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  • Visit to Control Tower of "El Prat"

    On Oct 3rd 2012, the Barcelona local network of the IET paid a visit to the Control tower of the main Barcelona city airport "El Prat". We were received by the tower supervisor, the staff member responsible for the IT system and by the person responsible for the radar system. We began the visit quite literally from the Top as we were led up to the top of the tower were the full extent of the airport can be seen. This includes the long runaway on the north side running east-west where aircraft land, a smaller parallel run away on the south where aircraft take off and a third one that crosses the two south-north mainly used for night operations that avoids excessive neighbourhood noise pollution since the aircraft approach the airport from the sea. As expected, procedures are quite strict and…

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • PATW Competition 2013-14

    The Barcelona group recently organised their PATW competition which took place on 18th October at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. There were four competitors presenting on the following subject: • ³Cat-1: The CubeSat inititative at the UPC NanoSat Lab • Automatic design of an artificial neural network for Unreal Tournament 2004 • Design of an electronics device to measure audible hearing level • Engineering and all things "bio-" The day of the event, all was prepared at the graduation hall of the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, our hosting institution, with contenders ready with their full presentations and the audience interested to learn more on the announced topics. For starters, the local IET representative gave a brief description of the Institution of Engineering and Technology…

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • Solar Power using spheres over panels

    Spanish startup @RawLemon1 wants to change #solar power collection using spheres over panels: http://t.co/jeJgh1U1sI pic.twitter.com/pCssClaS3p — Engineering Council (@EngCouncil) February 3, 2014

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • Nuclear New Build

    This talk concentrated on the application of Civil Nuclear Power in the United Kingdom from the first commercial power plant in Cumbria through to the the new fleet of Nuclear Power plant being planned over the next 20 years. View Presentation The development of the current UK Nuclear power plant in terms of size, complexity and operational characteristics will be discussed for the Magnox, Advanced Gas Cooled Reactors and the Pressurised Water Reactors The impact of Fukushima will be discussed for both Operational and New Nuclear Power plant. The talk concluded with a discussion of the Plans for new Nuclear power plant in the UK. This will look at the plans of the Utilities who will develop the plant and will describe the technologies which will be built in the UK over the next 20 years. The…

    Lynsay Callaghan
    Lynsay Callaghan

  • Check out the Print the Future exhibition at the Science Museum

    Ever seen 3D printed teeth? Pop along to our #PrintTheFuture exhibition & marvel at a wave of 600 printed objects http://t.co/5a9KJhrFYm — Science Museum (@sciencemuseum) January 31, 2014

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • Committee Members 2013-2014

    Ferdinando Rodriguez Past Chairman Graham Deacon Member Mark Witkowski Member Samuel Wane Member Nick Hawes Member Xiu Tian Yan Chairman Sanja Dogramadzi Member Dongbing Gu Member Atif Syed Member Vilas Chitrakaran Member Joanne Longton Community Relationship Manager

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • First Lego League UK National Final

    The #IET Education team heading to @lborouniversity to set up for the @FLLUK National Final @IETFaraday @TheIET @IETtv @WeKnowRobots — FIRST LEGO League UK (@FLLUK) January 31, 2014

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • New Robotic Tongue

    New robotic tongue from @UAB_info so sensitive it can distinguish between #beer types - and detect bad ones: http://t.co/lbX3z1vIXj #science — Engineering Council (@EngCouncil) January 31, 2014

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • Northern Irish Student - Scholarship Has Reaffirmed Wish To Become An Engineer

    Colum McNally, 17, told IET Northern Ireland Policy Grp his scholarship has reaffirmed his wish to become an engineer pic.twitter.com/TVCIdBp81E — IET (@TheIET) January 31, 2014

