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  • Quantum Joins The Family Of IET Engineering Disciplines!

    Quantum technologies will have cross-cutting impacts on current engineering sectors varying from satellites to computing platforms.    Last week, the Technical and Professional Community Networks Committee approved the formation of a Quantum Engineering Technical Network (QETN).  Read on to find out more...As Quantum technologies will have cross-cutting impacts on current engineering sectors varying from satellites to computing platforms; the QETN seeks to achieve three primary objectives, closely aligned to the wider TN strategy: •    The bringing together of engineers working in quantum technologies to share knowledge and practice experience concerning the development of skills, products and applications and their underpinning technologies.  •    The development and evolution of the Quantum…

  • New Research shows children and parent’s lack of understanding of Green Jobs

    As the final part of this year’s  Engineer a Better World campaign , we conducted new research into children’s and parent’s understanding of green jobs and have launched a new video content series to help explain what they are and what they entail. The research found that over two-thirds of children (68%) aged 5 – 13, hope to follow a career that helps the environment, but a lack of understanding about these jobs could stop them from getting there. Seven in 10 (71%) kids feel this knowledge gap is the biggest barrier to their dream career, and a third (33%) of parents cannot give an example of a sustainability-related profession to guide their children. The Government recently announced a £40million investment to unlock thousands of ‘green jobs’. However, without an understanding of eco-friendly…

    EngX Editorial
    EngX Editorial

  • Call 1: Why Is Product Data Important To Manufacturers? #ManufacturersPLG

    Watch the video of the call about the first article in our series on manufacturers' product data, recorded on 11 September 2020This video is a recording of a call to discuss the first article in the series discussing a Plain Language Guide to Product Data for Construction Product Manufacturers. You can read the article and subscribe to further updates here:   Why Is Product Data Important to Manufacturers?  Join the conversation on the blog, on the calls (registration link in each blog post) or via LinkedIn and Twitter using the hashtag #Manufacturers PLG.

    ManufacturersPLG Team
    ManufacturersPLG Team

  • Drum Roll Please! And The Winner Of The 2020 Poster Prize Is......

    Earlier this month we held our Particle Accelerator Enginering Annual Event by Zoom.  Obviously it was quite different from our normal day and half conference, and this year had a particular sadness as the physical event was due to be hosted by our colleagues in CERN.   Read on to find out what our 2020 Poster Prize winner had to say, and for a link to the Presentations if you missed the event.Back to this year's Zoom event. If you missed the event, you can see some of the presentations in our 2020 event folder   As part of the event we had some fantastic poster presentations from students and early career colleagues.  The prize up for grabs this year was £100 and it gives me great pleasure to announce that our winner was Laurence Wroe .  Here's what Laurence had to say afterwards. I have just…

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • Upcoming Events From The University Of Huddersfield IET On Campus Group

    Hi Everyone, I hope you are all keeping well. Here's a summary of the upcoming events from the University of Huddersfield IET On Campus group. The first event is on 8th October, see the flyer and table below for more details.   Date Title Summary of event Registration 8th October 2020 From Huddersfield, Through the Ash Cloud and onto Electric Vehicles - The Common Language of Engineering and its Application Across Sectors. With Andy Walker BSc (Hons) MSc CEng FIET - Jaguar Land Rover Andrew is going to deliver an exciting talk about his engineering career and anyone who is interested in Andrew's work is welcome to join us. The event will be hosted through zoom and will open at 6:00pm for a 6:30pm start.  IET events page https://events.theiet.org/events/jaguar-land-rover/ More info and Registration…

    Oliver Clarke
    Oliver Clarke

  • E&T Win Big At 2020 Tabbie Awards

    Congratulations to our E&T Team for winning gold, silver, and bronze awards as well as getting several honourable mentions at this year’s TABPI Awards. The 2020 Tabbie Awards, presented by TABPI (Trade, Association, and Business Publications International), took place on 20 August. These awards recognise the very best B2B publications worldwide. Our E&T colleagues had a big list of wins: 2020 Technical Article GOLD 2020 How-to Articles SILVER 2020 Department BRONZE Honourable Mentions: 2020 Regular Comms 2020 Special Section 2020 Front Cover, Digital Imagery 2020 Front Cover Special Issues Amanda Weaver (Head of Practitioner Publishing at the IET) said: “It was fantastic to see E&T cited for `clever writing on a very important topic’ and `an insightful and extremely interesting’ how-to article…

