Technical Visit: Backnang – Impressive Industrial History In Provincial Swabia

Michael Faraday Institution e.V.   Technical Visit: 24 th . September 2016   Backnang – Impressive industrial history in provincial Swabia   Germans generally regard Swabians as an industrious people, but you would be wrong to think that you have to visit Stuttgart to see examples of technical masterpieces. The town of Backnang lies around 30 km north-east of Stuttgart and can boast an impressive industrial legacy stretching back more than 150 years. But Backnang has more – it still has a strong connection with modern engineering and, in particular, with satellite technology. Why not join us for a technical visit that combines elements of both worlds? The German Centre for Satellite Communication Centre ( Deutsche s Zentrum für Satelliten-Kommunikation ) , or DeSK, maintains a showroom illustrating…

IET London: Savoy Place CoderDojo - Volunteers Required **Urgent**

Good afternoon, The IET is organising an event for youngsters called ' Coding the Future with the BBC micro:bit  - London' on Friday 29th July from 10:30 - 15:00. We are hoping to organise a CoderDojo session during the event but we need volunteers with some coding experience to help us.  We will be focusing on Scratch and HTML, so if you have knowlegde in this area and you are available to attend, please contact  womensnetwork@theiet.org   Read more Thank you, Jo

Talks by Brilliant Women in STEM

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Women in Science You Should Be Following On Social Media

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Conductive Pen Ink

This pen makes drawings that conduct electricity. Watch the video...

WATCH the SOLD OUT 2016 JLB Lecture: From Concept to Screen

SMPTE and Nagravision took to the podium back in June to deliver the 2016 Multimedia Communications Network John Logie Baird (JLB) lecture: from Concept to Screen. The sold-out lecture took place at Savoy Place, London and featured presentations from SMPTE President, Barbara Lange and Nagra Kudelski’s SVP of Marketing, Ivan Verbesselt.  If you missed out on securing a ticket for the event you can now watch the event for free. WATCH John Logie Baird Lecture 2016: From Concept to Screen   Also, check out our photographs from the evening , including John Logie Baird's grandson, Iain Logie Baird, accepting John Logie Baird into SMPTE’s Roll of Honor and the birthday cake the Network presented to SMPTE to celebrate their centenary birthday.

The IET Digital Library

Assalam o Alaikum and Hello to All One of the main IET Membership Benefit to have access to the IET Digital Library.  Following is the web link of it. http://digital-library.theiet.org/ Here you can not only get latest knowledge about IET Journal, IET Magazines, IET eBooks, IET Conferences, IET Reference (Articles) and other collection on various Engineering and Technology Sectors.  Some are free and some are on discounted rate for IET Members. You can visit above link and share your thoughts in the comments.  Moreover, you can also be a volunteer Author for the IET Reference and Books etc. Thank you.

Streamlining of technical education to help plug skills gaps

A plan to declutter the UK’s system of technical education for over-16s has been revealed today with the aim of attracting more teenagers to technical careers in order to plug skills gaps. The Skills Plan, announced by the government today, is based on a review of technical education and the apprenticeship system carried out by a committee chaired by Lord Sainsbury. Read more...

Engineering students reject hard hat as symbol of their industry

Despite the fact that leading figures in the engineering community have called for the hard hat to be banned from promotional and educational material, it remains dominant, giving the wrong impression of the role according to Sainsbury Management Fellows' (SMF) 2016 Hard Hat Index. The Index was compiled by tracking the number of advertisements and articles that feature hard hats in 17 engineering publications from May 2015 to April 2016. Although this is the fourth year in a row that the data has been tracked, the use of hard hats in the engineering media is as high as the previous year's Index, with 257 images appearing in the 17 titles monitored over 12 months. This figure is the highest since the Index was launched in 2013. Read more...

The most promising innovation in Robots - IET Robotics & Mechatronics TPN Prize

At the TAROS 2016 conference, alongside the IET/TAROS public lecture  , the IET also sponsored a prize for " The most promising innovation in Robots ".  The award was presented to Paolo Angeles and here, Paolo tells us more about himself and winning the prize: Hello, my name is Paolo Angeles. I am currently pursuing a Ph.D. at Imperial College London surrounding the quantification of Parkinson’s disease symptoms using sensors built at our lab, the Biomechatronics lab here in Imperial College London. I recently had a paper accepted at the TAROS 2016 conference to then present to the academic audience there. The paper involved a pilot study on healthy patients mimicking Parkinson’s disease symptoms wearing a prototype of a sensor system that I have designed to quantify these said symptoms. My…

The Lecture: The Internet of Me By Robert Shokai

Who Would Deliver Your Dream Engineering Talk?

