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Speaker Highlight - The 3rd Annual Future Of Medicine – The Role Of Doctors In 2027

We are delighted that Denis Gilhooly, will be opening The 3rd Annual Future of Medicine – The Role of Doctors in 2027 event, jointly organised by the IET Healthcare Technologies Network and the royal Society of Medicine. The event is taking place on the 18 May 2017 at BMA House, London. Denis will be talking on "Panaceas and Pandora's Box: Digital Health and the Digital Doctor 2027" The mantra of Silicon Valley guru and venture capitalist Vinod Khosla that 80% of what doctors do today will be done by digital technology tomorrow is most likely inevitable. However, it is important to recognize that just three decades into the new digital age, we still have only a partial understanding of the nascent and complex nature of digital or network dynamics . The perennial complexity of health and…

Former Community Member
UTC Reading Computing Students Get Creative At The IET Arduino Club

Following the partnership between IET and UTC Reading, UTC Reading have been running a weekly “IET Arduino Club” for computing students. For one hour per week, 20 students are able to build something of their choice using Arduino kits. The club is aimed at delivering an immersive and creative experience for students and offering them the opportunity to use technology in innovative ways. Students have made fantastic use of the arduino kits funded by the IET and demonstrated how the technology can be applied practically. Read all about it here!

Dooshiant Dyall
How IET PSB Academy On Campus Group Become A Strong Group - Tips From Dr Liau, PSB Academy

Dr Liau, Head, School of Engineering and Technology, PSB Academy shared some tips about how to help PSB On Campus (OC) group become a strong and vibrant team. Number of committee members almost doubled 6 members to 10 members currently) in just four months after it's being set up. Mentoring – Maintain good relationship with students and mentor them Inspire students – Invited Engineers to share about their Engineering journey Good events with Networking opportunities – Rolls Royce visit, Cisco visits that provide networking opportunities with industries Social media – Use social media to engage students and promote about OC groups Volunteering – Invite them to be part of committee or to volunteer at the activities, they will see the benefits of joining the IET/OC group Support from Singapore…

Former Community Member
Cyber Trends Seminar - Augmentation Of The CISO

Attending a breakfast seminar on cyber trends it was reviewed that CISO roles may change from champion roles into coach based roles. No longer are the CISO's of a company expected to be the internal security champion, but instead they will be empowering other security team members with tools to achieve company objectives. The discussion was made that CISO’s perhaps might have less of an executive focus than originally thought and with that, it was reviewed how Cyber & Security are now maturing into 2 separate ontologies. To say, Cyber focuses on assurance elements, whilst Security focuses on build-by design elements. This might have merit for Security Analysts to focus on malware , mitigation or detection whilst architects focus on security by design. IoT was touched on to mention that if…

Rimesh Patel
Important information - Changes to the 11th April North West Electrification Programme

This event is currenlty fully booked, but for anyone who has registered to attend, please see the email that was sent out to you on Tuesday 21st March regarding the changes. North West Electrification Programme 11 April 2017 in Crewe There have been some changes that I need to bring to your attention: Due to unforeseen circumstances the lecture is unable to take place at the Bombardier site and will now be held at Manchester Metropolitan University Cheshire Campus, Campus map attached. For further information please see online. We are unable to provide transport following the Bombardier site visit to the University and for those without their own vehicle, it will be a 45 minute walk. Parking will be available at the university. If you still wish to attend the tour you will need to: %uF0A7…

Lynsay Callaghan
Call For Speakers For The 12th System Safety And Cyber Security Event (30 October – 1 November, 2017) Now Open

SSCS is the largest conference for system safety specialists held in the UK; and the only conference where both safety and security engineers from around the world can meet and share ideas, new research and network. The 12th edition of the IET System Safety and Cyber Security conference, addressing key cyber challenges for the critical safety systems will take place on in October 2017 at the IET London: Savoy Place. Sessions at this year’s conference will focus on integrating safety and cyber security, implementing and adopting security approaches, system / software safety and will cover four over-arching themes: - Integrating safety and cyber security - Vulnerabilities, threats and solutions to cyber security in safety-critical systems - The human factors of cyber security and safety…

