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  • IET Engineering & Technology Photographer Of The Year 2019

    We're now launching the IET's annual photography competition for 2019 in a bid to challenge the stereotypical image of hard hats and dirty overalls often associated with engineering and instead showcase modern engineering.Open to any photograph of an engineering-related subject that captures the creative, exciting and modern face of engineering and engineers today, the competition is split into two age groups – under 16 and 17 and over – with five categories to enter.  Design & Production Digital Environment & Energy Structures Transport Judges include Gadget Show host Georgie Barrat, Editor of Amateur Photographer magazine Nigel Atherton, E&T magazine Picture Editor Gillian Abbott and Vice-Chair of the IET Young Professionals Communities Committee (YPCC). The judges will look at every entry…

    EngX Editorial
    EngX Editorial

  • 2019 Bio-Buddy Event, Held At University Of Ottawa

    The IET Local Network sponsored, and helped judge the first Bio-Buddy design competition which was held as part of the University of Ottawa Design DayOn a sunny but cool Friday morning three teams of undergraduates from Ottawa University presented their Design Reports and Entries for the first Bio-Buddy event. Each team signed up to design and prototype a semi realistic infant child mannequin, under the age of 12 months, that is intended to improve CPR training by providing a more realistic experience for CPR training courses attendees. The competition was framed by a detailed specification and a set of evaluation criteria. Each team prepared a Design Report that was circulated to the judges in advance and was one of the elements that was being evaluated. The next step was for the teams to…

    Graeme Allan
    Graeme Allan

  • IET-PBOC Charity Event 2019

    Friday, 5th April 2019, Kuala Belait - IET Politeknik Brunei On Campus (IET-PBOC) organised a charity event for special needs students at Pusat Ehsan Al-Ameerah Al-Hajjah Maryam, Kuala Belait.The event is conducted to give opportunity for volunteers, consisted of students from Politeknik Brunei and Universiti Teknologi Brunei, to contribute to the society. Simultaneously, the volunteers were given first hand experience to interact with special needs students and formed friendship bonds with them. The charity event began with the welcoming speech by Pusat Ehsan staffs followed by activities to enhance the creativity of Pusat Ehsan students such as Cupcake Decoration, Hand Painting and Indoor Gardening. At the end of the activity, gifts are presented by IET-PBOC to Pusat Ehsan students.

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Friction, Lubrication And Wear (FLW) Or Tribology As We Know It!

    (FLW) as an acronym is easy to remember, which certainly helped me when I first started looking after the IET’s Tribology Network last year and was getting to grips with what the subject encompassed.   A year has passed and I’ve come to appreciate that there is so much more to Tribology and how it has many applications across a wide range of sectors.  We recently held our two day conference in Birmingham at IET Austin Court where we welcomed a good mix of industry, academia and student delegates to the event.    This year we were pleased to have so many poster submissions, as we managed to double the numbers from the 2018 event and had 19 presenters over the two days.   Day One poster competition was won by Bjoern Kunzelmann from Imperial College London with his poster on ‘Experimental and…

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • New History TPN Newsletter Available To View

    Read our latest Newsletter  for the latest information on the History Network.  In September, we are organising a one-day conference in Dublin on the history of engineering in the island of Ireland, and in November a seminar on Security and Intelligence will be held at the Science Museum, to coincide with their new exhibition, 'Top Secret: from cybers to cybersecurity'.

    Anne Locker
    Anne Locker

  • IoT Community's IoT Day Slam™︎ 2019: Internet Of Things Virtual Conference In Celebration Of IoT Day 2019

    The inaugural IoT Day Slam 2019 - an IoT Slam production and the IoT Community - Internet of Things Community's eighth international IoT conference - which commences on April 9th, 2019 on-line in the "Cloud". The event is delivered virtually via US Eastern Time, and can be accessed from any computer or mobile device. The event will be recorded and made available on-demand for all registrants to view post event The IoT Day Slam 2019 event delivers exclusive, cutting edge IoT content that is catered for CxO's, executive management and business line leaders, as well as technology oriented professionals. The event focus is on the rapidly changing landscape driven by the disruption and innovation that the Internet of Things brings to Industrial, Enterprise and Consumer industry sectors. This Virtual…

    Former Staff Member
    Former Staff Member

  • IoT Community's IoT Day Slam™︎ 2019

    Internet of Things Virtual Conference in celebration of IoT Day 2019 Welcome to the inaugural IoT Day Slam 2019 - an IoT Slam production and the IoT Community - Internet of Things Community's eighth international IoT conference - which commences on April 9th, 2019 on-line in the "Cloud".The event is delivered virtually via US Eastern Time, and can be accessed from any computer or mobile device. The event will be recorded and made available on-demand for all registrants to view post event The IoT Day Slam 2019 event delivers exclusive, cutting edge IoT content that is catered for CxO's, executive management and business line leaders, as well as technology oriented professionals. The event focus is on the rapidly changing landscape driven by the disruption and innovation that the Internet of…

