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  • Bienvenue à Paris! EUCAP 2017

    A couple weeks ago the Antennas and Propagation community descended on the French capital city for the annual week long EUCAP conference. Held at the Palais de Congres, the conference kicked off with the Welcome Ceremony, led by chairs Alain Sibille and Cyril Luxey. After they detailed the history of EurAPP and EUCAP, they introduced a number of sponsoring organisations, including Rob Lewis, the chair of the TPN who spoke on behalf of The IET.   The conference kicked off in full after that, with a number of convened sessions, exhibition stands meetings and social events happening throughout the five days. The IET Communities and Publishing teams had a stand at the conference; we loved meeting so many delegates throughout the week – I know the boxes of Skittles were a particular hit with our…

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  • BCS Event on 18th April: Building High Performance Teams - Managing and Participating

    BCS Berkshire Branch is presenting a talk by Rod Willis of the Agile Group entitled: “The invisible dynamics of collaboration in high performing teams”. Collaboration and working in groups is a key skill in today’s IT workplace. Group dynamics, politics and feelings could all stop people speaking up about what is and what isn’t working. Come to this informal session to learn about high performing Agile Teams and Groups and what makes some groups work well, and others not so well. Learn the necessary vocabulary and understanding that takes place in high performing teams. You never know, you may learn a new skill to help you in these environments! Click here more info and registration.

    Dooshiant Dyall
    Dooshiant Dyall

  • How To Win A Job @ Murdoch University

    The Western Australia Young Professionals stream is proud to organise yet another successful How To Win A Job . We are excited to go back to Murdoch University and this round not only we have students from Murdoch University attending the event, we also have students from across the other three public universities in Perth!   We have a panel of experienced speakers of diverse background. We are pleased to have Erica from Murdoch University Careers Centre, Scott Dennett, geotechnical engineer from BHP Billiton, David Beards, National Manager from Vocus Communications and Darren Bowles, Managing Director of GTE Group. Each speaker has brought forward their experiences and knowledge to the crowd, whether as a fresh graduate who has undergone the recruitment process or a senior engineer on the…

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  • Electric Motorcycle Racing - Testing Underway For The New Season

    I've just spotted this excellent video from the University of Bath Zero Emissions team getting ready for the 2017 Electric Motorcycle Racing season.   The team won the IET ARTS TPN Best in Class prize for their bike in 2016. I can't wait for the start of the MotoE Racing series and as luck would have it I've heard that its likely the first race will be at my home circuit i.e. Oulton Park, great news! In the past the promoters of the series have offered community members the opportunity to have a behind the scenes tour of the MotoE garages at the races, so if you're interested in that this year, just let me know either below or via a private message. I'm just waiting for confirmation of the race dates from the promoter and will post these up here asap.

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • Welcome To Our New Engenuity Blog!

    So you may ask, why is this blog called Engenuity? We haven’t just made up a new word to look clever. It does mean something. Something that is crucial to why the IET does what it does. Engenuity is our word for finding the solutions that overcome today’s engineering and technology challenges . The challenges that engineers face in the workplace or academics have in finding the latest research are ones that the IET can solve – whether that’s through the events we run, the journals we publish or the indexing service we provide. This blog will showcase some of our solutions. If you are a practicing engineer who wants to update your knowledge we have a range of products that can help you get that knowledge whilst demonstrating your continuing professional development. If you are a researcher who…

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  • IET INNOVATION AWARDS

    Each year the IET makes a range of awards to recognise the contribution of Engineers.  It also organises the IET Innovation Awards which are there to recognise creativity and new innovations in the Engineering World.  If you or your company want to make an application to be recognised for your work, then go to http://www.theiet.org/membership/member-news/44a/innovation-mn-2017.cfm   The closing date for applications is 7 July 2017.