    EngX Editorial
    EngX Editorial

  • Congratulations To Pradesh Boodoosingh

    UTT Student, Mr. Pradesh Boodoosingh recognised by IET UK for outstanding engineering talent! Mr. Pradesh Boodoosingh, imminent graduate of the Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) in Utilities Engineering - Mechanical Option at The University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT), has been recognised for his hard work by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) UK and has been awarded the IET Prize 2020.  This prize is awarded every year to outstanding students who are doing or have completed an IET accredited university course.  Prize winners are nominated by their universities based on having shown distinction in their course leading to the award of a first degree.  Mr. Boodoosingh joined the B.A.Sc. in Utilities Engineering - Mechanical Option programme as a full-time student in 2017…

    J. Maraj
    J. Maraj

  • Message from the IET’s President -

    Published: Mon 14 Sep 2020 IET President Dr Peter Bonfield OBE FREng BSc MSc PhD CEng FIET, reflects on his Presidential term as he hands over to Danielle George MBE FIET FCGI. It’s been an extraordinary year to be President of our great Institution. In spite of the many challenges posed by the pandemic, I’ve been inspired by our amazing members and partners who have adapted and have really come together as a community to help with national and international efforts to make the world a safer place. I’d like to thank our members and partners who have given their support and knowledge to help find solutions to the challenges we face. What we have all seen too, is just how critical the technology and engineering we collectively enable, is to support the world when challenged as it has been. I…

    J. Maraj
    J. Maraj

  • Standards And Construction Product Data Must Be Connected

    Our second article in this series is about standards, and why they are important to solving the challenge of the product data journey.  Check the invitation to participate in the online discussion too! In this second article about product data for manufacturers in the construction industry we look at standards: what they are, why they must be connected to construction product data in a governed way, and how this could be achieved. What are Standards?  The minimum common specifications, methods and procedures which should be used for construction products are defined by Standards. Standards create a level playing field for all; a benchmark that all companies can adhere to in terms of performance, product testing and processes. Some standards provide a best practice process - such as the International…

    ManufacturersPLG Team
    ManufacturersPLG Team

  • Listen To An Exciting New Series Of Podcasts With Key Parliamentarians

    Our Public Affairs activities aim to position the IET as the go-to place for Parliamentarians for independent, impartial engineering and technology expertise. Like many of activities, the ongoing pandemic has made this difficult and has forced us to operate in different ways.In order to achieve our goals, we have a stakeholder map of key individuals that we want to engage with. These include Government Ministers, Chief Scientific Advisors (many of which are IET Fellows and past Presidents), as well as Shadow Ministers and key backbench MPs and Peers. In a normal world, we would engage with them often through face-to-face meetings or events.  Clearly, that currently isn’t possible, so we’ve been looking at other ways to engage with them and position the IET as the home of independent, impartial…

    EngX Editorial
    EngX Editorial

  • Innovation Awards Ceremony

    The awards ceremony for the IET's Innovation Awards will be taking place at 4pm GMT on Thursday 19 November.  If you wish to attend the virtual event, please make a booking at https://eandtinnovationawards.theiet.org/free-virtual-ceremony/?utm_source=adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=eandtinnovationawards&utm_term=website

    David Blake
    David Blake

  • IET Malaysia Supporting Innovate Malaysia Design Conference (IMDC) 2020 To Promote STEM And Green Technology

    As a continuous effort in promoting STEM education in Malaysia, IET Malaysia is proudly supporting IET Green Technology Award for the up coming Innovate Malaysia Design Conference (IMDC) 2020. Innovate Malaysia Design Competition is the largest design competition in Malaysia, opened to all third year or final year degree engineering, computer science, IT, and science/mathematics students. The goal of the competition is to promote innovative culture in engineering design work, tackle real-world problems with practical engineering solutions, and churn out brightest talents for product development, further research, and commercialisation. Technology companies, including Dassault Systémes SOLIDWORKS, Google, Intel, Keysight, MathWorks, Microsoft, SAS, and SilTerra, work together to co-organise…

