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  • Taking the Leap - Wireless Charging Buses

    IET Central London lecture, Savoy Place, Wednesday 10th February 2016   Our speaker this evening was  Murat Basarir,  Business Development Manager in MASP *   We heard a short, yet informative overview of the on-going trial of inductive charging for electric buses in Milton Keynes (a technical hitch preventing us from seeing a supporting video, which was a shame). On the plus side, there was enough time for a great many questions; an indication of the interest and passions aroused by this topic.   So far, the results and feedback have been very positive. As pointed out by the speaker and the Q & A, there remain a number of operational, performance and cost-effectiveness concerns; over the remainder of the trial, these can be evaluated and mitigated in any future implementations. What we can…

    David Tabor
    David Tabor

  • ESAS 2016 - in partnership with the IET

    In partnership with the IET, Atkins, IEMA and IIRSM The Environmental and Safety Assurance Symposium (ESAS) is the MOD’s flagship Symposium focusing on Equipment Safety and Environmental Management.  http://www.esas2016.co.uk/ 22nd and 23rd June at MOD Abbey Wood, Bristol, BS34 8JH Hosted by DE&S and in partnership with Atkins, IET, IEMA and  IIRSM The DE&S Environmental and Safety Assurance Symposium (ESAS) is the UK MOD's flagship Equipment Safety and Environmental event held at MOD Abbey Wood Bristol. The Symposium is attended by over 500 people from the MOD, Industry and Academia over a two day period.  This Year's Theme DE&S is currently undertaking an unprecedented programme of transformation during which it must continue to engineer and deliver major equipment programmes and support…

    Lynsay Callaghan
    Lynsay Callaghan

  • The IET Aerospace Network Celebrate Women Of Aviation Week

    This week marks the 6 th annual Women of Aviation Worldwide Week which aims to foster gender balance in the air and space industry. Here at the IET Aerospace Network we are celebrating by taking a look at some of the inspiring women of the aerospace industry. It is important to acknowledge women’s contribution to aerospace not only to be inclusive of their achievements, but to also inspire the next generation of female engineers.  Every day this week, we will be posting a profile of remarkable women of aviation in our blog. Monday: Bessie Coleman Tuesday:   Pancho Barnes Wednesday: Helen Richey Thursday: Lilian Todd Friday: Nancy Harkness Love Saturday: Therese Peltier Sunday: Valentina Tereshkova To keep up-to-date with our latest blogs, content and events join our community today. Join the…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Women of Aviation Week - Bessie Coleman in profile

    This week marks the 6 th annual Women of Aviation Worldwide Week which aims to foster gender balance in the air and space industry. Here at the IET Aerospace Network we are celebrating by taking a look at some of the inspiring women of the aerospace industry. Today we are looking at Elizabeth ‘Bessie’ Coleman (1892 – 1926) who was the first female African American international pilot. She was also the first American woman to hold a pilot’s license. Bessie Coleman was the grandchild of slaves, her parents were illiterate and her prospects were extremely limited. With passion for education Coleman would read aloud to her family. She promised them that she would amount to something and set her sights on aviation. At the time there were no Africa American pilots in the area and no white pilots…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member in Space

  • IET NorCal Seminar: EVs, Charging, And Self-Driving Vehicles

    On Saturday 27 Feb 2016, Simon Lonsdale of ChargePoint gave a very stimulating presentation on the current state of  EVs, Charging, and Self-Driving Vehicles as well as a glimpse into what the near future has in store for us. This talk certainly interested the local network as over 20 people attended the seminar. The talk started with a look at the number of EVs currently in the US and the approaches manufacturers are taking to encourage people to switch from gasoline; be it access to HOV lanes, the availability of charge points, or the price to fill up an electric tank. Amongst engineers, safety and in particular electrical safety, was of great interest and sparked a lot of discussion amongst the attendees. This was particularly relevant when talking about the newer fast charging stations…

    Allan Casey
    Allan Casey

  • Bringing Two Of Our Most Popular Courses To Scotland.

    The professional development courses team are bringing two of our popular courses to the Teacher Building in Glasgow this April when the professional skills trainer, Louise Tythe, comes to deliver Preparing for Professional Registration and Mentor Training . Supporting the IET's professional registration activity, the Preparing for Professional Registration course covers the benefits of professional registration, an overview of the competences required for professional registration with the Engineering Council (referred to as UK-SPEC), information about evidence collection, using Career Manager and the application process.  It also allows a session with a Professional Registration Advisor (PRA) to review individual competence. The Mentor training course covers the key skills of a mentor, what…

  • Spring & Summer 2016 Yorkshire & Humber Newsletter

    The Spring & Summer 2016 edition of the Yorkshire & Humber Newsletter has been delivered in the March issue of E&T magazine and contains events up until October 2016. A digital version of the this Newsletter is now available on this link:    http://online.fliphtml5.com/npft/jzmx/#p=1   Where event details are to be finalised, please keep an eye on the IET events pages and this community for the latest updates. If you have any suggested topics you would like us to consider, or events you would like to see included in our programme, please contact Oliver Clarke at  oliver.clarke@theiet.org  - or any committee member.

