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  • Robotics Start ups and spin outs

    In early March, the Robotics & Mechatronics TPN, together the KTN RAS SIG organised a robotics spin out/ start up event at the Manufacturing Technology Centre in Coventry.  It was a fine example of a collaborative event and organisations with the same aims working together. The event focused on start-up and spin out opportunities in robotics autonomous systems and began with a lively lunch networking session.   Gordon Attenborough, IET Head of Sectors, and Simon Yarwood, KTN, opened the event and topics included: An overview of the current RAS landscape and background of the Midlands ecosystem First-hand accounts from a selection of companies that have already undergone the start-up or spin out process An insight into key business skills, with sessions covering Marcomms, Design and Manufacturing…

  • IET NorCal PATW Held On 23rd April 2016

    Last weekend, the IET NorCal held their second IET NorCal PATW (Present Around The World) competition. It was held at UC Berkeley. We had seven very good speakers presenting on a wide range of subjects about which they were all clearly very passionate. As with last year’s talks, the event was both inspirational and educational. Inspirational because of the number of enthusiastic and articulate scientists and engineers that want to make their mark; educational because the topics ranged from combat robotics to gravity lighting! The audience found the talks very interesting based on the number of questions asked. One standout feature of the event was the number of people who came to watch the presenters. It was great to see them turn up to support their friends and colleagues.   The presentations…

    Allan Casey
    Allan Casey

  • Megaw Memorial Lecture 2016

    Six final year students from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen’s University, Belfast recently competed in the Megaw Memorial Lecture, showcasing their findings from their final year projects. In front of a strong crowd, the students presented demonstrations and explained their work, helping to commemorate Dr. Eric Megaw, a Queen’s graduate, who pioneered many radar innovations. The presenters and titles of their presentations were: Joseph Murray, mbed Gen-set Controller Henry Hui, Simulation of Dallas Rangemaster using Nodal DK Timothy Montieth, Looking through the Eyes of a Robot d*** Zhangliang, Real-Time Sound Synthesis on Parallella Boards Nilki Weerawardana, Motion planning algorithm for maritime vehicles Conor Robinson, Analogue Acoustic…

    Eoin McGread
    Eoin McGread

  • TV Connect 2016

    TV Connect 2016 ran at London's ExCel exhibition centre last week.  Whilst it is nowhere near as large an exhibition as IBC or NAB, it is good to have a local exhibition where UK-based engineers and visitors can see and discuss modern television technology and trends.

    Graham Turner
    Graham Turner

  • Hertha Marks Ayrton - First Woman Member of the IEE - Celebrated in a Google Doodle

    Hertha Marks Ayrton was an award-winning English engineer, mathematician, inventor and physicist,  best known for her ground-breaking work on electric arcs and sand ripples. - The Telegraph Read more... Hertha was also the first woman member of the IEE.

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • 2016-04-21 Aviation Electronics Europe, Munich

    Last week was glorious spring weather in Munich, with scarcely a cloud in the sky – but I’d been stuck indoors!  That sounds like a complaint, but wasn't really because being indoors was at the Aviation Electronics Europe Conference and exhibition in Munich, of which the IET was on the Advisory Committee, chaired one of the sessions (on ADS-B) and was instrumental in supporting a well-attended workshop jointly organised with the RAeS on RPAS (Remotely Piloted Airborne Systems – often also called UAVs or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles). There was really too much to take in.  As well as an exhibition with nearly 40 stands from many well-known and less well known avionics systems vendors, there were several workshops on various elements of avionics technology.  No matter what your interests, there was…

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • IET Singapore Chair gives talk in China

    Chairman of Singapore Network Dr Bicky Bhangu represents IET Aerospace TPN and IET Singapore LN to give talk in the 3rd International Symposium on More Electric Aircrafts Technology on 12~13 April 2016.

