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  • Campaign Launched That Calls For A Ban On The Development Of Robots That Can Be Used For Sex

    Yesterday I was reading a news report that highlighted a campaign that has been recently launched which calls for a ban on the development of robots that can be used for sex. It's quite an emotive subject and the relationship between humans and robots, already complex, will become more complex in the future as robots get ever more sophisticated. Could such relationships have a detrimental effect on human relationships? Dr Kathleen Richardson is leading the campaign, and this subject featured in the presentation that she gave back in June for the IET Robotics & Mechatronics Robot Ethics event. You can see Kathleens presentation here as well as presentations from Alan Winfield and Tony Prescott According to the report , Dr Richardson, wants to raise awareness of the issue and persuade those developing…

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • IET Technical Networks: Disseminating essential engineering intelligence

    The IET's Technical and Professional Networks (TPNs) cover a wide range of areas - from aerospace to robotics to healthcare technologies. TPNs are made up of senior engineers and technologists as well as academics and are crucial to the IET's strategy of producing expert technical content that is relevant to the engineering community. Much of this sharing of knowledge takes place at physical events organised by the TPNs. These can be global conferences with hundreds of delegates to small very focused seminars with only a handful of participants in the audience. And most of the events are free of charge. To find the TPN that suits your interests please go to our TPN index page . A new innovation for our TPNs is the IET TechBite series. These are bitesize technical insight documents coming out…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • The IET YWE Awards -

    Five young female engineers working on projects ranging from the next generation of sports venues and stadiums to sound systems in cars have all been shortlisted for the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Young Woman Engineer of the Year Awards 2015. Register now to join us at the ceremony in December!

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Turbo Machinery Remote Monitoring & Diagnostic – Oil & Gas Application

    Technical Talk, 21st March 2015, Petaling Jaya Turbo machinery Remote Monitoring & Diagnostic – Oil & Gas Application By Ir. Amir Farid Abdul Majid PEng MIET. GE Oil & Gas Turbo machinery and peripheral equipment for oil and gas applications must operate within specified parameters in order to achieve desired performance, production targets and cost control. Traditional monitoring methods require on-site personnel and analysis, with periodic OEM engineering support. Remote Monitoring & Diagnostic (RM&D) service offers the superior alternative of continuous monitoring by expert engineers with significantly enhanced response times. Diagnostics engineers evaluates actual and target statistics, as well as interrelationships between components, to continuously monitor the performance and safety…

    Julie
    Julie

  • Students Talk with Scientists

    A free online event where school students meet and interact with scientists. It’s an X Factor-style competition between scientists, where the students are the judges. Students challenge the scientists over fast-paced online text-based live CHAT s. They ASK the scientists anything they want, and VOTE for their favourite scientist to win a prize of £500 to communicate their work with the public. If you have a background in physics, whether at undergraduate level or A-Level, and have moved on to a career outside of doing academic research, I'm a Scientist want to hear from you. Apply now by emailing antony@gallomanor.com stating your physics background and include a short two line summary of your work. The deadline to apply is Sunday 27th September. Read more at imascientist.org.uk/scientists…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • New Courses In November

    In addition to the introduction of our new online webinars and e-classes , we have three new professional development and skills courses available in November and, as an added bonus, there is an early bird booking discount available until 24 September for these courses. Commercial awareness for technical people The aim of this practical one day course is give anyone in a technical role or with a technical background an understanding of how they fit into a larger picture, why they may be asked to undertake tasks that may not appear to be technical and the impact their interactions have within the commercial context. CDM Regulations This collaborative one day course is for anyone in the procurement, planning design or implementation of construction work (including building maintenance). Whether…

    Kathryn Bain
    Kathryn Bain

  • Space UK Conference 2015 Videos

    At the recent Space UK Conference, the Satellite Systems and Applications Network took the opportunity to film some short videos which may be of interest to Aerospace community members. These can now be viewed on our YouTube channel. Click here to access the playlist.

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • 2015 Best PhD & MSc Best Paper Prize Winners Announced

    Please join us in congratulating Dr Vibhav Vineet and Toby Frankau, winners of the 2015 Vision & Imaging PhD and MSc Best Paper Prizes. Dr. Vibhav Vineet of Stanford University, California, won the PhD prize for his thesis paper “Recognition, Reorganisation, Reconstruction and Reinteraction for Scene Understanding", supervised by Prof. Philip Torr, University of Oxford. The best MSc paper prize was awarded to Toby Frankau, Durham University, for his paper "A Light-Weight Monocular Vision Approach for Autonomous Vehicle Navigation", Supervised by Dr. Toby Breckon, Durham University. The award ceremony took place at the 6 th Imaging for Crime Detection & Prevention (ICDP-15) at Queen Mary University, London and was attended by Toby and Vibhav was able to join us from California via Skype. Professor…