Lynsay Callaghan in Cybersecurity
Speaker Highlight - The 3rd Annual Future Of Medicine – The Role Of Doctors In 2027

“ Free at the Point of use – Medtech Meets Moore’s Law ” join us at our popular The 3rd Annual Future of Medicine – The Role of Doctors in 2027 to hear Dr Chris Elliott , speak. We are used to carrying with us at all times a 20MP zoom camera, a satnav, a calendar and a compass. Oh, and it makes ‘phone calls as well. We didn’t go out to buy those things; they were bundled with the latest Smartphone. The next generation Smartphones will come equipped with medical-grade hardware and software to measure our vital signs and other diagnostics. These won’t be toys that measure (inaccurately) the inputs, like how many steps we’ve taken, or easy targets like pulse rate. They will be regulated medical devices that measure blood pressure, temperature, heart valve functions and blood constituents to…

Former Community Member
Ever Wondered About Our Volunteers?

Have you ever wondered about the volunteers who work behind the scenes putting our programme of activities together? The current exec team comprises 11 members from diverse backgrounds, both industry and academia, and together with staff they work extremely hard coming up with ideas for our activity programme and answering myriad queries. So, I thought it would be interesting to showcase our volunteers directly and first up is Simon Hart our Chairman: Dr Simon Hart , Chair of the Control & Automation TPN, is passionate about creating networks where engineers can discuss, learn and drive technology forward. He is a former IET Trustee and is also currently the Chair and a Trustee of IET Connect, the IET benevolent fund. Based in mid-Wales, Oxfordshire and London he enjoys organising events…

Joanne Longton in Manufacturing
Cambridge Science Festival

The IET Cambridge Network manned a stand at the Science Festival in the Guildhall over the weekend of 18 and 19 March. With a model train system powered by a hand cranked generator, torches to build and displays to examine, children of all ages were able to get hands-on immersed in aspects of engineering. Judging by the number attending the stand, it was a great success and hopefully sparked some to take up Engineering in the future. Many thanks to the Cambridge Diamond Scholars and Network Members that attended and fielded the many questions.

David Blake
Speaker Highlight - The 3rd Annual Future Of Medicine – The Role Of Doctors In 2027

We are pleased to announce Professor David Newby, will be speaking in the first half of the day at The 3rd Annual Future of Medicine – The Role of Doctors in 2027 . Professor David Newby graduated from the University of Southampton with a Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Medicine degree in 1991. He has worked in Edinburgh for over 20 years and obtained Doctorates in Medicine, Philosophy and Science. Professor Newby is British Heart Foundation John Wheatley Chair of Cardiology at the University of Edinburgh, Director of Research and Development for NHS Lothian, Director of the Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility, Director of the Clinical Research Imaging Centre, and a Consultant Interventional Cardiologist at Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He is the recipient of a Wellcome Trust Senior…

Former Community Member
IET Present Around The World (PATW) Competition

Competition at Essex University on 16th May, UEA on 17th May

Alex Barrett
Speaker Highlight - The 3rd Annual Future Of Medicine – The Role Of Doctors In 2027

Wearable technology is increasingly positioning itself in the role of a 24/7 health monitor, with AI in the cloud taking over the role of the traditional GP. Nick Hunn, WiFore Consulting , will be at The 3rd Annual Future Of Medicine – The Role Of Doctors In 2027 speaking on “Wear me – I’m a Doctor” This talk looks at whether this desire to help our health is well founded and considers whether technology for technology’s sake may have positive or negative implication on the way we live our lives. Nick Hunn is the founder and CTO of WiFore Consulting. For the past twenty years he has been closely involved with short range wireless and communications, designing technology that helps to bring mobility to products, particularly in the areas of telematics, M2M, smart energy, wearables and mobile…

Former Community Member
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT NEWS: Systems Engineering

