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  • Achieving the impossible with robotic micro-surgeons

    Important note: These are the author's personal recollections and interpretations, which are likely to suffer from errors and selectivity. There is no endorsement from the IET or the speakers. 146 members and guests packed out the Turing Lecture Theatre at Savoy Place for the first IET Central London Evening Lecture of 2018 to hear from Christos Bergeles from the UCL’s Wellcome EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical sciences. What's at the cutting, even bleeding, edge of technology... and yet isn't? The answer to that riddle is Christos' robotic microsurgery, as it doesn't cut (currently) and doesn't cause (much) bleeding. Christos introduced his research group approach as building on the three themes of: Navigation, Clinician experience and Precision Instruments. Fundamentally, surgery…

    David Tabor
    David Tabor

  • CES 2018

    The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) took place in Las Vegas this week with the usual offering of brilliant, gimmicky and downright crazy gadgets on display.   The conference wasn’t an entirely successful one this year – rare rainfall caused black outs and there were a few tech fails including the LG robot failing to respond to the CEO’s demands but as usual there were some entertaining IoT products to come out of the event.   Samsung announced that it was introducing SmartThings – a central hub for all of its various IOT products Velco’s Wink Bar, a smart handle bar for bikes won the 2018 Showstoppers Prize   Intel demonstrated their drone light show above the Las Vegas skyline – something which they believe could take over from traditional fireworks     What IoT gadgets from CES caught your…

    Former Staff Member
    Former Staff Member

  • Radar and Microwave Engineering and Technology

    Contact   iet.toronto2013@gmail.com if you know of anyone who is outstanding in the field of   radar and microwave engineering and technology. Award is available.

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • You can now submit your 2017 CPD record via Career Manager!

    You can now submit your 2017 CPD record via Career Manager !   During the review year of 2018 we will be reviewing a sample of members’ CPD activities which took place in 2017.   If selected, we will notify you and request your records (If you’ve already sent us your records, of course, we will just let you know that are reviewing them).   We will then carry out the review and send you our comments.   Once your record has been submitted you will have access to our CPD “dashboard” - even if you are not selected for review. The dashboard is a series of graphs allowing to see how your CPD statistics compare with those of your peers. This is a “live” service and so will change as more CPD records are added to the system.   We hope you will continue to record your CPD using Career Manager during

    Kathryn Bain
    Kathryn Bain

  • McAfee Chief Scientist talks about all things Cyber

    We were lucky enough to catch up with Raj Samani, Chief Scientist at McAfee, ahead of his keynote address at our Cyber Security for Industrial Control Systems conference on 7-8 February.   Read this exclusive interview, in which Raj talks about security solutions, what the industry can do to prevent the next WannaCry, his involvement in the No More Ransom initiative and why it’s childishly simple for an 11-year-old to buy stolen data on the dark net. http://ow.ly/z6AB30hFKcg

  • North Yorkshire Local Network - Sponsorship of Selby College Student Awards, 15-Dec-2017

    Here's the contents of a letter the North Yorkshire LN Committee received from Allan Stewart, Principal of Selby College. Please also see the attached photo of the students receiving the awards. I am writing to thank you very much for sponsoring the awards event held on the 15th December 2017. Your contribution helped make the evening a great success and I thought you may like to see a photograph of the successful students at the Abbey, which is attached. We will write to you again later this year, advising you of the date for your diary and hope that you will be able to sponsor our student awards for 2018 and join us for the event.

    Paul Smith, RPS
    Paul Smith, RPS

  • Latest video update on Climate Change

    I did a series of lectures on Climate Change, ending at the University of Auckland in New Zealand where a group of eager young students quizzed me on many aspects of environmental management. Though NZ contributes little to greenhouse gas emissions, the attendees were passionate about the climate and maknind's impact upon it. I did one update, after the Paris Agreement that seems to be now in jeopardy. Here's the second, concerning the Climate. https://youtu.be/6zB5oUvCPU8 .

    Paul Smith, RPS
    Paul Smith, RPS

  • Young Professionals Programme (YPP) - Elite Programme for Fresh Engineers

    Dear Young Engineers,   Being the local branch of the largest multi-disciplinary engineering institution worldwide, IET Hong Kong is now offering you a chance to meet managements from the local industries and learn about various disciplines in a higher level.   Young Professionals Programme (YPP) is designed to let you interact with senior managements from different disciplines in the local engineering industry, and acquire management knowledge and techniques from seminars and implementation through team project.   As an elite programme for fresh engineers, YPP is looking for graduates of year 2015, 2016 or 2017 who wish to pave their career path in the industry. Through a short online application, applicants will be invited to an interview facing the managements. The most competitive candidates…

    Dodi Mak
    Dodi Mak

  • 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
    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…

  • 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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    Former Community Member

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