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Enabling BIM and the Crossrail Smart Railway

Earlier this month, along with 60 other people, I attended a fascinating and insightful presentation by Ross Dentten, Asset Information & Configuration Manager for Crossrail in London. Ross’ presentation on ‘Enabling BIM and the Crossrail Smart Railway’ gave an overview of the Crossrail programme, current progress and also covered Asset Management. The original specification has now been extended to cover Twyford and Reading and altogether encompasses 40 stations in this £14.8bn project. Rail transport capacity will be increased by 10% in London and will carry around 200m passengers when complete. Within the overall project there are 10 new stations being built, along with 30km of tunnelling and 14,000 people, including over 300 apprentices have been involved in the construction. Crossrail…

Deborah-Claire McKenzie
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Get the latest news from the IET History Network. Our plans for 2014-15 include a weekend meeting in Newcastle on the history of power engineering, commemorations of the First World War via the IET Archives and a joint event with the Bristol Network on TSR2. There’s also an update on the opening of the new Archives Centre in Savoy Hill House, a report on the grave of Oliver Heaviside, notes on the history of the World Wide Web and a chance to get involved in highlighting the preservation of historical artefacts.

Anne Locker
ARTS TPN Best Endeavour Award at the TT Zero Races 2014

The ARTS Network decided to award two prizes for Best Endeavour to teams competing in the TT Zero races this year. Kingston University in the UK won one of the awards and we plan to have a blog about that presentation in due course. The other prize was awarded to Team Buckeye Current at Ohio State University. Pete James, Chairman of the TPN took time out from a conference visit in the States to head over to Ohio University to present the award and also took the opportunity to brief the students and staff on his work in Electric Vehicles. Here is a statement from the team: "Buckeye Current feel honoured to receive the ARTS TPN Best Endeavour award from the prestigious Institution of Engineering and Technology (the IET). The award was given to the team for their ability to overcome adversity…

Deborah-Claire McKenzie
Show And Tell Opportunity At No Limits Races - Silverstone

The IET Automotive & Road Transport TPN are pleased to announce that they are supporting the new Electric Motorcycle racing series MotoE Several members of the IET are providing the technical support for the series and you can see further details here on the panel and their interests . The series is running across five race weekends in the UK and Europe and the series finale is coming to Silverstone on 11-12 October 2014 as part of the No Limits event. Rupal Patel the MotoE promoter has offered IET members/friends/family the opportunity of a Show and Tell in the Paddock during the weekend. This will take the form of: · Meet the MotoE teams/riders · Technical briefing from the IET scrutineer(s) · Paddock talk · Q&A session with teams/scrutineers Please note that anyone participating in this…

Deborah-Claire McKenzie
Pilot UWIAATT - IET TT LN Mentorship Programme

The University of the West Indies Alumni Association Trinidad and Tobago chapter (UWIAATT) extended an invitation to the Trinidad and Tobago Local Network (IET TT LN) to develop a pilot mentorship partnership programme. This was initiated due to the high demand of engineering students entering the mentorship programme and wanting to be partnered with an engineer. This pilot programme started with the pairing of two second year Electrcial & Computer Engineering students with myself and based upon the interactions and feedback wtih the students, we will be able to fine tune our approach to mentoring young engineers and strengthen the relationship with the Alumni association. (LR: Jason R. Rameshwar, Chenniece Harper, Keith Gellineau, Reaiah Harris, Peter Poon-Chong) The opening ceremony on Friday…

Jason Robert Rameshwar
IET Scotland South East Committee 2017-18

The IET Scotland South East Committee for 2014-15 elected in May 2014 comprises the following office bearers. Please address questions to the secretary Robert D'Arcy . To contact others on the committee, if there is a link, click to be taken to their MyCommunity page, then "Select add as contact". This will have to be approved by the person before you can re-visit and select "Send Message" to contact them. CHAIRMAN Dr C Marsh CEng, FIET SIEEE MInstP MIACR FWES SENIOR VICE-CHAIRMAN Dr. J Dempsey JUNIOR VICE-CHAIRMAN L. Wouendji HONORARY SECRETARY R.M.D'Arcy IEng, (M) Tech IOSH ( MyCommunity ) HONORARY TREASURER B. Clarke

