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  • Looking Back. 2017-2018 Wales South West Local Network Chair's Report

    It's an honour to be elected as a chair of an IET local network, and I was honoured to serve the Wales South West Local Network in 2017-2018. As I prepare to hand over the baton to my successor, Ms Susan Jones, at tonight's October Lecture on Environmental Management Technologies   I have the opportunity the reflect on the year just gone and mention some of my personal highlights.It's an honour to be elected as a chair of an IET local network, and I was honoured to serve the Wales South West Local Network in 2017-2018. As I prepare to hand over the baton to my successor, Ms Susan Jones, at tonight's October Lecture on Environmental Management Technologies   I have the opportunity the reflect on the year just gone and mention some of my personal highlights. In my day job, I'm an academic working…

    Chris Jobling
    Chris Jobling

  • Formula North Student Design Competition

    With an aim of getting more young future technical professionals to involve with IET Toronto Local Network, I am happy to announce that we will sponsor the student group at Ryerson University to enter their Car Design Project in the Formula North 2019 event in Barrie, Ontario, Canada. Good luck to Ryerson student group!

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • IET Fellow’s Experience As An Engineer With Dyslexia

    Brian Back, in spite of his dyslexia, is enjoying an engineering career that has spanned 40 years. He’s pioneered projects such as a wide area smart metering AMR network, a rail temperature monitoring system and most recently, a real-time sewer level and sewer overflow monitoring system. Pursuing an education Brian’s career started at 16 as an apprentice power engineer with Hawker Siddeley. But due to the lack of a GCSE in English, he had to take his education one step at a time. “During my early career, dyslexia was a serious barrier, as educational admission boards would automatically say no at the lack of a formal English qualification. Dyslexia was never mentioned as little was known about it in those days,” he says. “Time and time again, I had to visit in person and plead with heads of…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Volunteering Opportunity With South Yorkshire LN

    Come along and help out at our Engineering Extravaganza.     Help out at the Engineering Extravaganza     Engineering Extravaganza VOLUNTEER NOW Help out at the Engineering Extravaganza We are looking for enthusiastic members to help us run an activity and answer year 8 level engineering questions along the way. The IET South Yorkshire Local Network will be helping students discover engineering at the Engineering Extravaganza Monday 12 th  November, at the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) in Rotherham. The Engineering Extravaganza is run by the IET, IMechE, ICE, IChemE and IOM3 with Tomorrow’s Engineers, and is designed to encourage 12-14 year-olds to take up a career in engineering. Volunteers from each institution will lead engineering activities designed to give students hands…

    Layla Heaps
    Layla Heaps

  • Innovation Conference 2018

    The Institution of Engineering and Technology – Cyprus Network  organised on the 3th of October 2018 the “Innovation, The Challenging Way Forward” conference at the Hilton Hotel in Nicosia, Cyprus. The conference aimed at raising awareness and promoting the role of Innovation in the new Economy and will bring together experts from the industry and academia to share their ideas and experiences. PHOTO GALLERY https://innovationcyconf2018.com/en/page/gallery PRESENTATIONS https://innovationcyconf2018.com/en/page/speakers

    Christos Christou
    Christos Christou

  • Forefront Of Technology In International Broadcasting - IBC 2018 (IET London Network)

    Broadcasting techniques were the essence of the IBC 2018 highlights show held in partnership with RTS London Centre at IET Savoy Place. The panel spoke about the latest cutting edge innovations, trends and technical strategies from across the media industry on display at the IBC 2018 show.  The panel consisted of Keith Underwood COO of Channel 4, James Lovell of CISCO Media Sector, David Short the Vice Chair of the IET Multimedia Communication Network and Aradhna Tayal Director of Radio TechCon, and chaired by Muki Kulhan Managing Director of Muki-international. The panel discussed how development of broadcast technology of yester year has transformed into pocket-production. Any smart device is now the Satellite mobile news van, you don’t need an entire crew to send your news, just a smart…

  • October Lecture: Environmental Monitoring Technologies by Claire Granger, Tata Steel.

