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The IET Manufacturing Technical Network (TN) is hosting three webinar events on 6 th , 13 th and 20 th October on the topic of Sustainable Manufacturing. The events cover: Additive Manufacturing Metrology Design for Sustainability Registration for all 3 events can be done using the following link: https://lnkd.in/drAp3ki7
Find out how you can get hold of the guide and its summary documents today, and join us at the launch events at UK Construction Week. We’re delighted to let you know that Digitisation for Construction Product Manufacturers: A Plain Language Guide has been published. You can download your copy here. Alongside the full guide we have also produced an 8 page summary (ideal for sharing with senior colleagues) and a 2-page key facts document. If construction is to meet the challenges of a digital future and respond to the requirements of a new building safety regulatory system, it needs manufacturers to structure and share their data safely and sustainably. The Plain Language Guide will help them make the right decisions. Launch Event – 6 October 2021 A launch event will be held at UK Construction…
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) recently celebrated their 150th anniversary. The Yorkshire and Humberside regional network made a series of presentations on Engineering in the region which was delivered online, however this was all recorded and can be accessed online through the IET. Following several months of discussion and development, the YHRN pulled together four presentations to celebrate this significant milestone. Presentations were delivered by the North, South, West and Humberside Local Networks. West Yorks covered 'AI' by Professor Rami Qahwaji from the University of Bradford; Humberside covered the Decarbonisation work ongoing in the Humber area by Dr Geraint Evans. North Yorks delivered an overview about the career of one of their members Richard Gibbon OBE…
"In an Operational Technology environment, JML processes are different compared to a regular operations" explained Alistair Macrae, ICS Cyber Security Consultant at Claroty during the 'Securing remote access to operational technology (OT)' webinar organised by the E&T Webinar Team. He explained that in an OT environment, role-based access controls are time bound and solutions need to be able to keep up swiftly to changing access requests. Typically, when third party engineers access an OT environment, their access needs to be controlled to ensure ingress/egress traffic is accurately monitored. Reverse-tunnel concepts help can help play a role session integrity against and when used alongside frameworks like the perdu-model, you can better analyse where gateway/entry nodes should be placed on…
Today's update focuses on Dr. Francis Lockwood Estrin. Dr. Francis Lockwood Estrin is a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant working as part of the University of Liverpool and part ASTeC in Daresbury Laboratory. His role is to research the A-Symmetrical HiPIMS and its application for superconducting thin films, this is split between work In Daresbury producing thin films and work at Liverpool investigating the plasma conditions. Prior to this Francis worked at QinetiQ on Ion Thrusters a space propulsion technology. During this period, he worked on the BepiColombo mission mercury among other projects.Bulk niobium has been the material of choice for superconducting RF-accelerators as it is the highest critical temperature (Tc = 9.25 K) and highest lower critical field (Hc1 = 0.18 T) of the pure…
Explore the Solar System - Q&A from Webinar
Get ready to “Eat, sleep, engineer, repeat” on 14 October, as Air Marshal Sir Julian Young takes the stage for the international online broadcast of his President’s Address.The main address is at 1pm BST, and he will challenge you to think about how we keep inspiring generation after generation of engineers. What is the role of engineers as influencers and drivers of a sustainable, digital world? How do we ensure that we learn from and mentor each generation of engineers – both ahead of us and following on? And what can engineers do more of to support 21st century society, promote an ethical and diverse profession and help solve the big societal challenges? Then at 6.30pm BST, Julian will be joined by our 2020-21 President, Danielle George, and 2020 Young Woman Engineer of the Year Ella Podmore…
Today's speaker highlight focuses on Rita Morgado da Silva MEng CEng Rita Morgado da Silva is a Mechanical Engineer, currently working as Lead Systems Engineer, MR Linac Beam Generation, Elekta Ltd where she has worked for the past 8 years. Her current area of professional experience/interest include Beam Generation, Reliability, Hardware & Infrastructure and Covers & User Interfaces, Environmentally Conscious Design- circular economy and eco design. Prior to working at Elekta, Rita has worked for Pfizer, Volkswagen and University of Surrey Medical Engineering Department. Out of work, Rita enjoys playing competitive volleyball (indoor and beach), travelling the globe, snowboarding, cooking (and eating), hiking, reading and listening to music. Rita will deliver her presentation on Designing…
