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Securing the Skies: Techniques for defending against drones

IET Talk given by Amit Samani, Regional Sales Manager of DeDrone on 14 th December at UTC Reading Amit gave a fascinating talk on all things drone related. Throughout the talk Amit used real life scenarios to highlight the issues raised by the ever increasing number of drones around the world and the ways that they can be misused. The main threats posed by drones can be categorised as: · Hacker Intranet WiFi can be monitored and hacked easily by flying drone close to building or campus · Surveillance This ranges from industrial espionage (tracking new model cars), football training grounds (for betting) to financial (monitoring who is playing who on the golf course) · Terrorist Airborne delivery of explosives etc · Smuggler Drugs etc being smuggled into…

Andrew Stickland
Intel Chip Flaw

In 2012, I had the opportunity to research emerging strategic changes within the Chip Industry. At the time, ARM was the new entrant gaining mass adoption based off their chipset design - which compared to Intel was better at energy saving during operational tasks, where, Intel remained strong in its ability to provide solid computing power. Since then, there have been many new Chip Set entrants into the market that have used economies of scale to provide both, low power consumption rate and strong computing power. As we move into the world of SMART devices, the interactions between chipset and its OS’s will be effected and so it is of no surprise that security was seen less of a priority than chipset performance i.e. moores law. So, the Intel Chip Set limitation gaining moment today was…

Rimesh Patel in Computing
IET Merseyside And Western Cheshire Newsletter - January 2018 to September 2018 Now Available As An On-Line Flip Book

The latest Merseyside and Western Cheshire Newsletter is now available as an on-line flip book and pdf file. Please click the link Merseyside and Western Cheshire Newsletter January 2018 to September 2018 to see the newsletter as an online flip book . The newsletter is attached to this blog as pdf file. The file size is 1.6Mb.

Rob McDonald
10TH PUBLIC SEMINAR ON 'PROJECT MANAGEMENT PRACTICES' IN THE CARIBBEAN'

The 10th Public seminar on Project Management Practices in the Caribbean ' held on December 09, 2017 at UWI, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago was a huge success!!! There were approximately over 130 persons in attendance. The event was well organized and the presentations were top class. The IET TTLN wishes to thank Prof. Kit Fai Pun of UWI for organising such an excellent event. The IET TTLN looks forward to collobarating with UWI and all other professional networks in Trinidad and Tobago in holding such events in 2018 and beyond. Attached are some photographs of this great event.

J. Maraj
5G – State of Play: Only 3 weeks left!

We’re only a few weeks away from the RF and Microwave’s latest seminar ‘5G – State of Play’ being held at Savoy Place, London on 24 January 2018. To give you a taste of what the event will be about, take a look at what one of our speakers Mischa Dohler had to say about 5G: You can also check out the videos from last year here Interested in joining us? We still have a few tickets left! To register and find out more information about the event – click here

Former Staff Member
2018! Year Of The Smart Product.

My January blog post last year, highlighted that different fields of technology will be coming together to create specific SME based commodity services, and with that, how specific field based devices will help drive the concept of technology-as-a-commodity. So, for 2018, the theme of field devices will continue, with specific interests on how smart devices are transitioning into Smart SME commodity ecosystems - maybe this is the year that next-gen technology becomes the norm. Coming into 2018, I attended the New Year's Eve celebration at the Savoy Place (IET London). One of the evening’s highlight was to view the spectacular 10,000 firework display organised by London City Hall. They even had an automated City Hall NYE bot on Facebook messenger ! The evening gave opportunity to speak with…