Our systems engineering courses provide both practical and tangible skills that can be used day-to-day in the design of engineering systems. We offer two different courses focusing around Systems Engineering; ‘Mastering Requirements using MBSE’ and ‘A Model Based Approach to Systems Engineering’. These courses are both based around the IET book ‘ SysML for Systems Engineering: A model-based approach ’, with a copy of the book being given to delegates who attend the courses. In addition to this, the authors of the book, Jon Holt and Simon Perry, are also the trainers for this course, meaning you will receive high quality training from the experts in the field. Below gives a brief outline of the two different courses that we offer at the IET in terms of Systems Engineering: Mastering Requirements…

Former Community Member
Vulcan Bomber Update

Now that the Vulcan Bomber is in storage along with the Canberra and Swift aircraft at Doncaster Sheffield airport until such time as a new hangar is built to house the aircraft, I thought I'd share this video with community members. Hopefully if developments go to plan it could be the end of the year when the new hangar is ready. See here for more details on the current status. If you've not yet had a chance to catch up with the presentations from our 'Addressing Ageing Aircraft Sustainment Issues' seminar, then click here.

Deborah-Claire McKenzie
Present Around The World Manchester Heat 2017

Present Around the World Manchester Heat 2017 took place in Manchester Metropolitan University on the 15th March. Six presenters presented a range of engineering disciplines, and all were of very high standard. All scores were very close and unfortunately we could only have one winner! Congratulations to our winner, Paul Gavin, who will represent the Manchester Network to compete in the next heat, the Northern Area Final, at UCLan Preston in June, he will also receive his certificate and prize at our North West Excellence Awards 2017 dinner on the 31st March. Also congratulations to our runner up, Christian Bridge. Final thanks to all presenters and audience, and judges in no particular order Eddie Welch, Andrew Tickle and Lisa Simmons, without you all the event wouldn't have been so successful…

Former Community Member
Speaker Highlight - The 3rd Annual Future Of Medicine – The Role Of Doctors In 2027

Dr Ali Parsa will be kicking off the second half of the day at the next 3rd Annual Future of Medicine – The Role of Doctors in 2027 event. Ali is an engineer and healthcare entrepreneur, and the founder and CEO of babylon. Babylon is the UK’s leading digital healthcare service. Its purpose is to democratise healthcare by putting an accessible and affordable health service into the hands of every person on earth. In order to achieve this the company is bringing together one of the largest teams of scientists, clinicians, mathematicians and engineers to focus on combining the ever-growing computing power of machines with the best medical expertise of humans to create a comprehensive, immediate and personalised health service and make it universally available. Founded in January 2013 and…

Former Community Member
Mmwave and Thz - 2 weeks to go

In two weeks we’ll be heading to Glasgow University for the IET Colloquium on Millimetre-wave and Terahertz Engineering & Technology 2017 event. This is a joint event between the Antennas & Propagation, RF and Microwave and Electromagnetics TPN’s. The event is a chance to hear from researchers presenting the latest research on the areas of millimetre-wave and terahertz engineering and technology. We have a full programme and poster session planned for the day including presentations from our invited speakers, Dr Sherif Sayed Ahmed and Dr. Khaled Elgaid , University of Glasgow, UK. Are you registered? If not, go to the registration page and book your FREE place. There aren’t many places left, so book quickly! See you in Glasgow!

Former Staff Member
IET Northumbria Students' Projects Competition 2017

The annual IET Northumbria students' projects competition, organised by Dr Peter Minns, IET Northumbria Network Chairman, was held this year on 8th March at Northumbria University. The entries from all three of the local universities, Newcastle, Sunderland and Northumbria were of a very high standard with topics including ‘Biometric recognition’ and ‘Reduction in operational CO2 emissions of buildings’. After extensive discussions with the candidates, the judges Sheng Yuan and Paul Cordes arrived at their decisions as shown in the attached spreadsheet.

Tom Fry
Why Not Nominate An Outstanding IET Volunteer For The IET Volunteer Medal?

