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  • IET PATW – BIRMINGHAM LOCAL HEAT

    Present Around The World (PATW) is the IET's presentation competition for students, recent graduates, apprentices and young professionals aged 18 to 30.The event is mainly to judge presentation skills so competitors are asked to give a presentation for ten minutes on any subject related to Engineering and Technology, and to answer questions for a further five minutes. This year's Birmingham local heat took place at Birmingham City University (BCU) on Thursday 26th April and despite a few organisational hiccups, the event was conducted with great success.   David Brookes Rolls-Royce Control Systems Mak Sharma Birmingham City University David Mellor Wincanton Defence & Engineering PATW Judges We had a total of 8 contestants from BCU, University of Birmingham, Rolls Royce Plc and Tata Technologies…

    Beyang Arrey
    Beyang Arrey

  • Are you looking to develop your financial management skills?

    If you are looking to improve your understanding of the terminology and gain an appreciation for the practical application of accountancy to help you develop your financial management skills, we have the perfect course for you! This three day course, which has been aligned with competence C of the Engineering Council’s UK-SPEC framework, will help you gain a deeper understanding of the financial aspects of decision making. It is great opportunity to practice combining your technical skills and commercial judgment. This course covers the following topics: Day 1 - An Engineer’s Guide to Financial Accounting  Reviewing profit and loss accounts, balance sheets, and cash flow statements; Considering sources and applications of funds in a business including assets, liabilities, expenses and revenues;…

    Kathryn Bain
    Kathryn Bain

  • Continual Professional Development at The IET.

    Make the most of your membership and use The IET features to record your continual professional development (CPD). Read on to find out how...  Here at The IET we know how important it is to keep you CPD logged and up to date. Whether you are in the midst of your career , a student or retired, we offer many ways for you to rack up those hours needed to keep registration up to date. For events and workshops that may help you please visit the events section on the website or  https://www.theiet.org/membership/career/courses/index.cfm  . If you haven't heard before, as a member of The IET, you can make use of the ' Career Manager' suite. It allows you to store all of your CPD under one roof and acts as a portfolio which is easily transferable when going through Registration, CEng, IEng and other…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • MMC TPN: Raising awareness of the IET and how we can support their industry and careers.

    TV connect 2018 gave the MMC TPN a chance to show those in the Multimedia industries that there is a home for them at the IET. Read on to see how we used this oppurtunity to inspire and inform others. TV Connect 2018 ran over 3 days starting with an IET led workshop day on Content protection and  4k/UHD/high dynamic range  by Ian Nock and Graham Turner. This gave attendees the chance to see what IET volunteers do and the expertise that lies within the TPN.  For the Following two days the MMC had an exhibition stand at the TV Connect. With an approximate attendance of 3500 people at the event we were able to talk to alot of people, some of which were members but hadnt heard about the TPN, others that wanted to know more about the IET.   Give aways and brightly colured information helped us to…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Innovation and Compliance in Asset Management (23/5/2018)

    An interesting Engineers Australia event hosted by the College of Leadership and Management, Risk Engineering Society and the Asset Management Council that examines  emerging Asset Management approaches and how they have addressed a mixture of innovation and compliance. Date & Time: Wednesday, 23 May 2018, 5.30pm to 7pm Venue: Engineers Australia, Level 31, 600 Bourke Street, Melbourne More details and registration at:  https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/Event/innovation-and-compliance-asset-management   Asset management addresses a fundamental tension between corporate and societal interests. Businesses wish to maximise profits and society wishes to ensure safety and sustainability. In some cases, this leads to business innovation in asset management moving faster than societal oversight…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Latest News (January - May 2018)

    Hi, we would like to keep you updated with the following. [1] We would like to welcome Rob  Pitelen  as the newly elected committee member for Communities Committee -  Asia Pacific (CCAP). [2] We just had a physical meeting at Singapore on 13 January 2018 at Orchard Hotel Singapore. A group photo of the CCAP committee taken after the meeting.   First row, from left to right:  Henry Chan, Alice Chan, Isabel Hui, Chia Loon Cheng Second row, from left to right:  Tang Shi Siong,  Rob Pitelen, Karla Smith,  Thomas Yi, Matthew Teow [3] The Asia Pacific regional  IET  Present Around The World ( PATW ) Competition for 2018 will be held on 18 August 2018 at  Mercure  Hotel, Singapore. The organiser is the Young Professionals Section ( YPS ) of  IET  Singapore Local Network. Please follow their Engineering…

    Matthew Teow
    Matthew Teow

  • Quantum Technology - Reality Or Science Fiction ( IET London ).