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • Present Around The World 2019

    The Berkshire Local Network PATW competition was held at UTC Reading on 21 st March 2019, but you could be forgiven for thinking that you had come to an Institution of Civil Engineers’ meeting, as three of the four presenters talked about civil engineering related subjects.   The first speaker, Samuel Hyginus, an electrical engineer who works for Peter Brett Associates, spoke about recruitment in the construction industry, and his enthusiasm for the industry was clear, particularly in the question and answers session. The second speaker, Louise Batts, an assistant contract manager at highway maintenance contractor, Ringway, spoke about the refurbishment of the Augustus Close Bridge, a bridge in Brentford, originally designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and the issues arising in refurbishing…

    Rob Scarr
    Rob Scarr

  • Speaker Highlight - Jaquie Finn, Cambridge Consultants For The 5th Future Of Medicine – The Role Of Doctors In 2029

    Join us at The 5th Future of Medicine - The Role of Doctors in 2029 and hear Jaquie Finn, Head of Digital Health at Cambridge Consultants speaking.     Jaquie is Head of Digital Health at Cambridge Consultants and leads the initiative to provide strategic guidance and technical solutions for clients transitioning their business model to include a digital element. These digital elements include device connectivity, AI, security, launch strategies, behavioural science and digital service design. Jaquie has previously worked on the design and launch of a compliance & work management IoT service that is in commercial use. Register to attend.

  • Social Meet And Greet This Friday 5th April At The Chanter In Edinburgh

    Join us at The Chanter tomorrow from 6pm for a meet and greet with fellow STEM professionals! The event is being run by the Young Professionals network and it is for anyone to attend, whether you are at the start, middle or end of your career or whether you are an IET member or non-IET member. The idea of the event is help professionals build a network to meet and collaborate with to creatively solve problems, meet the needs of society and shape the future for generations to come. For more information you can find the event webpage here , where you can also find a link to register for the event (this just lets us know how many people to expect).

    Jennifer Short
    Jennifer Short

  • Creating Music In The 21st Century … Via A 'Library’

    A small introduction to the big world of audio engineering, and the sort of engineering, technology, creativity and attention to detail that is required to make the music that you hear (and probably mostly ignore) every day. Tileyard, just north of King’s Cross in London, has become a creative media hub. Tileyard Studios is the UK’s largest professional music community, with more than 70 state-of-the-art studios, and there are many other associated businesses there as well.  Producing music has always been an interesting mix of art and technology. Before digital recording became commonplace, people used to do amazing things with audio recorded onto magnetic tape, manipulated by editing with a knife and all sorts of other physical techniques like turning tape over, making moebius strips, using…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • **Event Spoiler** The Cyber Security Journey Lecture - 10th April 2019 !

    How Cyber Security has changed overtime and the challenges that new threat actors are bringing – how do we keep on top of these threats to our businesses, homes and personal data Cyber security is a core function of Capita’s delivery capability. During this event the speakers Professional Services team will provide their insights on how they have been delivering high quality consultancy, testing and vulnerability assessment services to both public and private sector clients for a number of years. They will delve into the end to end risk and vulnerability management journey, and the impacts innovations such as cloud and IoT have had not only on the way security is approached within their engagements but also the ongoing need to remain up to date with the ever growing and capable ways in which…

  • Top Line Up Of Speakers For The IET Healthcare 'The 5th Future Of Medicine - The Role Of Doctors In 2029'

    View some of the quality speakers we have lined up for the 5th Future of Medicine event - a joint Healthcare Technologies TPN and Robotics and Mechatronics TPN event. Register before 30th April for the Early bird discounts available. Speakers: Jaquie Finn, Cambridge Consultants Dr Miguel Hernandez-Silveira, MF Technology Ltd Dr David Moser, Blatchford Professor Sebastien Ourselin, King's College London Dr Shane Lowe, Vitrue Health Professor David Clifton, Univeristy of Oxford Sameer Trikha, Visulytix Henry Fatoyinbo, IET Healthcare Technologies TPN Christos Bergeles, IET Robotics and Mechatronics TPN and King's College London (Programme and speakers subject to change)

    Lynsay Callaghan
    Lynsay Callaghan

  • KTJ OXBRIDGE ENGINEERING WORKSHOP

    20190310 On 10th March 2019, IET YPS Malaysia Network had collaborated and organized a STEM based workshop with 100 energetic and creative Kolej Tuanku Ja'afar (KTJ) International School secondary school students. The workshop has been specifically designed to give students the opportunity to research, design, develop and presents their creative solution to genuinely tough engineering problems. The students have to perform their ability to allocate workforce, resources and time. Students were given the challenge to create a working scale model prototype to manage the traffic beside construction site with the use of BBC micro:bit and design materials for a crane prototype. To wrap up, we would like to thank everyone's participation for making KTJ Oxbridge Engineering Workshop a very memorable…

    Wai Yie Leong
    Wai Yie Leong

  • KPMG Cyber Security Challenge

    KPMG Cyber Security Challenge 2018. For the first time, IET Malaysia partnering KPMG for the cyber challenge and one of the challenge for this competition is developed by IET Malaysia. Cyber crime is becoming common in engineering world as we are moving towards connected product in line with IoT and Industrial 4.0 revolution, our challenge today are designed based on this aspect to create awareness on cyber security !