    Former Staff Member
    Former Staff Member

  • IET Data Center Power System Design Philosophy

    Synopsis In today’s computing world and with the increased acceptance of cloud computing, any failure in a Data Centre can cause major economic and financial losses. Therefore, it is critical to have a reliable electrical supply infrastructure for Data Centres. A recent breakdown of a financial institution due to the failure of the electrical supply system in the hosting data centre has caused much discussions on this subject. This technical talk will discuss the Data Centre Power Systems Design Philosophy covering the Telecommunications Industry Association’s Standard, Singapore Code of Practice and the sharing of case studies on common failure scenarios. The topics include: 1. Different tier levels to co mply with different types of Data Centre. 2. Selection of a design based on the Data…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Routes to professional registration 7 February 2015

    Colin Sellers, IET’s Manager, for Registrations and Standards started the day’s events by speaking about how to get professionally registered as a professional engineer on Saturday 7th February 2015 at the Armada Hotel, Petaling Jaya. He clarified many aspects of this professional registration and the various routes to gaining professional recognition. Being a Professionally registered engineer demonstrates to our peers and employers that we have made a commitment to maintaining, developing the knowledge, skill set and competence required to meet the engineering and technological needs of the modern world. Colin is an MBA-qualified Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the IET. Colin achieved his Chartered status before he was 30 and became a Fellow when aged 38. He has held senior management and…

    Julie
    Julie

  • Instrument Development And Professional Registration

    Steps to Increase Effectiveness in Instrument Development (Especially in Meeting Regulatory Requirements for the Health Care Market) Chai Meng Fee There are so many options in technology, tools and resources which are available to us to develop new products today. So where do we start? Chai Meng Fee, who is currently the President for Agilent Malaysia and with close to 30- years of working experience in various industries and different fields, firmly believes that a set of “good practice” guidelines that complies to the appropriate requirements should be the guiding light. Clearly this can help to lower overall development cost, reduce technical risk, as well the potential to shorten project schedule too. This is especially important when launching instrument product for the health care market…

    Julie
    Julie

  • Thanks To All For Making this Such A Wonderful Day...

    We had a great fun-packed day, tasting some wonderful delights before heading off to the Hallwilersee, which is famous for being the Swiss Lake where Malcolm Campbell set a world speed record back in 1938. Attaching a couple of pictures...

    Jeff Hunter
    Jeff Hunter

  • Getting To The Special Event: Combined Networking / Malcolm Campbell Day

    http://www.boniswil.ch/documents/Waldhuette_Boniswil_Plan.pdf Coming by Train is quite easy - just head to Lenzburg, walk out of the station, cross the road and board the little inter-village commuter train waiting for you. Jump off at Hallwil train station and then we'll walk some approx 10 minutes to the hut. Alternatively feel free to drive there, but please don't block the road. Check out the nice map ( click on the http link, not the map above). Finally, here's some nice walking links: Route Waldhütte ï ð Wasserschloss: https://goo.gl/maps/D36jN Route Wasserschloss ï ð Seengen SGH Steg: https://goo.gl/maps/nrDJj Route Seengen SGN Steg ï ð Meisterschwanden: https://goo.gl/maps/Tdju8

    Jeff Hunter
    Jeff Hunter

  • Aerospace Network - Young Professionals Group

    The IET Aerospace Network is pioneering knowledge exchange and networking with peers. It is more important than ever to have Young Professionals ready to lead the way and ensure that the Aerospace Network is the go-to place for knowledge and expertise. We would like to invite you to be part of the first IET Aerospace Young Professionals' Group where you will have the opportunity to: -expand your network -support aerospace events -promote engineering to young people To find out more or to apply as a volunteer, please email us here . Please also help us to promote our recruitment campaign by circulating this flyer and our video .

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • Annual Dinner 2015

    Teesside Network are pleased to invite you to our annual dinner & reunion 2015. Full details can be found on the attached poster.

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Introducing Professional Development E-classes And Webinars

    The IET understand that with the pressures of trying to juggle work commitments, family commitments and with geographical constraints that not all members are able to attend face to face training sessions. For this reason, we have developed live training e-classes and webinars to make some of our popular professional development courses topics available online. Our e-classes have been designed by our professional skills trainers to give you key skills that you can effectively implement in both your professional and personal life by utilising established theories and concepts. Our free webinars are designed to enable you to develop an overall awareness of various topics, which you can use in your daily life. Both the professional development e-classes and webinars can be accessed anywhere with…

    Kathryn Bain
    Kathryn Bain

  • IET Safety Assessments Seminar 2015 ISO26262

    ISO26262: Demonstrate compliance as the standard evolves Join the IET on 30 September 2015 at IET Birmingham: Austin Court as Dr David Ward, Head of Functional Safety at MIRA guides you through a day of technical learning and practical case studies to help you prepare for the changing ISO 26262 automotive electronics safety standard, David is a leading international expert in automotive functional safety and also the UK Principal Expert to ISO/TC22/SC32/WG8 “Road vehicles – Functional Safety” which develops ISO 26262. Find our more and regsiter.

