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Chairperson: Ir Dr. Leong Wai Yie Vice-Chairperson: Ir Amir Farid Abdul Majid Hon Secretary : Dr Leong Hung Yang Hon Treasurer : Dr. David Chuah Joon Huang Assist Secretary: Jaysern Pang Jia Yew Immediate Past Chair : Ir Chris Chew Past Chair: Ir Dr Matthew Teow Committee Eur Ing Fauzan Baharudin Lawrence Lai Kun Hoong Dr. Syuhaida Binti Ismail Eur Ing Ir Jimmy Fam Deng Fong Dr Kok Swee Leong Dr Ker Pin Jern Lim Li Li Indiran (YPS Chair) co-opted
Leading on from the 'IET Software Tools in the Development of a Safety System' event that took place on 20th November, one of our excellent speakers at exida, Loren Stewart, mentioned that they do a regular recorded webinars covering various fields, but that there were specific ones on Functional Safety, Certification and Software. These may be a useful to those of you out there working in these areas.
Things are always quiet on the STEM front during the Autumn term. I guess the children are finding their feet in their new year group and before they know it they are preparing for the Christmas activities. The schedule of events doesn't really seem to start picking up until the spring, once potential bad weather has passed. The Sussex Network are fairly active in their support of STEM events. Over the past few years we've attended about a dozen events each year, consisting of either STEM fairs, often referred to as 'Big Bang' or 'STEMFest', or workshops in schools. The Big Bang events attract groups of students from a variety of schools, spread throughout the day and are either local events ('Big Ban @ Somewhere' and 'STEMFest Elsewhere') or Big Bang South East, run over two days and attracting…
The deadline for the Colloquium on Millimetre-wave and Terahertz Engineering & Technology 2019 is fast approaching – don’t miss your chance to present at this event! Deadline for submissions is: Friday 7 December 2018 This annual event looks at the applications of this region of the electromagnetic spectrum including in c ommunications, security, non-destructive testing and medical imaging . Please see the event website for more info We have a number of great speakers already lined up and we’re looking for you (and your colleagues!) to join them Duncan Robertson, University of St Andrews Jan Stake, Chalmers University of Technology Chris Buck, Filtronic Broadband Ltd Tamara Monti, Dassault Systemes If you want to know a bit more about previous events check out blogs and programmes from the…
This is a reminder about our talk on Wednesday 5 December 2018. The talk takes place at 1400 at Napier University (Craiglockhart Campus) in Edinburgh.The talk is about using decision making tools with regard to maintenance activities in a nuclear power station outage in Canada. The speaker is Dr Matthew Revie of the Department of Management Science at the University of Strathclyde Business School (SBS). The talk will be of interest to anyone who is interested in nuclear engineering, power station maintenance or decision making. Please find below a link to the event in the IET calendar. This provides more information about the talk and the speaker. The event is free to attend and you do not have to register but doing so helps us to estimate the numbers for tea and coffee. https://www.theiet…
This is a reminder about our talk on Wednesday 5 December 2018. The talk takes place at 1400 at Napier University (Craiglockhart Campus) in Edinburgh. The talk is about using decision making tools with regard to maintenance activities in a nuclear power station outage in Canada. The speaker is Dr Matthew Revie of the Department of Management Science at the University of Strathclyde Business School (SBS). The talk will be of interest to anyone who is interested in nuclear engineering, power station maintenance or decision making. Please find below a link to the event in the IET calendar. This provides more information about the talk and the speaker. The event is free to attend and you do not have to register but doing so helps us to estimate the numbers for tea and coffee. https://www.theiet…
The Antennas and Propagation TPN attended LAPC 2018 last week in Burleigh Court, Loughborough, UK. The UK’s main antennas and propagation 2-day conference was another success with 150 delegates attending. The talks were divided into 2 antennas and 2 propagation sessions across the two days, looking at a variety of topics, including satellite communications and 5G. The poster sessions were busy with delegates getting the opportunity to talk to the authors and find out about their research in more depth. The IET's Antennas and Propagation TPN sponsors 3 prizes for the best student papers, which were awarded to the recipients at the close of the conference: During the conference dinner on the first evening, the James R James Lifetime Achievement Award was awarded to Pat Foster , who happens to…
What does it take to keep Translink’s fleet of over 40 modern diesel trains on the tracks? What does it take to keep Translink’s fleet of over 40 modern diesel trains on the tracks? Well, on Wednesday 14 th November, a group from the IET Northern Ireland found out as they were welcomed into Translink’s £28M Maintenance Facility at Adelaide. Led by Richard Noble, Head of Rail Fleet Engineering at NI Railways, the group glimpsed inside the state of the art facilities that come to life each night to keep the wheels in motion on Translink’s Modern fleet of CAF 3000 and 4000 series DMUs. Built in 2012, the Adelaide facility has been designed exclusively for the maintenance of this fleet, and members were afforded a guided tour of all that is involved. From the main maintenance area where entire…
Annual General Meeting (AGM) The Institution of Engineering and Technology South Australia and Northern Territory Local Network The AGM will include the election for all 2019 Committee positions. Nominations are now open. For all nominations and questions please email theietsant@gmail.com Positions Below: Local Network Chairperson Vice-Chairperson and Secretary Treasurer Immediate-Past Chairperson PATW Coordinator Event Planner and JTP Coordinator Young Professional Representative (Chairperson) Communications Manager Lifeskills Manager Professional Registration Coordinator Retired Engineers Group Member University Engagement Manager STEM Coordinator Women In Engineering Coordinator Professional Networking Event Coordinator Young Professionals Committee Chairperson Vice-Chairperson Secretary…
On 6th November North Yorkshire LN supported the Engineering Extravaganza at the National Stem Centre in York. The IET was one of four PEIs at the event again this year. The challenge set for the children from 4 schools was to design and test a parachute for a Mars Rover lander. The parachutes were made with simple materials and descents timed with a Microbit. The event generated a lot of interest and competition between teams, and great fun was had by all.
