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£200m ‘state-of-the-art’ train manufacturing facility could be built in Yorkshire

Taken from E&T magazine online Siemens is seeking approval for a £200m “state-of-the-art” train manufacturing facility which could be constructed on a site in Goole, East Yorkshire. The German engineering firm said it will create up to 700 jobs and a further 250 during the construction period. The announcement comes as the UK manufacturing sector struggles under the weight of Brexit uncertainty. An outline planning application has been submitted and the facility will manufacture and commission state-of-the-art trains for the expanding UK market. Siemens is also bidding to build trains for the UK’s upcoming HS2 high-speed rail service against competing firms such as Hitachi Rail, Bombardier Transportation and Alstom Transport. The winner is set to be announced later this year. The application…

Former Community Member
WannaCry Does Not WannaDie !

WannaCry (the Microsoft Windows system vulnerability) made its debut in 2017, notably effecting major NHS services. It’s now 2019 and these styles of vulnerability remain active (Ransonware). What is the reason? Why are lessons not being learned from main stream industry failures? Are we still not enforcing patch cycles? Using badly coded websites? Blocking the wrong ports? Incorrectly using Indicators of Compromise? … it could be all these reasons. If you are still mystified on how to deal with Ransomware, then a good starting point would be to attend the IET's Central London September 2019 event, where a Use Case on how the WannaCry outbreak was stopped using technology innovation and industry best practices. Free registration : Click here .

Rimesh Patel in Cybersecurity
Do we have the right courses for you?

Whether you’re looking to learn a few tips and tools to polish up your skills, or starting out in management with the next step on the career ladder, the IET provide a range of professional skills courses available for both members and non-members who are seeking to develop. Our online range of e-classes and webinars focus on improving your soft skills so that you can reach your full potential in the workplace. These online learning courses cover established theories and concepts and are designed to give you key skills to succeed. If you’re looking for something a little more indepth, then our full day courses provide more detail in technical areas from business skills and project management to everything you need for professional registration . For more expert technical and professional…

Kathryn Bain
Regional PATW and CCAP meeting

It was indeed an experience for all Regional Present Around the World (PATW) delegates and CCAP members when they were in Hong Kong for the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Regional PATW competition. Every year IET organises PATW competition to encourage participants to develop and showcase their presentation skills. As usual, we have many talented young participants competing to represent Asia Pacific in the Global Final in London. This year winner was Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy from HK and 1st runner up was Sharma Ankur from Singapore. Congratulations to the winners and well done to everyone who joined. The Regional PATW will not be a success without the support of volunteers from IET HK local network (LN). Special thanks to Chairman Engineer William Wan, Henry Chan, Young…

Siong Tang
IET-UTBOC Membership Drive 2019

Saturday, 24th August 2019, Bandar Seri Begawan - On the 24th of August 2019, an IET membership drive was held in UTB with an approximate of 30 students in attendance. Various of courses were seen from the faculty of engineering such as civil, chemical, electrical, mechatronic engineering as well as those from the faculty of computing and informatics. An introduction of IET UTB On Campus had been done by UTBOC chairperson, Ng Jia Ying followed by another talk from Lieutenant Colonel (U) Schufin bin Haji Brahim, BEng (Hons), MPM, MIET, Honorary Chairman IET Brunei Darussalam Local Network 2017/2019. At the end of the membership drive, everyone was given refreshments and had a further catch up and Q&A session with the IET UTB on Campus committee.

Former Community Member
Ethics In Autonomous Vehicles -more Than Just The Trolley Problem

Earlier in the summer the ARTS TPN organised a daytime seminar on Ethics in Autonomous Vehicles, which attracted over 60 delegates. In the morning we had presentations from Professor Tom Sorell, University of Warwick, Reverend Dr Mark Bratton, Bishop of Coventry's Adviser on Medical Ethics, Lucy Yu, Five AI and Alex Bevan, Oxbotica. In the afternoon Ben Gilburt, Sopra Steria, Zeina Nazer, University of Southampton, Dr Shaun Helman, TRL and Dr Jason Nurse, University of Kent led some moderated discussion sessions. A full write up from the event by Dr Alan Stevens, IET ARTS TPN volunteer can be found here . We filmed a hot topic video which you can access here together with some presentations here.

Deborah-Claire McKenzie
UK Space Students All Set For Washington

Earlier in the summer, the IET Satellite TPN were pleased to link up with the British Interplanetary Society, Space Universities Network (SUN) and UKSEDS for the UK heat of the IAF Space Students competition.A total of six under/post graduates competed for the two prizes which were won by Undergraduate - Eleonor Frost - University College London - Investigating the Feasibility and Design of a Microgravity Surgical Workstation and Postgraduate - Thomas Cheyney - Northumbria University - In the Interest of All Countries - Ensuring Equitable Access to Space Resources You can read this write-up courtesy of Stuart Eves from the BIS, which gives more details about the event and the finalists. We also filmed all the presentations on the day for our IET.tv channel and the presentations are available…

Deborah-Claire McKenzie
5G - Unleashed - Coming Soon!

