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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
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
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
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
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
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
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…

Phoebe Houssein
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
IET Joint Lecture In Kansai Region 26 Jan 2016

IET Joint Lecture in Kansai Region

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
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
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
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
Virtualising The Security Operation Centre (Soc)

As the perimeter network scales to meet the App economy the domain based environments are making virtualisation become the core platform. We find that the increase in use of companies embracing infrastructure as a service requires data centre providers in need of more virtualisation methods. The virtualised data center has other features such as multi tenant and customer billing separation which makes the return on investment more desirable. We find that the core components such as layer 3 devices can be functional in a few clicks without the need to rack appliances. Further the ability to cluster environments also allows for virtual routing between data centres that previously could not be achieved. These benefits will become more apparent as the interlock with cyber systems will fuel innovation…

Rimesh Patel
IET Awards Ceremony At 101 Battalion REME

In January, we were very pleased to awards a prize to two members of staff at the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, 101 Battalion in Wrexham, North Wales. the evening was attended by senior army officers as wellas the chairman of the local network, David Crawford with staff from the IET. we are hoping to work closely with REME in the coming years, with events which will be open to IET members.

David Crawford
The IET And BCS Turing Lecture

Join us for a fascinating evening when Robert Schukai, Head of Advanced Product Innovation, Thomson Reuters will give the 2016 IET and BCS Turing Lecture. This year’s talk: The Internet of Me: It’s All About My Screens will look at the way smart phone technology has completely revolutionised the way we play, work, and live, and the information challenge that comes with constantly processing and generating so much data. For more information and registration: http://conferences.theiet.org/turing/

Eoin McGread
January News

Happy New Year from the Southern California LN committee. This year we are going to try and send a ‘what’s happening’ email every month to keep you informed about everything your Local Network is doing. Please make sure your preferences are set to receive emails from your Local Network. Following the success of last years ‘ Present Around the World ’ competition we are going to be holding our event on the 26 th March. If you know anybody aged 18-30 who fancies the opportunity to win an all-expenses paid trip to Toronto by presenting for 10 minutes on an engineering or technology related topic and then answering questions on it for a further 5 minutes, please put them in touch with Richard Tregaskes for more details. This year to help competitors prepare, where there is enough interest, we will…

Richard Tregaskes
IET Peterborough & Huntingdon Local Network visit to RAF Marham Thursday 3rd November 2015

Ten people in our group met up with Gavin Hukin from BAE Systems at the Spa Shop, Marham, opposite the entrance to RAF Marham at 12.50h. Gavin then escorted us to the Marham Heritage Centre and introduced us to Station Warrant Officer Steve Roberts who gave us a guided tour of the Centre. After showing us artefacts from the 1st World War, he went on to Mosquitos, Hurricanes, Spitfires and the associated pilots who flew them. We then continued to hear about Vulcan Bombers, Harriers and Tornados. Of particular note was a de-activated hydrogen bomb, and one of the much talked about Brimstone missiles, which were both on display. We thanked Steve for his most comprehensive guided tour, and continued to the CMU Unit where Martin Driver (BAE Systems) showed us around the maintenance shop/hangar.…

Julie

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