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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…

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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…

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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
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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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
#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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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
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
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
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
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
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…

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Major Achievements Of This IET TT LN Executive

Hello Everyone, As we wind down our 2016 year and prepare for another AGM, our Treasurer has noteably reflected upon some of our more poingnant achievements, which are highlighted here: - PATW Americas Winner and Global Finalist 2014 Faheema Baksh - a 1st for the Caribbean - Host for the Americas PATW Finals 2015 - a 1st for the Caribbean - IET TTLN : Most Operationally Excellent Network in the Americas 2016 Award - CVC London 2016 - Anthony Chadee - IET IPRA - Sean Ocho - CC-A Member I invite other Caribbean members to contribute to this list with your memorable achievements of the current TT LN. View our photos and blogs of past activities. Take the opportunity to network with other members. Be a part of our IET family and attend the AGM. It has been a pleasure serving you, our community…

Jason Robert Rameshwar
Links To Particle Accelerator Engineering Network Meeting October 2015 Presentation Videos

Future STFC Accelerator Projects - John Womersley - STFC CLARA - Barry Fell - STFC Critical Components for Accelerators - Then and Now - Dave Willford - PPM Power Magnets for Accelerators - Ben Leigh - Tesla Engineering Ltd Tank4 - New Life for the Old LINAC - Phil Wise - STFC Control Systems for Commercial Linacs - Robert White - Elekta Limited ESS at Daresbury - Paul Aden - STFC Slides used in presentations can be found at: https://eventbooking.stfc.ac.uk/news-events/particle-accelerator-engineering-network-meeting-301?agenda=1

Robert James White
Personification; Collect Data, Listen & Respond.

Sonification. When a fire test occurs in a building - the alarms are loud, people respond without chaos, wardens know what vested jackets to wear and where to stand to group the work force as they exit the building. Similarly, If a system existed that could perform sonification on the activities of a SOC using big data techniques ( SAS or Hadoop ), then it would allow any SOC to be almost living and breathing. So, alerts at ISO layer 7 combined with alerts at ISO Layer 2 would have a different sound level, so you know exactly which product you need to zoom into during the first steps of the triage process. Sounds that expresses different comfort levels during a compromise could support cyber alerting mechanisms in place. Perhaps a feature of a SIEM tool or perhaps to complement building security…

Rimesh Patel in Cybersecurity
UK TESTING"Make dyslexia, dyspraxia and dyscalculia testing free on the NHS."

Please sign, for future generations. It has been dyslexia awareness week https://petition.parliament.uk/signatures/26054106/verify…

Brian Reynolds
Ada Lovelace Day - IET Member Discount Code

his year, Ada Lovelace Day will be taking place at IET London: Savoy Place! As an IET member, you are entitled to claim you IET Member discount, which offers you a 50% discount Code: IETMember URL: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ada-lovelace-day-live-2016-tickets-26785262441?discount=IETMember The IET Member discount will run until ticket sales end on 9 October.

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Get involved in 2016-17

The start of the new IET 2016-17 session and time to look forward. The Radar, Sonar and Navigation TPN have been dormant for a little while, but we are now looking to rebuild this and need your help. With the help of a few key individuals (I won’t single you out Darren, Ediz, Mik and James) but with their input we have managed to get a few ideas to float and now are ready to go to the next level - supersonic (forgive the sonar pun). This international group is the home of an extensive community of scientists and engineers with an interest in all aspects of radar, sonar and navigation systems. We want to keep the international link, so are looking for interested scientists and engineers to join the RS&N Executive Committee, helping to shape the direction and priorities of the network. We…

Lynsay Callaghan in Navigation

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