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5G Has Arrived!

The 7th conference on 5G was designed to be a celebration of the consumer launch of 5G and with a sell-out event, the conference, held again at Savoy Place, London, certainly had a festive atmosphere! Speakers from BT, Digital Catapult, BBC and University of Bristol, gave a whistle stop tour of the current landscape in 5G. Delegates were treated to real world examples of how 5G is being deployed including a BBC broadcast done purely via 5G from just down the road in Covent Garden. In the afternoon the delegates got the chance to see 5G technology at work up close with demos from Blu Wireless, Dassault Systemes, University of Sussex and the BBC. If you weren’t able to join us the videos of some of the speakers are up on IET.tv At the end of the conference, conversation turned to the future…

Former Staff Member
AI Slides

The slides presented by Rupert Thomas at the recent AI talk are now available at https://slides.com/rupertthomas

David Blake
Dai Hitchings

We mourn the sad loss of Dai, a committed member of the IET. An obituary has been published.Dai's obituary can be found here . https://www.theiet.org/membership/member-news/obituaries/obituary-news/dr-david-james-hitchings-bsc-hons-msc-phd-ceng-fiet-october-1943-december-2019/

Samuel Wane
Midlands Power Group - Challenge Of Electrical Integration In Electrified Railways

On Wednesday 29th January 2020, the Midlands Power Group were delighted to host a talk by Dr Roger White, Director of Rail Electrification Consultancy, on the challenges of achieving electrical integration on modern railway networks. The talk considered the Why, What, How and When questions that must be addressed whenever modern electric railways are designed and constructed.An audience of over 65 attendees at IET Austin Court enjoyed an informative and well illustrated talk on the undesirable effects of failure to adequately plan, design, coordinate and control the multitude of electrical systems and infrastructure on the railways. Roger summarised the consequences as Danger, Damage, Disruption and Downtime (the four D's) with the worst instances becoming "Black Swan" events with potentially…

David Swanson in Railways
Midlands Power Group Event - Electromagnetic Compatibility - Who, What, Why & When

On Wednesday, 31st October 2018, the Midlands Power Group were delighted to welcome Dr Rob Armstrong, Expert Services Manager at Eurofins York to Austin Court to deliver a presentation on Electromagnetic Compatibility with a strong focus on the management of EMC in the railway sector.Rob gave the 60 or so attendees an informative insight into the challenges arising from EMC and views on the legislation and regulations are in place to prevent adverse consequences of uncontrolled electromagnetic emissions, The talk started by explaining the electromagnetic spectrum and the range of frequencies applicable to EMC and then proceeded to explain what EMC is and how it was legally regulated. This provided a good platform to outline how equipment should be designed to be EMC compliant - essentially…

David Swanson
Yorkshire And The Humber Newsletter - Winter-Spring 2020

Yorkshire and the Humber Newsletter ('flipbook’ version)

Chun Yang
Innovation Management Technical Network

Helloo! I’m pleased to share an update with you re The IET’s Innovation Management Technical Network that was formed in 2019! I will be using this space to update and give you a chance to share your comments which i will share with the committee. The Technical Network was created following an invite only scoping event we held with the network’s stakeholders.The scoping event provided the valuable feedback to enable us to shape the aims and topics.Thank you to all those who expressed interest in joining the first committee, we have been fortunate to receive a lot interest to join which made the decision challenging. Our stakeholders are important to us, and i will use this blog to update you with key updates. This blog is a starting point for us and would like to see the online network grow…

AndreaL
Successful Tech Talk On The Topic Of Metamaterials And Metasurfaces Hosted By Ottawa LN

The Ottawa Local Network was pleased to host a Tech Talk by Dr Shulabh Gupta, Associate Professor at Carleton University. Dr Gupta currently focuses his research in high gain antennas, electromagnetic metamaterials and their applied physics applications ranging from mm-wave to optics. Following a welcome by David Mann, Dr Gupta gave an interesting talk explaining the difference between metamaterials and metasurfaces, and talked around their potential applications in network optimization and in-building targeting as well as future potential applications in defence where EM camouflaging is a key research area. Dr Gupta was able to explain these applications clearly, and there was a lively discussion around potential applications as well as ‘future developments’ where active metasurfaces could…

Graeme Allan
Award Ceremony For IET West Yorkshire Local Network Prizes For Student Excellence 9th December, Wakefield College

Jeffrey Utley MBE has presented a 2019 IET Local Network Prize for Student Excellence to Charlie Exley who is studying at Wakefield College. Congratualtions to Charlie on this fantastic achievement! Universities or colleges without an accredited programme can nominate a student for the Local Network Prize for having achieved excellence on their course. The prize winner receives £250.