    Alison Siu
    Alison Siu

  • Join Us For The Members Annual Information Event - 16th September

    Our Members Annual Information Event will be taking place virtually on Wednesday, 16 September from 2pm until 3.30pm (BST). To register to attend, please complete the  online registration  form and you will receive the link to the online broadcast. Our Members Annual Information Event is an opportunity to hear from CES Nigel Fine about our achievements of 2019, as well as looking forward to our future plans with a presentation from President, Peter Bonfield. A Q&A session will be held at the end of the event. Members are welcome to submit questions in advance to  communications@theiet.org . We hope to see you there! Please note: this event is only open to members of the IET.

    EngX Editorial
    EngX Editorial

  • Meet Our Sports Of The Future Winner!

    Our Sports of the Future competition ran in April and May as part of our Engineer a Better World campaign. We encouraged children to use their imagination to create a new sport or invention to make existing sport even better!We had plenty of innovative and clever ideas from robots you can play football with, to a gun that fires chicken nuggets at athletes to keep them sustained. Some entries were even inspired by social distancing restrictions, including the ‘Squennis Ball’ that automatically returns to you, allowing you to play tennis without a partner, and social distancing trainers that light up if you’re within two metres of someone else. Our 13-year-old winner, Charlotte Geary, came up with an innovative way to make skaters go faster and do more tricks without ever having to take their…

    EngX Editorial
    EngX Editorial

  • 2020 programme

    Because of the Covid virus we have had to cancel all our events for the remainder of 2020. We hope to resume sometime in 2021. Jim Gaw SESAME committee

    Samuel Gaw (Jim)
    Samuel Gaw (Jim)

  • Novel Soft Robotics Approaches Addressing The Challenges In Nuclear Decommissioning

    Join us for an upcoming webinar organised by the Control & Automation Technical NetworkThe United Kingdom is forecast to accumulate 4.9 million tonnes of radioactive waste by 2025 and the ongoing nuclear decommissioning project is expected to span over the next 120 years. Owing to the hazardous nature of this activity, robot-assisted decommissioning is an attractive solution but poses tremendous challenges such as nuclear radiation and operation in confined and unstructured environments.  Join us for a free webinar, presented by Professor Kaspar Althoefer.  In this talk, Prof Althoefer will discuss some of the innovative approaches for sensor delivery and robotic manipulation based on soft and bioinspired robots being explored at the Centre for Advanced Robotics @ Queen Mary. The talk will…

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • Why Is Product Data Important To Manufacturers?

    We kick off our series of articles about manufacturers product data with an article about what product data is and why it is important - check the invitation to participate in the online discussion too! In this first of a series of articles about product data for manufacturers in the construction industry we look at the importance of secure, validated and interoperable structured product information and why it is the key to bringing the construction industry into a safer future.   What type of data are we talking about? When we talk about product data for manufacturers, we’re talking about the wide range of information generated about their products. For example: Manufacturing Data – the information that is required to make the product, such as bills of materials (the ingredients), the manufacturing…

    ManufacturersPLG Team
    ManufacturersPLG Team

  • University Of Leeds - Creating Resilient Sustainable Micro-grids - 4th September: Free

    The University of Leeds has organised a free to (virtually) attend workshop. The UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funded Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) project CRESUM-HYRES is organising a virtual workshop to showcase parts of the project’s work, the Universities partners, and prominent researchers in the area to increase access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all. The CRESUM-HYRES virtual workshop includes three sessions focused on:     1. Towards Resilience, flexibility, and Sustainability in Remote Microgrids 2. Planning of Sustainable Microgrids 3. Operation of Sustainable Microgrids    The first session will be concluded by a panel discussion involving the three keynote speakers with substantial experience of leading research projects on modern microgrids…

    Oliver Clarke
    Oliver Clarke

  • The All-Ethernet In-Vehicle Network - 'Evolution Or Revolution?' (IET Webinar)

