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  • Education Robotics Hackathon 2016

    Big thank you to all the wonderful people who were involved in our Hackathon during June. The challenge was to design a prototype educational robot for use in schools and homes -  to create something new, fun and educational for kids, parents and teachers. The hackathon took place over a two week period in June, culminating in the final weekend hack with all teams getting together in a shared hackspace 18-19 June.   Participants were from various background - ranging from designers, engineers, educators and scientitsts and throughout the two weeks, many ideas were generated by each team. On the final hackathon weekend, teams received their selected components and started hacking. In the process, teams discovered a lot of obstacles in building the robots they wanted to. They overcome those barriers…

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • Competition invites students to design ‘satellite of the future’

    The Design for Space competition tasks students with creating a cube satellite capable of bringing home the out-of-commission Vanguard 1 Read more...

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  • Airbus 'Fly Your Ideas' student challenge now open

    The fifth 'Fly Your Ideas' competition from Airbus is now accepting applications from around the world. Read more...

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  • Leah Barlow EngTech, Siemens

    A final year Siemens engineering apprentice, Leah recently became professionally registered as an Engineering Technician (EngTech) with the IET. Read more...

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  • Jowaria Sohail, senior executive engineer

    Jowaria works as a senior executive engineer at Warid Telecom in Pakistan. She’s currently working towards completing her Master’s degree and has plans to pursue a PhD. Read more...

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  • That awkward moment when a little girl is smarter than a lot of the world's population

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  • IET Awards: Horizontal Innovation

    Horizontal Innovation is the effective transfer of knowledge and technology from one sector to another based upon pre-existing technologies and processes, and delivering huge potential benefits in terms of scale, time to market and relative costs. Entries to the IET Horizontal Innovation Award category are welcomed from all sectors and can range from research concepts and ideas to technical issues and industrial applications.

    Nouman Abid Chuhan
    Nouman Abid Chuhan

  • Security And Resilience In The Digital Built Environment Survey

    Data is now the lifeblood of the smart built environment – but how safe is it? The IET is investigating the impact of the increased use of digital technologies in the built environment and has launched a survey to examine their impact of the use on the security and resilience on built assets (buildings and/or infrastructure).   Now is your opportunity to take part in the survey and share your insight and thoughts with us. Take part here: Security and Resilience in the Digital Built Environment Survey   Your input to the survey will help to: •    Identify  present attitudes to cyber security and BIM •    Generate public awareness through the release of the  complete findings •    Identify opportunities for working groups and collaborative areas of activity to address the challenges. The outputs…

    Lynsay Callaghan
    Lynsay Callaghan

  • UK Final of Present Around the World - Thursday 21st July, Glasgow

    Can I please extend an invite to the UK Final of Present Around the World. The contest will held at The Teacher Building, Glasgow, on Thursday July 21st. Format: 18:00 – 18.30: Networking and refreshments 18:30 – 18:50: Presenter 1 18:50 – 19:10: Presenter 2 19:10 – 19:30: Presenter 3 19:30 – 19:50: Presenter 4 10 mins break for judging session and short break. 20:00 – Guest speaker from ScotRail on the introduction of the refurbished HSTs (High Speed Train) 20:30 – 20:45  - Winners are announced and closed. The PATW competition is an important event in the Young Professionals calendar and I would be much obliged if you can show your support by registering to attend. Please register to attend

  • Devon & Cornwall PATW Contestant Wins Regional Final

    Devon & Cornwall’s local PATW winner, Charlotte Levy, has won the South West regional final with her presentation “The Science of Chocolate” and will now go forward to the UK final to be held in Glasgow.   Whilst chocolate doesn’t immediately spring to mind when thinking about science and engineering, you’ll never look at a bar of chocolate in the same way again… In its natural state, the cocoa bean is bitter to taste and almost unrecognisable from the sweet delights available to purchase, and it’s in this transformation through developing knowledge of chocolate chemistry that science and engineering comes into play.   Charlotte’s presentation looked at the basic chemical principles behind the production of chocolate which brings together scientists, engineers and chocolatiers to create aesthetically…

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  • IET Global Volunteers Conference 2016