David E Ferguson
Robots That Learn: The Future Of Man Or The

On 2nd September, as part of the TAROS 2014 Conference, Dr Sethu Vijayakumar gave the IET/TAROS Public Lecture and delivered a fascinating insight into how robots have increasingly made the journey from industry floors to our homes. Some examples given included self-driving vehicles, prosthetic devices, surgical assistants and service robots for drilling, mining and cleaning. The world of interactive, autonomous robotics is a totally absorbing, exciting area and Professor Vijayakumar demonstrated the scientific challenges experienced, and showed some of the cutting edge research that is aimed at making robots as versatile, safe, reactive and adaptive as us humans. Live demonstrations, including a football playing robot enhanced the presentation. Dr Vijayakumar gave a short interview before…

Joanne Longton
2014/15 Committee Members

Here is the Bristol Network committee for the 2014/15 season: Chair: Martin Coates CEng FIET Vice Chair: Brian Gallacher 2 ND Vice Chair: Jeremy Boyd Honorary Secretary: Junichi Sugiura CEng FIET Honorary Treasurer: Dr. Job Obiebi CEng MIET Young Professionals’ Chair: Dr. George Iordanidis Chris Waters MIET MIET Professional Registration Advisor: John Garrett CEng FIET Fellow (FIET) Representative: Eur Ing Dr Russell Haines CEng FIET IEng Representative: Russ Boffin IEng MIET Schools & Colleges Liaison: Eur Ing Dr Russell Haines Becky Hutchinson CEng FIET CEng MIET Academic Liaison (UoB): Prof. Mark Beach CEng MIET Court Liaison (UoB) Eur Ing Dr Russell Haines CEng FIET Academic Liaison (UWE): Nigel Gunton MIET Industrial Liaison: Dr Qasim Al’Akayshee CEng MIET IET Connect Liaison: John Garrett…

James Inge
IET Knowledge Sharing Seminar - Malaysia September 2014

Executive member, Lim Yew Kee, was invited as a Speaker by the organizing committees of IET Malaysia LN to deliver talks that establish the event its main underlying theme, IET Knowledge Sharing Seminar. This seminar was held from 5th ~ 7th September 2014 at Bayu Marina Resort in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. His talks were entitled: 1. Product Development Methodologies, and 2. The IET Manufacturing Technical and Network. This Technical Talk is on the Product development methodologies in responses to market driven force. Market driven products are demanding highly complex technologies in meeting exceptional expectation from stakeholders and customers. The current productivity trend progressively reducing the development methodologies its throughput. The product development efficiency has not only…

Joanne Longton
IET Kent 2014/15 Events

The IET Kent Committee has planned an exciting Programme for 2014/15. Our Programme Booklet will be delivered to all Kent Members very soon. Details of our Programme also appear on this web page and include our regular Retired Members morning meetings at Bromley, plus a series of evening events. We are pleased to be supporting the University of Kent 50th Anniversary Celebrations with the first Jennison Lecture. Professor Roger Jennison was a Fellow of the IET and the first Professor of Physical Electronics at the University in 1965. Within a year he established the Electronics Laboratory (later Department of Electronics and now School of Engineering and Digital Arts) at the University. The 2014 Jennison Lecture is being given by Rhys Phillips - a Research Engineer in the Lightning & Electrostatics…

Brian Dury
David Hampson-Ghani on the New Bus for London

On 28 th August 2014, East London held the New Bus for London event. The speaker David Hampson-Ghani shared with us his biggest challenges whilst working on this project as well has predicting the next progression for buses. Can you tell us a little bit about your background? I’m a civil engineer by qualification; I have a degree from The Imperial College. I have a background in heavy civil engineering, from nuclear power stations to the Channel Tunnel. I have moved into transport and have worked on High Speed 1, London Underground and now London buses. What is the biggest challenge you have faced with the New Bus for London Project? The biggest challenge [during the New Bus for London project] was getting the designer Thomas Heatherwick and his team who have never worked on a bus project before…