A question that always seems to initiate a good discussion in the engineering community is what would make the ideal guest list for dinner. Obviously within an engineering and technology context… However, I can announce that the IET will not be branching out into hosting exclusive dinners for engineers. BUT we do host a Prestige Lecture Series that showcases the latest ideas and technologies within the engineering world.   These lectures cover many engineering disciplines, ranging from general interest to the more technical.   An example was the Turing Lecture given by Robert Schukai who is Head of Applied Innovation for Thomson Reuters. His talk called  ‘The Internet of Me: It’s all about my screens’ explored our future in a hyperconnected environment, and how our lives will seamlessly drift…

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CC-AP session @ IET's Communities Volunteers Conference (CVC) 2016

Sorry for the delay in posting the info about the IET’s Communities Volunteer Conference (CVC) on the CC-AP communities. Around 300 IET’s volunteers from around the world gather at Savoy Place for the volunteer conference. It was great to meet, share ideas and learn from each other.   Outline of Programme:   Friday 17th June 2016 08:30 – 09:00    Registration for Plenary Session 09:00 – 12:00    Plenary Session -     Presentation by President of IET, Naomi Climer, -     Sharing session: importance of volunteers to the IET, -     CPD presentation, -     Finance presentation, -     Summary of the morning session by Nigel Fine.   12:00 – 13:00    Lunch   13:00 – 17:30    Communities Conference - Presentation from CRC (Communities Resourcing Committee) - Presentation from YPCC (Young Professionals…

IET Stevenage CoderDojo - Session 4

The next IET Stevenage, CoderDojo session will take place on Saturday 16th July from 14:00 - 17:00 Register today to secure your place!

Present Around The World (PATW): IET's Gobal Engineering Competition

IET Innovation Prize at International Final of the Land Rover 4X4 In Schools Competition

Derrick Willer presented the IET Innovation Prize to ECCE Team from C áslav, Czech Republic at the International Final of the Land Rover 4X4 In Schools Competition in Coventry.   Overall World Champions were team Wombat Warriors from Pine Rivers State School, Australia with runners up also from Australia and from Portugal.   Derrick is our volunteer Schools Liaison Officer in the IET Coventry and Warwickshire Local Network.

Food for thought - Formation of Company Policy

As many of the readers of our blog will know, I am quite interested and focused in research relative to the formation and execution of Company Strategy and also the methods used in defining company policy.  Whilst researching for a new paper I am writing I came across this not so amusing article.  It certainly makes one think and whilst the author posted it with the aim of it being an amusing, sadly it is all too true for many organisations......read on........ "Start with a cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string and place a set of stairs under it. Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana. As soon as he touches the stairs, spray all of the other monkeys with cold water. After a while, another monkey makes an attempt…

IET And ESAS16 - The Story

The IET Functional Safety TPN was heavily involved in the Environmental and Safety Assurance Symposium (ESAS) 2016 which is the MOD’s flagship Symposium focusing on Equipment Safety and Environmental Management.  Working in partnership with MOD, DE&S, Atkins and IIRSM, the IET FS TPM were involved in keynotes, speakers, chairing a topic, reviewing papers, reviewing awards, presenting awards. About ESAS16 The DE&S Symposium is the UK MOD's flagship Equipment Safety and Environmental event held at MOD Abbey Wood Bristol and is attended by around 300 people from the MOD, Industry and Academia over a two day period. 2016 Theme DE&S is currently undertaking an unprecedented programme of transformation during which it must continue to engineer and deliver major equipment programmes and support them…

Frazer-Nash Consultancy Win IET ‘Innovation In Safety’ Award At ESAS16

In recognition of the work to help solve the challenge of the SS Richard Montgomery, Frazer-Nash has been awarded The Institution of Engineering and Technology's Innovation in Safety Award - presented as part of the first ever ESAS Safety and Environmental Management Awards . The winner was determined by an independent panel of judges as part of the MOD’s bi-annual Environmental & Safety Assurance Symposium (ESAS16) which was held at DE&S Headquarters at Abbey Wood in Bristol. The ship was wrecked off the Nore sandbank in the Thames Estuary, near Sheerness in 1944 with 1,400 tonnes of munitions on board. It continues to pose a considerable threat and the longer it remains in place the more difficult it is to quantify the risk and to assess a suitable wreck management strategy. Frazer-Nash,…

IET Nigeria Holds Their First CAD Workshop

IET Nigeria held their first CAD workshop for students and  Young Professional's on 4th July 2016 with the aim of: -  Creating awareness about the IET and its benefits for Engineering, Science and Technology professionals -  CAD Session -  PATW awareness and the need to volunteer inorder to make a difference in one's profession   The workshop was to share relevant and up to date information on CAD with undergraduates of Science, Technology and Engineering, taking them through practical techniques on developing industry relevant designs and drafts, inspiring young people on the relevance of CAD in pursuing a successful career  and  highlighting the crucial role in career development and sharing cutting edge technical knowledge on CAD.  This should hopefully help the young people to create jobs…