    Lynsay Callaghan
    Lynsay Callaghan

  • Smart Grids 2013 Abstracts And Posters

    The IET’s Power Systems and Equipment Technology Network hosted a Smart Grids Poster Session in October 2013. The evening reception brought the community together to foster new collaborations, encourage multi-disciplinary interactions and showcase the latest developments in Smart Grids. The evening included 17 posters on Smart Grids. The posters were peer reviewed and accepted following a call for abstracts from individuals, academia, companies, and various institutions to showcase their products and how these products fit into this future system along with the visions, anticipated problems, expected solutions, and the commercial overview of the future of the system. Adapting to a Sustainable Future Authors: A Tosetti, R Spencer Applications of Wide Area Monitoring Technology Authors: Mohsen…

    Lynsay Callaghan
    Lynsay Callaghan

  • iRail 2014

    This event not only showcases the rail industry, but also demonstrates the science and apprenticeship and graduate engineering opportunities available in this growing area. It provides the rail industry with the opportunity to promote its activity, network with other key players and interact with young people. There's an excellent programme of activities planned for the 2014 event which will be held on Thursday, 20 March 2014 at the Roundhouse in Derby. Further details of the programme and how to get involved, can be seen here .

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • £760m contracts for Augusta Westland

    Good news for staff at Augusta Westland, 1000 UK engineering jobs have just been secured as a result of them being awarded government contracts to upgrade the Apache and Merlin helicopters .

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • Don't forget to register for Infrarail

    The programme for the 10th Infrarail event on 20-22 May 2014 at Earls Court has just been announced. The keynote speakers will be the Minister of State for Transport and Simon Kirby from Network Rail. There will also be project updates on: London Underground - Northern Line Extension, London Underground - Lean Transformation Programme Network Rail - Thameslink Network Rail - Northern Hub Network Rail - Electrification HS2 - update and business opportunities Further details on the event and how to register can be found here .

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • Rail Technology Magazine - Latest Issue

    There's some interesting articles in the latest issue of the magazine, including details of the UK Rail Industry Awards on 20 February 2014 at the Brewery, City of London. See here for further details.

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • AeroMSc Bursary scheme – launching careers in UK aerospace

    Have you ever considered an aero engineering career? With record revenue and growth in each of the last 3 years, the UK’s commercial aerospace industry urgently needs well qualified graduates to spearhead its continued growth. That is why UK government and 9 major aerospace employers are jointly funding 500 MSc tuition fee bursaries , each worth up to £9.5k. For further details on the AeroMSc Bursary Scheme and how to apply please click here .

  • MOS-AK Modelling Group

    MOS-AK Meetings are organised with aims to strengthen a network and discussion forum among experts in the field, enhance open platform for information exchange related to compact/Spice modeling and Verilog-A standardization, bring people in the compact modeling field together, as well as obtain feedback from technology developers, circuit designers, and CAD tool vendors. The topics cover all important aspects of compact model development, implementation, deployment and standardization within the main theme - frontiers of the compact modeling for nm-scale MEMS designs and CMOS/SOI circuit simulation. The next workshop will take place at London Metropolitan University, London UK - if you're interested in attending then please visit the website . Is anyone here planning to attend? You can register…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Wireless Charging of Electric Vehicles

    TRL are asking all community members to help out with a new and exciting research into wireless charging of electric vehicles. It would be greatly appreciated if you could please take about 10-15 minutes to respond to this questionnaire . This survey is part of a task led by TRL and in collaboration with VUB in a European research project to investigate the socio-economic impacts of WPT charging of electric vehicles and more specifically the social acceptance elements. Your participation in this survey can help to shape future implementation of wireless charging for electric vehicles.

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • Wireless Charging of Electric Vehicles

    TRL are asking all community members to help out with a new and exciting research into wireless charging of electric vehicles. It would be greatly appreciated if you could please take about 10-15 minutes to respond to this questionnaire . This survey is part of a task led by TRL and in collaboration with VUB in a European research project to investigate the socio-economic impacts of WPT charging of electric vehicles and more specifically the social acceptance elements. Your participation in this survey can help to shape future implementation of wireless charging for electric vehicles.

