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  • Big Data Analytics For Smart Power Networks - Speaker Update

    Today, I have another speaker update for you for our Big Data Analytics for Smart Power Networks event coming up on 8th November. Douglas Wilson, PhD; Chief Scientist WAMS, GE Grid Solutions  About the speaker : Douglas is Chief Scientist for WAMS with GE Grid Solutions. He is involved in strategic innovation projects within GE and with industry partners worldwide.   He joined Psymetrix Limited at its startup in 1998, and was Chief Technical Officer up to the company’s acquisition by Alstom Grid in 2011. Douglas was involved in creating and applying the world first real-time oscillation management system. Douglas was designated a Senior Expert in Alstom Grid, and received awards in the Alstom’s Innovation programmes.  Douglas has been involved in various consulting projects with customers,…

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • Presentation at G C School of Careers (Elementary and High School)

    Another succesful event was held yesterday, at one of Cyprus' schools (G C School of Careers). Dr. Alexis Polycarpou and Mr.Alkis Spyrou presented and introduced Engineering and the IET to students of the private school in Nicosia. The students (ranging from elementary up to high school and graduates) were very keen to ask questions about engineering and the IET. These events have been organised annual by the Cyprus Network in order to inspire young students on engineering. The next event will be held at Pascal English School.

    Alkis Spyrou
    Alkis Spyrou

  • Railway YP Group Going Underground!

    The Railway Network YP Group organised a visit to the new Crossrail station at Canary Wharf on the 20 September. We arrived to the Crossrail headquarters in the heart of Canary Wharf and met the rest of the group – a chatty bunch of about 20 early-mid career professionals, from a range of career backgrounds and industries.   The visit started with a presentation from Terry Morgan (Chairman, Crossrail). The presentation included an introduction to the background of Crossrail and some of the company’s initiatives. The particular highlight was understanding how Crossrail have developed and influenced skills development and the growth of apprentices across the whole industry.   After the presentation, the group got kitted-up in orange Crossrail-branded PPE (there was no way we were getting lost…

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • Call To Action For Young Railway Professionals

    The IET Railway Network Young Professionals Group is looking for more volunteers to join our enthusiastic community of rail engineers from across the globe. We need your help to influence our strategy and events, as well providing ideas, support and discussion for furthering the aims of the IET.   The IET Railway Network YP Group sets the IET’s program of events and activities for young professionals. Being part of the group increases your awareness of industry hot topics and events as well as broadening your professional network.   Being part of the YP group means being part of an active and sociable network that is passionate about the industry and furthering the aims of the IET.  We are especially looking for volunteers who will help us to develop our online presence as well as help to organise…

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • ARTS TPN - All Revved Up And Ready To Go!

    Welcome to the 2016-17 session, which we're starting with a change in Chairman for the TPN.  Pete James  from Lyra Electronics Ltd, has recently stepped down after a three year period of office and has handed the role over to Matthew Clarke from Atkins,   I recently had a meeting with the ARTS Executive team volunteers when we started to develop the activity plan for this session.  There are some good ideas in the plan around Big Data, Innovation in Transport and Connected Corridors, and we’ll be having further meetings/conference calls to progress these activities in the next few months.   Two of the activities that we are making good progress include an Electrification in Motorsports daytime seminar in Coventry on 2 February 2017 and we’ve got some excellent speakers lined up for the event…

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • Elaborate Samsung Galaxy Note 7 recall kit includes three boxes – and gloves

    Samsung appears to be taking no chances with its potentially explosive Galaxy Note 7 – supplying customers with an elaborate kit to use when returning their phones. The safety precautions include a static shield that needs to be put inside a box, inside another box, inside a final flameproof box – and a pair of gloves for handling the protective materials involved - The Guardian Learn more...

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  • Top 10 Movie Scenes That Feature Trains!

    1. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) A young Indiana Jones (played by River Phoenix) steals a priceless artefact from a gang of criminals and then escapes via a circus train.  During the chase he fights off the criminals, almost gets impaled by a rhino, develops a life-long fear of snakes and acquires his iconic whip and hat.   2. From Russia with Love (1963) A brutal fight scene between Bond (Sean Connery) and SPECTRE agent Grant (Robert Shaw) in a cramped carriage on board the Orient Express.    With a gun turned on him and the realisation that Grant is an imposter, Bond utters the immortal line: "Red wine with fish. Well, that should have told me something." 3. The General (1926) Classic Buster Keaton film that features nearly every stunt imaginable on a train, including a chase…

    Former Community Member
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  • IET Vice President; Virginia Hodge Helps to Support the #9PercentIsNotEnough Campaign

    Vice President and Fellow of the IET helps to promote the #9PercentIsNotEnough campaign before giving the opening speech at Ada Lovelace Day, which was held at IET London:Savoy Place. The event was an amazing success!