If you are interested in how home owners have improved their homes and energy efficiency take a look at a series of talks run by Cambridge Eco Homes. cambridgecarbonfootprint.org/.../
Professor Joe Howe, Executive Director Of Energy Research Institute at the University of Chester will provide an overview of recent UK energy related policy initiatives that have emerged over the last year. He will considering the emerging initiatives from the UK's industrial clusters and provide a detailed insight into the HyNet North West proposition. HyNet North West is an innovative low carbon and hydrogen energy project that will unlock a low carbon economy for the North West and North Wales and put the region at the forefront of the UK’s drive to net zero. Come and join us for a webinar on building the Hydrogen Network in the northwest of England. To register for the event, please click REGISTER NOW! It would be great on if you could join us for this free to attend webinar on an important…
Our Annual event is coming soon - 9th and 10th November The online event will take place over two half days and will be delivered via Zoom. Over the next few weeks I will highlight some of our amazing speakers, so do please keep checking back 9th November 2pm - 5pm 10th November - 9.30am - 12.30pm The first speaker highlight is on Carl Andrews who will be presenting for us, covering "Modifications and limitations of the DCF beamline hot cell to allow for high temperature irradiations". There has been an increased focus into simulating damage in advanced materials including potential structural materials for use in fusion/fission reactors. These materials are often subjected to high levels of radiation damage at high temperatures (upwards of 1000°C). In order to meet the constantly changing…
CPD Certificate for "Wow that's bright!!" an IET Buckinghamshire LN Webinar on Tuesday 14th September 2021
YouTube STEM sensation Mark Rober has become the newest IET Honorary Fellow for his outstanding contribution to aerospace engineering.Mark is an American YouTuber, engineer and inventor. He is known for his YouTube videos on popular science and do-it-yourself gadgets and has over 18 million subscribers. Before YouTube, Mark was an engineer with NASA for nine years where he worked on the Curiosity rover at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Mark also worked for Apple in their Special Projects Group undertaking Product Design as Mechanical Engineer. He recently received the IET’s STEM Personality of the Year award in a worldwide competition that celebrates an inspiring individual who is changing the narrative on what it really means to be an engineer or technologist. On receiving Honorary Fellowship…
Here are some links that Ross Hockham referred to during his excellent presentation on Tuesday 7th September 2021. Two links to sites that are good for dark sky hunting: https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/#zoom=6.89&lat=52.0669&lon=-0.1286&layers=B0FFFFFFTFFFFFFFFFF https://www.darksky.org/our-work/conservation/idsp/finder/ Another app that Ross mentioned is called ScopeNights for smart devices and it tells you if the weather is good for stargazing and has a dark sky map: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/scope-nights-astronomy-weather/id540120977 This is the YouTube channel play lists for UK Astronomy: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQperDOkTrm2FhXwfx55Q9w/playlists
With the construction environment responsible for around 40% of the global carbon emissions, it is crucial that sustainable practices are adopted to achieve net-zero ambitions. The Project Controls Network (PCN) has worked with 49 globally prominent organisations to develop ICMS 3 - a world first for cost and carbon management in engineering and construction from concept to completion and beyond.ICMS 3 is pioneering sustainable practices that assist the engineering and construction industry to manage and mitigate climate-related risk. ICMS 3 will contribute positively to efforts to decarbonise the engineering and construction sector in the most cost-effective way. Through ICMS 3, professionals will for the first time be empowered to deliver a globally consistent method for carbon life cycle…
Here is the CPD certificate for 7th September, a Bucks LN Webinar "Explore the Solar System" presented by Ross Hockham
If reality was a TV series, when is the big reveal going to happen? If this was a TV series, then the end of the previous season would have ended with the news that Climate Change was confirmed after all, and the closing shot would be all the main characters looking shocked: believers and deniers alike. The next, and final, season would start with the usual TV trick of not addressing the cliff-hanger at all, and instead, would show some flashbacks of the main characters, from which we piece together that there is a smart solution, and that’s what then happens in this season, neatly finishing with a grand resolution. Unfortunately, and sorry for the spoiler in the run up to the long-awaited 4th ‘Matrix’ movie, but this is reality, and so there isn’t a neat twist waiting in the wings. Unlike…