Oliver Clarke
PATW Competition Châlons-en-Champagne

A short report on the IET French Network participation in the PATW competition.On 7th January 2020, four IET French Network volunteers went to the Arts & Métiers in Châlons-en-Champagne to assist the On Campus group with the PATW competition and IET Day. 2 volunteers, Phil Dunbar and Paul Poncelet acted as judges for the PATW competition, along with Eleanor Asprey from ThincLab, a business incubator. There were four entrants, giving presentations on Balancing off-shore wind turbines, Electricity generation for low-tech communities, Artificial heart solutions and Computer vision. The presentations were all made to a high standard, and were very interesting, provoking questions to probe the entrants' knowledge of their chosen subject, which they all handled well. All the judges results were very…

Phil Dunbar
Global Digital Tax - About Time ?

As globalaisation moved into regionalisation, so did all associated business flows. In yesteryears logic, as businesses evolve so should have the understanding of tangible assets. Well, with modern Internet and connectivity, can intangible assets and their services be re defined? should they be? If they are reviewed with monetisation in mind, then digital regionalisation services are going to boost contributions towards civic society as the tax collected benefits regional needs (Get rid of all the pot holes, books for schools, aging society concerns and better access to higher education and such like needs as required). Yes, this will push gateway-providers to earn their competitive edge through new innovations to better serve the localisations. Even with the Sugar Tax - economics 101 presumes…

Rimesh Patel in Globalisation
STEM Events

Form The Future, based in Cambridge, are looking for interested volunteers to help at STEM events around the Cambridge area. You do not have to be DBS cleared to help out with these events. For further details, email Cecile Freby , cfreby@formthefuture.org.uk

David Blake
Chair's Address - A Certified Machinery Safety Expert's View of Risk Assessment By Craig Smith

We are pleased to announce that we are launching the 2020 Session with this lecture to be delivered by our incoming Chair, Mr Craig Smith. The event will be held in the Faraday Lecture Theatre, Swansea University Park Campus, SA2 8PP on Thursday 30th January 2020. The Lecture starts at 7:00 pm and Refreshments and Networking will be possible from 6:30. Summary of Talk Many machinery risk assessments, although providing large amounts of data, can be difficult to use when trying to translate into a safety system: specification and design. Here a certified machinery safety expert will, following an explanation of the methodology, use an example machine in order to develop a risk assessment which can easily be translated into a control system specification and design. Joining instructions Attendance…

Chris Jobling
Fire Safety And Fire Safety Management In Offices

The IET Cyprus Network in cooperation with the Limassol Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Department of Inspection Labour successfully organized a lecture entitled Fire Safety and Fire Safety Management in Offices .The event was hosted on Wednesday the 15th of January at the premises of the Limassol Chamber of Commerce and Industry The speakers were: Dr Klelia Petrou - Fire Engineer from FABS (Fire and Accessibility Buildings Safety) Avgoustinos Hadjiyiannis – Director FSTP (Fire Safety Training Providers)

Christos Christou
Book Now: To Infinity And Beyond!

There is only a month left to get your tickets for this conference on preserving and promoting the records of Britain's aviation and aerospace heritage, organised by the Aviation and Aerospace Archives Initiative.This conference is for for anyone interested in the history of aviation, or hold archives relating to aviation and aerospace and may want more advice and/or just to meet others in the field passionate about keeping these valuable records and promoting their use. The cost is only £12 inc VAT and lunch! The Initiative wants to meet you so do come along and say hello. The conference is held at Aerospace Bristol on 12 February 2020, please see this link for further details and to book: https://www.aviationarchives.uk/page-1016834.html

Anne Locker
Project Controls Webinar Series 2020

Project Control Network are organising a series of webinars during 2020 which will give an insight into project controls to those who are new to working within project teams, or those who have an interest in projects and project controls. The webinars will provide an understanding of how a project is set up and controlled including how it is governed, how costs, scope, and timing are determined and controlled, how change is managed, and how risks and issues are managed. It will explain the tools used to control projects, measure progress, and spot deviation to bring the project back under control. Introduction and Overview: will explain the context and need for project controls and the consequences of lack of control or poor control, it will explain what the main topics are within Project Controls…

Joanne Longton
Present Around The World (PATW) Competition 2020

The IET Cyprus Network hosts its annual global competition for young Professionals and Students within engineering to develop and showcase their presentation skills.All you have to do is give a 10-minute presentation on an engineering or technology related subject, followed by a short question and answer session. The participants should be between 18 – 30 years of age to enter and is open to both IET members and non-members. There are prizes for the winners and the runner ups and certificates for all participants. To enter you will need to write a short abstract (maximum 1 side of A4 page) describing the proposed subject of your presentation; your talk can be about anything related to the field of technology or engineering. All these must be in the English language. More information on the…

Alkis Spyrou
5th Global Ranking Innovative Country in the world is.. the UK !