5G has been all over the headlines recently with EE and Three launching their 5G offering to customers. The RF and Microwave TPN will be running it's annual seminar in 2020 covering 5G, with a mix of talks and live presentations of the technology The event will celebrate the launch of 5G technology and provide a platform to the industry and academia to showcase their innovations. The event will provide an opportunity to both industry and academia to demonstrate the capability of their 5G testbed and trials for vertical applications such as: Transport and energy sectors ? Telecommunications ? Medical and Healthcare ? Urban and Rural Applications and Coverage ? Agriculture ?‍? Media and Broadcasting ? Tourism ? Industrial IoT ? Satellite Communications ? The event will provide a valuable…

Former Staff Member
Volunteering Opportunities In IET Manchester Network

You're an Engineer or Technician and proud of our profession, what we do and our part in engineering a better world - and boy do we need that right now? How about putting something back and joining our local committee - as a regular member or just to arrange the odd event, produce videos or whatever floats your boat? We're looking for keen and active people who can help us create awareness of the IET, engineering and technology. We'd welcome all abilities and ages to augment our friendly team. If you would like to get in touch to discuss volunteering in any capacity, please get in touch. Why becoming a volunteer should be one of your goals for 2020.. There are so many benefits to volunteering with the IET , but here are just some to spark your interest:  Make new connections and expand…

Former Community Member
Congratulations to Pradesh Boodoosingh

Mr. Pradesh Boodoosingh a student from UTT, PT. Lisas Campus won the IET Trinidad and Tobago Local Network, Present Around the World competition held at UWI on Sat May 25, 2019. The topic he presented on was ‘ Programming Artifical Neural Networks to simulate a human ethical consciousness to make decisions’ . Pradesh's prize was a free all expense paid trip to enter the next leg of the competition, the IET PATW North American Finals in San Diego, USA to compete with 6 other winners of their respective universities/engineering groups in Canada and the USA. Pradesh was the first runner up in this prestigious competition and received the highest marks for speaking style, crowd engagement and overall PowerPoint presentation quality with animations and design. The winner however was a Canadian…

J. Maraj
5 Reasons You Should Get Involved With Your Local Network

1) Expand your network The importance of networking and its influence on your career can often get overlooked, but it has a huge role to play when it comes to professional development and access to the hidden job market. Getting involved in an LN gives you the chance to meet local engineers from all walks of life and stages in their career, and is a great way of expanding your network. 2) Practice new skills in a safe environment LNs give you a great opportunity to practice and develop your soft skills in a safe environment. Use the network as your playground and get your hands dirty in areas such as finance, organisaton and communication, helping you to hone skills you’ll use later in the workplace. 3) Master your people skills People can be funny creatures, and engineers even more so…

Eoin McGread
Committee 2019

Chair - Ian Buxton Secretary - vacant Treasurer - vacant Members Alex Barrett Caitlin Woods David Baker David Bryant Eleni Kaplani George Williamson Graham Evans John Ames Kevin Foster Kevin Magee Lee Skillern Mark Ward Michael Wharton Trevor Branton Staff contact Local Network Manager - Julie Hudson

Julie
RIAT 2019 And Our Surprise Visitor

The volunteers from the IET Aerospace and Satellite Technical Professional Networks were pleased to be invited by the IET Swindon Local Network to join them on their stand once again, which was one of the largest in the Techno Zone this year.The atrocious weather on the Friday, which led to most of the flying programme being cancelled, worked in our favour by generating lots of visitors to the stand. We were especially delighted to have a surprise visit by Tim Peake, the astronaut. Whilst on our stand, Tim was kind enough to try some of our activities including the gliding simulator, meet the volunteers and pose for lots of photos. I thought this year the variety of activities/literature on the stand was excellent and catered for a wide range of visitors at different stages of their careers…

Deborah-Claire McKenzie
IET Merseyside And Western Cheshire Events Newsletter - September 2019 to January 2020 Is Now Available As An On-line Flip Book

IET Merseyside and Western Cheshire Events Newsletter - January 2019 to September 2019 is now available as an on-line flip book, please click the link On-line flip book. The newsletter is also attached to this blog as a pdf file, the file size is 1.5Mb. Twice per year, the Merseyside and Western Cheshire Local Network publishes an events newsletter. The newsletter contains news about free events to attend, articles on past events and contact information for the local network. The newsletter is available in hard copy, online flip book and pdf file.

Rob McDonald
Nominate IET Local Network Committee By 30 September 2019

Call for nominations for the LN Chair, Treasurer, Honorary Secretary roles and Ordinary Committee members. Nomination or self-nomination accepted. Cut-off Date is 30 September, 2019. Please email information to iet.toronto@theiet.org

Former Community Member
5G Toronto Summit

Worked with IEEE group for events .

