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'Flying high and motoring on' content is now available to view online.

PEMD's successful one day seminar brought together speakers with an interest in the underlying motor drive technology, taking inspiration from aerospace and automotive applications. “The result was an outstanding success – A sell out with over 100 attendees. The programme contained many highlights, and no notable lowlights!“ – Prof. Bill Drury, Chair of the PEMD TPN You can read more of Bill’s event review o nline . Our delegates commented that there was a ‘good spread of speakers which gave insight into many different aspects of the broad subject’ and that there 'should have been something of interest to everyone'. IET.tv were in attendance to capture some of the presentations from the day which are now available to watch via the IET.tv website. Fault tolerance of electrical machines - Barrie…

Gemma Hadley
'Flying high and motoring on' content is now available to view online.

PEMD's successful one day seminar brought together speakers with an interest in the underlying motor drive technology, taking inspiration from aerospace and automotive applications. “The result was an outstanding success – A sell out with over 100 attendees. The programme contained many highlights, and no notable lowlights!“ – Prof. Bill Drury, Chair of the PEMD TPN You can read more of Bill’s event review o nline . Our delegates commented that there was a ‘good spread of speakers which gave insight into many different aspects of the broad subject’ and that there 'should have been something of interest to everyone'. IET.tv were in attendance to capture some of the presentations from the day which are now available to watch via the IET.tv website. Fault tolerance of electrical machines - Barrie…

Gemma Hadley in Aerospace
The Future Of Medicine - Technology And The Role Of The Doctor In 2025

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Gemma Hadley
John Logie Baird Lecture: Next Generation Technology Affecting The Media Industry

This year’s John Logie Baird Lecture focused on how television is evolving and exploring new technologies. There were two great speakers: Stella Medlicott, CMO, Ericsson Broadcast and Media Services and Andy Quested, Head of Technology, HD and UHD, BBC who gave very interesting talks followed by an engaging Q&A session. Please see the videos below: Stella Medlicott, CMO, Ericsson Broadcast and Media Services Andy Quested, Head of Technology, HD and UHD, BBC Q and A

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New Rail Academy in Gateshead

Newcastle College have officially opened their new £5m Rail Engineering academy, the first in the North East. This will be a regional hub for railway engineering training and development. The Academy will offer a Level 3 Diploma in rail engineering which will be suitable for all age groups and aims to develop engineering apprenticeships with a rail focus plus higer education qualifications tailored specifically to the needs of the industry. For further details on this article in teh Rail Technology magazine, please click here .

Deborah-Claire McKenzie
TPN Aerospace Conference Poster Competition Winners

We are pleased to shortlist 12 posters for the competition. All 12 posters are amazing and the judges had a hard time choosing the winners. Ultimately, after a tough battle, the winners are as follows: Champion Title: High Power Density Converter for More Electric Engine Applications Author: Rolls-Royce Electrical Power & Control Systems Team School: Nanyang Technological University / Royce-Rolls Runner-Ups Title: Sky Recorder in Clouds Author: Chua Kok Nam School: Nanyang Technological University Title: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Green Liner Author: A.B.D. Tharupathi, Lee Taehoon & Tang Jia Jun School: Republic Polytechnic Supervisor: Dr Hamid Saeedipour Title: High Speed Autonomous UAV and Off-board Image Processing Author: Cheng Hui Min & Lu Jiale School: Singapore Polytechnic

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IET Display At The UWI Alma Jordan Library

On Friday 10th April, 2015, the University of the West Indies Alma Jordan Library welcomed the IET Trinidad and Tobago Local Network to proudly display a range of IET material, in the Engineering section of the library. This could not have been successfully implemented without the support of Mariella Pilgrim, Faculty Liaison Librarian - Engineering. The display officially ran from the 11th to the 18th April. As a result of the positive feedback from the librarians about the interest shown by members of the engineering faculty as well as students, they suggested that material be provided for other areas within the engineering section. (Anthony and Mariella engage with interested students) (IET material displayed in other areas of the Engineering section of the library) Mariella was also impressed…

