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  • Translink NI Railways Adelaide Maintenance Facility Tour

    What does it take to keep Translink’s fleet of over 40 modern diesel trains on the tracks? What does it take to keep Translink’s fleet of over 40 modern diesel trains on the tracks? Well, on Wednesday 14 th November, a group from the IET Northern Ireland found out as they were welcomed into Translink’s £28M Maintenance Facility at Adelaide. Led by Richard Noble, Head of Rail Fleet Engineering at NI Railways, the group glimpsed inside the state of the art facilities that come to life each night to keep the wheels in motion on Translink’s Modern fleet of CAF 3000 and 4000 series DMUs. Built in 2012, the Adelaide facility has been designed exclusively for the maintenance of this fleet, and members were afforded a guided tour of all that is involved. From the main maintenance area where entire…

    Eoin McGread
    Eoin McGread

  • AGM - IET South Australia And Northern Territory Local Network

    Annual General Meeting (AGM) The Institution of Engineering and Technology  South Australia and Northern Territory Local Network The AGM will include the election for all 2019 Committee positions. Nominations are now open. For all nominations and questions please email theietsant@gmail.com Positions Below:   Local Network Chairperson Vice-Chairperson and Secretary Treasurer Immediate-Past Chairperson PATW Coordinator Event Planner and JTP Coordinator Young Professional Representative (Chairperson) Communications Manager Lifeskills Manager Professional Registration Coordinator Retired Engineers Group Member University Engagement Manager STEM Coordinator Women In Engineering Coordinator Professional Networking Event Coordinator     Young Professionals Committee Chairperson Vice-Chairperson Secretary…

    James Mitchell
    James Mitchell

  • North Yorkshire LN supports Engineering Extravaganza

    On 6th November North Yorkshire LN supported the Engineering Extravaganza at the National Stem Centre in York. The IET was one of four PEIs at the event again this year. The challenge set for the children from 4 schools was to design and test a parachute for a Mars Rover lander. The parachutes were made with simple materials and descents timed with a Microbit. The event generated a lot of interest and competition between teams, and great fun was had by all.

    Paul Broadberry
    Paul Broadberry

  • Impact Of The 18th Addition Of The IET Wiring Regulations (IET London Network - Savoy Place).

    So let’s think this through... You probably have multiple smart devices you interact with daily - they are only as good as the battery life of the device, so you need to plug in and charge up. The more things we plug in, the more electricity that is drawn. That’s fine for USB style devices (most IoT devices), but it seems like industry 4.0 is driving the use of technology beyond just smart entertainment. Car manufacturers are finally ready to team up with software houses to build the next electric vehicle within their traditional car plants, or some disruptors/challengers are ready to sell their white label solutions to car manufactures. Either way, smart devices are augmenting their needs into traditional manufacturing services which means the risk appetite for the use of electrical components…

    Rimesh Patel
    Rimesh Patel

  • Topical Event - Artifical Intelligence: The Inside Story

    On Halloween, IET WA hosted the first of a series of topical presentations on a subject that has until now been shrouded in mystery and mathematical horror. Artificial Intelligence: The Inside Story.Hi, I’m Ashleigh, one of the presenters, who along with my co-presenter Dr Walter Green delivered a seminar that provided insight into the mysteries of AI and its wider implications to engineers and society as a whole. The goal of this seminar was to bring together students and professionals both young and old, to deliver some real understanding on a topic that is often daunting to behold. We also wanted to bring these students and professionals together for an evening of networking, giving them the opportunity to talk to others with similar interests. You didn’t have to be involved with the IET…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Annual Dinner

