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  • ITS Successes In Addressing Environmental Issues

    ITS Successes in Addressing Environmental Issues was the theme of the 2015 ITS(UK) Smart Environment Interest Group (SEIG) Conference, jointly sponsored by the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s Automotive and Road Transport Technical Network,  and hosted by the engineering company Arup, in London on 19 November 2015. The SEIG Chair - Professor Margaret Bell CBE, Newcastle University, introduced the Conference and made the point that in the UK there are 50,000 premature deaths annually due to air pollution, much of it from road vehicles, compared to less than 2000 deaths in road traffic accidents. The first paper, “Using Traffic Management Strategies to Minimise NOx Emissions”, by Andrew Hamilton of Siemens, described a project to demonstrate the feasibility of using traffic management…

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • Aerospace Network - Inaugural Annual Symposium “All Electric Aircraft”

    Envisaged as one of the biggest challenges and opportunities for the future of aerospace the inaugural  “All Electric Aircraft Technology” IET Symposium held at Savoy Place in late January 2016 brought together experts from across academia and industry to discuss, debate and analyze the key enabling technologies that will be required to support and drive forward the commercial viability of More Electric Airplane with the aim of ultimately achieving an All Electric Aircraft for both military and commercial passenger/freight use. Fueled by the demand for greater reliability, availability, and power density while aiming to reduce weight, complexity, fuel consumption, operational costs, and environmental impact, the Symposium highlighted the challenges the aerospace sector faces today and those…

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • Joint Institutions NetworkingMeeting

    For those in Paris on Thursday 18th February:  ICE France's Monthly Inter Institution Social event on Thursday 18th February from 19h00 will be held at a NEW VENUE the Paris Madeira on corner of rue de   Caumartin & rue Boudreau (metro line 9 Havre-Caumartin or RER A Auber). Spouses, partners and friends welcome. There will be an optional group dinner from about 20h30.     Chris Polwin will be hosting the evening with William Powles for the ICE French LA and they are looking forward to seeing you there.

    Phil Dunbar
    Phil Dunbar

  • Government to publish gender pay gap league tables

    The government has announced a raft of new measures aimed at closing the gender pay gap including a league table to highlight the worst performing businesses. Read more...

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • IET Scotland Recognition Event 2016

    IET Scotland hosted its annual recognition event for engineers who have recently achieved Professional Registration. Recipients and their guests attended a networking session and were presented with a certificate of achievement.  This took place in the Wolfson Theatre, Royal Society of Edinburgh in George Street  ( https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/). Speakers were IET Scotland Executive Chair David Richie, who focused on the remit of IET Scotland and Sean McGovern, Managing Director at BAE Systems and Fellow of the IET who spoke on The Value of Professional Registration and the value of engineering to the economy in Scotland. Congratulations to those who have achieved Professional Registration and were not able to make it.  The evening was enjoyed by all and we hope to see more engineers next

    Lynsay Callaghan
    Lynsay Callaghan

  • Technical Aspects of Fracking Presentation Joint local event between IET, IMechE & ICE

    Technical Aspects of Fracking Presentation       On 10 th December 2015 the South Yorkshire local IMechE, ICE & IET had a joint PEI presentation at the AMRC in Rotherham on the “Technical aspects for Fracking”.   Hydraulic fracturing for shale gas is a highly sensitive topic but it was felt a presentation on the Technical involvement would be of considerable interest and move away for the political sensitivities surrounding it.   Andy Sloane who works for Dundas Consultants & Eric Vaughan from Cuadrilla gave an excellent presentation based around the historical background surrounding fracking, some of the issues experienced with the USA programme and the arrangements for UK regulation of the industry, if and when it gets a ‘green light to proceed.   The presentation slides showed how well-heads…

    Alan Chater
    Alan Chater

  • Discover the potential of a successful career in the manufacturing industry

    Join the IET at the 2016 Viscount Nuffield/Mensforth Lecture taking place on 10 March 2016. In this lecture, Rachel Hurst, Group Operations Director at Domino Printing Sciences will discuss how aspiring and talented engineers can create a successful career and/or business in the manufacturing industry using her 20 years of experience in a profitable printing company. She will explain how departments in an enterprise are interdependent, emphasising the importance of why manufacturing engineers need to work with other business domains to improve value chain productivity, innovation and profit.   She will also talk about how training and apprenticeships can develop a broad skill set that will help to understand the bigger picture in an organisation. Book now and join us at the Weston Lecture Theatre…