Former Community Member
IET Malaysia Award Nominations

email : malaysia@theiet.org faceook : https://www.facebook.com/TheIETMalaysia/ Kindly apply for IET Awards: IET Young Engineer Award IET Women Engineer Achievement Award IET Achievement Award (Industry) IET Achievement Award (Academic) The IET Malaysia Network Award Recipients will be announced on, Event : IET Malaysia Network Prestige Lecture & Annual Dinner 2019 Hotel: Renaissance Hotel KL Date: 28 SEP 2019

Wai Yie Leong
Who's Watching Who - The 2019 John Logie Baird Lecture - Now you can watch it too...

Who's Watching Who… Each year the IET produces the John Logie Baird Lecture focused on a key area of the media industry, and this year it was focused on data. Data has become the currency of the modern Internet age, encompassing our offline life, online life and entertainment experiences for analysis, targeting, recommendation, addressability, usage analysis, and operational support. The Multimedia Communications Technical Network brought together the key protagonists for this evening with a very spirited discussion about data in TV and Media with a little spill over into the broader perspective: Barry Flynn, Senior Lecturer, University of Westminster London Introduction - https://tv.theiet.org/?videoid=13348 Jamie West, Deputy Managing Director, Sky Media UK The broadcaster and advertising…

Ian Nock
Inspiring children at the Engineering Open House day 2019!

For the fifth year in a row, Engineering Open House Day saw children and their parents go behind the scenes of well-known engineering and technology brands, as 64 companies got involved with 53 events taking place up and down the country.Companies such as Amazon, The National Theatre, Ofcom, Royal Mail and BBC Birmingham opened their doors to showcase the huge variety of engineering and technology roles within. The events demonstrated the plethora of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) careers available. The successful events follow new IET research, which shows nearly a quarter (24%) of parents say their children have expressed an interest in engineering as a future career. However, almost a third (31%) of parents felt they would struggle to describe what an engineer actually…

EngX Editorial
Volunteering Opportunity For Communities Committee Americas (CC-A) and CCA/LN Meeting Minutes

CC-A is responsible for the delivery of all IET activities throughout North, Central, and South America, the Caribbean, and Greenland. Through volunteering, you will be able to: learn new skills; gain more awareness of SET topics; network and make new connections; count your activity towards CPD; be affiliated with a professional international body; make your résumé stand out to potential employers. LN teleconference meeting with the CCA committee attached (2018 -19)

Former Community Member
Visit to INEOS Grangemouth

Reminder - Visit to INEOS Grangemouth - 4 September 2019Our next event is a visit to INEOS Grangemouth on Wednesday 4 September at 1400. The visit will comprise a multi-speaker presentation on the site's products and processes and the engineering challenges and solutions from the mechanical, electrical and C&I perspectives. Please note this is a room based visit. It will not be possible to tour around the plant. The link to the IET calendar event is: https://events.theiet.org/visit-to-ineos-grangemouth/

Samuel Gaw (Jim)
IET Engineering & Technology Photographer Of The Year 2019

There’s still time to enter the IET’s photography competition!The IET’s annual photography competition for 2019 launched earlier this year in a bid to challenge public misconceptions of engineering and technology and dispel its traditional image of hard hats and dirty overalls. The competition, which closes on 30 August, is open to any photograph of an engineering-related subject that captures the dynamic, creative and progressive face of engineering and engineers today. Participants split into two age groups: under 16 and 17 and over, can enter up to five photos to the following five categories: Design & Production Digital Environment & Energy Structures Transport The judging panel for this year includes Gadget Show host Georgie Barrat, Nigel Atherton, Editor of Amateur Photographer magazine…

EngX Editorial
Joint PEI Visit To The Factory 2050 - Advanced Manufacturing Site - Sheffield Business Park.

On the 29th July 2019 the local Joint PEI Committee successfully arranged a visit to the IMG Boeing Factory 2050 site based on the Sheffield Business Park which is located on the outskirts of Rotherham.This is a very high tech, leading edge, Manufacturing Research facility which explores many new Manufacturing Techniques using Robotics, AI, AR & VR. They have a strong presence in the Aerospace and Automotive industries but also a surprising link with the construction industry with new build housing with companies such as Laing O'Rourke. Following a general introduction by Alan Chater, representing the Joint PEI committee, a presentation was undertaken by Ryan Diver from F2050 about the development of the AMRC from its origins overviewing its development over the last 10 to 15 years. The new…

Alan Chater
Project Controls Expo Awards 2019

Now in its 2nd edition, the Project Controls Expo Awards sponsored by Oracle, looks to give recognition to individuals, projects, programmes and organisations for the successful delivery in the application of project controls.In 2018 over 300 global professionals from different industry sectors, came together to celebrate innovation and excellence in project controls. This year we are introducing two new categories, delivering in total six awards to the nominated winners. The awards’ process will open for entries at the end of March until Tuesday, 30th July (23:59 BST) and will culminate with a celebratory drinks reception, networking dinner and announcement of the winners, on Tuesday 12th November 2019 at the Emirates Arsenal Stadium in London. Apply now

Joanne Longton

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