Rimesh Patel
IET Victoria Network Committee Members' List 2018 - 19

Chairman: Mr Raj Ranasinghe 1. Vice-Chairman: Dr Sashigaran (Sashi) Sivathasan 2. Secretary: Mr Mahinda Wickramasuriya 3. Treasurer: Mr Jonathan Brown 4. Marketing Officer: Vacant 5. Professional Registration Adviser (IPRA): Dr Sashigaran (Sashi) Sivathasan 6. Committee Member & I PRA: Mr Jananthan (Janaa) Ratnasabapathi 7. Young Professionals Section (YPS) Chairman: Mr Ludovic Grosjean 8. Committee Member & Immediate Past Chair: Mr Arthur Baoustanos 9. Committee Member: Dr Priyantha Karunadasa 10. School Liaising Officer : Mr Peter Raven 11. Committee Member: Mr Evan Barrett 12. Committee Member: Mr Rob Scarbro

Former Community Member
IET Japan Network Committee List 2019 / 2020

IET Japan Main Committee list 2019 / 2020: Vice Chairman Mr. Koji Watabe Immediate Past Chairman: Dr. Minoru Saba Hon. Secretary: Dr. Jiang Liu Hon. Treasurer: Mr. Masaaki Inaba Committee Members: Mr. Colin Mason, Dr. Hachidai Ito

Former Community Member
The 4th Smart Display Research Group Meeting 2017

The 4th Smart Display research group Meeting (SDM) of the IIEEJ was held in the Science and Engineering School, Waseda University, on 16th December 2017, under the chairmanship of Dr. M. Matsumoto, Prof. Emeritus of Waseda Univ., former IET-JN Chairman. Fifteen members from industry and academia participated. The meeting was supported by the IET Japan network (IET-JN), the Electronic Application Conference Group and the common area group for Architecture and Image Media. As the keynote lecture, Dr. Shunsuke Kobayashi, Emeritus Professor of Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, introduced recent topics from the history of information displays, taking up the theme of optical communication, quantum computers, and medical images, which has received attention from the field of optical…

Former Community Member
The IET SA & NT Network’s Annual Defence Professional Networking Event 2017

The IET SA & NT Network’s Annual Defence Professional Networking Event was held on 14th December 2017 at the Adelaide Hilton Hotel. The event was a big success with over 100 tickets sold and there were guests attended the event from other states in Australia. Master of Ceremonies for the event was Chair of the IET SA/NT Local Network Rob Pitelen. Christopher Pyne MP, Minister for Defence Industry and Leader of the House spoke at the Networking event Guest speakers and topics of the talks at the Networking Event: The Honourable Christopher Pyne MP, Minister for Defence Industry and Leader of the House talked about Australian Federal Government's strategy for building new Defence Industry jobs around Australia. Siemens Executive GM Michael Freyny’s talk on Introduction to Industry 4.0, the…

Former Community Member
Circus Came To Town For Xmas - Cirque Du Soliel (IET London Network).

Known for creating magical shows, Mark Ager, CEO of Stage Technologies, talked through how the revolving stage was created for the Cirque Du Soliel's production KA. The interactions of the gantry crane was talked about how each revision allowed better fluidity to manage the revolving stage. The stage itself, known as the Sand Cliff Deck, has 80 steel pegs that shoot out when required by the performers allowing them to flip around the revolving stage to give gravity defying performances. The stage moves in ft/seconds, uses pistons, pumps and hydraulic cylinders that when combined brings the stage to life. Almost 10 similar stages are used throughout the perfomance. With so many features to manage, the control systems too are of similar engineering design – they’d need to be given the acrobatic…

Rimesh Patel
Happy New Year 2018

Wishing all members a Safe, Happy & Prosperous 2018 Merry Christmas to those who are celebrating. May your days be merry and bright. For those on holiday, Wishing you a holiday filled with peace & love. Best Wishes Siong on behalf of IET Brunei LN

Siong Tang
Christmas Greetings from Winnie

Dear Malaysia Network Would like to say thank you so much for all your great and hard work contributed to the IET! Best wishes to you all : ) Wishing you and your family health, happiness, peace and prosperity this holiday season and in the coming New Year!! Best wishes Winnie Lee Community Relationship Manager, Asia Pacific The IET www.theiet.org Tel: (852) 2521 2143 F: (852) 2778 1711 E: wlee@theiet.org 4405 - 4406 - Cosco Tower | 183 Queen's Road Central | Hong Kong