So let’s think this through... You probably have multiple smart devices you interact with daily - they are only as good as the battery life of the device, so you need to plug in and charge up. The more things we plug in, the more electricity that is drawn. That’s fine for USB style devices (most IoT devices), but it seems like industry 4.0 is driving the use of technology beyond just smart entertainment. Car manufacturers are finally ready to team up with software houses to build the next electric vehicle within their traditional car plants, or some disruptors/challengers are ready to sell their white label solutions to car manufactures. Either way, smart devices are augmenting their needs into traditional manufacturing services which means the risk appetite for the use of electrical components…
On Halloween, IET WA hosted the first of a series of topical presentations on a subject that has until now been shrouded in mystery and mathematical horror. Artificial Intelligence: The Inside Story.Hi, I’m Ashleigh, one of the presenters, who along with my co-presenter Dr Walter Green delivered a seminar that provided insight into the mysteries of AI and its wider implications to engineers and society as a whole. The goal of this seminar was to bring together students and professionals both young and old, to deliver some real understanding on a topic that is often daunting to behold. We also wanted to bring these students and professionals together for an evening of networking, giving them the opportunity to talk to others with similar interests. You didn’t have to be involved with the IET…
Sixty people attended the IET Coventry and Warwickshire Annual Dinner on Thursday, 15th. November, hosted by our Chair, Orla Murphy, twice winner of the Young Woman Engineer Of The Year Award and a senior engineer at Jaguar Land Rover. Sixty people attended the IET Coventry and Warwickshire Annual Dinner on Thursday, 15th. November, a gourmet repast prepared by trainee chefs supported by first year students as waiters, etc. The evening was hosted by our Chair, Orla Murphy, twice winner of the Young Woman Engineer Of The Year Award and a senior engineer at Jaguar Land Rover. A fantastic meal enjoyed by guests from local industry, by our event speakers, by local educationalists and, not least, by students from WMG Academy for Young Engineers who presented their Greenpower Car project. The three…
We held another Successful event at Wiltshire UTC on Tuesday which saw 48 attendees for The Practicalities of Implementing Autonomous Driving Cars Lecture by Ray Marshall from NXP. 90% of car accidents are a result of human error and with 1.3 million road traffic deaths each year, the race to self driving vehicles is on but with an incomprehensible amount of data processing (and therefore hardware) required, will the full level 5 of self driving be fully realised with a reasonable ECU size and acceptable power consumption by 2049?
