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Drug-dispensing contacted lenses could offer new hope to people suffering from glaucoma, which causes blindness, after they were found to be at least as effective as eye drops. - The Telegraph Read more...
It’s ironic that the company whose gender equality efforts landed them the 2016 Catalyst award (an award that they shared with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau) can’t seem to get it just quite right. A new Gap Kids ad from the U.K. has come under fire in the past week for labelling girls as “social butterflies” and boys as “scholars.” Read more...
Samantha Grathoff is a lab coordinator, community engagement liaison, and adjunct lecturer for the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in UM-Flint’s College of Arts & Sciences. She’s also one of the directors of the Curiosity Academy: a community club that engages middle school girls, mostly 6th to 8th graders, who have an interest in STEM subjects. The Academy aims to reignite the girls’ interest in science, technology, engineering, and math at an age when they may be moving away from such disciplines. Through fun projects and activities, the students are connected to educators and professionals in various STEM fields. Noted one recent student, “Curiosity Academy has been an amazing experience and I love that I got to do cool science projects with my friends. My favorite activities were…
From making Lego figures to organising Wikipedia editathons, Maia Weinstock is looking to increase female representation and challenge bias. - How many of us – as children or adults – have spent hours building Lego towns for mini-figures to work and play in? Now, what if more of those mini-figures could represent women in leadership and scientific roles? This is something Maia Weinstock wants to make happen. The US-based science communicator has been making female Lego mini-figures, including some famous names in space science. Read more...
Many women working in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) have faced a common experience at some point during their college days -- they walked into a classroom and found that they were among a small handful of women in the class, or even the only one. That kind of experience has the potential to make a talented, motivated student feel out-of-place, and compel her to search for more inclusive academic environments, according to Nilanjana Dasgupta, a psychology researcher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Questioning one's sense of "belonging" in an academic environment may contribute to why women are significantly under-represented in some areas of STEM. - National Science Foundation. Read more...
I just read this very interesting blog on getting involved with your Local Network - have a read and get in touch if you would like to be involved in the Scotland South West LN. There is another interesting article on ' Why Should I Volunteer' that is worth a read.
I just read this very interesting blog on getting involved with your Local Network - have a read and get in touch if you would like to be involved in the Scotland South West LN. There is another interesting article on ' Why Should I Volunteer' that is worth a read.
I just read this very interesting blog on getting involved with your Local Network - have a read and get in touch if you would like to be involved in the Scotland North LN. There is another interesting article on ' Why Should I Volunteer' that is worth a read.
I just read this very interesting blog on getting involved with your Local Network - have a read and get in touch if you would like to be involved in the Scotland North LN. There is another interesting article on ' Why Should I Volunteer' that is worth a read.
I just read this very interesting blog on getting involved with your Local Network - have a read and get in touch if you would like to be involved in the Scotland South West LN. There is another interesting article on ' Why Should I Volunteer' that is worth a read.
The IET has expanded it's accreditation presence in Trinidad & Tobago, starting with the renewal of the University of the West Indies Electrical and Computer Engineering programmes. Now, the IET has accredited UTT's programmes. The IET - Informing, Inspiring and Influencing Caribbean Education
It seems like everyone in the industry is trying to be at the forefront of the driverless car technology, but in Singapore, you can in fact hop into a driverless taxi and go for a ride. And it's even free. Is it really driverless - no, not at the test stage. There is still a driver in the front, but the cars are doing the driving themselves, and the driver is only there to monitor the performance and as a backup in case something goes wrong. It is still very much in the trial stage, only covering a 2.6 sq mile (4 sq km) area and it is by invitation only to book, but they are on the road with Uber planning a similar launch in Pittsburgh in the US in a few weeks time. Read more - BBC News
I am pleased to announce that Prof. Martyn Thomas, Livery Company Professor of Information Technology at Gresham College, will deliver an opening keynote presentation at the 11 th SSCS conference and collocated Cyber Defence and Security Seminar on 12 October (Savoy Place, London). Speaking at the conference in a personal capacity, Prof. Thomas will nevertheles share his impressive wealth of practical experience as a Director of the UK Health and Safety Executive, a former Director of the Serious Organised Crime Agency and a member of the Defence Science Advisory Council. (In 2007 Martyn Thomas was honoured as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to software engineering). I would like to welcome the IET Cyber Security Community members to join Prof. Thomas at the event…
I am looking forward to attending this years Project Management Expo 11th & 12th October 2016 Olympia, London The seminars are of particular interest this year with leaders in the field giving insight and guidance relative to Project Costing and Controls Details to be found: http://www.projchallenge.com/
I am looking forward to attending the forthcoming Conference relative to TES. These applied technologies offer a pagadigm shift for manufacturing organisations seeking to compete through ever greater levels of servitization. I have attached the conference themes below. 1 st & 2 nd November 2016 Vincent Building, Cranfield University, UK About the Conference The conference will be hosted at Cranfield on the 1 st & 2 nd November 2016. The International Conference in Through-life Engineering Services is in its fifth year and it has grown interest of both academia and industry. Recently published report from the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing…
Our third speaker for the joint IET Vision and Imaging Network and the Knowledge Transfer Network event, Intelligent Imaging has been announced! Ken Primrose , CEO at ITS plc, will be speaking at the one day seminar on the 14 October 2016 at IET London: Savoy Place . About Ken: A successful CEO with over a decade of experience, Ken Primrose took a small incubator company that was responsible for commercializing technologies developed by the University of Manchester and grew it into into Industrial Tomography Systems (ITS): the world-leader in tomography-based process visualization tools. With a degree in chemistry paired with an MBA from a premier business school, Ken brings detailed technical insights into the challenges his team faces, enabling him to spearhead R&D projects and to provide…
By 2020, there will be 1.4 million jobs available in the computing-related fields, yet women are on track to fill just three percent of those jobs. In the video above, learn why we need to encourage girls to learn how to code to help close the gender gap in the computer sciences and technology fields. Read more...