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • IET Knowledge Packs - a new member benefit to support your CPD

    The new IET Knowledge Packs offer a flexible way to access the IET Digital Library – a global repository of science, engineering and technology content including: 400 eBooks, 1,300 Conference publications and 70,000 Journal Articles. The IET Digital Library is packed full of high-quality technical documents, eBooks and journal articles – and as an IET member you can now access this knowledge in bite-size chunks using the all-new Knowledge Packs. 5 free credits for members As part of this new membership benefit, you can now log on to obtain 5 free credits in order to download content from the IET Digital Library, whilst contributing towards your Continuing Professional Development (CPD) as part of the IET's CPD Monitoring Scheme. Find out more… Watch the Knowledge Pack video and Knowledge Pack…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • RFID principals and the Internet of Things

    Read what one of the attendees at our recent event had to say: The recent IET Event RFID principals and the Internet of Things was the first to be hosted at Balluff and was a great success. With the venue filled almost to capacity we were treated to two lectures on RFID principles, applications and the Internet of Things and Data capture software and real-time visibility within manufacturing and the supply chain The first lecture delivered by Oliver Puetz-Gerbig of Balluff covered the principles of RFID, and the differences between various frequencies of systems before moving onto future developments of RFID. We heard how large multi-national companies are researching the use of RFID as part of 'Industry 4.0' which appears to be another name for 'the internet of things'. At one stage we were…

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • Prospects Of Multimedia Technologies And Applications.

    On 24 th October 2013 the IET Italy Network in collaboration with the University of Bologna and the IET Multimedia Communications Network, were proud to host a lecture by Dr Leonardo Chiariglione (Founder of MPEG) on the ‘Prospects of Multimedia technologies and applications. If you were not able to attend in person, you can now view the presentation on IET.tv below and give us your feedback . Prospects of multimedia technologies and applications Dr Leonardo Chiariglione From: Prospects of multimedia technologies and applications, 24 October 2013, Bologna, Italy >> go to webcast >> recommend to friend Dr Chiariglione was also interviewed by Philip Clayson from the IET Multimedia Communications Network. You can watch the interview below:

    Lisa Miles
    Lisa Miles

  • Joseph Baddeley awarded prize for Student Excellence

    Joseph Baddeley, a foundation degree engineering student from Birches Head has been awarded a certificate for student excellence and a cheque for £250.00 by the Institution of Engineering and Technology. After leaving school Joe studied at Stoke-on-Trent College and obtained a BTEC L3 in Electrical/Electronic Engineering. After a period working for JCB he returned to college to study for a Foundation Degree in Electrical/Electronic Technology and has passed with merit. Paul Bloor, course leader at Stoke-on-Trent College, said, “Joseph has put a lot of effort into his studies, is very well organised and respected by his peers. I had no hesitation in nominating him for the award.” The prize was presented during an IET event at Staffordshire University by Angelika Kavvalaki, Chair of the IET North…

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • Where Next For Digital Media?

    The MPEG standards have made a monumental impact to the way the World consumes digital media. But where next?On 24 th October 2013 the IET Multimedia Communications Network in collaboration with the IET’s Local Network in Italy and the University of Bologna were proud to host a presentation by Dr Leonardo Chiariglione (Founder of MPEG) on the ‘Prospects of Multimedia technologies and applications'. You can now watch the presentation on IET.tv and add your comments and feedback to the event review after viewing.   Prospects of multimedia technologies and applications   Dr Leonardo Chiariglione From: Prospects of multimedia technologies and applications, 24 October 2013, Bologna, Italy >> go to webcast >> recommend to friend   Dr Chiariglione also spoke to Philip Clayson from the IET Multimedia…

    Lisa Miles
    Lisa Miles

  • IET London Network Committee

    The IET London Network organises an extensive programme of activities in and around London. We have volunteer groups arranging events in Harrow, Hammersmith, Teddington, Central London,  Bromley and East London as well the Young Professionals and Friday Lunch and Lecture groups. We also have a group dedicated to organising technical visits to places of engineering interest.   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.   IET London Committee Femi Olushola - Chairman Xen Christodoulou - Vice Chair David Tabor - Secretary Vacancy - Treasurer Li-Wen Yip - Event Co-ordinator Maurice Greenberg…

    Lisa Miles
    Lisa Miles

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