  • Networking Night With PDPA Training And PATW Winner Presentation

    Introduction IET (Singapore Network) is providing an opportunity for members – particularly those from the Young Professionals Section – to become acquainted with the general procedures required to comply with Singapore’s Data Protection Act. The evening shall commence with a basic training session by Mr Jolyon Caplin then those attending can relax and enjoy the Present-Around-The-World presentation by this year’s Singapore winner, Miss Smrithi Keerthivarman as she prepares to take part in the Regional Present-Around-The-World in Beijing. About the Speaker Smrithi is an Aerospace Engineering student and recipient of the prestigious CN Yang Scholarship in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Having a lways had a passion for Space, Smrithi has consistently engaged herself in Science and…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Ecosystem Of Things & Emerging Threat Vectors

    Inside the corporate network, threat vectors are now known and where granularity might not exist mitigation efforts are created, through People, Process and Technology. Technology adoption is becoming mainstream in all aspects of life, emerging areas of technology use are listed below:   - Wifi Hacking - Mobile Network Hacking - Bioweapons-DNA Hacking - Protocol Hacking - Self Modifying malwares - Ransomware exploits - Device instrument manipulation ( Gyroscope / Sensors )   With the trend of consumerisation now walking into the ecosystem of things, the requirements for cyber security to be included in the initial design and scope is required. Non-Functional Requirements analysis can help scope the actual constraints as can tools like SABSA. With the ' Ecosystem of Things ' now hitting mainstream…

  • HTN Community Update - 28 August 2015

    As the summer break draws to a close, I wanted to take the opportunity to look back at some of the fantastic events the Healthcare Technologies network (HTN) has been involved in this session. The year began with our Healthcare Technologies Student and Early Career Awards in February 2015, this time working in collaboration with the IMechE’s Biomedical Engineering Association (BmEA). The quality of entries was excellent, as were the presentations, and I’m very pleased to announce that the winners of the IET Awards will be presenting at our Annual Healthcare Lecture in November. In May 2015 we collaborated with the Royal Society of Medicine to produce the very successful one day seminar discussing the topic of ‘ The future of medicine – the role of the doctor in 2025 ’. I’m delighted to say…

    Peter Bannister
    Peter Bannister

  • Submitting a Declaration for the 2015 CPD Cycle

    For the 2015 Review Cycle the year under review is 2014. If you have opted in to the Voluntary CPD Monitoring Scheme the declaration window in Career Manager is now open. Visit and log-in to the IET website at www.theiet.org/career-manager . Select ‘ CPD ’ from the Quick Launch Tool located on the right hand side of Career Manager. And select ‘ Submit my annual CPD Declaratio n’. Select ‘ Start CPD Review ’ to view the CPD Return Checklist. This will ask you to opt in to the CPD monitoring scheme. Even if you have already opted-in, please still select Proceed & Opt In . The easy to use checklist will indicate which areas you need to complete, you can progress through the checklist and ensure you complete it as fully as possible. There are three mandatory items which you need to complete which…

    Kathryn Bain
    Kathryn Bain

  • Venue Change: Some Details About The Next NorCal Meeting On September 12th.

    This is a plug for the forthcoming IET NorCal Presentations on September 12 th . Title: A review of how the Internet of Things will change our lives . Presenter: John Manville is Senior Vice President of the IT Global Infrastructure Services team at Cisco Abstract: The Internet of Things is going to change our world, in fact it’s already started. From sensors to big data analysis we are entering a new phase of how much information we have available. Areas where The Internet of Things will play a part include food, health, energy, garbage (yes garbage!), water, and many others. The talk will discuss many of the possibilities as well as present some currently available technology. There will be some hands on demonstrations as well as a chance to see how well you can handle a drone! Title: Experiences…

    Allan Casey
    Allan Casey

  • Looking to the skies with the Scottish Dark Sky Observatory

    Looking to the skies with the Scottish Dark Sky Observatory. A publically accessible observatory , located in an internationally reknowned dark sky location. The observatory is open to the public, amateur astronomers, groups, clubs, schools and universities, with the aim of inspiring people of all ages and all backgrounds with the beauty and wonder of the universe. The Scottish Dark Sky Observatory do a whole range of events that you may be interested in - have a look at their events calendar page . The events are run by the resident astronomer and science educator David Warrington, as well as a group of local volunteers. The observatory also hold special events, based around particular astronomical events or featuring a talk by a visting guest speaker.

    Lynsay Callaghan
    Lynsay Callaghan

  • FIRST LEGO League (FLL®︎) 2015 TRASH TREK Challenge

    2015 Trash Trek Challenge The Ultimate STEM Challenge happening in Scotland. We're not talking trash - we're cleaning it up! Annoucning the 2015 FIRST LEGO League! Teams of children aged 9-16 are invited to explore the fascinating world of waste, from collection and sorting to smart production and reuse. Build and program a LEGO robot to tackle the Trash Trek missions, invent a solution to the world's problem of waste, and present it at your regional tournament. It's easy for schools, organisations or groups of friends to take part. Register now! Tournaments in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee and St Andrews. Training for teachers and coaches included. Bursaries available. FIRST LEGO League (FLL®) FIRST LEGO League (FLL®) challenges kids to think like scientists and engineers. During the…

    Lynsay Callaghan
    Lynsay Callaghan

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