    Over 300 volunteers from across the IET and around the world attended the IET Global Volunteers Conference 2016 at IET London: Savoy Place, to share ideas and learn from each other. It was a great opportunity for delegates to gain insight on how to implement the IET’s strategy, improve volunteer engagement of members and develop “one-team” working across the IET ( #IETOneTeam ). The conference actually combined six volunteering events into one week to coincide with the Members Annual Information Event (16 June, available on IET.TV ).  Other events included Registration and Standards Training, Mentor Training, Communities Volunteer Conference (CVC), Education Volunteers, Council, and the Young Professionals Community Volunteering Conference, culminating in a plenary session on Friday, 17 June…

    David
    David

  • Osprey CSL and MOD A400M PT win prestigious IET ‘Innovation in Safety’ Award

    Osprey CSL is delighted to announce that it has won an IET ‘Innovation in Safety’ award jointly with the MOD for providing safety innovation in the A400M Programme. The winner was determined by an independent panel of judges as part of the MOD’s bi-annual Environmental & Safety Assurance Symposium (ESAS) which was held at DE&S Headquarters at Abbey Wood in Bristol. Peter Symons, Principal Consultant at Osprey CSL said “ We are thrilled to win this award jointly with our client, the A400M PT.  We have worked tirelessly to deliver an innovative and challenging safety and airworthiness strategy, and this award is a great testament to the work we have delivered together.  Importantly, the award was judged and awarded by the IET which reinforces the importance that Osprey places on engineering excellence…

    Lynsay Callaghan
    Lynsay Callaghan

  • WISE Awards 2016 - last chance to nominate before 8 July deadline!

    This is an international award for female contributors to open source software projects, reflecting the global nature of the open source community and the tech sector at large. Finalists will be asked to commit to an activity that helps get girls and women excited about careers in technology in the UK.

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  • Code of Practice for Cyber Security in the Built Environment

    This code of practice explains why and how cyber security should be considered throughout a building’s lifecycle and explains good practice, focusing on building-related systems and all connections to the wider cyber environment.   The book provides clear practical guidance to help multidisciplinary teams understand how the management of key aspects of cyber security relate to their specific jobs and responsibilities in maintaining the security of a building. Intended to act as an integral part of an organisation’s overall management system ensuring the cyber security of building related systems, the code of practice will be an invaluable resource for companies looking to improve their building’s cyber security. Find out more or buy the Code of Practice.

    Lynsay Callaghan
    Lynsay Callaghan

  • Is The Age Of Cyber Warfare Officially Upon Us: The IET Wants To Find Out...

    Some say that 2016 might go down in history as a turning point in the Age of Cyber Warfare. Unlike the Hiroshima bombing in 1945 that signified the era of Nuclear WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction) confrontation, the US “cyber bombs” fell down on the infrastructure of ISIS completely silently. Even though they did not cause destruction anywhere near on the scale of Hiroshima it does not mean they went unnoticed or might have lesser significance. In fact, some critics say that cyber attacks should be treated as WMD. The announcement by Robert Work, US Deputy Secretary of Defense in April 2016 was meant to draw the world’s attention to the fact that United States deployed an offensive cyber capability for the first time “We are dropping cyberbombs. We have never done that before.” Cyber attacks…

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  • Coming Soon - Code Of Practice For Achieving Competence For Safety-Related Systems Practitioners

    Code of Practice for Achieving Competence for Safety-Related Systems Practitioners Pre order is available   This new code is designed to help companies assess and maintain the competence of their engineering staff particularly in safety critical areas and industries. It sets out the competencies expected and evidence required to prove competence in specific tasks and helps organisations create schemes for monitoring and measuring the competencies of its employees.   Human error is still recognised as the most frequent cause of problems within systems and the field of safety critical systems / “functional safety” continues to develop along with the complexity of systems About the Author: Chair of the Functional Safety TPN and lead technical author for the Code of Practice is Dr Carl Sandom.…

    Lynsay Callaghan
    Lynsay Callaghan

  • Cambridge Regional College - STEM Awards

    Each year Cambridge Regional College make awards to their best STEM students.  The event this year was held on Wed 29 June when members of the Cambridge Local Network attended and presented prizes given by the IET to the deserving STEM students.  If you are from a Cambridge academic institution and wish to participate in the IET Awards scheme, please contact the local network at cambsec@theiet.org