    MiFID II (Finally a product that has a genuine feature for MiFID II) Rhys Lewis the Director of the NPL Quantum Metrology Institute leads the Time, Quantum & Electromagnetics (TQEM) Division gave a insightful discussion on how quantum technology is currently being used and its expected use in the near future. The talk was called Quantum Technology - Reality or Science Fiction.   MiFID II requires trading venues to timestamp electronic transactions to UTC with an uncertainty of 100 micro seconds or better and quantum time keeping is a proven method for achieve this (That’s if your trading house wants to be compliant). Quantum technology exists and its ability to keep time is one major reason stock exchanges and partners hold true to it, even if it means having your trade desk closer to the exchange…

    Rimesh Patel
    Rimesh Patel

  • This Is Direct Television From Alexandra Palace!

    If you’re a frequent user of the Great Northern train line out of Kings Cross then no doubt you’re quite familiar with the sight of Alexandra Palace sitting atop the hill as you trundle past Finsbury park and on your way northwards. The palace is known for being an outstanding and successful event venue but I wonder how many passing commuters are aware of the part it played in the history and birth of television…? Often referred to as ‘Ally Pally’ or ‘The People’s Palace’, Alexandra Palace was opened in 1873 as a centre for public recreational activities. Unfortunately just 16 days after its grand opening, it was destroyed by a fire that broke out in the central dome. The palace was quickly rebuilt however and re-opened on 1st May 1875 now containing a concert hall, art galleries, a…

  • Speaker Highlight - Professor Alison Noble

    The Healthcare Technologies TPN is delighted to announce that once again we are collaborating with the IPEM and IMechE BMeD to run the Peter Wells Memorial Lecture. This year the inaugural lecture will be given by Professor Alison Noble of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Oxford on the subject of 'Human Image Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, and Shifting Perceptions of Medical Ultrasound”. For more information on this event and to register please visit the event webpage . Professor Alison Noble Biography Professor Alison Noble OBE FREng FRS is the Technikos Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Oxford University Department of Engineering Science, Associate Head of MPLS Division (Industry and Innovation), and a Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford. She is…

    Gemma Hadley
    Gemma Hadley

  • CAWE 2018 - Speakers

    The  The 6th Colloquium on Antennas, Wireless and Electromagnetics - CAWE   event is just a couple of weeks away! This event will provide a look at some early stage research on antennas and propagation, 5G, IoT and related topics.  We have an exciting line up of speakers for the event including: Richard Rudd Richard Rudd is a Director at Plum with a particular interest in the modelling, measurement and underlying physics of radiowave propagation. Richard has managed many studies that have led to the development of new propagation models, generally based on measurements made in-house. He has developed a range of experimental equipment ranging from wideband channel sounders and bi-static radar systems to long-term data loggers and software defined radio systems. Richard has been an active participant…

    Former Staff Member
    Former Staff Member

  • TV Connect is now in full swing!

    On Tuesday the MMC ran two workshops at Savoy Place for TV Connect delegates and today, the first of the two exhibition and conference days, we have been raising the IET and MMC profile at TV Connect.  We have a stand - B52, very easy to remember - so do please come and see us if you are at TV Connect.  Today Ian Nock, who ran one of the workshops, was a panel member during a 'Codec Wars' discussion session, and at lunchtime Ian, Bob Gentry and I set up a around table discussion, which for logistical reasons as much as anything was rather poorly attended.  However Rikki who has been running our stand has found there is a good degree of interest in the IET in general and the MMC in particular, so it will be interesting to see how much post show follow up we get.

