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University Of Kent School Of Engineering And Digital Arts Graduate Reception And Prize Giving 2019

Chris Read BSc CEng MIET, from IET Kent, presented Camilla Felici with the IET Prize at the Univerity of Kent School of Engineering and Digital Arts Graduate Reception and Prize Giving, held on 18th July 2019. This is a National Prize awarded for Distinction by a Final Year Student on an IET Accredited Course. The prize is two years free IET membership and is open to all undergraduates on IET accredited courses.

Brian Dury
Final Countdown to the IET’s Engineering Open House Day!

If you’re looking for an educational and fun day out for young people with inquisitive minds during the summer holidays, then this year’s Engineering Open House Day could be for you.We’re counting down to the IET Engineering Open House Day (Friday 26 July), which will see a range of events and interactive workshops take place across the UK. Now in its fifth year, Engineering Open House Day aims to showcase engineering and technology as a positive career choice. The IET is teaming up with well-known organisations and venues to welcome young people and their parents to experience the engineering and technology at the heart of these brands firsthand. The IET’s very own IET London: Savoy Place is one of the many venues taking part with a range of interactive exhibits on show from the likes of Kids…

EngX Editorial
IET NorCal and Girl Scouts work together to support STEM program.

For their annual Girl Scout Camporee, IET NorCal provided the Crestablanca service unit of Girl Scouts NorCal with Microbits designed by the MicroBit foundation as part of the STEM program. The Scouts has a great time learning and playing with the computers as seen in the photos. Feel free to comment here or on our twitter feed!

Allan Casey
Science Festival

The IET Cambridge Network will have a stand at the Cambridge Science Festival over the weekend of 14 and 15 March 2020. If you are able to help out by being on the stand for a couple of hours or even the full two days, then please email cambsec@gmx.com. A good experience and expect lots of questions from students and the public.

David Blake
Who's Watching Who? (IET JLB Lecture)

"Data enabled products with 2 way interactions enables better consumer recommendations" was just one of the discussion points the panel speakers reviewed. Peter Docherty (CTO, ThinkAnalytics), Simon Parnall (Principal Advisor Broadcast Technology, Ofcom), Barry Flynn (Senior Lecturer, University of Westminster London), Jamie West (Deputy Managing Director, Sky Media UK) and Phil Haggar (Digital broadcast and streaming consultant) talked about how the evolution of managed networks to non-managed networks is now creating immense opportunity (and value) for quality content consumption models. Simple examples were given such as how adverts are only delivered when the target audience is 'online' and not on pre allocated viewing slots. Smart tracking (with consent), can give a completely personalised…

Rimesh Patel
Thank You IET Toronto Local Network! -- from Stan Thurger Award recipient

A thank you note from the 2019 Stan Thurger Award recipient, Vincent Hasbun. "......This award helps me to keep my morale up in school. There were times during my past 3 semesters of school where I felt stressed and discouraged. I am glad that my effort during the past 3 semesters was recognized, and I learned to never give up.My career goals are not completely defined yet. I am interested in working in the energy sector, I know there will be a lot of change in that area in the future. Thank you again for donating the award, it means a lot to me.”

Former Community Member
IET International ACEiC 2019: International Automation & Control Enhancing Innovation Competition 2019

I would like to bring to the attention of LNs from Asia Pacific region about an event organised by IET Malaysia LN in collaboration with Automation & Control Technical Professional Network (TPN).IET International ACEiC 2019 is a competition participate by postgraduate and undergraduate students from international and local universities under the guidance of a lecturer/professor. This competition is designed as one of the efforts to minimize the gap between the university and industry player mainly in automation and control industry. Participants are encouraged to apply their knowledge to create a functional prototype in addressing industrial problems based on the development in available technologies, but are not limited to Internet of Things, programming skills, robotics and automation. For…

Siong Tang
Pesentation slides-Harnessing Offshore Wind Energy

Please see the previous blog post in this for the presentation slides!

Samuel Wane
Staffs Uni Graduation winners

Rod Dawes kindly presented the Edward Riddel Shield to Graduates who won academic achievement in their course yesterday at Trentham Gardens.

Samuel Wane
WES Centenary Celebration Event Held At The Cutlers Hall In Sheffield On 27th June 2019.

