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  • Speaker Highlight - Challenges In Tribology (Part One)

    Earlier this year, the IET Tribology Network held their flagship event ‘New challenges in Tribology’ on the 05 April 2016 at IET Birmingham: Austin Court. Following the success of the event, the IET Tribology Network have decided to run the event again as a two day event ‘ Challenges in Tribology ’ on the 16 and 17 March 2017 at IET Birmingham: Austin Court . The two day conference will be divided into two topic areas: 16 March 2017: ‘Transport Challenges’ 17 March 2017: ‘Materials and Coatings for extreme environments’ We are delighted to announce that our first confirmed speaker for the 17 March is: Professor Christian Mitterer,  Professor for Functional Materials and Materials Systems, Head of the Nano Surface Engineering Center at Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria. About Christian: Christian…

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  • Robot operates inside eye in world first

    Surgeons have used a robot to operate inside the eye and restore sight - in a world first. A team at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital used the device, controlled via a joystick, to remove a membrane one hundredth of a millimetre thick. Patient Bill Beaver, 70, a curate in Oxford, said it was "a fairytale". Surgeons hope the procedure will pave the way for more complex eye surgery than is currently possible with the human hand. The BBC had exclusive access to the procedure. Read more...

  • Important Notice For IET Members - Faraday Centre Limited Service and Space on 06 October

    The Faraday Centre at IET London: Savoy Place will be partially closed on Thursday 6th October 2016 for the IET’s Festival of Engineering. This special event will bring together both the current and next generation of engineers and technologists for a day of events and activities in the building. Over 400 engineers and 300 school children will be in attendance.   -    The Faraday Centre Lounge, Faraday Kitchen and Knowledge Centre will be closed all day for the event. There will be no food served from the Faraday Kitchen, although a reduced menu of sandwiches and snacks will be available in the Nuffield and Tesla Rooms -    The Ayrton member meeting room will be available as well as the 4 member meeting booths on a first come, first served basis. Pre-booking of these spaces will be suspended…

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  • How To Map The Earth (or What Was The Shuttle For Anyway)

    How to Map the Earth (or what was the shuttle for) was the title of an excellent talk to the IET in Southern California by Dr Kobrick, a scientist from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. The first manned mission for the space shuttle, and it’s second flight overall, STS-2 had a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) loaded in the payload bay to capture images of earth. To create a SAR image, signal processing of the echoes of the pulses transmitted by the single beam forming antenna is combined with the position of shuttle in orbiting to allow the generation of topographic information. Since a synthetic aperture radar captures detail by moving over the target it is possible to get a higher level of resolution compared to a beam scanning radar and as the wavelengths are not blocked by clouds…

    Richard Tregaskes
    Richard Tregaskes

  • The IET Scotland South East Committee For 2016-2017

    The IET Scotland South East Committee for 2016-17 elected in May 2016 comprises the following office bearers.  Please address questions to the secretary  Robert D'Arcy .  To contact others on the committee, if there is a link, click to be taken to their MyCommunity page, then "Select add as contact".  This will have to be approved by the person before you can re-visit and select "Send Message" to contact them.     CHAIRMAN        S Girdley  BEng(Hons), MSc, MBA, CEng, MIET, MCMI                                                    SENIOR VICE-CHAIRMAN      Dr. A. Aladeloba                             JUNIOR VICE-CHAIRMAN     Tim Kerby                             HONORARY SECRETARY     R. M. D'Arcy  IEng, MIET, Tech IOSH  ( MyCommunity )                             HONORARY TREASURER     B. Clarke

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    Brian Anderson04

  • 25th Anniversary Celebration Event: Cocktail Reception - From Hong Kong Local Network

    One of the major events of IET Hong Kong Younger Members Section (YMS) 25 Years Anniversary, The Cocktail Reception was successfully organised on 20 August 2016. All YMS committees and friends for celebrating the past achievement of YMS and anticipating the up-coming development as a group of energetic Young Professionals.Over 80 participants including ex-YMS and current IET Hong Kong committee members and representatives from academic institutions and engineering institutions joined this celebration and shared the happiness.        The theme of YMS anniversary, “Breakthrough 25 Years”, is aiming to walk a step further from serving young professionals and connect with external societies and people in need. To signify our success throughout 25 years and sustain for the future, the Cocktail Reception…

    Yiu Chi Wai
    Yiu Chi Wai

  • National Women in Engineering Day - The Big Discussion

    The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM), Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) and Royal Institution of Charted Surveyors (RICS) held a diversity event and discussion on 23rd June to celebrate National Women in Engineering Day (NWED). NWED is a national campaign created by Women’s Engineering Society (WES) to raise the profile and celebrate the achievements of women in engineering Watch the video

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  • Futuristic ‘Hyperloop’ Train Could Make London-Manchester Journeys In Just 18 Minutes

    A futuristic trainline dreamed up by the man behind Tesla could slash UK journey times and is connect cities in the north to the south. The supersonic rail system, dubbed Hyperloop, is the brainchild of U.S. billionaire Elon Musk and is currently in the early stages of development. Tests in the Nevada desert have seen speeds reach 116mph, but it is hoped they will one day get as high as 760mph. Read more...