Chris SF Chew
End Of Term One On The Ottawa LN BBC Micro:bit Project

The Ottawa LN sponsored three high school teachers with 80 micro:bits each. Yesterday I was invited to an end-of-term session with one of them, and quite the event it turned out to be! The high-school teacher, with his class of 15 or so 1`4-year olds, had joined forces with a junior school class of about 30 9-10 year olds. The session yesterday was an innovative combination of the two classes, with the students from the high school mentoring their juniors. A glance at the photos will give the flavour. The combined class spent over two hours producing a Christmas-themed gift to take home for each junior child. Some made tree decorations with Micro:bit stars, others made wrist watches that told the time (more or less), one enterprising pair made a messaging system camouflaged as smart phones…

Former Community Member
IET PATW Global Competition 2016-17

PATW Competition The IET-UK has announced the following world wide schedule of IET PATW 2017 Competition. You may also visit the online community of PATW by clicking here. Stage-1 PATW Competitions Please visit the "Events" page to see the detail of stage-1 Universities (Campuses) Level PATW Competitions. These competitions are being held at: COMSATS Abbottabad KPK - The Winner is Mr.Naif Yaseen %u200B GIKI Topi KPK - The Winner is Mr.Rayyan Zahid %u200B IST Islamabad - The Winner is Ms.Zara Shafique %u200B Stage-2 PATW Competition Stage-2 Islamabad Local Network Level PATW competition will be commenced on 6th May 2017 at Islamabad . Click here for more detail. The Winner…

Nouman Abid Chuhan
IET 2018 Training Courses Now Available To Book

Our professional development training courses focus on the non-technical aspects of your work. Whether you want to improve your management skills, learn how to write compelling technical reports or recognise the financial aspects of decision making, we have just the course for you. All our courses have been selected with engineering and technology specialists in mind, with the aim of helping individuals to perform at their professional best. All our courses are run throughout the year in a number of different locations around the UK including London, Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester and Glasgow and 2018 dates are now available to book! To view our courses and available 2018 dates, visit the events section of the PD Engineering Community (hyper link) or visit the links below in relation to…

Former Community Member
South Yorkshire Young Professional DRAX Visit Nov. 2017.

Back in November 26 of our local Young Professionals went on a site visit to the DRAX Power station, in Selby, North Yorkshire. During the visit they learnt that DRAX now uses USA imported biomass, over coal, as it is cleaner, especially being a waste product of the logging industry. They were also reassured of how DRAX could provide electricity should they be without their main generators, got a detailed breakdown of how the main generators worked. As well as a very formative tour of the vast site, which saw our YP's enjoying the views from 'oversized golf carts', they also got to visit the main building which showed the vast array of control units, each generator needing its own control station. If you attended this event, please drop us a few comments below, we would love to hear from…

Layla Asquith
University Teams Pass The Chequered Flag!

Congratulations to the Nova Racing team at Delft Technical University who won the MotoE Racing championship this year in only their second year of competing and the Bath University Zero team who were runners up. MotoE is an official European Championship for electric motorcycle racers, teams from the across the globe, battle each other in five rounds within Europe for the privilege to call themselves the MotoE European Cup Champions. It has been supported by the IET Automotive & Road Transport Systems TPN for several years as it raises awareness of electric motorcycles and the profile of the IET and TPN. Also, all members of the Technical Panel are IET members. Each year the TPN award an Innovation Prize to the best university team. Following the end of the 2017 season, it was decided…

Deborah-Claire McKenzie
Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Visit