The ISA Working Group, a collaborative group working under the IET, IMechE, BCS and SaRS, has produced new guidance on planning the assessment of a safety case or similar safety assessment document. The new material supports the groups previous guidance on procurement of Independent Safety Assurance services, and is intended to be used by anyone who needs to make a judgement on the adequacy of a safety case, whether independently or otherwise. The new document is available in the Independent Safety Assurance Factfiles area of the IET website, at http://www.theiet.org/factfiles/isa/guide-isa-plan-page.cfm
As a female chemical engineer, Frances Arnold was already a rarity. After all, only about 16 percent of chemical engineers are women. But now that she has become the first woman ever to win the prestigious Millennium Technology Prize — it was awarded in Helsinki, Finland, on May 24 — Arnold is truly one of a kind. And she knows that in addition to a big cash award (1 million euros, or about $1.3 million), the prize brings an opportunity to spotlight the gender gap in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) careers and to be a role model for other women. Read more...
An impressive range of apprentice skills and achievements were celebrated with the support of the Gloucestershire Local Network recently at the Gloucestershire Engineering Training (GET) Presentation Evening. Held at Cheltenham Ladies College on Friday 5 th August, apprentices from a variety of courses were joined by family and local dignitaries to celebrate their achievements on their respective engineering and technology programmes. The audience also heard from Lucy Ackland, who won the WES prize at the IET’s Young Woman Engineer Award in 2014, who told of her journey to becoming an engineer – including how her maths teacher told her to go straight to university rather than apply for an apprenticeship. Lucy joined Renishaw as an apprentice at 16 before being awarded a 1 st class honours degree…
The first successful working transatlantic telegraph cable began transmitting 150 years ago on 27th July 1866. The history of this remarkable achievement and the developments which sprang from it are explored in this one-day symposium. Stewart Ash : The First Steps – Joining the Dots & Dashes. Nigel Linge : Encircling the globe. Donard de Cogan : From Mirror Galvanometer to Telex: how they increased the bit rate of telegraph cables. John Moyle : Looking for a Needle in a Haystack - Locating causes of malfunction in Victorian submarine telegraph cables. Ron Shearer : An urgent message: North America’s obsession with the Atlantic Cable. Keith Schofield : Submarine cable protection and security in the modern world Jacob Ward : The Politics of Automating the Telephone Network in Post- WWII Britain…
The IET Northumbria Network , Retired Members Section - 'Continuing with Engineering and Life after Retirement' The new session will start next month and we have a full programme of events for our members. These are usually held at Westerhope Methodist Church Hall and are accompanied by a buffet lunch. Starting time is noon, followed by the lecture from about 13:15. Most events are held on the 3rd Wednesday of each month and members, partners and guests are all welcome. Why not come along and see what we do? Recent talks have been on “Re-making Beamish”, a visit to Pumphrey’s coffee factory with “barista” demonstrations, as well as a trip to the Aln Valley Railway and to Whalton Manor gardens. Forthcoming planned events are as follows: 21st September 2016: 'Notable Gardens' by Bill Devonshire…
Please see a revised programme below for this event to commemorate Silvanus Phillips Thompson, who died one hundred years ago. This workshop should be of interest to historians of science & technology; historians of instruments; historians of intellectual property; historians of science & religion; Quaker historians and historians of the book. Although the registration deadline is 13th September, places are limited so early registration is strongly advised. Register here (standard fee £25): tinyurl.com/AfLevents -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ‘A MANY-SIDED CRYSTAL’: THE QUAKER PHYSICIST & ELECTRICAL ENGINEER SILVANUS PHILLIPS THOMPSON (1851–1916) https://silvanuspthompson.wordpress.com A Workshop to Mark the Centenary of his…
We are delighted to announce the two confirmed speaker for the IET Functional Safety TPN ‘The Ethics of Acceptable Safety’ event, on the 25th November 2016 at IET London: Savoy Place. Join us at this exciting and informative free event to find out more and get involved in the discussions and networking. Online registraiton is open. Register to attend. About the event: Presented jointly by speakers from the High Integrity Systems Engineering Group at the University of York and the Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied Centre at the University of Leeds. This tutorial addresses the dilemmas and duties of engineers when dealing with ethical concerns surrounding safety risk management decisions. The aim of the day is to provide attendees with the knowledge and guidance to identify the ethical questions…