Jason Robert Rameshwar
Improving your Management Skills: Finance and Accounting

As your career changes and develops, you will need a wider and more diverse set of skills to ensure you succeed in your chosen field and whether this means deepening your technical knowledge or improving your soft and management skills, it is important to ensure you have the right information in order to progress. Whether you are pursuing IEng or CEng and looking to develop your management skills for your C Competences, or whether you are already professionally registered and looking to maintain your competence for your CPD, the IET offer courses to help you develop and maintain your skills. Management is not just about managing people and resources, but also about planning and budgeting to use these effectively. This is not always easy to do, so if you are thinking about developin in this…

Kathryn Bain in CEng
The Future of e-aircraft

One of my volunteers in the Wales South East Network has sent me a link to an interesting article on the future of electric aircraft. Airbus Group is currently involved in a numebr of technological programmes, whose breakthrough could eventually also be applied to an all-electric helicopter and a 90 seat passenger regional aircraft with fully electric or hybrid propulsion. For further details of this article click here . Photo and article from the Airbus Group site. The Call for Papers for our All Electric Aircraft Seminar to be held in January 2016 will be uploaded soon.

Deborah-Claire McKenzie
Optical Fibres in Oil and Gas: Monitoring at the Speed of Light.

Optical fibres have been available since the 1970s and are well known for their applications in telecommunications. Less well known are their abilities to perform measurements and to sense a wide range of physical parameters . Andrew Strong, CEng, FIET, MInstP from Cambridge Consultants, will describe the fundamentals of optical fibres and their fabrication. He will also review a number of measurement techniques and how they are used in a broad range of applications in the Oil and Gas Industry. Andrew's talk will be on Thursday 21 May 2015 at 1830 hrs in the Cambridge University Engineering Department, Trumpington Street, Cambridge.

David Blake
What is the Point of Maths?

Local Network volunteer, Derek Newport, has recently written a book about mathematics entitled “ Savour the Fruits of Mathematics…not just HOW mathematics works, but WHY is it important, especially in Engineering ?” Derek has visited schools regularly over the past 15 years, nine years under the Young Enterprise Initiative, followed by 6 years as a STEM ambassador, and during this time has sought the feelings of students on mathematics. Answers generally fell into one of two ‘boxes’, “I don’t like maths” and “I don’t see the point of maths”! Concerned about these responses, Derek decided to write the book, with two aims: Gaining students’ enthusiasm for mathematics; To gain teachers’ awareness of the different educational paths applicable to students opting for a career as a craft technician…

Joanne Longton
Orange County Vital Link STEAM Event

If we are going to inspire, Inform, and influence the global engineering community, it's always good to get the imagination of young minds, and so for the second year in a row we supported the http://vitallinkoc.org/ STEM and Arts Career Showcase held over 3 days at the end of April. This event is a collaboration of corporate, education, and non-profit sponsors and exhibitors coming together to create an engaging and interactive career exploration experience emphasizing careers in science, technology, engineering, math (STEM), and the arts. The showcase, to be held in partnership with OC Fair Imaginology, is focused on providing students with opportunities to explore, discover, and connect to their future careers. As we wanted to do something different and give the young minds something to…

Richard Tregaskes
2015 PATW

At the end of March we had a great local heat for the PATW, with 4 presentations on water filtering, the USC Rocketry club, the second place " Simulating Colliding Black Holes to Predict Gravitational Waves" and the winning "Math, Engineering, and Technology of Non-circular Bicycle Chain Rings" by Adrian Rodriguez. Adrian is a LMU student and the LMU Seaver School of Engineering wrote an article about his success http://seavernews.lmu.edu/2015/04/09/sophomore-wins-engineering-presentation-contest/

Richard Tregaskes
Broads Outdoors Festival

The Outdoors Festival brings you more than two weeks of activities celebrating the Broads National Park. The programme for the fifth birthday edition boasts a record number of events covering a huge range of activities with nearly 200 opportunities to explore the great outdoors. Running from 2 to 17 May, the festival showcases the wealth of things to do in the Broads. With more than a quarter of the rarest wildlife in the UK, 300 kilometres of footpaths and 122 miles of rivers the park provides a wonderful playground for everyone who loves to get out and about, whether on water or dry land. Search through the calendar below or browse the online flipbook programme.