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  • Exciting news!! Set up of the IET Functional Safety Group in New Zealand!!

    Hywel the key volunteer for this group first came up with the vision to form a community around Functional Safety in mid-2015 and the group has recently been set up.  Purpose of the group is to promote sharing and understanding of Functional Safety to foster learning and development. The have formed a committee and the group is based in New Plymouth, Taranaki, the activities will mainly take place there.  The group is attached to the IET Auckland Network so they will work closely with each other. The technical group plan to organise a series of presentations by members or vendor with a variety of topics such as Alarm Management, SIL Determination and Machinery Functional Safety..etc Watch out for their events and we will keep you posted through the IET NZ Networks webpage and IET event notice

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  • Speaker Highlight - Intelligent Imaging (Part Six)

    We are excited to announce that we have one more speaker confirmed for the Intelligent Imaging event! A joint event between the IET Vision and Imaging Network and the Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN), the Intelligent Imaging event will be taking place at IET London: Savoy Place on the 14 October 2016. Our sixth confirmed speaker for the day is: Miguel R.D Rodrigues , Reader, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London. About Miguel: Miguel Rodrigues is a Reader in Information Theory and Processing with the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, UK, currently working in the general fields of information theory and processing with applications to the sensing, analysis and processing of high-dimensional data. He was previously…

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  • Speaker Highlights - Intelligent Imaging (Part Five)

    The fifth speaker for the joint IET Vision and Imaging Network and the Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN), Intelligent Imaging , 14 October 2016 at IET London: Savoy Place is confirmed! We are delighted to introduce: Professor Jared Tanner , University of Oxford About Jared: Professor Jared Tanner is University Liaison Director (Oxford) at The Alan Turing Institute. He obtained his PhD (2002) in applied mathematics at the University of California at Los Angeles, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California at Davis (Maths) and Stanford University (Stats.) where he worked with David L. Donoho.  Prior to joining the University of Oxford in 2012 he was Professor of the Mathematics of Information at the University of Edinburgh (2007-2012).   He is founding editor-in-chief of Information…

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  • F1 engineer makes 'first flat-pack truck'

    One of motorsport's most acclaimed designers, Gordon Murray, has produced a vehicle that "ranks above anything else I've ever done". The Ox is billed as "the world's first flat-pack van" - a two-wheel drive, off-roader made of marine plywood that can be assembled by non-experts in under 12 hours and travel 1,000km (620 miles) without filling up. It's aimed at remote areas of, say Africa, where transporting food or equipment over difficult terrain is a problem -  BBC Read more...

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  • NHS to offer patients diagnosis on their smartphones

    Patients will be able to diagnose themselves on their smartphones under plans to modernise the health service to be announced today. The new one-stop NHS website will enable patients in England to enter their symptoms online and get tailored advice or a call-back from a health care professional. - ITV   Read more...

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  • Present Around The World (PATW) Asia Pacific Finals 2016 In Sydney

    IET flagship event - Present Around The World Asia (PATW) Pacific Finals 2016 has been successfully held in Sydney on 27 th August 2016. There were in total 8 university students and young professionals, who came from Australia, Brunei, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore and Taiwan, having already won their local competition. Present Around The World is the Institution of Engineering and Technology's global competition for Young Professionals and Students within engineering to develop and showcase presentation skills on their innovation ideas and projects on engineering.   During the presentations, all national winners took it in turns to present their chosen technical subjects to the audience and a panel of honorable judges: Mr. Paul Furniss, Prof. Eliatharmby Ambikairajah…

    Yiu Chi Wai
    Yiu Chi Wai

  • A Report On 2016 Americas PATW Held On 6 August In Toronto

    Click here for photos and details of the event.