The Trelleborg Corporation in El Segundo designs and manufactures high precision seals for the aerospace and automotive industry and a small group of IET members and guests were fortunate enough to get a tour of this facility. With much of the tooling and manufacturing being carried out by technicians with a lifetimes experience on the tools it was inspiring to see what can still be done with minimal automation. The products manufactured on site are used in aircraft systems such as landing gear, hydraulic units and other subsystems which have rotating or reciprocating elements using working fluids or lubricants ranging from 7XX series passenger aircraft through to 4th and 5th generation fighter aircraft. To meet the performance requirements of the varied conditions that the components are required…

Richard Tregaskes
IET OnCampus CIIT Wah Volunteer Committee (2017 To 2018)

Associate Professor Dr Sheraz Anjum On Campus Facilitator (Supporting University Faculty Member) Mr.Waqas Ahmad Chaudhary President I Official OnCampus CIIT Wah Network email id: Ietciitwahnetwork@gmail.com Mr.Mubashar ilyas Secretary Ms.Javeria Javed Treasurer Mr.Asad Nawaz Social Media and Online PR Manager Ms Gemma Tuck IET OnCampus Student Coodinator (IET Staff at UK) OnCampus@theiet.org

Nouman Abid Chuhan
Project Controls Expo 2017

Project Controls EXPO delivered its 7th industry event on 16 November 2017. It’s objective is to provide significant practical and theoretical awareness on Project Controls process, tools and techniques to its delegates. This show is for those working or have an interest within the complete spectrum of Projects Controls, and is held annually at the Emirates Arsenal stadium in London. There were seminars from a wide range of industries with 43 speakers, also showcased were some of the latest technology tools and providers. The whole event provides a great opportunity to network with other professionals, and the sharing of practical experience and expertise creates the great atmosphere experienced at Expo. Alec Ray represented the Project Controls Network at the event, and we had a joint exhibition…

Joanne Longton
IET Harvey Prize Winner Announced

Cancer has become the third most likely cause of death worldwide. Presently cancer is killing 8.5 million people per year and by 2030, this number is estimated to reach 12 million.Cancer has become the third most likely cause of death worldwide. Presently cancer is killing 8.5 million people per year and by 2030, this number is estimated to reach 12 million. One of the most serious obstacles facing scientists involved in the development and assessment of new anti-cancer drugs and therapies is the failure of preclinical cancer models able to predict, in a reliable way, whether a given drug will have anti-cancer activity and acceptable toxicity in humans. Most animal models are not representative of human situations and currently, more than 70-80% of cancer research is based on 2D models. Leading…

Former Community Member
IET Brunei Technical Visit To A Fish Farm

Saturday, 9 th December 2017. The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Brunei conducted a technical visit to a fish farm at Syarikat Hajah Rosni Binti Haji Kassim dan Anak-Anak located at the vicinity of Kaingaran Island near Kampong Pengkalan Sibabau. A total of 14 members and 8 non members joined the visit. The group were welcomed and briefed by the owner of the fish farm, Awang Haji Bakar bin Haji Chuchu. The business operates 117 fish cages over a one-hectare area. Fishes farmed here include sea bass, grouper, red snapper, yellow-spotted trevally and green mussels. Last year, the company produced 13 metric-tonnes of barramundi, grouper, and other types of fish, as well as green clams for the local market. The aim of the visit was to give the IET members and non-members an…

Siong Tang
Megatrends 4.0 ( Royal Academy Of Engineering )

At the start of the year I chose the theme of field based technologies. In search for next year’s theme, I attended the Megatrends evening hosted by the Royal Academy of Engineering. Amidst an extremely international crowd, technology trends were discussed by Dr Jason Blackstock, Snr. Lecturer in Science and Global Affairs at University College London and Neil Gray, Founder and CEO of Whirli. Whilst technology trends were reviewed, of interest was the mention of 4.0 Trends. Common themes such as shared economy Vs traditional ones were talked about – where Generation X won’t be waiting for that grandfather clock, but those that will, should be looking to better manage their own perceptions of what defines reality. Technology has not only brought about newer methods of working but also the creation…

Rimesh Patel

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