Alex Barrett
Healthcare Network Update - 26 April 2015

Hello to all IET and Network members. This latest community update arrives at the busiest time of the year for the HTN: several major events have just taken place and more are on the immediate horizon. Before I go into any more detail, I would like to ask for suggestions by email for our programme of events for the twelve months from October 2015. The committee will be meeting in a few weeks to map out the events and activities which we intend to offer for the coming year and as always we want to ensure that these reflect the needs of the healthcare TPN and wider biomedical engineering community. We have prepared a case study of this process on the myCommunity site and I would urge you all to read it to understand how the community can drive the events we put on: https://communities.theiet…

Peter Bannister
Iterations Of Security

Known to pracitioners as Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability, CIA, is forever-green in its understanding, making it a constant talking point in any technology platform. As the phases of the project expand, so does its needs. Its not a responsive method so a crash course understanding wont give any more depth when compared to reading whitepapers found though search enging results. The business sets the soft tone of security requirements and its the practitioner that enages the known CIA triage model through hands on experiences of People, Technology and Process. GP knows patient records must be confidential, Hospital knows equipment must be available to treat patients, Drug manufacturer knows scientific reaserch must have its integrity kept intact when creating drugs for patients.…

Rimesh Patel in Cybersecurity
Photo Archives

24 February 2012 - Networking Nite 15 March 2012 - AGM 12 12 May 2012 - LN PATW 18 Aug 2012 - Regional PATW 12 - Host Singapore 7 December 2011 - Evening Talks

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TPN Aerospace Conference

Event Photos: LINK Event Videos: Dr Bicky Bhangu - Welcome & Opening Speech Prof Peter Malkin - From More Electric to Hybrid Electric Aircraft Dr Hamid Saeedipour - Thrust Vectoring Effects on Jet Transport Aircraft Design Professor Geoff Gibson - The Challenge of Developing Non-Invasive Repairs for Modern Composite Passenger Aircraft

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ICalendar Link For Yorkshire & The Humber IET Events

Yorks & Humber Events are available for your Outlook, Google, Smartphone or other calendar via iCalendar - simply link your calendar to http://www.iet-members.org/apps/php/icalendar.php and the events and visits we organise will appear within your calendar.

Paul Smith, RPS
Events List

Upcoming Events 2 Oct 2015 1st Annual Debate: We don't need any more Engineers Past Events 19 Sep 2015 Technical Visit: DreamWorks Animation 1 Sep 2015 IET Energy Section Presents: Data Center Power Systems Design Philosophy 25 Aug 2015 Networking Nite with Two Presentations on <Data Protection Act> and <Space, The Final Frontier> 26 Jun 2015 IET Young Professional Section (YPS) Presents: Benefits Of Professional Registration And A Visit To A Compact Fermentation Plant 16 May 2015 PATW 2015 7 May 2015 IET Rail Section Presents: Communication Backbone Networks for MRT Applications

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Yearly Newsletter

Check out all our interesting activities organised. 2013/14 2012/13

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Committee Member 2014 - 2015

Here's the list of the current committee member Chairman Mr David Griffiths Deputy Chair Dr Bikramjit Bhangu Honorary Secretary Mr Mike Henry Honorary Treasurer Mr Dennis Lin IET Council Member, IPRA Mr Richard KT Fong Data Protection Officer Mr Jolyon Caplin Committee Member Prof Joseph Kasser Dr Jiang Hao Mr Lim Meng Yong Mr Michael Wan Mr Tan Teck Lee Mr Loi Boon Toon Mr Tan Eng Hwa Mr Manoj C Abeysundara IET Administrator Yvonne Ko

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About IET Singapore

IET Singapore consist of the following sub-commitee Power Section Senior Section Transport Section Young Professionals Section

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Volunteer For The Retired Members Network

Hopefully over the years you will have been to some IET events in Northumbria and Durham. These events are only possible due to the hard work of dedicated volunteers – but now we really need your help. If you are a retired engineer or technician, have you thought about volunteering for the Local Network in Northumbria and Durham? Here are just some reasons why we think you should. Being a volunteer for a Local Network can be a great way of: networking with likeminded people in your industry; finding out more about all of the opportunities that the IET can bring; developing the skills needed to achieve your goals We are looking for retired members and welcome applications to help with Developing the networks annual strategy Engaging in physical and virtual executive team meetings Using your…

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