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  • Cars, Cars And More Cars – Haven’t I Been Here Before?

    A few weeks ago, I experienced a case of deja vu at the Coventry Museum of Transport when I came across their pre-war collection of cars.  Preferring vintage cars (a Bugatti T35 over a Veyron any day for me!) I always seem to gravitate as if on remote control to these vehicles.  I realised of course that I’d been there the previous year when the ARTS TPN held their first ever seminar on ‘Electrification in Motorsports’. With the 2017 event such a success, it was never in any doubt that they should organise a follow-on seminar in 2018.  Angus Lyon our lead volunteer, linked up with the Motorsports Industry Association (MIA) and together they came up with a great line-up of speakers.   Angus started the seminar with a presentation on ‘Inside Electric Motorsports’.   Steve Sapsford from Ricardo…

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • DIY FARADAY CHALLENGE ROUND 1 - 29TH APRIL 2018

    Sunday, 29th April 2018, Bandar Seri Begawan. Total of 48 students from 8 local secondary schools participated in DIY Faraday Challenge Round 1 that was held in Universiti Teknologi Brunei.Sunday, 29th April 2018, Bandar Seri Begawan. Total of 48 students from 8 local secondary schools participated in DIY Faraday Challenge Round 1 that was held in Universiti Teknologi Brunei. This annual event, organised by The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Brunei Darussalam Local Network, gave an opportunity to the students to flourish their knowledge and creativity to solve problem based on real life engineering work. This challenge also provided a platform for the participants in each school to build a functioning prototype which was demonstrated at the end of the event. Chung Hwa Middle…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • National Aerospace Library Book Sale 24 May 2018

    An  Aviation Book Sale is to be held at the National Aerospace Library  at Farnborough  on Thursday May 24  2018, 10:30 – 4:30pm. Entry is free and a vailable for purchase on the day will be many  100s  of new / second-hand donated books  and  heaps  of aviation magazines - a  wide range of  aviation history books, autobiographies, biographies, histories of  individual  aircraft  types  /  aircraft companies,  old  journals,  books on the  history of  RAF, technical textbooks etc. - a sheer abundance of aviation titles.    Most of the books will be sold between £1.00 and  £5.00  and the magazines will be 25p each or 5 for a £1.00;  the  money raised from the sale of these  donated  books will be used towards the conservation of historic aviation material in the Library’s archives.  This year…

    Anne Locker
    Anne Locker

  • Technical Visit -- Darlington Nuclear Facility

    Visit Mock up taining facility

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • PhD Award 2018 - Seeking nominations

    So, it's that time of year again when we start to look for nominations for our Doctoral Dissertation Prize. The Prize recognises a student for their research excellence in the field of Control & Automation.  Do you know a student who deserves to win this year - the prize money on offer is £500 ! The award is open to all relevant students who were awarded their PhD in the general area of Control and Automation, at a UK university, between 1st October 2016 up to 30 September 2018 and nominations are now open.   Nominations must be made via the nomination form which is available for download in our files section and returned by 1st October 2018. Need any more encouragement to nominate someone?   Read what our previous winners have to say in our blog section.   Last year's winner Wenlong Ming had…

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • Meet Our Community Members

    I'm always fascintated to hear about our wonderful and diverse community members and how they came to be doing the job they do today, so, I thought I'd hand over this blog to David Leng .   David joined the platform in April 2016 and below he tells us more about himself. Looking back on my working life two things strike me: I’ve been incredibly fortunate to have always managed to get paid to do things that I would actually spend my own time doing; and secondly that being in the IET gives me a genuine sense of pride. Not in a big headed, “I’m the great I am” way, but as a quiet achievement after putting in a lot of spade work. I left school at 16 to work at British Steel, Rotherham.  It was great to be earning a wage, but after a while I was frustrated at not knowing where the various engineering…

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • Predictably Irrational. (IET Harrow).