Former Community Member
Meet The Volunteers

The IET Satellite Technical Network organises an annual programme of engineering activities covering the industry. All of these activities are made possible by the efforts of a dedicated group of volunteers. If you would like to know more about our committees, or would like to be a volunteer for us, please get in touch with our Community Manager, Deborah-Claire McKenzie Updated: 6 October 2020 Executive Team Chris Brunskill Past Chair Dave Davis - Chair Anthony Baker Aravind Kilaru David Orr David Jowsey David McQuiggan Deborah-Claire McKenzie Community Manager Dominic Lasko Ian Raper - Space University Network Representative Mansi Joshi Mark Loveday Michael Fitch Millie Ayesh-Meagher Paul Wells - Vice Chair Technical Advisory Panel Chris Welch Diana Mathew Duncan McCoig Imran…

Deborah-Claire McKenzie
Railway Network Volunteers For 2016-17 Session

The IET Railway TPN organises an annual programme of engineering activities covering the Railway industry. All of these events and activities are made possible by the efforts of a dedicated group of volunteers. We are currently looking for mid-career members to join the Executive team. if you are interested please contact our Community Manager, Lynsay Callaghan. Executive Team Martyn Chymera Chairman Jon Hemsley Past Chairman Andrew Hunter Chris Marshman Crinela Pislaru George Clark Graham Neil Helen Thompson John Easton Mark Newton Paul Tice Peter Sheppard Robert Wilson Lynsay Callaghan Community Manager Natalie Sullivan Community Event Producer Young Professionals Group Matt Bagshawe - Chairman David Lawes - Vice Chairman Henry Lam Konstantinos Banias Martin Halligan Mohammed…

Deborah-Claire McKenzie
Meet The Volunteers

The IET ARTS TPN Executive team organise a programme of engineering activities covering Automotive & Road Transport Systems. All of these events and activities are made possible by the efforts of a dedicated group of volunteers. If you would like to know more about our committee or would like to be a volunteer for us, please get in touch with the Community Manager, Deborah-Claire McKenzie . List updated on 25.5.2021 Nigel Schofield Chairman Alan Stevens Vice Chairman Andrew Fisher - Highways England Representative Andrew Pickford Committee member Andrew Walker Committee member Angus Lyon Committee member Deborah-Claire McKenzie Community Manager Graham Gest Committee member Jeff Peters - Committee member Matthew Clarke Past Chairman Mike Burden Committee member Paula Palade Committee…

Deborah-Claire McKenzie
EMEA Community Volunteer Conference Review

First of all, I'd like to say a big "thank you" to everyone who made this conference happen. This includes all of you who gave up your time to travel to Dublin, the EMEA-CC who worked tirelessly on the programme, my colleagues within the IET who took care of all logistics and advised us on the agenda, and of course our wonderful hosts from the Ireland Local Network . For many of us the proceedings kicked off a day early to watch the EMEA regional Present Around The World final. Congratulations to everyone who made it to the regional final, and especially to Laura Barrabia Gil from Switzerland who won and Josef Grech from Malta who was the runner up. Our CEO Nigel Fine opened day one of the CVC with an inspirational speech focusing on the IET's vision, mission and values. EMEA-CC chairman Iain…

Former Community Member
Links To Lecture Slides

Links to the slides used at some of the lectures organised by the IET Manchester Network are given below. ♦ Cycling: Four wheels is good, two wheels better (22-09-2014) ♦ UK Fracking: Managing the Risks Seminar (20-05-2014) ♦ OLTC for Distribution Transformers (03-04-2014) ♦ SF6 in the HV Electricity Industry Seminar (25-03- 2014) The Basics on SF6 Gas Ian Naylor, EA Technology SF6 Legislation and European Impact David Crawley, Consultant Current Alternatives to SF6 Switchgear at Medium Voltage Phil Dingle, Eaton User Experience of SF6 in Medium & High Voltage Switchgear T ony Byrne, EA Technology Ltd ♦ Connecting Offshore Wind to the Grid (29-11-2012) - Siemens Presentation - TNEI Presentation ♦ LTE - Enhancing Mobile Broadband (23-10-2012) ♦ Security in the Cloud, BCS and CBM-TG (01-03-2011…