    David Blake
    David Blake

  • IET Young Woman Engineer Of The Year Awards - Closed For Entry

    Whilst the deadline for entry may have closed, many of you will still have an opportunity to register to attend the ceremony! Registration will be open soon - www.theiet.org/ywe

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  • WATCH Presentations from the Human Motion Analysis for Healthcare Applications Event

    Identifying advances, challenges and opportunities for motion sensing systems in heathcare, the Human Motion Analysis for Healthcare event on 19th May 16 at Savoy Place brought together researchers, academics, technologists and professionals all working in related fields to discuss a variety of presentations,  posters and network with fellow professionals.  With four keynote speakers from Microsoft; and Warwick, Bristol and St George's Universities a key theme running through all was how the technology will transform healthcare delivery, particularly enabling passive healthcare monitoring for the user/ patient. All of the presentations and keynotes on the day were filmed and are now available to watch: Human Motion Analysis for Healthcare Application videos. Did any of the presentations really…

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  • Catch Up video now available "SpiNNaker and the Human Brain Project"

    SpiNNaker and the Human Brain Project - IET Manchester June 2017 Professor Steve Furber CBE FRS FREng FBCS FIET CITP CEng ICL Professor of Computer Engineering University of Manchester Professor Steve Furber gave a talk in June 2016 about SpiNNaker and the Human Brain Project, this lecture was recorded and now available to catch up on our YouTube channel. The SpiNNaker project has been 18 years in conception and 10 years in construction, but is now ready to contribute to the growing global community, exemplified by the EU Flagship Human Brain Project, that is aiming to deploy the vast computing resources now available to us to accelerate our understanding of the brain, with the ultimate goal of understanding the information processing principles at work in natural intelligence. SpiNNaker is…

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  • IET Engineering Open House Day 2016 - Aberdeen Science Centre

    Aberdeen Science Centre in partnership with Shell  Aberdeen Science Centre, 179 Constitution Street, Aberdeen, AB24 5TU  Date:  30th July 2016 Time:  13.00  Follow on Facebook Join us for the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Open House day at Aberdeen Science Centre, on Saturday 30th July, in partnership with Shell and IET. Delve deeper into the wonders of engineering by meeting local engineers, attending exciting presentations and trying out hands on activities. Doors open at 13.00 with activities running till 19.00. No need to book, just come along! Most suitable for - parents and young people aged 8 . This event is free to attend. Watch this space for further details about the day. About:  After the success of last year's inaugural event, the IET Engineering Open House Day…

    Lynsay Callaghan
    Lynsay Callaghan

  • Southern California Edison Advanced Technology Labs Visit

    On the 28th June, Members and guests of the SoCal LN were fortunate enough to be able to visit the Advanced Technology Labs of Southern California Edison in Pomona California.  The Pomona facility comprises the Advanced Energy Storage Lab (AES) and the Electric Drive Systems Lab (EDS).  Behind those rather bland titles are several significant projects in tune with the times.  Since Edison’s business is now primarily transmission and distribution, those are what the projects address.  Common to hybrid and electric vehicles and to most renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar, is the requirement for energy storage and management.   Therefore much of the work addresses that in its various aspects.  The AES Lab evaluates battery and power electronics systems over a range of environmental…

    Richard Tregaskes
    Richard Tregaskes

  • Solar Car Challenge 2016

    Another successful Solar Car challenge 2016 organized by The Cyprus Institute in cooperation with the Nicosia Municipality took place in the heart of the capital on Sunday, June 26, 2016. The opening of the 2016 race took place on Saturday, 25 June, with a spectacular parade of the 10 solar vehicles which crossed the Ledra and Onasagorou streets, ending at Freedom Square where the public had the chance to admire these unique cars, designed and built by students of high schools and technical schools that participated in the race. The Award Ceremony was held at the Nicosia Town Hall, and the prizes were awarded by the Mayor of Nicosia Constantinos Yiorkadjis, Mayor of Kythrea Dr. Petros Kareklas, and the Vice President of Research of The Cyprus Institute Prof. Euripides Stephanou. The Associate…

    Christos Christou
    Christos Christou

  • Opinion: The big reason women drop out of engineering isn’t in the classroom

    The number of women enrolling in engineering school has increased steadily over the past four decades but the number of women working as engineers hasn't kept pace.  Read more...

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