    In Out In Out ...Opt it all about!. Attending the Predictably Irrational, The Impact Of Relativity event organised by Harrow IET, David Chong from GSMA discussed the different ways of 'opting in and opting out' in numerous consent based scenarios. An interesting stat presented showed that more countries within the EU had a larger number of health donors than for example in the UK - the main difference? Persons are under the Opt Out framework. The session covered that human behaviours can be predicted to choose relative outcomes based off presented data - including how the decision making process can be tailored to a give a focused outcome. Whilst this is typically seen in UX Design efforts, the broader digital world is also going through an Opt In/Opt Out overhaul - namely, GDPR. We know that…

    Rimesh Patel
    Rimesh Patel

  • A Is For Academic Study – Support From The IET (TWAVES)

    Although many people complete their studies first (whether it is a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree etc.) and then look for work experience opportunities or employment, some others do two things at the same time and go for extramural studies (or online learning) and work (sometimes even full time!) as well, with others completing sandwich programmes which offer industrial placements as part of the qualification, or even work based learning qualifications. Some people would even consider working and doing a PhD at the same time or they would simply focus on their doctoral research - on condition that they can afford it or get enough funding. There are so many options…. but which route is the best one? If you wish to share your experience with others please leave your comments below. Again, despite…

    Matylda
    Matylda

  • Get To Know The Auckland Network Committee And Thank You!

    It was great meeting up with the Auckland Network committee: Old friends and many new faces : ) Learned about the good activities the Network is organising:  Project X, Technical talks and visits.  YPS will organise the PATW NZ Final.   Congratulations to Julia who is now taking on a bigger role:  Vice Chairperson for the ANZ Young Professionals Campaign!! During the meeting, an Outstanding Volunteer Certificate was presented to Frank Lewis who contributed a lot to the IET, thanks Frank!!! It is also very interesting to find out the diverse cultural backgrounds of the Committee Members, they all live in Auckland but some of them have families or originally from other countries: Warren (Chairman) - South Africa George (Treasurer) - Sri Lanka Chris (Committee) - New Zealand (Palmerston North…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Technical Talk: Big Data Analytics and SMEs 21st April

    The Institute of Engineering and Technology, Malaysia Local Network (IET) has successfully organised a Technical Talk on Big Data Analytics and SMEs at Symphony Suites Hotel, 41 Lapangan Symphony Business park, Jalan Lapangan Symphoney, 31350 Ipoh, Perak on Thursday, 21st April 2018. We are pleased to record the total Attendance of 18 pax consist of 5 IET members and 13 non-members. Present are our Committee Member Ir. Chan Cheong Loong as the moderator for this event.  The Speaker for the event is Dr. Tan Su Wei who is a Principal Consultant at Iconix Consulting Sdn Bhd.  Dr. Tan has more than ten years of teaching and research experience in the area of telecommunications. His research interest is in the general field of data analytics, data communications and wireless networking, in which…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • IET WA History & Get To Know Our Culturally Diverse Team!

    Do you know that IET WA historical links (previously known as STEE) can be dated back to 1886? A copy of IET WA meeting minutes in 1886 At the STEE Council meeting 11 November 1886 it was resolved that Mr D J McGauran, Member, having indicated his willingness to accept such office be and is hereby appointed Local Honorary Secretary & Treasurer of the Society in Western Australia.  Diverse Cultural Backgrounds of the team: The Committee members come from a diverse cultural background and is such a great team!  There are about 16 - 20 committee members.  They have done excellent events such as Bike Charger Event at different universities, Leadership programme, How to win a job, Engineering Challenge.  3 On Campus groups established:  UWA, ECU and Curtin. They plan to set up more On Campus groups…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • IET Bowling Tournament 2018 - IET Malaysia President Cup

    The Bowling Tournament is organized to create a platform of social event for the IET members and non-IET members. This is also created to make a networking session between IET and other engineering institutions, also to spread the awareness of Institution of Engineering and Technology to the public through the Facebook Promotion. This Bowling event creates opportunity to enhance the engagement between IET members of Main Committee, YPS and On Campuses. Group pictures of all the participants The event had participations from the Student On-Campus, Main Committee and external institutions that joined us. The external institutions received our Event Promotional Advertising through the emails and Facebook. The participation of the day including On-Campus from Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Universiti…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Cyprus Local Network Supports F1 Education Initiative