    Environmental Monitoring Technologies: Exploring the benefits of smart technology in environment management . 18 October 2018, ALEX Reading Room, UWTSD, Alexandra Road, Swansea SA1 5DU. Claire Grainger is the new manager of the Environment department at Tata Steel Port Talbot and Llanwern, she will share her ideas on the technologies available. She also looks forward to hearing from others about their experiences of technology in this field. Lecture starts at 19:00. Refreshments from 18:30. All welcome. If you register, it helps us to organize sufficient refreshments. Register here .

    Chris Jobling
    Chris Jobling

  • A Year Of Celebrations: Welcome To IET Wales South West's 2018-19 Programme

    This year the IET Wales South West local network is pleased to announce that our incoming chair, Susan Jones, has curated a special programme of talks from female speakers to celebrate 100 years of Women in Engineering. In 2019, we will also be hosting the IET South Wales Prestige Dinner which will be in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the first air-crossing of the Atlantic made by Alcock and Brown. We have a great programme planned which, because of changes in the IET's fiscal year, takes us from October 2018 all the way to December 2019. We hope that you will be able to join us!This year the IET Wales South West local network is pleased to announce that our incoming chair, Susan Jones, has curated a special programme of talks from female speakers to celebrate 100 years of Women in…

    Chris Jobling
    Chris Jobling

  • CERN & Society Foundation

    On 6 June 2018, the CERN & Society Foundation and the Foundation for the Globe of Science and Innovation joined forces by becoming one single entity with the ultimate goal of broadening the impact on society and optimizing fundraising activities.The Foundation for the Globe of Science and Innovation, established in 2007, and the CERN & Society Foundation, established in 2014, have over the past years successfully carried out complementary missions, sharing the overarching objective of promoting engagement in science in support of the broader mission of CERN. After the merger the combined Foundation will continue to have the name “CERN & Society Foundation”, and the existing partnerships and projects of the two foundations will be brought together in this Foundation. While the mission and activities…

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • Chemistry Of Adhesives

    Quick review of talk on Tuesday 9th October 2018On Tuesday 9th October, members of the Bucks LN enjoyed a talk on the Chemistry of Adhesives, subtitled "Get Stuck In!".  The talk was given by Professor John Watts FREng from the university of Surrey.  John is an UK expert in how adhesives work.  He and his team of graduates use cutting-edge chemical analysis equipment to understand how adhesives work and the failure modes.  It was a wide-ranging talk much enlivened by John's puckish sense of humour.  His tale of his experiences of investigating beer-can widget failure was very refreshing ...

    Andrew Dodd
    Andrew Dodd

  • Proton Beam Therapy System Based On Linac Technology

    Announcing another speaker for our Annual Event Veliko Dimov has a PhD in accelerator physics from Bogazici University (Istanbul, Turkey). From 2011 to 2016 he worked on the commissioning of Linac4 accelerator and on the design of a high frequency RFQ (radio frequency quadrupole) accelerator at CERN. Since February 2017 he has been working at AVO-ADAM on the construction and commissioning of a medical proton linac at 3GHz. He is specialized on linear accelerator design, beam dynamics, commissioning and operation. Synopsis Advanced Oncotherapy is developing a unique, fully integrated, proton therapy system. The proton beam will be accelerated with a linac (Linac for Image Guided Hadron Therapy, LIGHT) up to 230 MeV and then delivered to the treatment room with the high energy beam transport…

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • The Aerospace Network Were Hot On The Wings Of HAPS

    “All air vehicles are limited by physics, some by imagination, all others by fuel”.  So said Chris Kelleher, inventor of Zephyr, the solar electric stratospheric unmanned aircraft that provides the airborne platform for the Airbus version of HAPS.Following relatively hot on the wings of their other visit to Farnborough to the AAIB, the Network organised another visit to Farnborough, this time to Airbus, where the company has recently opened the Chris Kelleher building, a production facility for Zephyr.   Three aircraft have been built so far, for the UK MOD as launch customer.  There were many visitors during the 2018 Farnborough air show, as the Kelleher building is a couple of minutes’ walk from the southern perimeter.  In fact, during the period of the air show , Zephyr S set both altitude…