    David Blake
    David Blake

  • ARM Processors talk

    Courtesy of effort from Georges Anke, here is the video of the ARM processor talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbXdwY4-_L4

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  • Present Around The World - Winner of the Surrey Heat

    And the winner is .......... Harry Smith who presented his topic 'How to paint houses in your sleep' based on his entrepreneurial work inventing a small robotic device that can assist with painting high walls in situations where doing so would be risky or complex to do so manually. The audience were captivated by this exciting idea that autonomous systems could make such a difference to household maintenance while also other exciting robotic ideas were shown that were inspired by this work such as a toilet that can automatically clean itself. We offer our warm congratulations to Harry on winning the Surrey Heat and wish him well in the next round. More information bout Harry's work can be seen at www.hausbots.com . Present Around the World is a global competition for young professionals and…

    Mike Prewett
    Mike Prewett

  • CPGCE 2017 PATW Winner Annouced

    The winner of the 2017 CPGCE Present Around the World competition local heat has been announced as Mr Gideon Mentie for his presentation on 'Appropriate Technology for Developing Communities'.  The competition was held at the University of Calgary on Saturday 25th March where judges enjoyed presentations from three competitors.  Each competitor has to deliver a ten minute presention as well as a follow-up Q&A from the judges.  Mr Mentie will now go on to represent CPGCE at the regional finals in the summer, the winner of which will travel to London for the global final where they will meet the winners from each of the IET's five regions.  Robert Mayall, a CPGCE local winner became the 2014/15 PATW global winner.  Good luck Gideon!

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  • CANCELLED - Date Chosen For The Georg Fischer (GF) Piping Systems Visit

    CANCELLED  The date for the visit to GF Piping Systems in Schaffhausen has been fixed. The visit will take place on   Monday 15th. May 2017.   Please read Jeff Hunter's blog entry  over at the Switzerland LN community page. There you will find an agenda and the registration URL. Registration closes on May 8th. and there are a limited number of places available, so don't wait too long before putting your name down. Howard Gray Germany Network

    Howard Gray
    Howard Gray

  • CANCELLED - Planning Georg Fischer (GF) Piping Systems Visit

    CANCELLED The IET Switzerland and IET Germany Networks are organizing a joint technical visit to  GF Piping Systems   in Schaffhausen on May 15 th 2017 . GF Piping Systems is one of the three divisions of GF (Georg Fischer) and traces its root back to 1802 when Johann Conrad Fischer established a copper smelting plant in Schaffhausen. The company is now a leading supplier of piping systems for the safe and reliable transport of liquids and gases.                       Address: Ebnatrasse 111, 8021, Schaffhausen, Switzerland Registrations If you would like to know more about plastic injection molding, get to see fully automated production cells and the largest injection molding machine in Switzerland , register to the visit by May 8 th here: https://localevents.theiet.org/252826 Agenda May 15…

    Jeff Hunter
    Jeff Hunter

  • Engineering Excellence Award Dinner 2017 - First Joint Annual Dinner

    Engineering Excellence Award dinner 2017, our first joint annual dinner with IMechE and IChemE went smoothly and successfully last night. A number of awards were presented during the dinner from each institution. IET awards including the Present Around the World Manchester heat award presented by myself and our guest from the CCUK, Jon Stevens and the IET Manchester Network Outstanding Achievement Award presented by Keith McCabe, the Chair of IET Manchester Network and our guest Tom H Laing representing the IET President. There were many opportunities to network with members from all institutions, and was also great to see familiar faces and meeting new people. There was a dinner challenge which everyone took part in, and the IET Manchester Young Professionals Network won the award, congratulations…

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  • Blackholes, Quantum Architecture, Cyber And Big Bang Theory. (IET London Network).

    That’s right, the TV serial Big Bang Theory was mentioned at an event hosted by the IET London Network. Marika Talyor PHD gave a very insightful talk on Blackhole theories, Astronomy and Quantum Computing. Associated astrophysical topics where also reviewed. The talk focused on how black-hole theories have developed over the recent decades and matured enough now that they can be applied to the fast developing world of colloquial quantum computing. Explaining the theory of Event-Horizon Telescope and association to the Holographic Principal, parallels were drawn to quantum computing being described as a giant breathing hard-disk-drive whose state is determined by the activities of qubits as variables. So anything that goes into the HDD can have its effects calculated based off environment variables…

  • Mentor or Professional Registration Advisor?