Innovating is not just about that brilliant idea, its about the entire ecosystem required to make that innovative idea be delivered within industry - discussed Dr Ian Campbell from Innovate UK at the January IET Central London Network evening lecture. The best thing since sliced bread ? Bacteria based yogurts ? Meat free meat ? Internet Satellite Balloons ? These all needed entire infrastructure mechanisms to make the innovation be market viable and thats exactly what Innovate UK is about. No matter what stage your invention is at, they have the resources and contacts to make your innovation journey be realised far quicker. From Quantum Technologies being used for roadwork management, blood serum analysis, hydrogen fulled unmanned vehicle, non artificial human skin and many more examples -…

Rimesh Patel
Announcing The Winner Of Our PhD Award 2019

Hushed excitement builds..... It gives me great pleasure to announce that our 2019 winner is Michael Hutchinson Michael received his MEng degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Loughborough University, in 2015, and received his PhD degree in Autonomous Systems and Robotics at the same institution in 2019, under the supervision of Dr Cunjia Liu and Prof Wen-Hua Chen in the Autonomous Systems Laboratory of the Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering. Michael’s doctoral thesis was focused on Bayesian estimation and informative path planning for inverse problems, with application towards autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle based emergency response to hazardous material (HAZMAT) situations. His thesis features several novel outcomes including examples of experimental results achieved…

Joanne Longton in Robotics
Innovate UK: Investing In Innovation (IET Central London Network)

"Collaboration is key to innovation" explained Dr Ian Campbell Interim Executive Chair, Innovate UK - Interim Executive at the 'Innovate UK: Investing in Innovation' IET Central London Evening Lecture held at IET Savoy Place. The UK has excellent academic and research ideas which allow it to be ranked 5th in the Global Innovation Index, however we can do more, and its just that what Innovate UK is currently helping many inventors, entrepreneurs and business founders do (oh, and the Venture Capitalists).Innovate UK, is not only helping to bridge business gaps, but itself, has taken a lead role in ensuring the entire circular economic proposition of the solution is accommodated. So not only funding the product cycle process, but they enable entire supply networks to be stood up for swifter go…

Rimesh Patel
ICEC-AAQS Conference 2020 Call For Abstracts

The Ghana Institution of Surveyors (GHIS) is proud to host the joint conference for the International Cost Engineering Council (ICEC) and the Africa Association of Quantity Surveyors (AAQS) in October 2020.The conference is expected to attract over 400 local and international participants from a variety of professions including: Quantity Surveyors Cost Planners Cost Engineers and managers Project Managers Contract Administrators Other allied professions Researchers and industry practitioners are invited to submit abstracts for industry and academic presentations for the upcoming ICEC-AAQS 2020 Conference. We are seeking abstracts submissions that will provoke debate, stimulate discussion, offer new ideas,learning and/or encourage the dissemination of research findings. All contributions should…

Joanne Longton
V&I TN Tech Award at ICDP-19

The University of Westminster and the IET's Vision and Imaging Technical Network worked to organise this event in its 9th iteration.As well as 3 days of interesting talks and demos, The Vision and Imaging Network gave awards to the best technology demo in the field of Vision and Imaging. Each submission was judged on the basis of technical excellence, value of the work to the wider community and public benefit, implementation of the idea and business potential. The finalists, who were invited to take part in a final dedicated demonstration session during ICDP 2019, were: Authors Title Organisation Xing Liang, Anastasia Angelopoulou, Epaminondas Kapetanios, Bencie Woll and Reda Batat Machine Learning for Enhancing Dementia Screening in Ageing Deaf Signers of British Sign Language University…

Former Staff Member
S.P. Thompson Pamphlets: Electric Clocks

The Silvanus Phillips Thompson pamphlet collection was collated and arranged by Thompson, the former President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) and professor of physics at the City and Guilds Technical College in London. The collection covers a wide range of topics in physics and chemistry including electrical horology. Particularly, a box titled: ‘Electric Clocks and Time-Indication III’ (UK0108 SPT/P/I/065), illuminates Thompson’s interest in electrical synchronised clocks and his involvement in the Synchronome Syndicate Limited. It includes correspondence and pamphlets from the Synchronome Syndicate Limited and the Synchronome Company Limited. Synchronome System and S.P Thompson Frank Hope-Jones met George Bennett Bowell during their time at the Hope-Jones Organ Company.…

IET Library
2019 Extended Season At Wales South West

Thank you to our # Volunteers and all who took part to make a brilliant 2019 IET Wales South West also celebrating the Centenary of the Women's Engineering Society. 11 events, >400 attendees, 25 hours of CPD offered. See the comments for the full summary of events! # Engineering # STEM The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) WES The story is told better in pictures, with the summaries of each of the events.

Susan Jones

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