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • North East Exhibition For Future Engineers

    Here are a few photos from the 2-day event which took place last week at the new beacon of Light building in Sunderland. The event attracted over 60 local engineering/technology exhibitors as well as over 2500 school children across the North East, promoting engineering as a career. Our stand was well attended which was exhibiting a working; rotating 3-D laser printed model jet engine with throttle control and condition monitoring sensors, an Arduino unit programmed to playback names typed in morse code and a working sterling engine and a large TV monitor showing engineering related videos. An unexpected visitor was Tony Roche, the new IMechE President to see at first hand an event involving the joint engineering institutions.

    Emmanuel Omotosho
    Emmanuel Omotosho

  • Midlands Power Group - Toby Norris Memorial Lecture - Journey To The Grid Edge

    On 4th October 2018, the IET Midlands Power Group hosted the annual Toby Norris Memorial Lecture at Austin Court.  We were delighted to welcome Ian Graves, CEO and Owner of Competitive Future Ltd and Past Chair of the MPG and Silan Celik, Project Development Engineer with National Grid who together delivered a thought provoking lecture entitled 'Journey to the Grid Edge' which brilliantly reflected the inimitable style of Professor Norris...."wonderfully interesting and curious".  Ian and Silan presented, to an audience of over 50 attendees, a perspective on how the electricity supply sector is having to react rapidly to the transformation from being 'big utility' led to being Customer and specialist SME driven.  The changes arising from the growth in commercial and domestic solar/battery technologies…

    David Swanson
    David Swanson

  • The Reusable Revolution - IET Central London 12-Sep-2018

    Using innovative tracking to reduce single-use waste - how CupClub is putting the circular economy into practice with reusable coffee cups and lidsIET Central London Evening Lecture, Savoy Place, London, 12th September 2018. An audience of 100 joined us in the Kelvin Lecture Theatre for a future-facing talk by Safia Qureshi Founder and CEO of CupClub (CupClub Twitter) with Mark Dowling, Technical Director of Giraffe Innovations (Giraffe Twitter) Important note: These are the author's personal recollections and interpretations, which are likely to suffer from errors and selectivity. There is no endorsement from the IET or the speaker. Single use packaging is unsustainable - it has been big news this year, as too much is not recycled or reused and ends up in the oceans - we use four times more…

    David Tabor
    David Tabor

  • Closure of IET Email Alias

    The IET email alias is to close on 30 September 2019.  After that date, all emails will bounce back to sender with an undeliverable message.  The IET has a webpage explaining the background to the closure of the alias service and what to do next.  If you are using the service, please take a look at https://www.theiet.org/membership/manage/email-alias/ Regards David

    David Blake
    David Blake

  • Understanding The Root Causes Of A Lack Of Diversity In Engineering

    We all know the theoretical benefits of a diverse engineering workforce. I say theoretical because we are not at a place when a majority of engineering companies sector can demonstrate the actuality of the statement. To understand why that's the case, I believe we need to understand the root causes of a lack of diversity and keep asking the "why" questions. Why is it that we don't have more people from all backgrounds, all colours, all ethnicities, all abilities in the engineering workforce? Why is it that when you look at the Boardroom of the majority (if not all) of UK engineering companies the view is very homogenous around the table?   Why is it that I struggle to name ten, no even five, CEOs of big engineering organisations who happen to be women, or Asian, or from the LGBTQ community…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • DISCOURSE ON SOLAR ENERGY