As publication nears for the Plain Language Guide we thought we’d share with you a quick update on what is happening this Autumn. Scroll down to see details and how you can get involved.The Plain Language Guide will be entitled: Digitisation for construction product manufacturers: a plain language guide How manufacturers can structure and share data safely and sustainably. If construction is to meet the challenges of a digital future and respond to the requirements of a new building safety regulatory system, it needs manufacturers to structure and share their data safely and sustainably. The Plain Language Guide will help them make the right decisions. The guide aims to help decision makers in manufacturing identify: Why structured data is important. How to avoid poor investment decisions.…
The recent IPCC report (Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change) makes clear that we now face a “ Code Red for Humanity” and if you are not convinced by mere words, pictures of wildfires from the Mediterranean to Siberia and “ heat domes” over the Pacific Northwest should be enough. Climate change is just one of the areas where humanity is pushing at natural environmental limits. Pollution and reductions in biodiversity are other examples where our collective abuse of the environment is now only too apparent. While governments need to act, we as media engineers, technologists and practitioners can and must play our part. The IET Media Technical Network is running a year long series of events designed to help our members, fellow engineers and colleagues understand these issues, analyse the…
Bob Stuart from MQA, gave deep-insights in understanding if digital audio is as good as it can be, during an online lecture jointly organised by the AES UK Section Cambridge Group and IET Cambridge Local Network. His talk explained that by better defining objects we can achieve better sound recording and playback abilities. He started by explaining how the fundamentals of psychoacoustics and neuroscience from auditory sciences help us understand pure tone frequencies/harmonics and contrast them against vocalisation and stimulated sound. Advances in neurosciences, is now letting us do more, like dealing with more natural signals. When humans encode, for example, the intensity of sound to 'loudness', it is nonlinear, like when we encode frequency to the subjective element of 'pitch'. Our frequency…
The TfWL Cohort 3 demo day event will showcase the MVP's that their 5 start-ups have developed during the programme, as well as highlighting the success that cohort 1 and 2 alumni had had. Lab by Transport for Wales proudly presents their cohort 3 virtual demo day event! Demo day is a showcase of the innovative ideas, products and solutions that have been developed over the Transport for Wales Innovation Accelerator Programme, to aid and improve Transport for Wales Rail.We’ll also be announcing recruitment for cohort 4 on our demo day event. Where & When: Friday September 3rd - 13:30-15:30. Live Streamed on Youtube. You can register for the event here > https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/166169165447 You can follow us on F6S for updates > https://www.f6s.com/tfwlaborg To discover more about…
The Particle Accelerator Engineering Network is a joint network run by the IET, and IMechE and with strong links to the IOP. The aim is to bring together professional engineers and technicians to network and hear about new developments in particle accelerators. The network runs an annual meeting, technician training, webinars and topical networks.We are seeking two new members of our committee, a communications officer to look after social media and other media communications and an ordinary member. Committee members should be engineers or technicians working in particle accelerators but can be at any stage of their career and be from labs, academia or industry. Applications from diverse backgrounds are encouraged. The committee meets 4 times per year (one of which is normally in person) and…
The IET Mersey & Western Cheshire Local Network Events Newsletter for September 2021 has been published . The newsletter contains information on our upcoming events, past activities, information about the Local Network and Key Contacts. Because of the restrictions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, our events will be online. Booking for the webinar events will be via the IET Events webpages. The newsletter is attached to this post as a pdf file.
After considerable organisation, we finally managed to hold an online 'Engineering Extravaganza' event with 4 local schools. We went out to 12 schools initially but understandably, due to variety of issues, this was eventually whittled down to just 4. All these schools managed to accommodate sourcing all the necessary materials for all the activities we ran on the day. IET delivered the 'Motor Madness' activity which we've done live over several times previously and chose this being familiar with any potential queries that arose. All schools managed to complete the activity with just a steer from ourselves which on the day was Matthew Morton and Dan Hardy as STEM Ambassadors and myself coordinating the whole day for IET SYLN, as required. We used MS 'Teams' for the online platform with breakout…