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • YPS Section: Present Around The World (PATW) Singapore 2016

    IET Present Around the World Singapore round was successfully organised. Thanks for every participants' effort and every volunteers that had involve in it. This year, we had different participants from different country, such as America, Russia, China, Malaysia, India and Singapore . We also appreciated the helps given by staffs of  National University Singapore (NUS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Conventry University, Ngee Ann Polytechnics (NYP), Singapore Polytechnics (SP), Republic Polytechnics(RP) and PSB Academy. Thanks for supporting IET Singapore. Group Photo with PATW Singapore 2016 Participants, Supporters and Judges Appreciation token to PATW Judges   IET Singapore 2016 Winner, Owen Ter:

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • IET SYLN YP - PATW Event 26th April 2016

    On the 26th April 2016 the IET SYLN YP committee organised their local network PATW event. This was held in the University of Sheffield's Mappin Hall and hosted presentations from students based at both the UoS and Sheffield Hallam University (SHU). Nine presentations were delivered all of which were very interesting and professionally presented. Three judges were appointed to look at the presentation skills and following the guidelines for these events, score appropriately and agree a winner and a runner up. This was another pleasing milestone with the development of the YP committee which is now gathering further momentum and confidence under the chairmanship of Dr Darren Williams. The winner of this event was Alice Bullas from SHU, who offered a presentation on "Exploring complex anthropometrics…

    Alan Chater
    Alan Chater

  • After New Zealand - A Climate Change Update

    I'm Paul Smith, a Fellow of the IET and a, one time, promoter of the real science behind Climate Change. I last did my last talk of a series over five years ago in New Zealand and much has happened since then so I thought that now, after the shindig of world leaders in Paris, might be a good time to do a video update. When I last did my talks on Climate Change the IPCC had produced only two reports and a third was imminent.  I cheekily summarised the three voluminous reports chronologically as “it might be happening” followed by “it probably is happening and man is likely to blame” and “it is happening and it is too late to do anything about it”. I would say now, in the same vane that “we've realised that it is happening and we're scrambling to do something about it but we are going to have…

    Paul Smith, RPS
    Paul Smith, RPS

  • IET Member And Structural Engineer, Roma Agrawal On The One Show - 27.04.16!!

    Watch BBC's The One Show on 27.04.16 at 19:00 where Roma Agrawal will be talking about Skyscrapers and engineering in a mini documentary! Roma features on all of the Women's Network posters which can be downloaded on this platform. She is a fantastic role model for women in STEM and does vast amounts of work to encourage the next generation. Well done Roma, I shall definitely be tuning in! :)

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Creative higher apprenticeships in the pipeline

    Working alongside industry partners, the NextGen Skills Academy is developing higher apprenticeships in computer games, VFX and animation to address specific skill sets lacking within these fields - E&T Magazine It's a good thing that the IET Women's Network has set up monthly coding classes then!  Read more...

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Vist To Tata Speciality Steels - Stocksbridge Works 20th April 2016

    IET SYLN were invited to the annual visit to Tata Specialty Steels at their Stocksbridge Works nr Sheffield. The topic this year was about the installation of a 4.7MW cyclocoverter by GE during December 2015. This replaced the old system installed back in 1989. Paul Buckley who was the Project Manager for Tata, gave us an historical overview on rolling mill evolution and this was followed by a techical presentation from the supplier GE about the new unit. Tata laid on a site tour of the Billet Mill where this equipment has been installed to see the mill in operation, rolling steel from the soakers down the 40" and 42" mills, scarfer and saws onto walking beam cooling beds at the end on the mill. We also had the opportunity to see the main control room where all the mill drive systems are controlled…

    Alan Chater
    Alan Chater

  • Meet The 'Rocket Girls,' The Women Who Charted The Course To Space

    In the 1940s, an elite team of mathematicians and scientists started working on a project that would carry the U.S. into space, then on to the moon and Mars. They would eventually become NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (or JPL), but here's what made them so unusual: Many of the people who charted the course to space exploration were women. Read more...

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member in Space

  • Big Bang Event

    The EESW (Engineering Education Scheme Wales) had the annual "Big Bang" event in Venue Cmyru in Llandudno on the 13th April. This is a schools event and there were around twenty five teams, all produced original engineering work and innovative designs. Engineering is clearly alive and well! A number of schools won substantial awards for their work. The IET had an exhibition  stand, with Lego robots which generated great interest. Attached is a picture of Richard from the IET and Mrs C., the Local Network Chairman's wife, who both did sterling work during the day.

