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  • Spotlight On Recruitment And Retention

    National Women in Engineering Day (NWED) is fast approaching and to mark this important day, we wanted to let you know that the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is launching a new campaign to encourage companies of all sizes to revisit their approach to recruitment and retention – to make sure they are doing everything possible to attract more women into engineering roles. Only 7% of the total UK engineering workforce is female. This effectively means that engineering companies are not accessing half of the potential talent pool which, given the impending skills crisis in engineering and technology, makes poor business sense. Championing the campaign is IET Deputy President, Naomi Climer, who is also President of Sony Media Cloud Services. Naomi led a 50:50 campaign for Sony…

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  • Virgin West Coast Contract Extended

    Pleased to hear that Virgin have just been awarded the West Coast Main Line Contract for a further two years and nine months. As a result they've promised to invest a further £35m updating the trains and providing more standard class seats. Plus they will also invest more than £20m modernising stations and improving the waiting rooms, seats and shelters. More information on the announcement ca n be found here.

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • Inmarsat to lead EU-wide rollout of in-flight passenger broadband services

    Inmarsat plc has recently announced its aim to deploy an integrated telecommunications network to deliver aviation passengers connectivity services on an EU-wide basis. To achieve this ambition, Inmarsat confirmed its order for a new S-band satellite , to be called Europasat, and expects to complement this satellite with a fully integrated air-to-ground network across the EU.

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • New Jet Hangar at Seletar Aerospace Park - Singapore

    A state-of-art jet maintenance hanger has been officially opened at the Seletar Aerospace Park in Singapore. The new hanger will meet the maintenance requirements for Boeing, Bombardier, Gulfstream and Nextant business aircraft is an excellent example of Building Information Modelling.

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • Rail Innovation & Development Centre - Voucher Scheme

    We’ve been asked to help publicise the following scheme, a joint initiative for Network Rail who with the Enabling Innovation Team (EIT) which is itself funded by RSSB, to provide subsidised testing at the Rail Innovation & Development Centre (RIDC) Tuxford and Melton. For a fee of £750 qualifying companies and Academic Institutions get up to 2 days of Network Rail Engineering experts’ time and up to 5 days of testing in a safe, controlled, representative environment. The benefits of this cost effective and realistic approach is quick response and low risk collaboration with Network Rail providing an honest view of viability of a product or service. For non-qualifying companies or if testing exceeds the parameters of the scheme they offer testing in the same environment at commercial rates…

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • FREE Workshops & Lecture 'Risk Strategies To Protect The Built Environment From Malicious Attack & Nature's Fury'

    Join us at the London Transport Museum on 3 July for your choice of an afternoon of free workshops and / or a free to attend evening lecture on ‘Catastrophic events: resilience of and recovery from incidents in the built environment.’ Event topics will look at risk strategies to protect the built environment from malicious attack and nature's fury. Topics to be covered include: Holistic planning for Triple Threat mitigation for UK Grid Compiling threat assessments Mitigation during an event Delivering post-event recovery Supply chain critical issues for sustainability Complimentary access to tour the London Transport Museum 12.00 - 14.30 is included with registration for the Afternoon Workshops. Online registration is essential. Afternoon Workshops Programme 12:00 – 14:30 Complimentary Museum…

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  • Cockpit complete for 1,000mph Bloodhound Car

    Just spotted this on the BBC News . Looks like Bloodhound have now built and fitted out Andy Green's cockpit for the World Land Speed Record bid. The car is now approximately a year away from full aseembly, ahead of the plan to break the record in the Autumn of 2015.

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • Wilmington’s first passive house

    Lucien Ellison has felt a responsibility to live as sustainably as possible since an ecology course opened his eyes in college, but all it took was one beautiful view to inspire him to spend years building a house in line with one of the strictest green building standards in the world. Article in full: http://luminanews.com/2014/06/wilmingtons-first-passive-house-2/ Are you developing or installing passive house technologies?

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  • WES Brilliant New Initiative

    Attched is the brochure from WES, promoting their new intiative!

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  • Control And Automation PhD Award

    Do you know any students who deserve to be recognised for their achievement? The deadline for the IET's Control and Automation PhD Award is fast approaching! In its 4 th year now, and developed by the IET’s Control & Automation Network, this free to enter award aims to recognise research excellence in the Control & Automation field at PhD level. The award is open to all relevant PhD students in the general area of control and automation who have undertaken research during the calendar year preceding the closing date for nominations. It will no doubt offer an invaluable credential to the winner’s CV who will also receive a £500 cash prize . Nominations are now open for the 2014 award. Nomination form Nominations need to be supported by references from three individuals The candidate's principal…

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • Winner Control PhD Award 2013

    Dr Juan Jerez's thesis was on Custom optimization algorithms for efficient hardware implementation and his PhD was awarded by Imperial College, London

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • Winner - Control PhD Award 2012

    Dr Andrew Zammit Mangion was awarded a BEng by the University of Malta in 2007 and a PhD by the University of Sheffield in 2012. Currently a postdoc at the University of Bristol, his interests lie in spatiotemporal dynamic modelling and control and Bayesian inference in large-scale systems. Dr Andrew Zammit Mangion was awarded a BEng by the University of Malta in 2007 and a PhD by the University of Sheffield in 2012. Currently a postdoc at the University of Bristol, his interests lie in spatiotemporal dynamic modelling and control and Bayesian inference in large-scale systems. After receiving his award, Andrew said: Control systems theory has interested me ever since I began my undergraduate studies in engineering at the University of Malta. The subject intrigued me because of the open, inter…

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • Winner Control PhD Award 2011

    Dr Stefano Longo received an MSc from the University of Sheffield in 2007 and a PhD from the University of Bristol in 2011. He received the 2011 award for his work on "Optimal and Robust Scheduling for Networked Control Systems".