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  • Forthcoming sponsored events

    The IET Northumbria Network would like to draw your attention to two forthcoming events that we will be sponsoring: International Conference for Students of Applied Engineering (ICSAE), 20-21 October 2016 at Newcastle University, heavily supported by our On Campus group. Prestige Higginson Lecture - "Simulating smoke for Hollywood" , 16 November 2016 at Durham University, delivered by guest speaker Rob Pieké, Head of Software at MPC, a world-leading visual effects studio in London. The Northumbria Local Network are currently finalising the event programme for the 2016-17 session. Talks this session will be looking at: Autonomous vehicles, SMart Meters, IEE Regulations amongst many other subjects. Keep up-to-date via the IET Northumbria Network's Engineering Communities page here .

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  • IET PATW Asia Pacific Final 2016- Ayesha Salleh Won Third Place At The Competition

    Ms Ayesha Shelleh representing Brunei Network was awarded the third place at the IET PATW Asia Pacific Final.  She presented the topic:  "Synthetic Blood".

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  • Speaker Highlight - Radio Propagation And Technologies For 5G

    We are delighted to share that Professor Hamid Aghvami FREng, FIEEE, FIET  will be a keynote speaker speaking at the  Radio Propagation andd Technologies for 5G .  Hamid Aghvami joined the academic staff at King’s in 1984. In 1989 he was promoted to Reader, and in 1993 was promoted Professor in Telecommunications Engineering. He was the Director of the Centre for Telecommunications Research at King’s from 1994 to 2014. Professor Aghvami carries out consulting work on Digital Radio Communications Systems for British and International companies; he has published over 550 technical journal and conference papers, and given invited talks and courses the world over on various aspects of Personal and Mobile Radio Communications. He was Visiting Professor at NTT Radio Communication Systems Laboratories…

  • Speaker Highlight - Radio Propagation And Technologies For 5G

    We are delighted to announce that Reza Arefi will be speaking at the Radio Propagation and Technologies for 5G .  Reza Arefi   leads spectrum strategies and global radiocommunication standards at Next Generation systems & Standards division of Intel’s Communications & Devices Group. As Director of Spectrum Strategy, he develops market-driven strategies in support of Intel’s existing and future wireless products and assists with global public policy efforts. Reza has been actively contributing to standards and various industry groups on wireless systems since 1999, often in leadership positions (ITU-R, IEEE, WiGig Alliance, etc.). Since 2004, Reza has regularly represented Intel in regional and international regulatory standards organizations including in ITU-R’s World Radio Conferences (WRC…

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  • IET PATW Asia Pacific Final - Runner Up From Singapore Network: Amos Heng

    Congratulations to IET Singapore Network!!  Amos Heng from Singapore is the runner up of the IET PATW Asia Pacific Regional Final!  He presented on "Smart Drones:  A paradox".  The PATW Regional Final took place at Sydney, Australia 27 August 2016.

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  • Totally Thames Festival - The Ladies Bridge (Waterloo Bridge)

    Naomi Climer, IET President spoke on BBC Radio 4 this morning about the celebration of the history of Waterloo Bridge, part of the Totally Thames Festival.   Focusing on women in engineering and the celebration of the group of women who built one of London’s most important bridges in wartime.   Here is a link to listen to Naomi on BBC Radio 4 – begin at 2 hrs 49 mins 40 secs The IET is pleased to continue to support and promote the history behind the Ladies Bridge on 23rd & 24th September - further information to follow.

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  • Other Industrial and Scientific Events being held in the Scotland South West Area

    There is also an exhibition, which features artworks and technological interactives, is the outcome of a collaboration between Kilmarnock Engineering & Science Society, Bellsbank Primary School, Doon Academy, the Dark Skies Observatory and local engineer Mark Klimek.

    Lynsay Callaghan
    Lynsay Callaghan

  • Speaker Highlights - Intelligent Imaging (Part Four)

    It's time for another speaker highlight! This week, we are delighted to confirm that our fourth speaker for the Intelligent Imaging event, 14 October 2016 at IET London: Savoy Place is: Alexandru Drimbarean , Vice President of Advanced Research at FotoNation, Ireland. About Alexandru: Alexandru Drimbarean is the Vice President of Advanced Research team at FotoNation Ireland focusing on developing computer vision and machine learning technologies for mobile, biometrics and automotive applications.  He and his group aim at identifying, researching and providing novel innovative techniques and features to enhance, extend and simplify the adoption of imaging technologies.  Alexandru received his B.S in Electronic Engineering in Brasov Romania followed by an M.Sc. in Electronic Science at N.U.I…

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  • Hertfordshire Engineers Luncheon Club

    If you live in the Herts & Beds area you may be interested in joining the Hertfordshire Engineers Luncheon Club - check them out by clicking here ..

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    Jonathan Higgins

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