February News

At the end of January, we were fortunate enough to have Arup sponsor a Present Around the World information session at Loyola Marymount University where we were able to give advice and guidance to potential competitors for our event on the 26th March. If you (or anybody you know) is aged 18-30 and fancy your chances at winning an all-expenses paid trip to Toronto for being able to give a ten-minute technical presentation and answer questions on it for five minutes, please get in touch with Richard Tregaskes .   While we were there we were also able to let the students know about our next event, a tour of WET Design at 1pm on the 10th March, more details and registration is available in the upcoming events block. If you have seen the fountains at Bellagio, the Mirage Volcano, The Dubai Fountain…

Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day

''Girl Day is a movement that shows girls how creative engineering is and how engineers are changing our world. As an engineer or engineering student, you are a powerful role model. In just a single visit you can inspire them to pursue engineering. Get started today'' Read more...

Join us as a volunteer for Scotland South West Retired Members

We're looking for you if you've got the drive and enthusiasm to join the team and help organise IET events in Scotland South West in the Retired Members Network. It's not onerous and the rewards? They are many: meeting like minded individuals, learning beyond your immediate sphere and the satisfaction of active involvement., and key, is that your involvement will help shape what we do. We need least two or three members to become volunteers- but the more we can get the better the programme of events.   Shape what your community does and the events and visits we do. Please contact Lynsay Callaghan for more information lcallaghan@theiet.org

Scotland South West YP - Present Around the World 2016

Scotland South West YP - Present Around the World 2016 10th March 2016, 18.00 - 20.30, IET Glasgow:  Teacher Building Do you have what it takes to win £1000? The Present Around the World (PATW) competition is organised by the IET to develop and improve the presenting and public speaking skill of Young Professional Engineers and Engineering Students globally. The Present Around the World (PATW) competition is organised by the IET to develop and improve the presenting and public speaking skill of Young Professional Engineers and Engineering Students globally.     The competition is a very simple concept; deliver a 10 minute presentation on any engineering or technology subject of your choice (followed by 5 minutes of questions) to win up to £100! It's that simple!  Register

Students Section (Sub-Degree) 2015/16

Students Section (Sub-Degree) Committee List (Session 2015-2016)   Committee Position Name Coordinator Cheung Ho Yeung, Tommy Chairman Wong Wai Sing, Wilson Vice Chairman Tam Chung Kong Honorary Treasurer Fung Chu Hei Honorary Secretary Kwong Kit Lun Kelvin Internal Affairs Coordinator Cheung Ching Ho Liu Wing Kin External Affairs Coordinator Wong Ka Wing Visits Coordinator Law Ming Fai Ng Chung Hin Membership Drive Coordinator Wong Chuen Wing Ng Wai Ho Workshops Coordinator Law Kin Man Webmaster Wong Hon Yiu Lai Kin Long Contact Us: Tommy ( tommy.chy@theiet.org  / 852-63910067 )

YMS Hong Kong Upcoming Events

Technical Visit to IVE Solar Vehicle - SOPHIE Saturday 27 February 2016 9:00 am Members Day - Seminar of "Professional Audio Equipment"... Saturday 12 March 2016 10:30 am IET Career and Professional Congress Saturday 9 April 2016 2:00 pm

YMS Chairman Message 2015/2016

Free Content From The Technologies From Active And Assisted Living (TechAAL) Conference

The first IET International Conference on Technologies for Active and Assisted Living organised by the Vision & Imaging Network and led by Dr Francisco Florez Revuelta brought together industry and academic researchers and experts from across Europe to present and discuss advances and ethics in ambient and assisted living technologies.  The conference included two keynotes, 8 technical presentations and 8 posters that are all available online free of charge to read and watch . Malcolm Fisk, Du Montford University, opened the conference with an insightful keynote: Protection from abuse? Resolving the privacy dilemma with cameras and other surveillance technology discussing how technology can be used to protect individuals - and staff - from abuse and allegations in care settings. There was a…

Committee List - Younger Members Section (Session 2015/16)