The IET, in partnership with Greenpeace and Green Seas, have launched a competition for 18 to 35 year olds to develop an innovative solution to the real world problem of plastic waste in the oceans. For further details and to enter the competion, go to https://events.theiet.org/global-challenge/index.cfm??utm_source=redirect&utm_medium=any&utm_campaign=global-challenge
We’re calling for students and young professionals to help solve the ever-growing issue of plastic pollution, as part of this year’s IET Global Challenge. We’ve got a problem According to Greenpeace, “our oceans are slowly turning into a plastic soup”. Part of the problem is single-use plastic, which on a daily basis we use and throw away. It means huge amounts of plastic, which can take hundreds of years to break down, are entering our oceans. A large proportion of plastic in our oceans is also due to “improperly disposed of rubbish, careless littering and accidental propagation by winds, drains and floods”, says environmental charity GreenSeas Trust. Cigarette butts, for example, contain a form of plastic known as cellulose acetate. This is recyclable, but is ending up in our oceans as…
When Nabeel moved to the USA, he wanted to participate in the IET’s presentation competition for students and young professionals, but couldn’t find a heat close to where he lived. After a little investigation, he found that for the first time we were running an online heat. This allows competitors to submit a video entry (rather than present at an event) in the first round of the competition. It’s especially for those who live too far away or have inadequate transport links to our local events. Returning to PATW Nabeel had thought about entering PATW ever since his first experience of the competition, as an undergraduate student in India. “In 2012, I won runner-up position at the regional finals, representing North India,” he explains. “It was a big boost to my confidence and I met some…
Enjoy face-to-face events and seminars where you can interact, gather information and network. Attending these events makes it easier to express our views, emotions as well as exchange ideas by using our voice, body language. There is just some kind of energy that makes things more exciting. As we tend to spend a lot of time on our phones, in front of a computer, TV etc., it might be worth doing something outside of our comfort zone to fully appreciate the value of a real-time experience. However, as it is not always possible to attend a face-to-face event, many of them are streamed live online so you don’t even have to leave your home to participate. It is a very convenient, quite often cost-effective and less time-consuming way of ‘’attending’’ and you can also go back to an online version…
The IET has launched an exciting new exhibition at Savoy Place, which aims to raise awareness and celebrate the achievements of women in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) to inspire both current and future engineering and technology professionals. Located in the Watson Watt and Mountbatten rooms for the next 12 months, visitors can explore the posters and exhibits which feature women in engineering and their contribution to the field. The Watson Watt exhibition takes a retrospective look back through the archives at the rich history of women in engineering, celebrating the trailblazers, women on the move and the engineering and technical discoveries made by women. The exhibit in the Mountbatten room showcases modern day discoveries and celebrates current female engineering…
Dear Friends and Colleagues, Welcome to the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) Victoria Local Network. As the network’s Chairman, it gives me great pleasure in welcoming you to this year’s program of events which I hope you’ll enjoy and find informative. The IET is one of the world’s largest engineering institutions, with over 168,000 members in 150 countries. It is also the most multidisciplinary, reflecting the increasingly diverse nature of engineering in the 21st century. The IET is working to engineer a better world by inspiring, informing and influencing our members, engineers and technicians, and all those who are touched by, or touch, the work of engineers. The IET has a presence in all states of Australia, with each state having its own network. The IET Victoria Local…
2018 - 19 Victoria Network Committee Chairman Mr R aj Ranasinghe Vice-Chairman Dr Sashi Sivathasan Secretary Mr Mahinda Wickramasuriya Treasurer Mrs Michelle Zhao Professional Registration Adviser (IPRA) Dr Sashi Sivathasan YPS Chairman Mr Ludovic Grosjean Committee Member Mr Jonathan Brown Committee Member & IPRA Mr Jana Ratnasabapathy Committee Member Dr Priyantha Karunadasa Committee Member Mr
Realising the socioeconomic benefits of an interconnected world. An IET & PETRAS Conference & Exhibition - 1 - 2 May 2019, IET London: Savoy Place Conference scope This conference focuses on realising the socioeconomic benefits of an interconnected world. It is distinctively concerned with a range of sociotechnical issues, the scope including privacy, ethics, trust, and acceptability, as well as security, safety and resilience, in the Internet of Things. The topics listed are examples but not an exhaustive list. In all cases we welcome abstracts which focus on specific domains, e.g. industrial IoT, healthcare, home, entertainment (toys and games), transport, buildings, cities, energy, environment, manufacturing, creative economy, space, robotics, industrial control and critical infrastructure…
Over the past year, the Executive Committee has reviewed the scope and the direction of the Functional Safety Technical and Professional Network (TPN). We want the network to stay relevant to the Safety community, by covering a wider remit and broadening our vision. Safety has a key part to play in the IET technical structure and we want the TPN to have a key role. We decided to change our name to the System Safety Engineering TPN to reflect this. Why Change? We had concerns about what the Functional Safety TPN is about, what it is and where it is going. Pockets of good things were happening, but no cohesion or direction. We want a broader vision: not just Functional Safety, but wider systems engineering aspects. Professional registration is changing and we need to better…
Final speaker announcement - Jonathan Speed! Bio : Jonathan Speed is a Design and Development Engineer within the Accelerator Design division at ISIS neutron and muon source. Currently, the main projects he is working on include the procurement of new dipole coils for the ISIS main bending magnets, design of a new RF ion source and the production of a new busbar system for the injection kicker magnets. Prior to working at ISIS, he worked as an electromechanical engineer in the Normal Conducting Magnets section at CERN. Synopsis : After decades of reliable operation, over the last 15 years, the mica-glass fibre insulated coils for the ISIS main dipoles have begun to fail. The ISIS accelerator accelerates bunches of protons to 800 MeV 50 times per second. This high frequency leads to high voltages…