    Oliver Clarke
    Oliver Clarke

  • Leaped February...Hacking Threats

    Last months entry was leaped ...staying true to the calendar month ! Leaping ahead another 4 years...we know rate of innovation wll create many hack attempts, however,  how exactly are the current technologies expected to be used ?  what are the  future hacking threats  we expect ? how will the CIA model be enhanced and used alongside other process mechanisms like Machine to Machine trust framework ? How will traditional hacks augment from enterprise client-server architecture and create new attack vectors?. The paper recommended that technology vectors are constantly monitored using a combination of automated tools, processes and constant research of evolving technology requirements to help mitigate against future hacking threats. Introduction The growing need for efficiency within the connected…

  • Nerds Vs Geeks

    I was recently referred to by one of my volunteers as being a ‘Nerd’…    This was because I said that my own IET membership number was easy to remember and he replied that he thought I was a Nerd because of it.   Personally though, I consider myself to be more Geek than Nerd …   However, in my defence (although I wear my Geek/part Nerd badge with pride) I did state that it was because of the way I remember and memorise things. For me, my IET membership number has a rhythmic pattern in the way it is said which is easy for me to remember.   I’m sure some of you will remember learning the alphabet from watching the television programme ‘Sesame Street’ and some of you (like me) will even admit to singing the tune (we all know it!) in your head when recalling where specific letters sit.   My favourite…

    Lisa Miles
    Lisa Miles

  • IET CC-AP Dinner with Singapore LN committees

    Glad to have a joyful dinner with IET Communities Committee - Asia Pacific (CC-AP) coming around from the Asia Pacific Region!

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Recent developments in object direction and tracking

    Date:  26 February 2016 Time : 18:30 - 21:30 Venue:  IDA Labs@NDC National Design Centre, 111 Middle Road #02/03-04, Singapore 188969 Synopsis: Object detection and tracking is now one of the current hot topics in computer vision research and is important to many real-world applications, such as intelligent video surveillance. In particular, detecting and tracking people in a scene, or across scenes is still very challenging in real world applications. In this talk, developments in object detection and tracking technology over the last ten years will be reviewed and some application examples will be illustrated. Speaker - Dr Chan Kap Luk

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Human-Centered Development Of Systems Engineering In Norwegian Engineering Industries

    Date & Time:  7th December 2015, 6.30pm - 9.30pm SMU-Lee Kong Chian School of Business ABSTRACT While industries are working on world-class innovations, the ring of “complexity” is rising in new product developments due to the pace of decentralization and globalization. Systems engineering embracing different viewpoints are known to be able to offer a broad range of techniques in handling the complexity. Whereas these scientific systemic methods uncover the absolute truth of technical relations and values, other behavioral and social dimensions in systems engineering are largely unexplored. The research agenda is to explore the transformation of systems engineering through the human-centered design methods – Design Thinking – in managing the complexity in the social-technical engineering systems…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Back By Popular Demand-A Systemic and Systematic Methodology for solving complex problems

    Date & Time:   Wednesday, 20 January 2016, 9am to 5pm Venue: Hotel Grand Pacific Synopsis The IET Singapore Senior Section and the Singapore Chapter of INCOSE (International Council on Systems Engineering) are proud to introduce Dr. Joe Kasser and his upcoming 1 day tutorial on “A systemic and systematic methodology for solving complex problems”. The target audience is Students, System Engineers and Project Managers. This tutorial focuses on systems engineering as a systemic and systematic methodology for solving complex problems.

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • IET Faraday Challenge Singapore 2015

    The inaugural launch of the Singapore Faraday Challenge Day took place between the 12th and 15th December 2015 and was a resounding success. The challenge was Mission to Mars . Singapore did it a little differently by targeting Singapore self-help organisations and the general public in order to increase awareness of the programmes and to let more people benefit from the challenge.   The challenge started with an ice breaking Bingo session led by volunteer Huang Lingxi, generating much excitement among the participants as they networked in the group, making new friends and finding out about themselves.   The event was made as real life as possible. Project teams were formed randomly and most of the members did not know each other. Despite this, they worked together, embracing their diversity…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Key IET Safety Conferences For 2016