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  • New ITS Evaluation Guide, Published By IET Launched In Melbourne On 10 October 2016

    International Benefits Evaluation Community’s ( IBEC ) new ‘Evaluation of Intelligent Road Transport Systems: Methods and Results’ handbook was officially launched at this week’s 23 rd ITS World Congress taking place in Melbourne on 10-14 October at the Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre. After more than three decades of development and deployment of ITS, decision makers would like to know the impacts; researchers would like to study the new methods used and compare the results in different countries; industry partners would like to know the state of the art and the trends. Until now, there has been no book that provides such knowledge and insights. Its editor, IBEC vice-chair Dr Meng Lu, who is Strategic Innovation Manager at Netherlands-headquartered Dynniq, has orchestrated global…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Need a brief graphicomical introduction to Ada Lovelace?

    Today is Ada Lovelace Day and we are very excited to be the venue sponsor for the evening.  The event will start at 18:30, at IET London: Savoy Place, where IET Trustee, Virginia Hodge will give the opening speech! We hope to see you there! To the comic!

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  • Speaker Update: Big Data Analytics For Smart Power Networks

    We've got two more fantastic speakers to tell you about today, Samuel Jupe and Xing Wang.    So, firstly Samuel Jupe MEng(Hons) PhD CEng MIET About the speaker : Dr Samuel Jupe is the Network Innovation Manager for Nortech Management Limited – a company that specialises in monitoring and control systems. Prior to this, he was a Senior Engineer with the consulting firm, PB. Over the past ten years, Samuel has been delivering innovation projects on behalf of UK DNOs, working with Scottish Power Energy Networks, Electricity North West, Western Power Distribution and UK Power Networks. Most notably, Samuel worked with Western Power Distribution to secure £17m funding for FlexDGrid and £13m for Network Equilibrium, both projects are demonstrating technological advances in UK power systems. Samuel…

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • Request your #9PercentIsNotEnough - Stickers

    We’re encouraging woman engineers from all fields of engineering to put their hands up and be counted, on social media as part of the nine percent. Join us by sharing a picture with '9%' on your hand, using the hashtag  #9PercentIsNotEnough , so that we help to highlight that engineering is a realistic career aspiration for girls. Request your stickers here

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  • Ada Lovelace Day - Takes Place tonight at Savoy Place London

    Ada Lovelace Day is an annual celebration of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths. Ada Lovelace Day Live! is our flagship ‘science cabaret’ event which this year will be held at The IET on the evening of 11 October. Playing host to the UK’s most fabulous women in STEM, ALD Live is an entertaining evening of geekery, comedy and music suitable for everyone over the age of 12. Read more...

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    Former Community Member

  • The Long Night of the Museums 2016

    The Long Night of the Museums 2016 Last year the IET Germany Network visited the Lange Nacht der Museen ( or Long Night of the Museums or LNDM) in Munich.  This was a lot of fun for those involved (please see last year's blog ) and so Andy Sinharay will be doing it all again this year. Here are some more details from Andy: The plan is to meet at Café an der Uni on Leopoldstr (nearest U-Bahn being Universität on the U3/U6) at 1930 on Saturday 15.10.16 Participants should buy their tickets for the event individually. Andy would appreciate it if you could contact him by Wednesday 12th. October if you would like to join the group. Howard Gray

    Howard Gray
    Howard Gray

  • #9PercentIsNotEnough - Micro-site

    Your image and quote will show up on the micro-site, once you have posted it to #9PercentIsNotEnough View the micro-site

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  • BBC micro:bit - Case studies

    Case study booklets and associated video content to bring a variety of real-life applications of the BBC micro:bit to life in your classroom Read more...