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • Winner - Control PhD Awards 2010

    Dominic Buchstaller won the Control PhD Award 2010 for his submission based on his thesis entitled "Robust stability and performance for multiple model switched adaptive control"

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • Online phonics games programme

    . @BDAdyslexia reviews Teach Monster: "an excellent online, free, early phonics games program for Windows and Mac" http://t.co/8lgP24rklO — Monsters Can Read (@MonstersCanRead) June 11, 2014

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • Opportunities In Smart Innovation And Low Carbon Technologies Event 4 July

    The UK India Business Council , together with BT , is hosting an event on the ‘ Opportunities in Smart Innovation and Low Carbon Technologies ’ on 4 July 2014 at: BT Centre 81 Newgate Street London EC1A 7AJ This event will focus on the opportunities in India for UK companies operating in smart innovation and low carbon technologies. Expert speakers on the day will share their experiences of working in India, offer practical advice on how to do business in the country and how best to navigate the market. Topics that will be covered include: • Smart energy solutions • Grid balancing • Low carbon technologies For fees, a full programme and too register pelase visit: http://bit.ly/1jkmGCk

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  • UK Fracking: Managing The Risks

    The IET North West Engineering Forum, held at Daresbury Laboratory on 20May 2014, brought together several speakers to give different perspectives on the controversial subject of “UK Fracking: Managing the Risks”. The presentations were: · Introduction and Opening Remarks by John Cowburn, Barry Brooks and Andrew Miller MP Opening Remarks Andrew Miller MP and Barry Brooks IET From: UK Fracking:Managing the Risks, 20 May 2014, Warrington 2014-05-20 00:00:00.0 Power Channel >> go to webcast >> recommend to friend Summary by Professor Paul Younger Royal Academy of Engineering and Royal Society Keynote address: Managing the risks of fracking in the UK. RS/RAEng Working Group Conclusions Professor Paul Younger From: UK Fracking:Managing the Risks, 20 May 2014, Warrington 2014-05-20 00:00:00.0 Power…

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • June 2014 Savoy Place upgrade project video

    Take a look at our latest video on the Savoy Place upgrade project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNwbqCTa6eg

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  • University Of Science Malaysia (USM) - Invitation As An Industrial Assessor For Capstone Project (EEM 425 Mechatronic System Design)

    Exec team member Lim Yew-Kee was recently invited to USM. Here he tells us a little more: University of Science Malaysia (USM) was established in 1969 and is the second oldest public university in Malaysia. There are three campuses: Penang island (main campus), Nibong Tebal (Engineering) and Kelantan (Health Sciences). USM is having an enrollment over 28,000 postgraduate and undergraduate students in 2009. On 28th May 2014, I was invited as an Industrial Assessor (in a panel of three assessors) for Capstone Projects by the Programme Chairman of Mechatronic Engineering from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, USM. The Capstone Projects are design projects with the theme,"Robotic Arm for Manufacturing, Education and Services", are undertaken by the fourth/final year undergraduate…

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • Lego to launch female scientists series after online campaign

    Science-themed project was submitted to Lego Ideas by Dr Ellen Kooijman, who recognized a gender gap in toy sets Read more...

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  • Report On The 3rd May Aberdeen Event

    We put out a request for speakers, on My Community, to volunteer at this event a couple of months ago and thought that you may like to see how it turned out. ''This event provided strategy for improving and encouraging STEM at early stage for younger girls to enable them make an early decision within STEM career. Most students who attended the event heard about the event in schools, online, communities, organisations and on the web. The STEM Event welcomed 35 students from different schools from age 11 and above. A valuation was completed by the students and majority seemed to have enjoyed the event. The Event was attended by 35 students aged 11 to 18, Aberdeen Lord Provost represented By Counsellor Alan, who gave a speech on government contribution and efforts towards increasing the number…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Report On The 3rd May Aberdeen Event

    We put out a request for speakers, on My Community, to volunteer at this event a couple of months ago and thought that you may like to see how it turned out. ''This event provided strategy for improving and encouraging STEM at early stage for younger girls to enable them make an early decision within STEM career. Most students who attended the event heard about the event in schools, online, communities, organisations and on the web. The STEM Event welcomed 35 students from different schools from age 11 and above. A valuation was completed by the students and majority seemed to have enjoyed the event. The Event was attended by 35 students aged 11 to 18, Aberdeen Lord Provost represented By Counsellor Alan, who gave a speech on government contribution and efforts towards increasing the number…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • 3 July 2014: ‘Catastrophic Events: Resilience Of And Recovery From Incidents In The Built Environment’

    Join us at the London Transport Museum on 3 July for your choice of an afternoon of free workshops and / or a free to attend evening lecture on ‘Catastrophic events: resilience of and recovery from incidents in the built environment’ Event topics will look at risk strategies to protect the built environment from malicious attack and nature's fury. Topics to be covered include: Holistic planning for Triple Threat mitigation for UK Grid Compiling threat assessments Mitigation during an event Delivering post-event recovery Supply chain critical issues for sustainability Afternoon Workshops Programme 12:00 – 14:30 Complimentary Museum Entry 14:30 Registration and Tea and Coffee 15:00 Workshop – Part 1 Recovery of the Basra Grid 2003 Onwards Topics to be covered include: Planning grid recovery for…

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    Former Community Member

  • Free Engineering Discovery Workshop for Girls.

    The WISE Campaign are running a free engineering discovery workshop in the West Midlands for girls aged between 13-18 on June 28th. Read more...

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