide to emulate the UK initiative and so start Eco-Clubs. Derrick Willer has also funded an annual award for schools in Coventry and Warwickshire. www.schoolsliaisoncommunity.net Derrick Willer MBE STEM Ambassador www.dwiller.com

Lets Have Fun With Maths

Based on hsi book "Sums. They're Math Magic" this lecture uses maths as a basis for solving some fun maths questions including: - alien counting - card tricks - event x even = even - birthday probability - weighing Pi - triangular numbers - measuring square roots - handy multiplication Derrick is available to present his lecture to local schools near Coventry and Warwickshire or, using the internet, world-wide. Derrick Willer was awarded an MBE for services to Education in 2018.

Eco Clubs In Schools

Eco Clubs Nadhim Zahawi, UK Education Secretary Of State: “Climate change to be at the heart of education.” “A new Climate Award will also be opened up to children and young people, in recognition of their work to improve the environment. A prestigious national awards ceremony will be held every year.” Schools Liaison Community Many of our community members believe that Eco Clubs can be a valuable tool for schools to encourage pupils to achieve climate change action for themselves, their families, schools and as an example to the general population. Thereby enabling the Eco Club Pupils in UK to be nominated by their school for the new Climate Award. We encourage all schools world-wide to promote Eco Clubs and suggest all governments emulate the UK Climate Award initiative. www.schoolsliaisoncommunity…

IET Control and Automation Webinar 'Crash safety of electric vehicles'

Join us on 24th February to hear one of the IET Control and Automation Doctoral Award applicants for 2021 talk about ''Crash safety of electric vehicles' An increasing number of EVs are now flooding into our daily life, and this draws much attention from not only the professionals working in the relevant fields but also the ordinary consumers. At present, one of the most highlighted concerns is the EV safety problem. It is reported that EV accidents have killed hundreds of people over the past 10 years. Safety issues of EVs are closely related to millions of consumers' personal safety and they are important factors restricting the development of EVs. Now, ‘without safety, no future for EVs’ has become the general industry consensus [10]. Hence, to thoroughly improve the intrinsic safety of…

Johnny Ball Christmas Lecture 2020

Johnny Ball is the famous TV presenter for school children and a maths guru. He presented the 2020 Christmas Lecture to Coventry and Warwickshire BCS, IMA and IET. The recording is available to inspire children world wide. For the recording please go to www.dwiller.com/Lectures.htm

CEng Webinar: Routes to Professional Registration - Asia-Pacific LNs hosted by IET Young Professional Section(YPS) Malaysia Network

We are delighted to invite Mr. Colin Sellers, Head of Registration and Standards at the IET, to share with us the changes for the brand new UK-SPEC. The UK Standard for Professional Engineering Competence and Commitment (UK-SPEC) The Engineering Council is the UK’s regulatory body for the engineering profession. It operates under a Royal Charter and is governed by a Board that represents UK Licensees as well as individuals from industries and sectors with an interest in the regulation of the profession. Who UK-SPEC is for? Many different users will find this document useful. However, it has been written primarily for these audiences: Individuals who are thinking about becoming professionally registered Licensees and Professional Affiliates through which engineers and technicians…

Life Through the Lens

Life Through the Lens - Technology Behind the Artform

Manufacturers: your Data is an Asset [Video]

Manufacturers should start seeing data about their products as an asset they can and should control. This was the conclusion of an international panel session at UK Construction Week in October. You can watch the session here and read a summary of the discussion in this blog post. The session was motivated by a section of ‘ Digitisation for Construction Product Manufacturers: a Plain Language Guide ’ which looks at what manufacturers should consider when working with third party data services. As manufacturers recognise the need for data expertise and demand for data services expands dramatically, what are the pitfalls that manufacturers need to negotiate if they are going to make wise investment decisions? Our panelists were: Paul Surin, Chair of Construction Products Europe…