Former Community Member
Meet Our Volunteers - Committee members for the 2016-17 session

The IET Wales North Network organise a programme of engineering activities in the North Wales area. All of these events and activities are made possible by the efforts of a dedicated group of volunteers. If you would like to know more about our committees, or would like to be a volunteer for us, please get in touch with the Chairman or Community Manager listed below. David Crawford – Chairman Glen Boulton – Vice Chairman Ardeshir Osanlou – Glyndwr University Representative David Stedham Hugh Thomas Ian Cook Ken Newis – Schools Liaison Officer Stephan Sylvester Tony McLoughlin Deborah-Claire McKenzi e - IET Community Manager Tania Pomroy - IET Community Event Producer

Deborah-Claire McKenzie
Manchester Network Volunteers

The IET Manchester Network organise a programme of engineering activities in the Greater Manchester area. All of these events and activities are made possible by the efforts of a dedicated group of volunteers. If you would like to know more about our committees, or would like to be a volunteer for us, please get in touch with the Chairman or our Community Manager listed below. Network Leona So - Chairman Martin Caton - Vice Chairman Keith McCabe - Immediate Past Chairman Chris Fox - PastChairman Julie Ashurst - PastChairman Peter Hicks - Secretary Pat Lancaster - Treasurer Anthony Gaskill - New Start-ups Liaison Job Obiebi - Finance Support Kyle Murchie - Schools Liaison Officer Lukman Abdul-Karim - Business Planning Manager Rik Whitaker – IET Connect Representative Tania Pomroy…

Deborah-Claire McKenzie
EMEA Communities Volunteers Conference 2014

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Former Community Member
It Was Not E.T. After All!

Some light Sunday morning reading. Scientists have determined how the moving stones of Death Valley actually move. And it was not E.T.

Allan Casey
Speedy charging driving a global boom in electric cars

Electric cars seem to be gaining ground in the UK and elsewhere. According to Ecotricity, the company that has installed a network of charging stations along the UK's motorways, we are seeing a "revolution". Figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders indicated that electric car sales have now topped the 10,000 mark in the UK. As well as government incentives that have cut ownership costs, a key development is the roll-out of a network of superfast chargers at motorway stations. Over the past year, Ecotricity say they have installed around 170 of these units, covering 90% of the network. These allow you to charge your car battery up 80% in 20-30 minutes. For more information on the BBC website click here for the full article Having not seen many charging points for a while,…

Deborah-Claire McKenzie
RFC Goes to War

I liked this interesting and informative article on the RAeS website relating to the Royal Flying Corps crossing over to France in August 2014 at the beginning of the Great War, which I thought I'd share with community members. Those pioneer airmen were certainly brave flying such flimsy, unreliable and at that point unarmed machines. Sadly some of them didn’t even make it across the channel. Over the four years of the war, the aerial service developed into a force of nearly a third of a million officers and men, 378 squadrons and around 22,000 aircraft. To read the article please click here. Did any of your relatives serve in the Royal Flying Corps during the war? If you’ve any photographs of them in their machines, please share these with the community by uploading to the images section and…

Deborah-Claire McKenzie
Ideas For Future Presentations

Members, last post of the day I promise (hopefully)! The NorCal committee is looking into future presentations for the membership. Ideas include " The Internet Of Things " and " Raspberry PI" . We want your participation in making this a real network in which we can connect with each other through our interests and work. With that in mind: Is there a topic that you are interested in that you would like to know more about? Do you have a presentation that you could give in person? Are you interested in Present Around The World for students, recent graduates, apprentices and young professionals aged 18-26 years? Do you have a link to something that highlights your interests and work? Let us know in the comments section!

Allan Casey
NIF Features in Engineering and Technology Magazine

Following our tour of the National Ignition Facility , the June edition of the Engineering and Technology Magazine carried an article titled "Fusion energy: promises and problems". If you missed the article, you can read it here .

Allan Casey

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