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    Former Community Member

  • Two more speakers announced for Big Data Analytics for Smart Power Networks

    Excited to announce a couple more speakers for  Big Data Analytics for Smart Power Networks : First up is David Kirkland who will be presenting on  Digitisation in the Energy Sector: from device to information in the Implementing Big Data Analytics in the Energy and Power Sector Panel About the speaker: David joined GE Energy as a Technical Solutions Director in February 2011 and is currently the Team Leader for the EMEA TSD Team. He is an energy sector professional with comprehensive international experience and a successful track record of asset management and continual business improvement projects.  David is a professional Electrical Engineer and completed his MBA at Lancaster University Management School in 2003 and became a Chartered Manager in 2006. Prior to joining GE David worked as…

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • IET Member and Trustee Virginia Hodge Gives Opening Speech on Ada Lovelace Day

    This year’s  Ada Lovelace Day Live!,  our annual ‘science cabaret’ in celebration of women in STEM, will be held at  The IET  on the evening of 11 October. Playing host to the UK’s most fabulous women in STEM, ALD Live is an entertaining evening of geekery, comedy and music suitable for everyone over the age of 12.  Tickets are on sale now from Eventbrite  or you can buy below.   Virginia Hodge will be opening tomorrow's event!   Read more...

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  • Support Our New Campaign - #9PercentIsNotEnough

    Women make up just 9% of the UK’s engineering and technology workforce. Raise your hand if you think #9PercentIsNotEnough . Read more...

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  • Big Data Analytics For Smart Power Neworks - Keynote Speaker Is Announced!

    It gives me great pleasure to share details of our keynote speaker at the Big Data Analytics for Smart Power Networks Sean Owen, from Cloudera will present   How Data Science is transforming the Energy and Utilities market place About the speaker : Sean is Director of Data Science at Cloudera in London. Before Cloudera, he  founded Myrrix Ltd. (now the Oryx project) to commercialize large-scale  real-time recommender systems on Hadoop. He is an Apache Spark committer  and a co-author of O’Reilly Media’s Advanced Analytics with Spark. He was  a committer and VP for Apache Mahout, and co-author of Mahout in Action. Previously, Sean was a senior engineer at Google. He holds an MBA from  London Business School and a BA from Harvard University. Synopsis The Energy & Utilities sector is on the cusp…

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • Big Data Analytics for Smart Power Networks - Speaker Announcement

    In the first of a series of postings updating you on the speakers for our Big Data Analytics for Smart Power Networks event coming up, I'm very pleased to start with Professor Maozhen Li from Dept. of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Brunel University London, Uxbridge Professor Li will present on High Performance Computing Techniques for Big Data Analytics in Smart Grid About the Speaker Maozhen Li is a Professor in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at Brunel University London. His research interests are in the areas of high performance computing, smart grid, big data analytics and intelligent systems. He has over 120 scientific publications in these areas including 3 books. He has served over 30 IEEE conferences. He is on an Editorial Board of 3 international journals…

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • Award For Outstanding Contribution

    Award for Outstanding Contribution This award is to be given to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution, over a number of years, to the operation of the IET Sussex Local Network. This contribution may be in any of the recognised activities of the Sussex Local Network. Nominations can be made at any time by any member of the IET Sussex Local Network. The form of the nomination should be a document of no more than 500 words and may include illustrations as needed. Nominations shall be sent to the Secretary of the IET Sussex Local Network. Once per year, the IET Sussex Local Network Committee shall review nominations received during the previous year. Only one award shall be made in any one year. The IET Sussex Local Network Committee may decide…

    David James
    David James

  • Sussex Network Schools Activities

    Sussex Network Schools Activities IET members who are STEM Ambassadors organise and take part in school events in association with STEM Sussex. This was the 2017/18 programme: Date Event Venue 21st November 2017 Beebots and torches Scout Group, Crawley 16th January 2018 Careers event Forest School, Horsham 8th March 2018 Coastal STEMFest Butlins, Bognor Regis 22nd March 2018 little Big Bang Ringmer College, Ringmer 27th March 2018 Big Bang @ Eastbourne Eastbourne 28th April 2018 Lewes STEMFest Lewes 12th May 2018 STEM in the Park Memorial Gardens, Crawley 9th June 2018 Horsham STEMFest Horsham 12th June 2018 Energy Watch workshop Lancing Prep, Hove 27th & 28th June 2018 Big Bang South…

    David James
    David James

  • Chairman's Welcome Message

    Dear Friends and Colleagues,   As the Chairman of the IET Local Network in Victoria, once again I take pleasure in welcoming you to this year’s program of events which I hope you’ll enjoy and find informative.   This year, true to our mission to inspire, inform and influence our local engineering community, our main Local Network will be offering a range of general interest engineering related events and our Young Professionals Section (YPS) will continue its track record of offering events tailored for students and early career engineers. We will also continue to work closely with industry, academia and other kindred organisations, through our EEEVic collaboration, in organising and delivering additional specialist events related to the Built Environment, Design & Production, Energy, Information…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

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