    Are you keen to get involved in a project that gives young people ‘hands-on experience’ of engineering?  The Cyprus Local Network did just this when they recently supported the F1 in Schools Cyprus National Final.   F1 in Schools, an Education Partner of the IET, runs a challenge which requires teams of schoolchildren to design, manufacture and race their own model F1 car.  Competitors follow processes used by real Formula One teams, including Computer Aided Design (CAD), and wind and smoke tunnel testing. During the Cyprus National Final, held on 24-25 March 2018 at The English School, winning teams from regional finals exhibited and raced their cars.   Alkis Spyrou, a member of the IET Cyprus Local Network said... “Our local network wanted to support the competition because we felt it’s very…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Smart Cities Symposium, Photos, are uploaded

    Smart Cities Symposium 22-23 April 2018 Event Photos, are uploaded  :  https://www.smart-cities-2018.com/

    Prof. Ebrahim Mattar
    Prof. Ebrahim Mattar

  • Regional IMechE Dinner 2018

    The Annual regional IMechE dinner was once again held at the Cutlers Hall in Sheffield on the 20th April 2018. Based on the close collaboration between the local IET & IMechE, John Lawrence and I from the IET SYLN were once again invited as their guests for the evening. Since its inception, the dinner has been a huge success with around 200 guests attending through either regional Businesses or Academia sponsored tables. Keynote speakers at the dinner this year were the current IMechE president Carolyn Griffiths, the Master Cutler Kenneth Cooke and their present Regional chairman Alan Bratton. The Master of ceremonies for the evening was Denis Healy the IMechE Regional Business Development Manager. The whole event was once again organised by Nicky Baxter the regional IMechE Administration Manager…

    Alan Chater
    Alan Chater

  • IET YP Leadership Programme - Workshop One (MBTI)

    The WA IET YP Leadership Programme launched this month. Check out what participant Lachlan Strickland thought of the first workshop. Word by Lachlan Strickland, a participant The first workshop of the 2018 IET Leadership Programme in Western Australia had all participants meeting at the well-known engineering pavilion at Curtin University. As a graduate, I wondered if I would even be able to enter the pavilion on my own seeing as most university buildings require swiping a student card to enter. Luckily the building was open to anyone, and a few of the program mentors were waiting for new arrivals. Once everyone had arrived, we were ushered upstairs into an open, well-lit room.   The workshop was centred around understanding the MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator), particularly, how you can…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • TECHNICAL VISIT TO THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT, ROYAL BRUNEI AIRLINES SDN BHD

    Friday, 20 th April 2018, Bandar Seri Begawan.  The Instituition of Engineering and Technology (IET) Brunei Darussalam Local Network yesterday held a technical visit to the Engineering Department, Royal Brunei Airlines Sdn. Bhd.   The objectives of the visit was to understand and learn firsthand the organisation of the RB Engineering Department, its functions, challenges faced and how it goes about in achieving its mission and objectives. Around 20 participants from Brunei’s Science, Engineering and technology community took part and heard the opening remarks and briefing from Tuan Rosli.  There was also an opportunity for a walk around to the various engineering sections.   On interview with some of the participants who participated in the visit expressed 1) gratitude to RBA in allowing for…

    Siong Tang
    Siong Tang

  • TECHNICAL VISIT TO THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT, ROYAL BRUNEI AIRLINES SDN BHD - 20TH OF APRIL 2018

    Friday, 20 th April 2018, Bandar Seri Begawan.  The Instituition of Engineering and Technology (IET) Brunei Darussalam Local Network yesterday held a technical visit to the Engineering Department, Royal Brunei Airlines Sdn. Bhd.   The objectives of the visit was to understand and learn firsthand the organisation of the RB Engineering Department, its functions, challenges faced and how it goes about in achieving its mission and objectives. Around 20 participants from Brunei’s Science, Engineering and technology community took part and heard the opening remarks and briefing from Deputy Head of Engineering Tuan Rosli.  There was also an opportunity for a walk around to the various engineering sections.   On interview with some of the participants who participated in the visit expressed 1) gratitude…