Chairman Mr T.F. LEE Vice Chairman Mr Mark K.Y. TSANG Honorary Secretary Miss Christy Y.W. FUNG Honorary Treasurer Mr Henry T.L. CHAN Immediate Past Chairlady Miss Heather W.Y. LAM Past Chairman Mr Alex C.F. LAI Internal Affairs Coordinator/Webmaster/Newsletter Editor Mr Peter S.F. SUEN External Affairs Coordinator Mr Victor W.H. CHAN Section Committee Coordinator Miss Elaine S.L. CHOW 25th Anniversary Event Coordinator Mr William K.C. YIP Young Professionals Exhibition&Competition Coordinator Mr Olaf T.Y. LI Future Engineers Coordinator            Miss Viola C.Y. CHOY Career Development Coordinator Mr Steve Y.F. CHU Programme Coordinator Mr W.K. LEE Programme Coordinator Mr Brain T.S. WONG Students Section Coordinator (Hong Kong) Mr Herman T.Y. MAN Students Section (Hong Kong) Chairman Mr…

2019 Executive Committee

The IET’s Vision & Imaging Technical Network Executive Committee is made up of a group of dedicated individuals from academia and industry, brought together to organise a programme of activities for professionals working in and researching the fields of Vision & Imaging.    If you would like to know more about the committee or volunteer your time to help with our activities, please get in touch VisionImagingTPN@ietvolunteer.org      Chair Prof. Dimitrios Makris Kingston University London Vice-Chair Dr Jason Lepley BAE Systems    Past Chair Prof. Sergio Velastin Cortexica Vision Systems  Members  Dr Mark Bray BAE Systems Dr Tomas Piatrik Queen Mary University of London  Dr Yulia Hicks (BMVA Liaison)  Cardif University  Dr Panagiotis Sidiropoulos Hummingbird Technologies  Dr Constantino Carlos…

Young Professionals visit Fane Valley Feeds

With an annual production capacity in excess of 300,000 tonnes Fane Valley Feeds is one of the largest feed manufacturers in Northern Ireland and on the afternoon of the 18 th November 2015 the local IET Young Professionals made a visit to their Bankmore mill in Omagh. Fane Valleys history in Omagh stems from their purchase of the old Scots Feeds mill located in the centre of the town. Our tour guide, ex Production Director William McAusland, picked up the story of how this mill was no longer fit for purpose and Fane Valley made the decision to invest £18 million building what is their current mill. This background proved a perfect recipe for a brilliant tour, as having been responsible for leading the process of designing the mill William gave an excellent insight into its construction. In…

Young Professionals Visit Andor Technology

Andor Technology Ltd (now a part of Oxford Instruments) was setup in 1989 out of Queen's University Belfast and operates at the high-value end of the global scientific digital camera market. Employing over 400 people in 16 offices worldwide, it distributes its products to 10,000 customers in 55 countries. On the afternoon of 11 th November 2015 the IET Young Professionals made a visit to its facility in West Belfast. As a purpose-built 50,000sq. ft premises with state of the art optical, electronic and mechanical workshops, a 3000sq. ft clean room, vacuum and electronic processing facilities Andor formulates an impressive tour. Upon entering the foyer and to the right a glass pane exists, which is quite literally a window into Andor’s operation, there in a brightly lit clean room people in…

Joint Institutions Lecture 2016 - High Speed Rail, led by ICE

This presentation will explore the successful promotion and delivery of high speed rail projects, and lessons learnt for the current HS2 project, which will be Europe's largest construction project. The main speaker will be Colin Stewart, Global Rail Leader at Arup. Colin was Technical Director for the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (HS1), and has been involved in HS2 since its inception in 2009. In addition, he has been involved in numerous High Speed Rail projects worldwide over the past 20 years, including Holland, China, California, Texas, Malaysia, and Sweden. Registration and refreshments from 5.30pm for a 6.15pm start. Join online You can join this event up to 15 minutes before the start time of 6.15pm with the link below: https://ice-org.webex.com/ice-org/onstage/g.php?MTID=eec59674c9479cc5771b023c93d391b70…

CHAIN 2016

Chain event took place on the 13th February 2016.  CHAIN is a new one day conference designed specifically to engage, inform and inspire early career engineers based in Greater Manchester. Speakers from Bloodhound SSC, IMechE, The IET and others gave fascinating lectures on the latest developments in Engineering and Science. The event was very successful with a large number of audience attended. All talks have been recorded and now available to watch. #chain16 @chainmcr CHAIN2016 YouTube Playlist

IET Regional Prestige Lecture, Rose Bowl Theatre, Leeds Beckett University, 16th March 2016

Please note, the Annual Regional Prestige lecture this year is on the topic of 'Graphene'. Information already exists on the SYLN website which gives more details about the lecture and how to register. If you can attend that would be excellent or if not maybe you could promote the event with your colleagues. The event is free to attend, is sponsored by 'Elevation Recruitment' our Regional sponsor and is preceded by refeshments for all those attending. Hope to see you there