The local SY Joint PEI committee agreed to hold a special event on the 27th June 2019 to recognise and celebrate the centenary of the Women's Engineering Society (WES) The venue chosen for this event was the Cutlers Hall located in the center of Sheffield. To celebrate this event, the committee sought to find a series of high profile women who could deliver key note presentations and support a Networking session in the second session of the event. Samantha Hubbard BEng (Hon) IEng MIET from the IET was selected as host for the event with guest speakers; Dr Kirsty Clode chair of the WiME; Dr Carolyn Griffiths CEng FIMechE FREng & Pam Liversidge OBE DL FReng. Sam Hubbard gave a lively & interesting overview of her personal background & career to date. She then introduced each guest speaker who…

Alan Chater
IET: John Logie Baird Lecture - Who’s Watching Who?

Data has become the currency of the modern Internet age, encompassing our offline life, online life and entertainment experiences for analysis, targeting, recommendation, addressability, usage analysis, and operational support. This data is exposed in both directions, both towards the consumer of services and the provider of services and occurs everywhere to the extent that we are now the most surveilled society ever, without everyone really understanding this. The lecture will bring together key protagonists in this new world, from all perspectives (Broadcasters, Content Originators, Platform Operators/MVPDs, Operational Support, Recommendation providers, Advertisers, Technology Vendors and the users of systems (the audience!)) for an interactive presentation about TV viewing data and to discuss…

Ian Nock
NAB Retrospective

It has been over three months since NAB2019 in Las Vegas which I thought was a suitable time to look back at the event and what has been the key themes that stemmed from it. ATSC3.0 A big focus was ATSC3.0, which is almost a perennial discussion. The key change this year though is that actual field tests have actually taken place in the US in May , as well as the beginning of the FCC issuing of licenses . At the conference itself ATSC3.0 was declared ‘Ready for Deployment’ which was somewhat old news as it has been already deployed in South Korea in 2017 but that is countered by the somewhat big lack of devices that support the standard outside of Korea. What does ATSC3.0 bring to the TV entertainment sphere? Well if I want to be somewhat critical it brings the digital enhancements of DVB…

Ian Nock
NASA Lecture: Space Is The Place (IET London Network)

Dr. Ravi N. Margasahayam, M.S., M.B.A, Co-Chair for Ground Safety Review Panel (GSRP) - NASA, gave an inspirational talk on the value of innovation and how thinking different is the best way to fix problems. His talk described the different challenges he has encountered over the years and how space exploration has given him opportunity to create multi-tiered solution models. These innovation equations have developed into team collaboration methods within NASA, where bedrock principles help define organisational excellence. Specifically, he talked about how lessons learned are crucial in ensuring technology innovations remains relevant not only for the team but for the entire industry. He showed many videos, one in particular was how NASA has robot teams (Yeap) and that if the land vehicle cannot…

Rimesh Patel in Space
Big Bang Doncaster Racecourse 25th June 2019

IET SYLN were once again able to support and co-sponsor the overall the Big Bang event held at the Doncaster Racecourse on the 25th June 2019 This is an annual event set up by the area STEM Hub DEBP Ltd and attracted over 4000 schoolchildren from around the South Yorkshire region and some from beyond. The opportunity for the schools is excellent in terms of being able to look at many aspects of engineering and manufacturing and discuss with exhibitors about their roles and the businesses organisations they represent. To take away a much better and well informed understanding about the engineering profession when making choices about careers. The IET SYLN stand was led by our School Liaison Officer Layla Graham & supported by main committee members John Lawrence our current chairman, Alan Chater…

Alan Chater
(updated) Two Teams From Malaysia Shortlisted For IET Global Challenge

Two teams from Malaysia had been shortlisted for IET Global Challenge 2018/19. Organized in partnership with Greenpeace and GreenSeas, the IET Global Challenge is a competition for 18 to 35-year-olds to develop an innovative solution to tackle the problem of plastic waste in the oceans. The Greenpeace challenge required participants to propose a practical way to reduce overall use of packaging, eliminate single-use plastic packaging by 2025, and introduce more reusable packaging formats. Meanwhile, to qualify into the GreenSeas challenge, participants should create a remotely-controlled all-terrain machine that is capable of moving up and down the beach for a reasonable amount of time, picking up cigarette butts from the surface of the sand and collecting them in a chamber or hopper. The Malaysian…

LING TING RANG (PETER)
Aeronautical & Automotive Winners At GradEX19

A member of our committee was a judge at the recent Graduate Expo at Staffordshire University (GradEx). Howard Evans, originally from Bentley and who now works as a consultant judged the students. Pictured are the winners in the Aeronautical & Automotive category presented by David Hawkins – the Dean of Creative Arts and Engineering at the University. 1 st - Dominic McCormack 2 nd - Thomas Wise 3 rd - Jacob Cullen