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • The IET Yorkshire Regional Prestige Lecture for 2016 - Graphine - Unexpected Science in a Pencil Line

    This years Yorkshire region prestige lecture is about the world's first 2-D material, graphene. Graphene has been heralded by many as this century’s wonder-material. It has already begun to revolutionise the electronics industry, with uses in optical electronics, energy storage and PV cells. Current research is investigating uses such as a biomedical filters in medicine or for use in composite materials. This is a free public lecture which is staged annually to inform the general public and interested professionals of developments that are likely to affect them in the future. Also attending will be Naomi Climer, President of the IET. Light refreshments will be served from 6:30pm with the lecture starting at 7:00pm Date: Wednesday March 16th Venue: The Rose Bowl, Leeds Beckett University, LS1…

    Oliver Clarke
    Oliver Clarke

  • Committee 2015-16

    Chairman Ian Buxton Deputy Chairman   Hon Treasurer Mick Mehler Hon Secretary   IET Connect Rep Dorrie Giles Schools Liaison Graham Evans Community Relationship Manager Julie Hudson Committee Member John Ames Committee Member Trevor Branton Committee Member Alex Barrett Committee Member David Bryant Committee Member Eleni Kaplani Committee Member George Williamson Committee Member

    Alex Barrett
    Alex Barrett

  • Call For Papers: Green Computing And Telecommunications Systems

    The IET Multimedia Communications Network would like to draw your attention to this Call for Papers: With an ever-growing demand for ubiquitous communications, mobile network operators are increasingly a key contributor to the emission of greenhouse gas. Papers considered particularly relevant to this call are those that address the following topics: • Green parallel and distributing computing • Green high-performance computing • Green grid computing and cloud computing • Green ubiquitous computing, peer-to-peer and cluster computing • Green wireless security strategies and designs • Green wireless and multimedia telecommunications systems • Green scheduling and/or resource allocation • Green cellular systems, 3G/4G/5G and beyond • Green principles, algorithms, and test-bed for telecommunications…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Next Event - Lifeskills workshop on Communication

    Polish-up your Communication Skills at our Workshop in Slough on Wednesday 10th February; pre-booking essential

    Andrew Dodd
    Andrew Dodd

  • 2015-2016 Committee List

    Chairman John Savage Hon Secretary Paul Tomlinson Hon Treasurer Richard Kerslake-Smith Younger Professionals Chairman [vacant] District Convenor - Blandford and North Dorset [vacant] Younger Professionals Secretary [vacant] District Convenor - Bournemouth and East Dorset Tim Orman Schools Liaison Officer Mr Kevin Roberts Schools Liaison Officer [2] Andrew Reid District Convenor - Salisbury and South Wiltshire Anna Gilbert Technical Visits Manager Geoff Williams District Convenor - Weymouth and West Dorset Andrew Criswick Newsletter Editor John Close Internet Liaison Manager and Webmaster Tim Heywood IET Connect (Benevolent Fund) 020 7344 5498 or ietconnect@theiet.org TBA: Roger Swabe has now stood down. Professional Registration Advisor Find a Professional Registration Advisor Mentoring & Membership…

    Former Staff Member
    Former Staff Member

  • CPGCE Winter 2015-16 Newsletter

    Read about the activities of the Canadian Prairies Group of Chartered Engineers (CPGCE) Local Network over the period September 2015 to January 2016 and technical presentation events planned for February to June 2016.

    David Dean
    David Dean

  • Sensor City - Future Engineering

    The Merseyside and Western Cheshire Local Network have exciting event about developing Sensor City in Liverpool on Wednesday 17th February 2016.  For more information and regisration, please click the link Sensor City .

    Rob McDonald
    Rob McDonald

  • Present Around the World (PATW) - IET Hellas Network

    Present Around The World is the Institution of Engineering and Technology's global competition for Young Professionals and Students within engineering to develop and showcase presentation skills. The IET Hellas Network will be holding a Present Around the World (PATW) competition on Monday 23rd May 2016 at 12:00 at Piraeus University of Applied Sciences, (TEI Piraeus), Conference Centre, 250 Thivon and Petrou Ralli, Aigaleo 12244 Greece. For a map of the venue, please see attached

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Enabling Innovation - Transforming The Role Of The Engineer In Society

    Presentation file is attached. The event topic is a popular one and feedback was encouraging. We plan to have Part II by organizing a discussion session with the same speaker as facilitator, on the topic of inovation. Any particular topic about innovation you want to discuss? Please suggest by posting comment below.