The IET Tribology Tour Visits Northern Ireland

Rich Baker and Geoff Kermode presented the latest instalment of the IET Tribology Tour in the Innovation Centre of the Northern Ireland Science Park last month. The Tribology Tour  bringing Tribology to life  by showing how Tribology underpins so many essential aspects of our technology and quality of life. It also provides an introduction to the concepts and principles underpinning Tribology and shows how modern techniques can be used to optimise a wide variety of mechanical interfaces, from hard drives to wind turbines and hip joints.   The audience reacted very positively to the interactive challenges posed during the presentation. This led on to an invigorating open discussion on many aspects of Tribology which continued after 9pm! A real highlight was that several audience members formed…

Electronics in modern agriculture

Please join us for next Tuesday's talk (23rd February) on electronics in modern agriculture. Two (2) CPD points for attending and we may even have the certificates available on the night ... Click the link for "Doth the ploughman plough all day to sow?' - Isaiah 28:24" in the event listing below to book your place.

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ITS Successes In Addressing Environmental Issues

ITS Successes in Addressing Environmental Issues was the theme of the 2015 ITS(UK) Smart Environment Interest Group (SEIG) Conference, jointly sponsored by the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s Automotive and Road Transport Technical Network,  and hosted by the engineering company Arup, in London on 19 November 2015. The SEIG Chair - Professor Margaret Bell CBE, Newcastle University, introduced the Conference and made the point that in the UK there are 50,000 premature deaths annually due to air pollution, much of it from road vehicles, compared to less than 2000 deaths in road traffic accidents. The first paper, “Using Traffic Management Strategies to Minimise NOx Emissions”, by Andrew Hamilton of Siemens, described a project to demonstrate the feasibility of using traffic management…

Aerospace Network - Inaugural Annual Symposium “All Electric Aircraft”

Envisaged as one of the biggest challenges and opportunities for the future of aerospace the inaugural  “All Electric Aircraft Technology” IET Symposium held at Savoy Place in late January 2016 brought together experts from across academia and industry to discuss, debate and analyze the key enabling technologies that will be required to support and drive forward the commercial viability of More Electric Airplane with the aim of ultimately achieving an All Electric Aircraft for both military and commercial passenger/freight use. Fueled by the demand for greater reliability, availability, and power density while aiming to reduce weight, complexity, fuel consumption, operational costs, and environmental impact, the Symposium highlighted the challenges the aerospace sector faces today and those…

Joint Institutions NetworkingMeeting

For those in Paris on Thursday 18th February:  ICE France's Monthly Inter Institution Social event on Thursday 18th February from 19h00 will be held at a NEW VENUE the Paris Madeira on corner of rue de   Caumartin & rue Boudreau (metro line 9 Havre-Caumartin or RER A Auber). Spouses, partners and friends welcome. There will be an optional group dinner from about 20h30.     Chris Polwin will be hosting the evening with William Powles for the ICE French LA and they are looking forward to seeing you there.

Government to publish gender pay gap league tables

The government has announced a raft of new measures aimed at closing the gender pay gap including a league table to highlight the worst performing businesses. Read more...

IET Scotland Recognition Event 2016

IET Scotland hosted its annual recognition event for engineers who have recently achieved Professional Registration. Recipients and their guests attended a networking session and were presented with a certificate of achievement.  This took place in the Wolfson Theatre, Royal Society of Edinburgh in George Street  ( https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/). Speakers were IET Scotland Executive Chair David Richie, who focused on the remit of IET Scotland and Sean McGovern, Managing Director at BAE Systems and Fellow of the IET who spoke on The Value of Professional Registration and the value of engineering to the economy in Scotland. Congratulations to those who have achieved Professional Registration and were not able to make it.  The evening was enjoyed by all and we hope to see more engineers next

Technical Aspects of Fracking Presentation Joint local event between IET, IMechE & ICE

Technical Aspects of Fracking Presentation       On 10 th December 2015 the South Yorkshire local IMechE, ICE & IET had a joint PEI presentation at the AMRC in Rotherham on the “Technical aspects for Fracking”.   Hydraulic fracturing for shale gas is a highly sensitive topic but it was felt a presentation on the Technical involvement would be of considerable interest and move away for the political sensitivities surrounding it.   Andy Sloane who works for Dundas Consultants & Eric Vaughan from Cuadrilla gave an excellent presentation based around the historical background surrounding fracking, some of the issues experienced with the USA programme and the arrangements for UK regulation of the industry, if and when it gets a ‘green light to proceed.   The presentation slides showed how well-heads…