Samuel Wane
Time For Change: Addressing The Energy Deficit That Is Emerging Resulting From The Move To Electric Cars

With the continued decline in the auto sector I think new personal challenges (and opportunities) await ahead. The auto sector is being squeezed by several forces and all is not just Brexit related. Yes the uncertainty of the Brexit situation is a significant factor but manufacturing can always deal with change. Whilst not wishing to come down in favour of either the remain or leave position, it is the uncertainty generated during ongoing debate since the referendum by all sides of the argument that has resulted in a toxic situation in the economic, social, commercial and political spheres. This is significantly damaging our auto industry and supplier base. Far more significant though is the misinformed statements that are constantly emerging relating to diesel engines. It is beyond doubt…

Louis Redding
Three IET OCs From Malaysia Shortlisted For IET Campus Group Of The Year Award

This year, YPS Malaysia is honored to have three of its OC groups shortlisted for IET Campus Group of the Year Award. The teams are University of Southampton Malaysia OC, Swinburne Sarawak OC, and University Tunku Abdul Rahman OC. The IET On Campus Group of the Year Award is a way of recognising and rewarding the IET On Campus student group that has gone above and beyond the rest between 30 April 2018 – 30 April 2019. OCs who applied for the award were required to answer four questions, with appropriate descriptions and elaborations. Elements include: (1) Most successful event of the year (2) Most engaging social media post (3) A time the OC has collaborated (4) The greatest challenge the OC has overcome Winner will grab £1,000 to spend on an activity of their choice, and every member in the…

LING TING RANG (PETER)
Physics Education

Any Physicists or Engineers able to help with physics research? If so please please detail what you think got you through your their physics studies at https://leeds.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/doing-physics

David Blake
#IAmAnEngineer Is Our New Social Media Campaign

To mark this year’s International Women in Engineering Day, and to highlight diversity across engineering and technology – not just gender – we have today launched a new social media campaign #IAmAnEngineer, which features a variety of real-life engineers.The campaign follows new IET research that found that nearly two-thirds (64%) of British women are considering taking on careers in engineering despite there only being 12%* (Engineering UK) currently in industry. When exploring the reasons why, the IET led research found that nearly a fifth of women (17%) suggest the disparity in those thinking about pursuing engineering and those who follow through could be down to a lack of visible role models. This becomes most evident when considering the 28% of women who don’t think they’re clever enough…

EngX Editorial
Has Our Attitude To Media Changed Without Us Noticing?

Does social media enhance our experience of media? Are we less passive in our engagement with content now? What happens when large numbers of fans can communicate? Media content continues to evolve in interesting and sometimes unexpected ways. We are always being told that media is continually changing because of advances in technology. The original way that people used to consume films and TV was live – in a cinema on a screen, or at home on a TV set. Then home video-taping allowed people to time-shift, and to ‘collect’ films and TV programmes for viewing whenever they wanted. Then streaming allowed people to binge-watch an entire series on the day of release (or weeks later), and the physical ‘collecting’ of vinyl records, CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays began to fade because of the enhanced ease…

Former Community Member
The MME Department’s Annual Conference & Exhibition On 22nd May, 2019

The IET TT LN was invited by the University of the West Indies to set up a Booth at its annual MME Department’s Annual Conference & Exhibition on May 22, 2019. This event was very successful as usual, as there were many visitors to the IET TT LN Booth which was manned throughout the day by various Executives of the IET TT LN. Various IET materials were on display to market and highlight the very activities that the IET has to offer. The visitors were very impressed and show interest in becoming members of the IET.

J. Maraj
LN 'Myths busted' poster

Good day all I believe this poster was circulated in an email recently by the IET communities team. For those who missed that email, here is the link to the poster. http://email.ietinfo.org/files/amf_iet/project_1955/IET_Communities_Mythbusters_Infographic.pdf Thank you IET Communities team.

Siong Tang
Fusion – Powering The Future ? (IET Central London Network)

Dr Joe Milnes of the UKAEA (UK Atomic Energy Authority) gave a fantastic talk about how to, as he put it, make a “sun in a bottle”. A great overview was provided on the engineering challenges & how other disciplines such as materials science, computer simulation, & obviously physics, are required to solve many of these challenges alongside engineers. Given the UK government’s commitment to reduce CO2 emission by 45% by 2030 & to zero by 2050, Dr Milnes presented the advantages of fusion as an energy supply given that the fuel source is plentiful and obviously carbon free. This was balanced with a joke about it being “always 30 years away”, though optimistically he did say that he was confident that this time it really would be available within 20-30 years from now due to the research conducted…

Rimesh Patel

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