    Sixty people attended the IET Coventry and Warwickshire Annual Dinner on Thursday, 15th. November, hosted by our Chair, Orla Murphy, twice winner of the Young Woman Engineer Of The Year Award and a senior engineer at Jaguar Land Rover.   Sixty people attended the IET Coventry and Warwickshire Annual Dinner on Thursday, 15th. November, a gourmet repast prepared by trainee chefs supported by first year students as waiters, etc. The evening was hosted by our Chair, Orla Murphy, twice winner of the Young Woman Engineer Of The Year Award and a senior engineer at Jaguar Land Rover. A fantastic meal enjoyed by guests from local industry, by our event speakers, by local educationalists and, not least, by students from WMG Academy for Young Engineers who presented their Greenpower Car project. The three…

  • Another Enjoyable Local Lecture

    We held another Successful event at Wiltshire UTC on Tuesday which saw 48 attendees for The Practicalities of Implementing Autonomous Driving Cars Lecture by Ray Marshall from NXP. 90% of car accidents are a result of human error and with 1.3 million road traffic deaths each year, the race to self driving vehicles is on but with an incomprehensible amount of data processing (and therefore hardware) required, will the full level 5 of self driving be fully realised with a reasonable ECU size and acceptable power consumption by 2049?

    Anna Gilbert
    Anna Gilbert

  • Global Challenge

    The IET, in partnership with Greenpeace and Green Seas, have launched a competition for 18 to 35 year olds to develop an innovative solution to the real world problem of plastic waste in the oceans.  For further details and to enter the competion, go to https://events.theiet.org/global-challenge/index.cfm??utm_source=redirect&utm_medium=any&utm_campaign=global-challenge

    David Blake
    David Blake

  • Can You Solve Our Plastic Problem?

    We’re calling for students and young professionals to help solve the ever-growing issue of plastic pollution, as part of this year’s IET Global Challenge.  We’ve got a problem According to Greenpeace, “our oceans are slowly turning into a plastic soup”. Part of the problem is single-use plastic, which on a daily basis we use and throw away. It means huge amounts of plastic, which can take hundreds of years to break down, are entering our oceans. A large proportion of plastic in our oceans is also due to “improperly disposed of rubbish, careless littering and accidental propagation by winds, drains and floods”, says environmental charity GreenSeas Trust.   Cigarette butts, for example, contain a form of plastic known as cellulose acetate. This is recyclable, but is ending up in our oceans as…

  • Present Around The World: “I Thought My Location Would Stop Me From Competing”

    When Nabeel moved to the USA, he wanted to participate in the IET’s presentation competition for students and young professionals, but couldn’t find a heat close to where he lived.  After a little investigation, he found that for the first time we were running an online heat.   This allows competitors to submit a video entry (rather than present at an event) in the first round of the competition. It’s especially for those who live too far away or have inadequate transport links to our local events.  Returning to PATW Nabeel had thought about entering PATW ever since his first experience of the competition, as an undergraduate student in India.  “In 2012, I won runner-up position at the regional finals, representing North India,” he explains. “It was a big boost to my confidence and I met some…

  • E Is For Events And Seminars – CPD Resources (TWAVES)

    Enjoy face-to-face events and seminars where you can interact, gather information and network. Attending these events makes it easier to express our views, emotions as well as exchange ideas by using our voice, body language. There is just some kind of energy that makes things more exciting. As we tend to spend a lot of time on our phones, in front of a computer, TV etc., it might be worth doing something outside of our comfort zone to fully appreciate the value of a real-time experience. However, as it is not always possible to attend a face-to-face event, many of them are streamed live online so you don’t even have to leave your home to participate. It is a very convenient, quite often cost-effective and less time-consuming way of ‘’attending’’ and you can also go back to an online version…

    Matylda
    Matylda

  • New Exhibition To Celebrate Women In Engineering Opens At IET London Savoy Place!

