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Keynote by Bill Drury from the EPSRC Power Electronics Centre 2014 Conference looking at the impact, opportunities and some issues facing Power Electronics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xREkgv9qkqA&list=PLVBsQFhtOizQRV8iZUqkbhJSjCztRHd92&index=3
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Follow the link to the PEMD Presentations on IET TV: http://tv.theiet.org/search.cfm?syear=&schan=&stext=pemd&page=1&utm_source=Adestra&utm_campaign=Energy%20Sector%20Newsletter%20June%202014&utm_medium=Newsletters%20-%20Sector%20News&utm_content=Energy%20Sector%20News&utm_term=http%3A%2F%2Ftv.theiet.org%2Fsearch.cfm%3Fsyear%3D%26schan%3D%26stext%3Dpemd%26page%3D1&utm_contact=15533095 A list of papers is attached to help find the paper you are looking for.
A school from Manchester was one of the three top teams to compete in the 2013-14 Faraday Challenge Day season . Withington Girls’ School took part in the trip to the National Final on 20 June 2014 at the STFC’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire. At the Final, along with two other teams they competed to win up to £1,000 for their school. Students from the top teams also received a special treat day as part of their prize on 19 June 2014 where they were given exclusive tours around the STFC facilities including the Mars Yard where they were able to control some of the robots; ISIS - Seeing the Invisible; and the RAL Space Centre where they were tasked with building a rocket out of spaghetti and marshmallows!
Phil Barber, a member of the ARTS TPN Executive Team would like to invite all community members to a free event that the E-VECTOORC consortium are organising in Gaydon next month. The Consortium are holding their final Project Dissemination event at the Heritage Centre, Gaydon on Thursday, 28 August 2014. There will be a detailed technical discussion of the successes and learning from developing a four wheel electric drive test vehicle, using individual inboard switched reluctance motors. The EU funded co-operative project has demonstrated the advances in vehicle capability due to this configuration, and lessons learnt from the difficulties in implementing this technology. Further details on the event can be found here . Please register for the event by Monday, 18 August via Aldo Sorniotti
Transport Times have organised a one-day conference on HS2 on Thursday, 11 September 2014 and will examine best practice in planning, financing, civil engineering, signalling and rolling stock. The keynote address will be provided by Transport Minister Robert Goodwin MP and Simon Kirby, Chief Executive, Construction at HS2 will provide an update on how the project will progress. Further details of the event can be found here . The IET is a member of the Railway Engineers Forum (REF) and members of the REF qualify for a 10% discount on teh conference. To access this please click here.
The IET Birmingham Network organises a varied programme of activities in and around the Birmingham 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 the committee, or would like to volunteer, please get in touch with any of the committee members listed below: Rob Diprose Vice Chairman Ivan Ellis Chairman Tim Boyle Webmaster John Holland School Liaison Officer Brian Reynolds Business Liaison Officer John Barnett Programme Coordinator, SEA Nirajan Sangroula Birmingham University Contact, Young Professionals Secretary Mohammed Sarki Secretary Mak Sharma Birmingham City University Contact Joanne Longton Community Relationship Manager Tafadzwa Mackenzie Kadare YP representative
Exec Member, Lim Yew Kee, was invited by Ir. Siva Priya, Chair, Industrial Linkage Committee, Faculty of Engineering, Multimedia University (MMU) Malaysia, to deliver a technical talk to its engineering students on 16th June 2014. This event was sponsored by The IET Manufacturing Technical and Professional Network. Multimedia University (MMU) is the first private university in Malaysia, a wholly owned subsidiary of Telekom Malaysia (TM), the largest telecommunications company in Malaysia, and growing to over 20,000 students in 15 years. This Technical Talk was entitled, "Machine Automation and Manufacturing Engineering". He highlighted that current global market demand not only for reliable and quality product, but also ones managing its cost effectiveness in manufacturing processes coupled…
The PEMD TPN Management Group is drawn from senior industrial and academic engineers in the field of Power Electronics, Machines and systems comprising either or both of these technologies – Drives is a convenient description. The team comprises: · Bill Drury (PEMD Consultant) - Chairman · Mike Barnes (Manchester University)%u200B · Jeff Carter (Borg Warner) - Colin Davidson (Alstom Grid) · Paul Huggett (KTN) · Barrie Mecrow (Newcastle University) · David Moule (TRW) · Volker Pickert (Newcastle University) · Pat Wheeler (Nottingham University) · Zi-Qiang Zhu (Sheffield University)
The PEMD Technical Network provides a hub or focal point for the Power Electronics community. It aims to organise occasional seminars & webinars covering topics which are relevant to PEMD. It will also inform of other events being organised in the world-wide PEMD community. Whilst the network base is UK-centric, international members are most welcome. Increasingly, provision of events via webinars will enable all to participate regardless of location. The provision will be managed by a small organising committee. This team has members in businesses and research organisations operating in the PEMD space thereby maintaining direction and relevance. The Technology base of the community is well defined by the following themes: Power Semiconductors Power Electronics Machines and Drives…
With advances in computer-aided design, big contractors have embraced the use of prefabricated building components. Prefabrication — a decades-old concept for saving money and time in construction once dismissed as synonymous with low quality — is making a huge comeback in an era when advances in computer-aided design have reinvented the idea into an indispensable tool for some of the biggest commercial building projects. The “prefab” concept blossomed in the 1950s, when it became shorthand for slapped-together housing erected as quickly as possible to meet the needs of the baby boom generation. For the first time, builders used components that were assembled in off-site workshops and shipped in on trucks in order to mass-produce millions of starter homes across the country. The results were…
