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Formula North 2015 This is the third year Toronto LN is sponsoring the event. Anyone interested in participating, please email iet.toronto@theiet.org more... Are you interested in the topic of Patent? If so, then attend a free session "Patents 101: Hot Topics for Patenting Your Invention". more... Meeting with IET Past-President, Barry Brooks Speech title: “(IET) Members who make a Difference” Barry will speak to IET members, guests and visitors at the Toronto Local Network event, highlighting some IET achievements in his term as President. He will explain planned improvements to IET Governance, and ask for members’ ideas on how to strengthen the IET in Canada. T his is an opportunity for members to express their opinions on how to improve the value and future role of the IET both in the UK…
The new professional development courses brochure is available now to download now ! Our professional skills training courses focus on the non-technical aspects of your work. All our courses have been designed with engineering and technology professionals in mind, with the aim of helping individuals and organisations reach and stay at the leading edge. Courses within the brochure have been mapped to the Engineering Council’s UK-SPEC, so if you're working toward professional registration you can develop the competences as well as undertaking CPD . If you think there are courses that you would be interested in other than what’s covered in our current portfolio we welcome your recommendations. Please email us at pdcourses@theiet.org or leave your suggestions below.
This is the third year Toronto LN is sponsoring the event. Anyone interested in participating, please email iet.toronto@theiet.org more...
Barry will speak to IET members, guests and visitors at the Toronto Local Network event, highlighting some IET achievements in his term as President. He will explain planned improvements to IET Governance, and ask for members’ ideas on how to strengthen the IET in Canada. This is an opportunity for members to express their opinions on how to improve the value and future role of the IET both in the UK and in North America. More information is available here .
Sheridan College Faculty of Applied Science & Technology Academic Awards Ceremony was held on 24th September 2015. Jenny Yu presented the Stan Thurger Award on behalf on the IET. The award was named after the late Stan Thurger who played a vital role in the birth and growth of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering.The award started in 2005, the funds were endowed and the interest is awarded annually. The award is for Sheridan students only. The criteria for this award is "Academic excellence in the first year of a 3 year Engineering Technology Program with a manufacturing bias." The 2014 award recipient is Jonathan Andrew Luong. Johnathan is in the Mechanical Engineering Technician/Technology Design and Drafting Program.
"Engineer your Why" was held in April 2014? Here is the link . You can also start a discussion about the event on-line here after login with your IET account.
Dear IET Toronto Local Network Members, I am contacting you to announce the IET Toronto LN Event Calendar for the 2014-15 Session and the final technical presentation event and Annual General Meeting (AGM) for the 2013-14 Session. The final technical presentation event and AGM for the 2013-14 Session will take place on 18th September 2014 at the McMaster Automotive Resource Centre (MARC), McMaster University, Hamilton, 105-175 Longwood Road South, Hamilton, Ontario L8P 0A1. You will receive a flyer for the event, or can download it via the network portal. The agenda for the evening is as follows: 1. The technical presentation is titled: “Challenges for the Future of Power Electronics, the UK Power Electronics Strategy”, and will be presented by Prof. Volker Pickert from Newcastle University…
Pictures from Formula North 2014 Day 1 , Day 2 , Day 3 , Day 4
IET Toronto has sponsored the Formula North 2014 event. Technical lectures about Formula Noth is held on May 22 from 9:30 am to 4 pm. Contact iet.toronto@theiet.org for tickets.
The Engineer Your Why event was a resounding success and the audience enjoyed an entertaining, fun afternoon and left totally inspired and energized by the experience. We were fortunate to have a mixture of High School students, University under-grads, Young & Mature Engineers, plus one retired C Eng. The organizing team for the Event comprised: Nigel Schofield (C Eng, Chair of IET Toronto) George Chelvanayagam (C Eng, IPRA Ontario) Shawn Wassermann (MIET, Secretary) Jenny Yu (MIET, Treasurer & Web-master) Jim McConnach (FIET). We were fortunate to have http://www.engineering.com/ as the Platinum Media Sponsor for the event.