Do you know an outstanding volunteer? The IET Volunteer Medal was awarded for the first time in 2015 and recognises the importance of volunteers to the IET in its mission to inspire, inform and influence the global engineering community. The award is open to all individuals who have been engaged in an IET volunteering role for at least one year and nominees are normally expected to be over the age of 35. To put some context, the volunteering contributions that would constitute outstanding achievement might include: Insight in development of new initiatives to achieve IET aims Successfully adapting initiatives to work in a specific context or region Leadership shown in development and growth of IET initiatives Being an exceptional ambassador in engaging or recruiting a large number of new…

Lynsay Callaghan
Why Not Nominate An Outstanding IET Volunteer For The IET Volunteer Medal?

Do you know an outstanding volunteer? The IET Volunteer Medal was awarded for the first time in 2015 and recognises the importance of volunteers to the IET in its mission to inspire, inform and influence the global engineering community. The award is open to all individuals who have been engaged in an IET volunteering role for at least one year and nominees are normally expected to be over the age of 35. To put some context, the volunteering contributions that would constitute outstanding achievement might include: Insight in development of new initiatives to achieve IET aims Successfully adapting initiatives to work in a specific context or region Leadership shown in development and growth of IET initiatives Being an exceptional ambassador in engaging or recruiting a large number of new…

Lynsay Callaghan
Why Not Nominate An Outstanding IET Volunteer For The IET Volunteer Medal?

Do you know an outstanding volunteer? The IET Volunteer Medal was awarded for the first time in 2015 and recognises the importance of volunteers to the IET in its mission to inspire, inform and influence the global engineering community. The award is open to all individuals who have been engaged in an IET volunteering role for at least one year and nominees are normally expected to be over the age of 35. To put some context, the volunteering contributions that would constitute outstanding achievement might include: Insight in development of new initiatives to achieve IET aims Successfully adapting initiatives to work in a specific context or region Leadership shown in development and growth of IET initiatives Being an exceptional ambassador in engaging or recruiting a large number of new…

Lynsay Callaghan
No Frameworks Please – It's Cloud. (Excel London - CloudExpo Europe Event).

500 Exhibitors and 600 hundred speakers, all under one roof. The CloudExpo event taking place at the world class Excel Exhibition Center in London this week is full of revelations. The arena is broken into 4 ontologies; Cloud Security, Big Data, Smart IOT London and Data Center World. Vendors held their traditional stands and in addition, seated floor space was allocated for speakers to perform open style high octane seminars. Visitors had the choice to attend conferences on super fuelled scheduled topics within dedicated theatres. There were multiple seminars, talks and conferences all taking place at the same time. Including multiple live internet streams. A complete delight covering all flavours of cloud enabled technologies, from securing drones, network posture for cloud hacking, big data…

Rimesh Patel
The IET Volunteer Medal

Do you know an outstanding volunteer? The IET Volunteer Medal was awarded for the first time in 2015 and recognises the importance of volunteers to the IET in its mission to inspire, inform and influence the global engineering community. The award is open to all individuals who have been engaged in an IET volunteering role for at least one year and nominees are normally expected to be over the age of 35. To put some context, the volunteering contributions that would constitute outstanding achievement might include: Insight in development of new initiatives to achieve IET aims Successfully adapting initiatives to work in a specific context or region Leadership shown in development and growth of IET initiatives Being an exceptional ambassador in engaging or recruiting a large number of new…

Lynsay Callaghan
The IET Volunteer Medal

Do you know an outstanding volunteer? The IET Volunteer Medal was awarded for the first time in 2015 and recognises the importance of volunteers to the IET in its mission to inspire, inform and influence the global engineering community. The award is open to all individuals who have been engaged in an IET volunteering role for at least one year and nominees are normally expected to be over the age of 35. To put some context, the volunteering contributions that would constitute outstanding achievement might include: Insight in development of new initiatives to achieve IET aims Successfully adapting initiatives to work in a specific context or region Leadership shown in development and growth of IET initiatives Being an exceptional ambassador in engaging or recruiting a large number of new…

Lynsay Callaghan

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