    The drive towards autonomous and connected mobility is dramatically re-defining vehicle architecture as we know today. The car will become the ultimate 'mobile device', a 'data centre on wheels' characterised by software and no longer mechanics - all using ethernet as a core component explained Mike Jones, Senior Marketing Manager, Automotive Ethernet Microchip at the 'Evolution or Revolution?' The All-Ethernet In-Vehicle Network' IET Webinar. Mike spoke about how Ethernet's durability will allow the hardware components to become domain specific but also responsive to applications buses, enabling about the concept of the software defined car - which will have over 100 million lines of code enabling dynamic cloud-based applications. PCIe technology is to play a big role in ethernet evolution…

    Rimesh Patel
    Rimesh Patel

  • New Laptops For Old : Using Free And Open Source Software

    A free method of bringing an old laptop back to life, a recording of a recent talk presented to the IET by Mr. Mike Farnworth in July and again in August 2020.A common fate for a Windows PC after a few years is to be retired because it's out-of-date.  Even if its hardware is healthy, a computer will run more slowly when old than it did when new. The problem will be its software. There's a simple solution: use free and open-source software instead. As a general rule, any PC will run noticeably faster under Linux than under Windows.  Rebuilding an old PC with a Linux software distribution gives it a new lease of life. This talk will show you what to do. The task is surprisingly easy, and the software costs nothing! Here is a video of the talk written and presented by Mike Farnworth  https://www…

    David S Crawford
    David S Crawford

  • Notice of Annual General Meeting 2020

    Dear Member, Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of the Institution of Engineering and Technology Singapore will be held on Tuesday 29th September 2020 at 7.30pm. The meeting will take place online. All resolutions to be put before the Annual General Meeting must be sent to the Honorary Secretary at least 14 days before the Annual General Meeting. That is, by Tuesday 15th September 2020. As per clause 7.5 of the Constitution, at least half of the members of the current Management Committee except the Chairman and Honorary Secretary will retire then shall be eligible for immediate re-election, then members for the 2020 – 2021 Committee will be elected during the Annual General Meeting. Nominations for the Management Committee (Nomination Form enclosed) close at 6pm on Tuesday…

    Alison Siu
    Alison Siu

  • Introducing The Plain Language Guide For Manufacturers

    Manufacturers produce a significant part of the information required to bring about a safer construction industry; but this information is currently not structured or shared in a consistent way. Read about the project to produce a Plain Language Guide to Product Data for Manufacturers and how you can get involved. If industry is to meet the challenges of a digital future, avoid a race to the bottom and respond to the requirements of a new building safety regulatory system, we need manufacturers to structure and share their data safely. This IET project is producing a Plain Language Guide to Product Data for Manufacturers in the UK and Europe. The guide aims to help decision makers in manufacturing identify: Why structured data is important. How to avoid poor investment decisions. How to protect…

    ManufacturersPLG Team
    ManufacturersPLG Team

  • Diversity in PEMD

    Join the discussion on ways to stop the decline in the number of engineers and how to improve diversity within the profession, with the Driving the Electric Revolution team, guest host Jacqui Murray, Deputy Director of the Faraday Battery Challenge and others. https://lnkd.in/de7Mi3B #DrivingElectricRevolution #Diversity #STEM This Thursday 27 August 2020 at 15:00 (UK time)

    Bill Drury
    Bill Drury

  • West Yorkshire Network Committee

    The IET West Yorkshire Network organise a programme of engineering activities in the West Yorkshire area. All of these events and activities are made possible by the efforts of a dedicated group of volunteers. If you would like to know more about our committees, or would like to be a volunteer for us, please get in touch with any of the volunteers listed here. Dr Crinela Pislaru  - Chairman Dr Crinela Pislaru has over 20 years’ experience of teaching and research in UK Universities. Her expertise is on Engineering education and control engineering with applications in rail industry and manufacturing industry. She was awarded the status of Chartered Engineer (CEng) and Fellowship of Higher Education Academy (FHEA) as recognition of her high level of competence and ongoing commitment to professionalism…

    Oliver Clarke
    Oliver Clarke

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