    Graham Turner
    Graham Turner

  • Active And Passive 2018

    The Active and Passive RF Devices Seminar was held this year on 30th April 2018 in Savoy Place, London The delegates were treated to a full day of speakers discussing a wide variety of topics – if you were there, tell us what was the most interesting thing you learnt during the day! During the breaks we had a poster session and networking – it was great to see so many people discussing the posters with the presenters! The day ended on a high with presentation to Wenzhang Zhang for Best Student Paper! The prize was a laptop, kindly donated by Toshiba UK – well done Wenzhang! Thanks to our exhibitors from National Instruments for joining us and thanks also to our speakers, presenters and all the delegates for coming along The TPN plan to run this annual event again next year – make sure to keep…

    Former Staff Member
    Former Staff Member

  • IET Techbite On Sustaining Airworthiness In Ageing Aircraft

    Following on from our second seminar on ‘Sustaining Airworthiness in Ageing Aircraft’ which was joint with MOD Abbeywood in Bristol, the Aerospace Network have now produced this  tech bite on the subject. They’d also like to thank Giles Huby, Managing Director, Copernicus Technology, Professor Steve Reed, Technical Fellow at DSTL and Jeff Jones, Safety Consultant, QinetiQ for their contributions to this document. Please feel free to share this with your colleagues/contacts. You can still catch up with the filmed presentations from the 2016 event here.

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • Cars, Cars And More Cars – Haven’t I Been Here Before?

    A few weeks ago, I experienced a case of deja vu at the Coventry Museum of Transport when I came across their pre-war collection of cars.  Preferring vintage cars (a Bugatti T35 over a Veyron any day for me!) I always seem to gravitate as if on remote control to these vehicles.  I realised of course that I’d been there the previous year when the ARTS TPN held their first ever seminar on ‘Electrification in Motorsports’. With the 2017 event such a success, it was never in any doubt that they should organise a follow-on seminar in 2018.  Angus Lyon our lead volunteer, linked up with the Motorsports Industry Association (MIA) and together they came up with a great line-up of speakers.   Angus started the seminar with a presentation on ‘Inside Electric Motorsports’.   Steve Sapsford from Ricardo…

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • DIY FARADAY CHALLENGE ROUND 1 - 29TH APRIL 2018

    Sunday, 29th April 2018, Bandar Seri Begawan. Total of 48 students from 8 local secondary schools participated in DIY Faraday Challenge Round 1 that was held in Universiti Teknologi Brunei.Sunday, 29th April 2018, Bandar Seri Begawan. Total of 48 students from 8 local secondary schools participated in DIY Faraday Challenge Round 1 that was held in Universiti Teknologi Brunei. This annual event, organised by The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Brunei Darussalam Local Network, gave an opportunity to the students to flourish their knowledge and creativity to solve problem based on real life engineering work. This challenge also provided a platform for the participants in each school to build a functioning prototype which was demonstrated at the end of the event. Chung Hwa Middle…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • National Aerospace Library Book Sale 24 May 2018

    An  Aviation Book Sale is to be held at the National Aerospace Library  at Farnborough  on Thursday May 24  2018, 10:30 – 4:30pm. Entry is free and a vailable for purchase on the day will be many  100s  of new / second-hand donated books  and  heaps  of aviation magazines - a  wide range of  aviation history books, autobiographies, biographies, histories of  individual  aircraft  types  /  aircraft companies,  old  journals,  books on the  history of  RAF, technical textbooks etc. - a sheer abundance of aviation titles.    Most of the books will be sold between £1.00 and  £5.00  and the magazines will be 25p each or 5 for a £1.00;  the  money raised from the sale of these  donated  books will be used towards the conservation of historic aviation material in the Library’s archives.  This year…

    Anne Locker
    Anne Locker

  • Technical Visit -- Darlington Nuclear Facility

    Visit Mock up taining facility

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • PhD Award 2018 - Seeking nominations

    So, it's that time of year again when we start to look for nominations for our Doctoral Dissertation Prize. The Prize recognises a student for their research excellence in the field of Control & Automation.  Do you know a student who deserves to win this year - the prize money on offer is £500 ! The award is open to all relevant students who were awarded their PhD in the general area of Control and Automation, at a UK university, between 1st October 2016 up to 30 September 2018 and nominations are now open.   Nominations must be made via the nomination form which is available for download in our files section and returned by 1st October 2018. Need any more encouragement to nominate someone?   Read what our previous winners have to say in our blog section.   Last year's winner Wenlong Ming had…

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • Meet Our Community Members

    I'm always fascintated to hear about our wonderful and diverse community members and how they came to be doing the job they do today, so, I thought I'd hand over this blog to David Leng .   David joined the platform in April 2016 and below he tells us more about himself. Looking back on my working life two things strike me: I’ve been incredibly fortunate to have always managed to get paid to do things that I would actually spend my own time doing; and secondly that being in the IET gives me a genuine sense of pride. Not in a big headed, “I’m the great I am” way, but as a quiet achievement after putting in a lot of spade work. I left school at 16 to work at British Steel, Rotherham.  It was great to be earning a wage, but after a while I was frustrated at not knowing where the various engineering…

    Joanne Longton
    Joanne Longton

  • Predictably Irrational. (IET Harrow).