    David S Crawford
    David S Crawford

  • MFI And IET Joint National Meeting - Augsburg / June 2016

    Meeting Cancelled! Please find below full details of the MFI / IET joint national meeting in Augsburg. I am very grateful to Chris Coppelstone, Sandip Banerjee and Alistair Gill for providing the flyer which I have reproduced in full below. Please contact Sandip for registration or to reserve hotel rooms:   Contact Sandip Banerjee on Sandip.Banerjee at t-online.de Howard Gray Joint National Meeting   Michael Faraday Institution e.V. 25 Years Jubilee Summer National Meeting 18th. - 19th. June 2016 at the Hotel Augusta, Ludwigstrasse 2, 86152 Augsburg     The city of Augsburg (photo: Wikipedia) was founded in 15 BC on the orders of Emperor Augustus. It is thus one of the oldest towns in Germany. Because of its excellent military, economic and geographic position at the convergence of the Alpine…

    Howard Gray
    Howard Gray

  • IET Switzerland PATW - April 2016, ETH Zurich

    Thanks to all for making this year's PATW such a great success ! Congratulations to Marcel, our winner, as well as the others who came a "close second".  As we are coming to expect, all presentations were "top notch" - great quality, enthusiasm and total dedication in their chosen specialism. Finally, special thanks to Laura who organised the event. Please see the attached for a short overview of the presentations we received...

    Jeff Hunter
    Jeff Hunter

  • Wind Wave and Tidal Power Generation

    It was a very interesting and well attended talk yesterday by Professor Peter Tavner. He bombarded us with facts and statistics from the growing renewable energy generation industry, and gave us a unique insight into the wave and tidal power generation projects currently under way. If you were there, and would like a copy of his presentation slides, please let me know at john.frankham@theiet.org, and I will send you a copy. Thanks again to Prof. Tavner for an informative evening.

    John Frankham
    John Frankham

  • Your opportunity to steer the V&I Network

    Are you crying out for a conference on developments in animal imaging, or can’t find an opportunity to network with researchers working on smartphone-based computer vision applications? Perhaps you’ve spotted a gap within the community to share information or network, or have an event idea but don’t know what to do next? If so, the Vision & Imaging Network Executive Committee wants to hear from you! The Executive Committee is currently working on the activity and content programme for the 2016/17 season and welcomes your input.  If you already have an idea then we’re particularly keen to support you in delivering an activity, with dedicated staff time working on the event logistics and full or partial funding – leaving you free to focus delivering an event that supports the community and raises…

    Former Staff Member
    Former Staff Member

  • Radar 2017 - Call For Papers. Submit draft by 16 December 2016

    Call For Papers -  Get your latest research, results and industrial applications presented and published, including submission to IEEE Xplore. Submit your draft paper by 16 December 2016. Radar 2017 is a prime opportunity for radar specialists at all career stages to update and enhance your knowledge on the latest developments in advanced radar systems. You will hear presentations covering the latest developments in the sphere, tutorials on key elements of radar technology and keynote addresses from leading experts. Radar 2017 is a part of an internationally successful series of conferences hosted by the USA, China, United Kingdom, Australia and France on a five year cycle. The last UK based conference took place in 2012 in a vibrant city of Glasgow. The event was attended by more than 400…

    Lynsay Callaghan
    Lynsay Callaghan

  • Early Career Engineering Survey

    The Survey Please could we ask you to take a few minutes to fill out the IET Early Career Survey? The response will provide beneficial insight into what this students and early career engineers want and needs for their early career, and what is most important to them. The results will be available later in the summer. T he Survey

  • UK and US to simulate cyber-attacks

    Interesting article from the Guardian on how the UK and US are exploring the resilience of nuclear infrastructure to a terrorist attack. http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/mar/31/uk-us-simulate-cyber-attack-nuclear-plants-test-resilience

    Lynsay Callaghan
    Lynsay Callaghan

  • What does CC-AP do anyway?

    For those of you interested in what CC-AP actually does at our meetings, I thought I'd write up a brief summary of our last meeting. If you've got any ideas or input you'd like to make, please comment on this post :) Perhaps unsurprisingly, finance was the first topic for discussion. CC-AP is responsible for giving out funding to the Local Networks (LNs) in our region - we get given a sum of money by the Communities Resourcing Committee, and then have to decide on the best way to divide this up amongst the various groups. It's never easy! But the first stage is sending out some guidance to the treasurers and chairpeople in the region, and that was the topic of our finance discussion this time.  We we then did some brainstorming on a CC-AP strategy. This will help give some more direction to…

    Karla Smith
    Karla Smith

  • Electric And Hybrid-Electric Propulsion For Light Aircraft

    Dr Paul Robertson of Cambridge University Engineering Departrment will present on the technical merits and drawbacks of propulsion systems for light aircraft.  Come along to CUED on Thursday 19 May at 1830 hrs.

    David Blake
    David Blake

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