    Siong Tang
    Siong Tang

  • Busy Times For The IET Railway TPN

    We have lots going on in the IET Railway Technical and Professional Network in May, June and July 2018.    1.  The Call for Abstracts for the IET Railway Early Career Professionals Best Railway Paper  2018 is now open.  Submit your abstract for a chance to present your work to your peers on a subject related to Railway engineering and technology.   2.  IET Exhibiting At Infrarail 2018 - Come Along And Visit Us On Stand A70    We’re delighted to confirm we’ll be exhibiting at stand A70 at ExCeL London for Infrarail 2018, taking place during 1-3 May.   Come visit us to discuss how we can help your business. For those who haven’t signed up yet, Infrarail is Britain’s leading exhibition for railway infrastructure and technology, and a must-attend event for industry professionals! It’s not too late…

    Lynsay Callaghan
    Lynsay Callaghan

  • Active And Passive RF Seminar 2018 - Speakers

    The Active and Passive event is less than 2 weeks away! This event will provide a look into latest breakthroughs and developments in the area of RF and Microwave technology with a series of talks and a poster session.We have an exciting line up of speakers for the event:   Jaspal Singh Bharj received the M.Sc. degree in Microwave and Modern Optics from University College London and the Ph.D. degree in solid state efficient amplification and linearization for telecommunications from the Kings College University of London in 1979 and 1999, respectively. Since then, he worked at Marconi Space where he designed state of the art Receivers and SSPAs for space. In 1986 he worked for ESTEC as a senior RF payloads system engineer, in 1992 he returned to Marconi Space as a group leader for satellite…

    Former Staff Member
    Former Staff Member

  • London Calling!

    The 12th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation was held last week in the ExCeL Centre in London, UK.   The conference was the biggest ever with over 1500 delegates and over 40 exhibitors. As always the conference was a mix of invited talks, poster sessions, exhibition and social events, all of which contributed to a very successful event! I got the chance to sit in on some of the talks and look at some of the posters – there is lots of interesting research happening in the areas of antennas and propagation at the moment.   The IET was in attendance with the exhibition stand – the stand was busy every day and I loved talking to so many of the delegates throughout the week. We had lots of fun give-aways – as always the sweets and mints were a hit (ran out on the first full day!) as…

    Former Staff Member
    Former Staff Member

  • Cambridge Sustainable Technology

    Cambridge Sustainable Technology Meetup is a group for people interested in the technology involved in sustainable development, e.g. renewable energy, electric vehicles or precision agriculture.   A lot of the emerging products in these areas-  whether it's electric bikes or smart meters - can be improved upon by individual engineers and make for great projects. Previous sessions with the group include a a workshop for building a Raspberry Pi based agricultural sensor, and a demonstration on building e-bikes; later this year there will be workshops exploring the use of machine learning in the energy industry.   The link to the group is here: https://www.meetup.com/Cambridge-Sustainable-Technology-Meetup/ Please contact Boyuan Xiao: boyuanxiao@gmail.com if you have any questions or ideas for

    David Blake
    David Blake

  • Not Just A Telly On The Wall:The AV Tech Revolution At IET Savoy Place

    We had an appreciative audience in the Kelvin Lecture Theatre at Savoy Place for the April IET Central London Evening Lecture to be enlightened by Kevin Madeja of Snelling Business Systems on the AV systems that illuminate and entertain. The refurbishment of Savoy Place was a major undertaking and the results are superb. The IET and Snelling are justly proud of their achievements which have been recognised with several awards. Did you know that the BBC do live TV broadcasts from the roof - watch out for Carol's weather forecasts with the London Eye in the background!  Kevin split his talk to cover the key components of the AV system:- Projectors: We had a reminder of AV in the 70's - chunky and low resolution - to now. The current projectors are based on 3-chip digital light processing (DLP…

    David Tabor
    David Tabor

  • Midlands Power Group Event - Future Operability Challenges

    On 12th April 2018, the Midlands Power Group were delighted to welcome Beth Warnock, System Performance Manager at National Grid to deliver a talk on the future challenges of operating the transmission network as the nature of power generation changes into the future.An audience of around 40 delegates were treated to an insightful view of the rapidly changing world of electricity generation and how these changes impact on the operability of the power system under both steady state and fault conditions.  The rapidly increasing volume of non-synchronous and non-despatched power generation in the form of wind and solar and the increasing amount of battery storage devices, coupled with the reducing number of large mechanically coupled generators is causing the transmission system operator (National…

    David Swanson
    David Swanson

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