    Wai Yie Leong
    Wai Yie Leong

  • Dr. John Tan - IET Malaysia volunteers

    Hope to encourage more people to join IET volunteers ? https://www.theiet.org/volunt…/active/resources/handbook.cfm Please meet one of our IET Malaysia volunteers - Dr. John Tan https://www.theiet.org/volu…/get-involved/…/dr-john-tan.cfm… The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) IET Young Professionals IET On Campus

    Wai Yie Leong
    Wai Yie Leong

  • Pye Museum

    PYE Museum Cambridge is blessed with several Engineering and Science Museums and now one is being developed to demonstrate the work undertaken by Pye, which was based in the City for many years.  The Pye Museum will open on 21 May.  Further details will be published as they become available.

    David Blake
    David Blake

  • UEA Greenpower test run

    A lovely warm, clear and sunny day at RAF Coltishall today, trying out the UEA Greenpower team car. Blissfully quiet, almost spooky, on this airbase with so much history.

    Alex Barrett
    Alex Barrett

  • MEDPOWER 2020

    Check out the link for the conference: Organising Committee, Steering committee and International advisory committee Medpower2020 Committees  Event on Facebook Christos Christou Organising Committee Chair

    Christos Christou
    Christos Christou

  • Budding Young Engineers Take Part In FIRST®︎ LEGO®︎ League Jr. Expo

    For the first time, teams of young students from Hertfordshire, London and Kent took part in our FIRST LEGO League Jr. Expo at the IET's offices at Michael Faraday House on Wednesday 13 March 2019.The science and technology challenge, which is aimed at 6-9 year olds, tasks teams to build a LEGO Model and program one moving element, whilst also researching the annual theme. This year’s theme is called MISSION MOONSM – looking at how humans could survive and live on the moon taking into account how to breathe, what to eat and drink and what other problems we might face. Coached by IET colleagues, six teams of primary school children showcased their work, which included a Moon Base that had to include a moving element and a research poster, which showed all that they had learnt about the moon…

    EngX Editorial
    EngX Editorial

  • Discover How Volunteering For The IET Can Benefit You...

    There are so many benefits to volunteering with us, but here are just some to spark your interest:   Make new connections and expand your network Learn new skills that will count towards your CPD Contribute ideas for event topics Gain a competitive edge when applying for jobs Share your passion and inspire others A volunteer's journey As an IET volunteer, Tom Hlaing made a difference to how the organisation is run both at a local and international level. He came on board as a student to fight for a wider range of lecture topics and industry events and as he’s risen up the volunteering ranks he’s more recently been involved in managerial and structural changes. Watch the below video to see his journey... The Dorset & South Wiltshire Network are looking for new volunteers to help raise awareness…

    Julie
    Julie

  • 2018-19 Toronto LN PATW Winner

    Congratulations to the 2018-19 Toronto PATW winner, Diego Valencia Garcia. His experience with IET from last year was so good that he re-enter the competition again this year, and made improvements. Congratulations also go to the runner up Fatemah Yazdanpanah. Afterwards Professor John Brandler gave tips for a good presentation. We all learn from his presentation. It was a great successful event! Thank you everyone for your participation!

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Registration Is Open - The 5th Future Of Medicine, 11th June 2019

    Registration is now open  https://events.theiet.org/the-5th-annual-future-of-medicine-conference/ This is a joint event between Healthcare Technologies and IET Robotics TPN and will explore four key themes: -  Healthcare Data - Artificial Intelligence - Robotics - Medical Devices in primary and community settings We have a strong line up of speakers from: Cambridge Consultants University of Oxford King's College London MF Technology Ltd Visulytix Vitrue Health Blatchford's Queen Mary University of London Students - £20 Members - £40 Non Members - £60

    Lynsay Callaghan
    Lynsay Callaghan

  • IET/IEM One Day Technical Seminar: Industrial Digitalisation

    Industrial digitalisation is a gateway for the Industry Revolution 4.0. (IR4.0). First step for any industry to adapt IR 4.0 is to understand the overall strategy on industrial digitalisation. Each of the industry will have different digitalisation approach and strategy due to the unique process, standard and requirement. It is very critical and important to understand the overall digitalisation industry ecosystem & to have awareness on digitalisation methodology & available Technology. More than half of the topics by the speakers shall be sharing on success stories, Use Case, directive strategy and Prove of Concept of industrial digitalisation implemented in respective organization and industry. Such a great occasion to have few speakers from different Industry to Talk About Industrial Digitalisation…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

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