    Human Factors for Engineers Course, 19-20 April Safety Competence Management Course, 21-22 April Safety Critical Systems Course, 6 - 9 June System Safety and Cyber Security Conference, 11 - 13 October  Electrical Safety Management, 2 - 3 November

  • Thoughts after attending the Project Controls 2016 - Delivering Smart Cities Event - IET, Savoy House, London

    The event went well and I left with some interesting thoughts. It is really refreshing to witness the start of what I believe will be a paradigm shift in many aspects of everyday life. The move from purchase of the asset to purchase of the use was very interesting an I do feel that the benefits of this direction is now starting to reach technology facilitators and system integrators. This is key. If this model is to gain traction and not fail or fall short due to development within silos then a system integration approach is essential. Smart Cities are not just about eco-driven buildings and smart metering for energy albeit that these are very important. With the prospect of a totally new development in London where Cross Rail meets HS2 there is the prospect of a fully integrated transport…

    Louis Redding
    Louis Redding

  • ET CC-AP DINNER WITH IET MEMBERS FROM SINGAPORE LOCAL NETWORK

    It was a pleasant experience meeting some IET members from Singapore Local Network. Truly enjoyed the dinner and the conversation. Thank you Yvonne, Isabel and Tom for the arrangement.

    Siong Tang
    Siong Tang

  • Communities Committee Asia Pacific (CC-AP), 27th February 2016, Singapore

    A total of fifteen (15) agenda items were discussed during the CCAP meeting in Singapore. During the meeting members present obtained updates and discussed among others about CRC, finance, matters arising from each Local Networks, regional PATW 2016, Global CVC 2016 as well as the CCAP Strategy . The meeting chaired by Dr Karla Smith, from New Zealand. Also in attendance were, Mr Thomas Yi [Senior Staff Member], Ms Isabel Hui [Staff Member, Secretary], Dr Derek Boardman (Australia), Dr Bicky Bhangu (Singapore), Dr Edmund Lai (New Zealand), Dr Tang Shi Siong (Brunei), Mr Wee Ser Tan (Malaysia, YP representative) and Mr David Yiu (Hong Kong, YP representative).

    Siong Tang
    Siong Tang

  • GETRAG Transmissions GmbH - Technical Visit: Energy, Safety And Environment

    We have a great event coming up on the 23rd March with a visit to GETRAG Transmissions GmbH - Technical Visit, Halewood focusing on Energy, Safety and Environment issues.  Please see the attached pdf of the poster for this event.

    Rob McDonald
    Rob McDonald

  • Fergusons Shipyard to take on 150 apprentices

    Interesting article http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-35668035

    Lynsay Callaghan
    Lynsay Callaghan

  • Call for Papers: Telecommunications in the Aftermath of WW1

    A call for papers has been issued for the event Telecommunications in the Aftermath of WW1: Civilian and Military Perspectives The First World War was the first multinational conflict which engaged substantially with electrical communication. It saw extensive use of telephony on the battlefield as well as significant early technological developments in and military use of wireless systems; it is now well recognized that the War had a deep impact on the technology and practice of telecommunications. However, beyond the broadest contours, much remains to be understood about the complex and multifaceted nature of that impact as well as the evolution of telecommunications  between the wars. The interwar years arguably witnessed the maturing of wireless technology with the completion of the transition…

    Anne Locker
    Anne Locker

  • Diamond Light Source

    Professor Andrew Harrison from the Diamond Light Source , gave an excellent IET Cambridge Network Prestige Lecture at Churchill College on Thursday 25/2/16.  Andrew's interesting and informative talk covered both the Diamond facility and the use of the synchrotron for research and other applications.  The talk, which was organsied by the IET, IoP and the I Mech E, attracted 200 attendees who participated in an active Q&A session.  Thanks go to Andrew for his talk.

    David Blake
    David Blake

  • 2015 GLOBAL PATW WINNER Presentation Video

    And the winner is.......Robert Mayall! Congratulations Robert! video link:    https://tv.theiet.org/?videoid=7601

    David Dean
    David Dean

  • February News

    At the end of January, we were fortunate enough to have Arup sponsor a Present Around the World information session at Loyola Marymount University where we were able to give advice and guidance to potential competitors for our event on the 26th March. If you (or anybody you know) is aged 18-30 and fancy your chances at winning an all-expenses paid trip to Toronto for being able to give a ten-minute technical presentation and answer questions on it for five minutes, please get in touch with Richard Tregaskes .   While we were there we were also able to let the students know about our next event, a tour of WET Design at 1pm on the 10th March, more details and registration is available in the upcoming events block. If you have seen the fountains at Bellagio, the Mirage Volcano, The Dubai Fountain…

    Richard Tregaskes
    Richard Tregaskes

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