    The IET has launched an exciting new exhibition at Savoy Place, which aims to raise awareness and celebrate the achievements of women in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) to inspire both current and future engineering and technology professionals. Located in the Watson Watt and Mountbatten rooms for the next 12 months, visitors can explore the posters and exhibits which feature women in engineering and their contribution to the field. The Watson Watt exhibition takes a retrospective look back through the archives at the rich history of women in engineering, celebrating the trailblazers, women on the move and the engineering and technical discoveries made by women. The exhibit in the Mountbatten room showcases modern day discoveries and celebrates current female engineering…

    Lisa Miles
    Lisa Miles

  • IET Victoria Network Chairman Message

    Dear Friends and Colleagues, Welcome to the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) Victoria Local Network. As the network’s Chairman, it gives me great pleasure in welcoming you to this year’s program of events which I hope you’ll enjoy and find informative. The IET is one of the world’s largest engineering institutions, with over 168,000 members in 150 countries. It is also the most multidisciplinary, reflecting the increasingly diverse nature of engineering in the 21st century. The IET is working to engineer a better world by inspiring, informing and influencing our members, engineers and technicians, and all those who are touched by, or touch, the work of engineers. The IET has a presence in all states of Australia, with each state having its own network.  The IET Victoria Local…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • IET Victoria Network Committee 2018 - 19

    2018 - 19 Victoria Network Committee Chairman                                                 Mr R aj Ranasinghe Vice-Chairman                                         Dr Sashi Sivathasan Secretary                                                 Mr Mahinda Wickramasuriya Treasurer                                                 Mrs Michelle Zhao Professional Registration Adviser (IPRA)   Dr Sashi Sivathasan YPS Chairman                                         Mr Ludovic Grosjean Committee Member                                  Mr Jonathan Brown Committee Member & IPRA                      Mr Jana Ratnasabapathy Committee Member                                  Dr Priyantha Karunadasa                                                        Committee Member                                  Mr

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Living In The Internet Of Things - Call For Papers

    Realising the socioeconomic benefits of an interconnected world.  An IET & PETRAS Conference & Exhibition - 1 - 2 May 2019, IET London: Savoy Place   Conference scope   This conference focuses on realising the socioeconomic benefits of an interconnected world. It is distinctively concerned with a range of sociotechnical issues, the scope including privacy, ethics, trust, and acceptability, as well as security, safety and resilience, in the Internet of Things. The topics listed are examples but not an exhaustive list. In all cases we welcome abstracts which focus on specific domains, e.g. industrial IoT, healthcare, home, entertainment (toys and games), transport, buildings, cities, energy, environment, manufacturing, creative economy, space, robotics, industrial control and critical infrastructure…

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • Changing For The Future Of Safety

    Over the past year, the Executive Committee has reviewed the scope and the direction of the Functional Safety Technical and Professional Network (TPN).  We want the network to stay relevant to the Safety community, by covering a wider remit and broadening our vision. Safety has a key part to play in the IET technical structure and we want the TPN to have a key role. We decided to change our name to the System Safety Engineering TPN to reflect this.   Why Change?     We had concerns about what the Functional Safety TPN is about, what it is and where it is going.     Pockets of good things were happening, but no cohesion or direction.     We want a broader vision: not just Functional Safety, but wider systems engineering aspects.     Professional registration is changing and we need to better…

    James Inge
    James Inge

  • Annual Event 25-26 October

    Final speaker announcement - Jonathan Speed! Bio : Jonathan Speed is a Design and Development Engineer within the Accelerator Design division at ISIS neutron and muon source. Currently, the main projects he is working on include the procurement of new dipole coils for the ISIS main bending magnets, design of a new RF ion source and the production of a new busbar system for the injection kicker magnets. Prior to working at ISIS, he worked as an electromechanical engineer in the Normal Conducting Magnets section at CERN. Synopsis : After decades of reliable operation, over the last 15 years, the mica-glass fibre insulated coils for the ISIS main dipoles have begun to fail. The ISIS accelerator accelerates bunches of protons to 800 MeV 50 times per second. This high frequency leads to high voltages…

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • IUOC TECHNICAL VISIT TO BRUNEI SHELL PETROLEUM

    Monday, 15th October 2018, Seria - 19 student members of IET from Universiti Teknologi Brunei (UTB) have conducted a technical visit to Brunei Shell Petroleum Seria Crude Oil Terminal (BSP SCOT).The session started with safety briefing, followed by explanation of procedures and processes that undergoes in SCOT to the students. Then, they were given a tour around the area together with various fuel tanks in sight along the way. The visit ended with a group photo with BSP personnel.