On April 26, come to Gravenhurst, Muskoka to experience the Energy & Inspiration from participating in one of Gerry Visca’s WHY sessions. Also find out how the IET can help Engineers and Technologists Live their WHY. To get a flavour of the session, see Sample . For information and to Register see: EngineerYourWhy
Here's the IET Americas newsletter!
Strengthening Confidence in Engineering Kim Allen From: Hearn Lecture 2013, 10 August 2013, Toronto, Canada 2013-09-10 >> go to webcast >> recommend to friend
Hearn Lecture is in PEO's magazine Engineering Dimensions!
Watch "The Global Energy Challenge Lecture at Villanova - by Daniel Nocera"
Toronto MyCommunity was ranked as a top on-line community in IET in 2013. This could not have been possible without your support. Thank you! Please come back often to keep updated about us. We have also set up a blog to have your opinion and suggestion. Go to https://communities.theiet.org/groups/blogs/250 to have your voice. Let us know your opinion!
Thank you to Mr Kim Allen, CEO of Engineers Canada for his presentation "Strengthening Confidence in Engineering" at the 2013 Hearn Dinner and Lecture on 10 August. It was an excellent evening and we appreciate the support of our sponsors IEEE, Morrison Hershfield, Ontario Power Authority, Ontario Power Generation, IMechE, CIBSE, CREE, Cooper Lighting,Rutenberg Sales, and Salex. Thank you to the members of the Hearn Planning Committee: Jenny Yu, Mohamed Nizam, Jim McConnach, and Tony Cutner (not shown in photo George Chelvanayagam). Click to view feedbacks from event participants. Here are more photos from the evening. Greg Duggan, Tony Cutner, and Alyssa Randall were recognized for their assistance with the planning of the volunteers conference. There was a special award to longstanding members…
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Run for IET Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon 2015 The 19th Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon, Hong Kong's largest participatory annual sporting event, is scheduled on 25 January 2015 (Sunday). Similar to previous years, an IET Hong Kong running team is formed to participate in the “10km” race route. It includes 8 runners and 14 cheering team members from Branch Committee, Management Section, Younger Members Section and Students Sections. On Marathon day, with high spirit, sufficient warm up and support from cheering team, our running team finished the “10km” race successfully in one and a half hour. The team was warmly greeted when passing through the finishing line. All of us enjoyed this annual event very much with a lot of photos taken during the race and fun of course. Apart from…
A while back I researched how m&a’s are used or architected even, to bring success to a partnership or benefit a company through division or expansion and still be able to effect the market place. Using industry examples I was able to review how a few m&a’s were used to support strategy for growth and recovery across many industry sectors. There are many business justifications for mergers and acquisitions. A technology company may want to acquire medium level skilled Engineers so may purchase a generic IT Company or stakeholders may wish to create more wealth based off capital, may be looking for a customer user base to acquire or economic analysis may also show that the market entered by the company is no longer attractive and as such needs to change their growth strategy or contemplate M&A…
There will be a LED & Lighting / RF & Wireless Design forum on March 24th at The Moller Centre, next to Churchill College. Supported by Cambridge Nanotherm, Binder, Coilcraft, Ineltek, Linear Technologies, Outsource Electronics, Rutronik, Yokogawa, EBV, Analog Devices, APC Hero, TUV SUD, Microchip, Solid State Supplies, Institute of Engineering Designers and the Women’s Engineering Society, entry is free. The event is for Engineers only and will include, breakfast, lunch, and all day refreshments. There will be free wifi and parking. To attend a proven format of morning Technical Presentations, afternoon Technical Workshops and all day networking and desktop exhibition area, go to http://www.motiv8forums.com/attendee-2015.html
Take a look at our fabulous info-graphic depicting statistics and facts of women in STEM For the full info-graphic... http://bit.ly/1EzUjPj
The IET's Cambridge Network will be manning a stand in the small hall at the Guildhall on Saturday 14 March. The objective is to communicate engineering and technology to a wide audience. There will be kits for young children to build and take away torches, education packs for teachers and interactive equipment for children and young adults to use. Come and meet the IET Cambridge Network of Engineers - we would be pleased to meet you.