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Upcoming Events In The SSW Local Network Area

    Find out what is happenig in the SSW Local Network area  for February and March 2016. Download our programme of events

    Lynsay Callaghan
    Lynsay Callaghan

  • Upcoming Events in the SSW Local Network area

    Find out what is happenig in the SSW Local Network area  for February and March 2016. Download our programme of events

    Lynsay Callaghan
    Lynsay Callaghan

  • Learning from Ukraine’s power grid malware

    What lessons can we learn from the recent malware attack on Ukraine’s power grid? And what impact will governments, banks and insurers’ increasing focus on cyber risk have on organisations operating critical national infrastructure control systems? On 23 December 2015, Ukrainian media reported a cyber-attack had left half the homes and 1.4 million people in the Ivano-Frankivsk region without electricity. Although services were restored within a few hours, this was largely due to manual intervention rather than by recovering compromised automation systems. Slovakian security firm ESET later reported that the initial incident was not isolated, and that multiple electricity companies had been affected simultaneously. Reuters also reported similar malware was found in Kiev's Boryspil airport, on…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • IET Joint Lecture In Kansai Region 26 Jan 2016

    IET Joint Lecture in Kansai Region

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Orion spacecraft arrives in Florida – one step closer to humans on Mars

    The Orion spacecraft pressure vessel arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre where it will undergo vital tests ahead of Exploration Mission-1.  The Orion’s Exploration Mission-1 is due to launch in 2018 where the unmanned vessel will fly beyond the moon. It is due to travel for 3 weeks to test its capacity for future deep space travel. Why is it such a big deal? Eventually deep space travel will be done with a crew and the pressure vessel will provide life support for its passengers. Humans were originally planned to board in 2021 but NASA believes it is more likely we send off a crew in 2023. NASA is planning on using the Orion to send humans to Mars in the 2030s. The Orion was transported by the impressive Super Guppy, an aircraft that was originally designed during the Apollo programme and…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Is Europe Ready To Defend Critical Infrastructure?

    Prominent malicious attacks have brought the importance of robust UK cyber security to the attention of both the Government and the public. With a respected European agency recently publishing recommendations on how countries can better protect critical national infrastructure from cyber-attack, how does the UK measure up against these? In November 2015, Chancellor George Osborne announced plans for a £1.9 billion investment in cyber security and the creation of the National Cyber Centre . In his speech he highlighted the need to protect our critical infrastructure; in particular those systems used to control physical entities, often now referred to as operational technology (OT). Following the recent Chatham House report into cyber security in the nuclear sector , the  European Union Agency…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Cyber Security Challenges And The Skills Balance

    The issue of cyber security is increasingly at the forefront of many organisations’ minds, with key questions being whether we're behind the curve in cyber security expertise, if we're fostering the right specialisms or if we even know which specific skills we need to be talking about? A recent  report  from the BBC stated that ISIS is planning to unleash a number of deadly cyber-attacks against UK targets and has put the issue of cyber security at the forefront of many organisations’ minds. As a result many have begun to question if we are behind the curve in cyber security expertise, and if we recognise the organisational challenges? The phrase ‘cyber security skills’ is so broad as to be unhelpful. Do we know what specific skills we’re talking about; which specialisms we need to foster?…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Yorkshire IET Video Competition

    The Yorkshire IET Video challenge is open! We invite ANYONE who is a student at a school, college or University in the Yorkshire and Humber region to produce a short online video about ANY aspect of engineering, technology or science and have the chance to WIN >>>>>> £100 prize for the winning entry three £50 runner-up prizes. The rules are simple: - create a video about an engineering, technology or science related subject (e.g. an interview, demonstration or documentary). For examples, visit our videos page at https://communities.theiet.org/communities/videos/210 - finished production should be minimum 5 minutes, maximum 15 minutes in length - to enter, you must be a student at school, college or university in the Yorkshire-Humber region (an email from a member of staff to confirm your eligibility…

    Patrick Mason
    Patrick Mason

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