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Congratulations To Chin Xin Ying, Recipient Of IET Brunei Local Network Prize

    We would like to extend our heartfelt congratulations to Chin Xin Ying for receiving the IET Local Network Prize.Chin Xin Ying, a graduate from Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) in Civil and Structural Engineering, was presented the award by Dato Seri Setia Awang Haji Hamzah Bin Haji Sulaiman, Ministry of Education Brunei Darussalam, during Universiti Teknologi Brunei (UTB) 6th Convocation ceremony 2018 last month. The IET Local Network Prize is an award sponsored by IET Brunei Local Network in celebration the achievement of the best graduate in UTB during convocation ceremony. During the ceremony, UTB presented Certificate of Appreciation to Lt Col (U) Schufin Bin Haji Brahim, Chairperson of IET Brunei Local Network, for the sponsorship of the IET Local Network Prize.

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • IET Volunteering Opportunities In Dorset And South Wiltshire

    Are you interested in getting more involved with the IET in your local area? The Dorset and South Wiltshire LN are currently looking for new volunteers to join the committee. There are a number of opportunities available, from simply attending committee meetings to bring new ideas to the table, through to the organising, running and promoting of events. What are the benefits? By becoming a LN volunteer, you will be able to:  learn new skills; gain more awareness of SET topics; put forth suggestions for events; network and make new connections; count your activity towards CPD (Continuing Professional Development); help your Local Network remain vibrant; be affiliated with a professional international body. If you have an interest in raising awareness of science, engineering and technology in…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Review of 2017/18 and Preview of 2018/19

    At the start of the first talk of the season outgoing chair Chris Jobling gave a quick review of the 2017/2018 season and incoming chair Susan Jones gave a preview of the year ahead. Here are the slides should you want a memo.

    Chris Jobling
    Chris Jobling

  • Looking Back. 2017-2018 Wales South West Local Network Chair's Report

    It's an honour to be elected as a chair of an IET local network, and I was honoured to serve the Wales South West Local Network in 2017-2018. As I prepare to hand over the baton to my successor, Ms Susan Jones, at tonight's October Lecture on Environmental Management Technologies   I have the opportunity the reflect on the year just gone and mention some of my personal highlights.It's an honour to be elected as a chair of an IET local network, and I was honoured to serve the Wales South West Local Network in 2017-2018. As I prepare to hand over the baton to my successor, Ms Susan Jones, at tonight's October Lecture on Environmental Management Technologies   I have the opportunity the reflect on the year just gone and mention some of my personal highlights. In my day job, I'm an academic working…

    Chris Jobling
    Chris Jobling

  • Formula North Student Design Competition

    With an aim of getting more young future technical professionals to involve with IET Toronto Local Network, I am happy to announce that we will sponsor the student group at Ryerson University to enter their Car Design Project in the Formula North 2019 event in Barrie, Ontario, Canada. Good luck to Ryerson student group!

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • IET Fellow’s Experience As An Engineer With Dyslexia

    Brian Back, in spite of his dyslexia, is enjoying an engineering career that has spanned 40 years. He’s pioneered projects such as a wide area smart metering AMR network, a rail temperature monitoring system and most recently, a real-time sewer level and sewer overflow monitoring system. Pursuing an education Brian’s career started at 16 as an apprentice power engineer with Hawker Siddeley. But due to the lack of a GCSE in English, he had to take his education one step at a time. “During my early career, dyslexia was a serious barrier, as educational admission boards would automatically say no at the lack of a formal English qualification. Dyslexia was never mentioned as little was known about it in those days,” he says. “Time and time again, I had to visit in person and plead with heads of…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

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