    If your goal is to achieve professional registration as a Chartered Engineer (CEng), Incorporated Engineer (IEng), Engineering Technician (EngTech) or ICT Technician (ICTTech) you may be overwhelmed by the depth and breadth of information available and may not know where to turn, you'll have plenty of people around you who can offer support and opinions but finding impartial advice can sometimes be harder than you would expect. The IET could not run our professional development or professional registration services without the support of our volunteers and there are two key people you might consider seeking out on your path to Professional Registration - these are a mentor or a Professional Registration Advisor (PRA). There is often confusion over what these roles are and who you should contact…

  • TV Piracy And Content Streaming

    Very topically the MMC TPN ran its first half-day courses on Content Protection at Savoy Place yesterday, and the very same day there was a full-length article in the Guardian on the problems being posed to the Premier League by content streaming, mainly onto boxes running Kodi media software plus the extensions to provide access to illegal streaming sites!  https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/mar/29/premier-league-illegal-streaming-tv-audiences What do people think about the current state of media piracy and the various countermeasures (not to say whack-a-mole) being deployed in an attempt to limit it?  Perhaps we could start a discussion in the relevant part of the MMC area if there is enough interest?

    Graham Turner
    Graham Turner

  • Your Journey To Professional Development (CPDs)

    As you know, IET has introduced a policy of random reviewing of Professionally Active Registrants’ CPD returns starting from January 2017.  Members will need to undertake a minimum of 30 hours of CPD a year. Useful links about CPD : What counts as CPDs/What should I do  What’s the difference between CPDs and IPDs CPD Resources CPD video  CPD poster Join the IET Professional Development online group (most of the links above can be found at their online group):   find out more… IET Singapore talk For early career engineers – building your career Working towards and gaining Professional registration qualifications is an example of CPD Volunteer at Singapore Network Attending events organised by Singapore Network, find out more... Volunteering at the Singapore Network For established engineers…

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  • IET South Australia Student Event at University of Adelaide

    University of Adelaide Students at IET BBQ event The IET always makes an effort early in the calendar year to introduce itself to students in all faculties at the University of Adelaide, where we have a particularly active group of Young Professionals. The IET Young Professionals in SA, capably managed by James Mitchell and well supported by GPA Engineering's Ben Macey , ran a free BBQ for around 300 students and staff on the Maths lawns on Monday 20th March 2017 from 12 midday to 2pm. Thanks go to our young Chefs, Bailey Sadedin (1st Year Flexible Entry Engineering), Conor Noonan (1st Year Mechatronics and Double Degree Computer Science), Aaron Lim (1st Year Mechanical Engineering) and Jordan McDonald (1st Year Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering). The IET would love to hold similar functions…

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  • Name That Tune....Railway Tune

    For our April newsletter, rather than a Top Ten (we are running out of ideas now, so if you have any, please forward them on) we have put our thinking caps on and have a little quiz instead. Name that Tune....Railway Tune We want song title and artist (album as well if you know it) 1.  She sent me a railroad ticket to take me to her lovin arms 2.  Pick up my bag, run to the station, railman says you got the wrong location 3.  Then it comes to be that soothing light at the end of the tunnel is just a freight train coming your way 4.  You know I'm loaded, railroaded, I'm explosive, I'm a locomotive 5.  Whistle blow, blue train roll   What Are Your Favorite Train Songs?   With so many to pick from, this is just a very short list.  What are some of your favorites? Let us know below with your answers…

    Lynsay Callaghan
    Lynsay Callaghan

  • IET Exhibiting At Railtex 2017 - Come Along And Visit Us On Stand T05

    The IET and the Railway Technical and Professional Network (TPN) will be on stand T05 during Railtex 2017 where we are one of the supporting organisations . During the 3 days, we will have information on Professional Registration , IET Membership , information on ICRE18 and lots of information about the Railway TPN , so keep an eye out for updates on what will be available on each day.   We will also be signing people up to the Railway Community page so that you can be kept up to date with what the Railway TPN Exec Team are doing, taking ideas for what you would like to see the TPN host in 2017/18 and beyond.  There will also be the opportunity to give us a short interview to post on the community page, so why not drop by and give us your thoughts on a topical rail issue. We look forward to…