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    J. Maraj
    J. Maraj

  • Annual Event: Introducing Our Technician Presenters

    Looking forward to our Annual Event and I'm pleased to announce our technician presenters: How to Build an Engineer Synopsis an account of the modern day apprenticeship experience within the science community. Working in science provides experience-rich challenges and opportunities, invaluable for those looking for a grassroots introduction into the industry, and important to the industry itself.  Bios Thomas Kelly – Electrical Technician STFC Daresbury With a background in mechanical and electrical engineering, Tom took an apprenticeship with STFC in 2014 and has qualified as a full-time technician at Daresbury after a 4 year apprenticeship.  William Spencer – Mechanical Technician STFC Daresbury Will’s mechanical apprenticeship has been spent working with the various engineering disciplines…

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • IET Hong Kong Network Committee

    The IET Hong Kong Network organises an extensive programme of activities in Hong Kong. We have volunteer groups in six different technical area as well as the Young Professionals. 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. Session 2025 Officers Mr Peter LEUNG Chairman Dr KF TSANG Vice Chairman Ms May TSO Honorary Secretary Mr Jacky HUNG Honorary Treasurer Ex-Officio Members Dr SL MAK Immediate Past Chairman Mr Geddy LEE Past Chairman Ordinary Members Prof. Steve BU STEM Education Coordinator Mr Henry AU GBA Affairs Coordinator Dr Jimmy LI STEM Education…

    Dodi Mak
    Dodi Mak

  • About The Healthcare Technologies Executive Committee

    Dr. Daniel Abasolo Chair of the Healthcare Technologies TPN Dr Daniel Abasolo is Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Surrey, where he is also the programme leader for the BEng/MEng Biomedical Engineering.  He is an engineer by background, holding an Engineering degree (MEng Telecommunication Engineering, 2001) from the University of Valladolid, where he also carried doctoral research and was conferred the PhD degree – Summa Cum Laude – with a thesis on advanced biomedical signal processing of the electroencephalogram (EEG) in Alzheimer’s disease in 2006.  His research interests lie mainly in non-linear biomedical signal processing, in particular the development of algorithms that can be applied to Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis, the characterisation of healthy and…

    Gemma Hadley
    Gemma Hadley

  • New 5G Event!

    The registration page for the next in our 5G series – ‘5G – The Advent’ – is now open!   https://events.theiet.org/5g/index.cfm The conference will bring together researchers to discuss their vision for 5G now and in the future. Topics include potential disruptive technologies, spectrum policies, tactile internet, IoT, security, testbeds & trials, future business models and the latest key aspects of research on 5G. The event provides a great opportunity to meet and network with the 5G leaders from across industry and academia Confirmed Speakers Mischa Dohler Dimitra Simeonidou Tony Sceales We’ll update the registration page with more speakers as they are confirmed The Future of 5G? At the event in January this year, some of the experts who presented and attended the event, took some time to…

    Former Staff Member
    Former Staff Member

  • Annual Event - Keynote Speaker Announced!

    We are very pleased to announce that Shaun Atherton, (The Christie Hospital Manchester) will be giving the Keynote speech at the Annual Event this year, which will take place in Savoy Place .Shaun Atherton is a chartered engineer and is team leader in radiotherapy and clinical engineering at The Christie. He manages the engineering requirements across a number of disciplines specifically: external beam therapy at The Christie main site and satellites; brachytherapy; clinical engineering; proton beam therapy; and mechanical engineering. He has worked at the Christie for 24 years in various engineering roles, and on many projects. Most recently he has been involved in: the radiotherapy satellite centers; proton beam therapy; the linac replacement programme; and oncology management systems. Synopsis…

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • Introducing Our Five IET Present Around The World (PATW) Finalists

    Congratulations to our five finalists of the IET PATW competition 2017-18.  Hear about their journey and what they will present as they go head to head on 14th November for the ultimate accolade of Global Champion at the live PATW global final.  We wish you all the best on the day- good luck! Meet our South Asia finalist: Rahil Mansuri Rahil Mansuri is currently in his final year of studying a degree in Mechanical Engineering at K.K. Wagh Institute of Engineering, Education & Research, Nashik. He is deeply passionate about public speaking and aspires to touch, move and inspire people through his work. He is also a part-time YouTuber where he aims to help people around the world to master the art of public speaking. Because of his strong interpersonal and team management skills he was appointed…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

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