    In Out In Out ...Opt it all about!. Attending the Predictably Irrational, The Impact Of Relativity event organised by Harrow IET, David Chong from GSMA discussed the different ways of 'opting in and opting out' in numerous consent based scenarios. An interesting stat presented showed that more countries within the EU had a larger number of health donors than for example in the UK - the main difference? Persons are under the Opt Out framework. The session covered that human behaviours can be predicted to choose relative outcomes based off presented data - including how the decision making process can be tailored to a give a focused outcome. Whilst this is typically seen in UX Design efforts, the broader digital world is also going through an Opt In/Opt Out overhaul - namely, GDPR. We know that…

    Rimesh Patel
    Rimesh Patel

  • A Is For Academic Study – Support From The IET (TWAVES)

    Although many people complete their studies first (whether it is a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree etc.) and then look for work experience opportunities or employment, some others do two things at the same time and go for extramural studies (or online learning) and work (sometimes even full time!) as well, with others completing sandwich programmes which offer industrial placements as part of the qualification, or even work based learning qualifications. Some people would even consider working and doing a PhD at the same time or they would simply focus on their doctoral research - on condition that they can afford it or get enough funding. There are so many options…. but which route is the best one? If you wish to share your experience with others please leave your comments below. Again, despite…

    Matylda
    Matylda

  • Get To Know The Auckland Network Committee And Thank You!

    It was great meeting up with the Auckland Network committee: Old friends and many new faces : ) Learned about the good activities the Network is organising:  Project X, Technical talks and visits.  YPS will organise the PATW NZ Final.   Congratulations to Julia who is now taking on a bigger role:  Vice Chairperson for the ANZ Young Professionals Campaign!! During the meeting, an Outstanding Volunteer Certificate was presented to Frank Lewis who contributed a lot to the IET, thanks Frank!!! It is also very interesting to find out the diverse cultural backgrounds of the Committee Members, they all live in Auckland but some of them have families or originally from other countries: Warren (Chairman) - South Africa George (Treasurer) - Sri Lanka Chris (Committee) - New Zealand (Palmerston North…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Technical Talk: Big Data Analytics and SMEs 21st April

    The Institute of Engineering and Technology, Malaysia Local Network (IET) has successfully organised a Technical Talk on Big Data Analytics and SMEs at Symphony Suites Hotel, 41 Lapangan Symphony Business park, Jalan Lapangan Symphoney, 31350 Ipoh, Perak on Thursday, 21st April 2018. We are pleased to record the total Attendance of 18 pax consist of 5 IET members and 13 non-members. Present are our Committee Member Ir. Chan Cheong Loong as the moderator for this event.  The Speaker for the event is Dr. Tan Su Wei who is a Principal Consultant at Iconix Consulting Sdn Bhd.  Dr. Tan has more than ten years of teaching and research experience in the area of telecommunications. His research interest is in the general field of data analytics, data communications and wireless networking, in which…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • IET WA History & Get To Know Our Culturally Diverse Team!

    Do you know that IET WA historical links (previously known as STEE) can be dated back to 1886? A copy of IET WA meeting minutes in 1886 At the STEE Council meeting 11 November 1886 it was resolved that Mr D J McGauran, Member, having indicated his willingness to accept such office be and is hereby appointed Local Honorary Secretary & Treasurer of the Society in Western Australia.  Diverse Cultural Backgrounds of the team: The Committee members come from a diverse cultural background and is such a great team!  There are about 16 - 20 committee members.  They have done excellent events such as Bike Charger Event at different universities, Leadership programme, How to win a job, Engineering Challenge.  3 On Campus groups established:  UWA, ECU and Curtin. They plan to set up more On Campus groups…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

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