    Lynsay Callaghan
    Lynsay Callaghan

  • IET South Australia Network's Women Engineering Night

    The IET South Australia Network Young Professionals Section recently organized a very successful event:  “Women In Engineering” Networking night with 3 guest speakers:  Niki Robinson, Chair of SA/NT Engineers Australia, Catherine Sinclair, Senior Software Engineer and Lowen Patridge Brand Strategist and Marketer to discuss about their experience, the importanace of networking and personal brand.  There were students/faculty from University of South Australia, Adelaide University and Flinders University as well as several engineers and other professionals from industry.  As IET SA Network Chairman Rob  said:  "“ The event underlined the value women bring to engineering community and our continued commitment to supporting a diverse and inclusive workspace. We aim to hold more of these events…

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  • Speaker Highlight - The 3rd Annual Future Of Medicine – The Role Of Doctors In 2027

    Join us at The 3rd Annual Future of Medicine – The Role Of Doctors In 2027 Professor Richard Baldock, University of Edinburgh will be joining us to speak on day.   See Professor Baldock’s biography below:   My background is in theoretical physics and my research in the Human Genetics Unit is directed to understanding the genetic control of development. In collaboration with Dr Duncan Davidson I have developed the atlas-based concept for spatio-temporal databases in biomedicine and in particular the Edinburgh Mouse Atlas and associated databases. In this context my research interests span image processing for 3D model reconstruction, spatio-temporal data-mapping, in situ gene-expression pattern analysis, bioinformatics, atlas-based biomedical databases, high throughput data capture and analysis…

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  • Speaker Highlight - The 3rd Annual Future Of Medicine – The Role Of Doctors In 2027

    We are delighted to announce that our second speaker of the day at the very popular event The 3rd Annual Future of Medicine – The Role of Doctors in 2027 will be Professor Tony Young PhD FRCS(Urol). National Clinical Lead for Innovation NHS England Consultant Urological Surgeon and Clinical Lead for Innovation  Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Innovation lead Essex Success Regime/STP President Institute of Decontamination Sciences Director of Medical Innovation, Anglia Ruskin University. Tony is a practicing frontline NHS surgeon, Director of Medical Innovation at Anglia Ruskin University, and has founded 4 Med-Tech start-ups. He has also co-founded the £500m Anglia Ruskin MedTech Campus which is set to become one of the world’s largest health innovation spaces.   In 2014 he…

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  • The Elephant in the Room - Population Growth

    Recently, Roger Batten , one of our exec team members was in print - his letter appeared in the New Civil Engineer magazine, which is the official magazine of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE). For over 50 years, NCE has been the leading resource for civil engineering news and analysis, industry comment, technical features, product innovations and job opportunities. Roger and I got to talking about this after one of our committee meetings, and we thought that it would be of interest to members of  our online community.   Roger agreed to slightly expand on his letter and I would upload as a blog posting on our community area - fascinating topic and I hope  may start some interesting discussion.   Please do feel free to post your thoughts in the comment box below - look forward to reading…

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • 11 Times Modern Life Has Been Disrupted By Multimedia

    Let’s go invent tomorrow rather than worrying about what happened yesterday. —Steve Jobs, D5 Conference: All Things Digital, May 30, 2007 I can’t remember the last time I bought a music CD. Or a DVD. Definitely not a cassette tape. Can you?   Instead I stream whatever music I fancy whilst on the move, or spend a lazy weekend searching Netflix for a film. Long gone are the impromptu Saturday night trips to Blockbuster in the rain to see if they had Gladiator or Love Actually on DVD for hire (then panicking a week later that they’re overdue). Missed Tuesday’s Eastenders? No worries, it’ll be available on BBC IPlayer for a month. In fact, why not download it for your morning commute?   The world of media communications is fast-paced, and consumer uptake equally ravenous. The term used for one…

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