New innovation hub boasts one of the UK’s tallest living walls A 27m-high living wall offering wild strawberries, seagrass and sanctuary for small birds has been installed as part of the build programme for a new sustainable innovation hub in Newcastle. The vertical garden forms a key focal point at Science Central, a 24-acre development currently being constructed by Newcastle Science City, a partnership between Newcastle City Council and Newcastle University. Designed and engineered by Faulkner Brown Architects in conjunction with Land Use Consultants, ANS Group Europe, Mott MacDonald and Sir Robert McAlpine, the wall measures around 366 sq m in area and contains more than 35,000 plants. The aim was to create an example of urban sustainability in order to encourage sustainable innovation…
Article in full: https://communities.theiet.org/communities/files/77/6202
A project is demonstrating retrofit solutions for some of the most energy inefficient homes across Scotland and the UK. The newly-built Refurbished House, which has been constructed at the BRE Innovation Park @Ravenscraig , in Scotland, is a recreation of a ‘four in a block’ building, with two apartments on the ground floor and two on the first. Developed specifically for retrofit, the project has been delivered by BRE Scotland, Edinburgh Napier University and Historic Scotland. It is designed by Kraft Architecture and Hannah Read Consulting Engineers and constructed by contractor Cruden. The house enables robust assessments to be made of cost effective upgrading solutions for walls, windows, roofs and services for this building type. There are estimated to be 265,000 of the ‘four in a block…
Image of the week: BBC Wales headquarters, Cardiff Article in full: http://www.building4change.com/article.jsp?id=2441#.U8edmZRdXkY
Does your sexual orientation affect your progression in the workplace? Are your colleagues accepting of your sexuality? Is it irrelevant to your role or should you be out and proud in the office? We asked E&T ’s LGBT engineering community to share their experiences of working within the industry. Read more...
With the weather forecast for this weekend showing some storm systems heading the way of the UK, I thought this article on the Network Rail website was interesting.
The Rail Research UK Association (RRUKA) and the IMechE Railway Division are looking for the UK's best young railway researcher. More information on this award and key dates can be found here.
Exec member, Lim Yew Kee, was invited by Assoc. Prof Ir Dr. Vinesh Thiruchelvam, Head of Engineering School, Asia Pacific University (APU) Malaysia, to deliver Technical Talks to its engineering staffs and students on 18 th June 2014. This event is sponsored by the IET Manufacturing Technical and Professional Network UK. APU is a private university and is within the Asia Pacific Institution of Technology (APIIT) Education Group and is one of Malaysia largest education groups addressing all levels of education. APU having well-established engineering programmes with international partnerships. There is another new additional to APU’s faculties having a new ultra-modern campus to be opened in 2015. The Technical Talk was entitled “ Pneumatic and Hydraulic Engineering ”. In this talk, an overview…
BAE Systems were highlighting the news from the latest flight tests on their Taranis Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle at Farnborough this week. This aircraft is roughly the same size as the Hawk used by the RAF's Red Arrows team and is designed to be the prototype for a combat drone - capable of long range strikes in hostile territory. Further information on Taranis, appropriately named after the Celtic god of thunder and the Neuron combat drone being developed by Dassault Aviation can be found here.
Wing Commander Andy Green is the lucky chap who gets to sit in this rather exclusive office, the finished cockpit of the Bloodhound car, he's planning on using to make an assault on the world land speed record in 2015 and 2016 in South Africa. In addition to the cockpit, the upper chassis panels are now almost complete for this car that will be capable of reaching 1,000mph, powered by a rocket bolted to a Eurofighter-Typhoon jet engine. Andy shares his experiences on designing the cockpit here and it makes interesting reading.
Does your sexual orientation affect your progression in the workplace? Are your colleagues accepting of your sexuality? Is it irrelevant to your role or should you be out and proud in the office? We asked E&T ’s LGBT engineering community to share their experiences of working within the industry. “A lot of employers take the stance: ‘why should we care what you get up to in the bedroom?’. But really the question is; if you’re not comfortable at work can you perform at your best?” Chris Edwards is client group manager at LGB rights charity Stonewall, which helps companies achieve best practice in terms of sexual equality. In an attempt to address the perception that engineering is more LGBT-discriminatory than other industries, E&T recently conducted a survey into the experiences of lesbian…
Bouygues has won a deal to build a 42-storey Manhattan Loft Gardens scheme in Stratford, east London. The brief was to 'build the most exciting tower ever built.' View the video and find out more at: http://www.manhattanloftgardens.co.uk/stratford-city/
Mexican software development company Sisoft has succeeded in wirelessly transmitting internet data at 10Gbps using Visible Light Communications (VLC), a technology that can illuminate a large space, such as an office, while at the same time providing high-speed mobile internet connectivity to devices that come into range of the light spectrum. Sisoft was able to transfer data at speeds of up to 10Gbps across a light spectrum emitted by LED lamps. In April this year, E&T reported how Scottish researchers had achieved 1.1Gbps using the same VLC technology. Sisoft was able to transmit audio, video and Internet data across the spectrum of light emitted by LED lamps Read the full article on the E&T website
