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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
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
Speaker Highlight - The 3rd Annual Future of Medicine – The Role of Doctors in 2027

We are delighted to announce Professor Martin Cowie, Professor of Cardiology, Imperial College London, will be speaking at the next Future of Medicine event. Join us to hear Professor Cowie speaking on “Technology and the Physician: Hope or Hype?” This talk will review the evidence that technological advances improve health outcomes for people with heart disease, focusing on the role of remote monitoring. In theory this should improve outcomes and be a better experience for the patient and the family: expertise goes to the patient rather than the other way round. A lot has been learned in the past two decades on what the key elements for success are, and some of these lessons will be highlighted in this short presentation. Technology has always been key to the way the healthcare team works…

Former Community Member
CyberUK 2017

This is a fascinating conference and exhibition running in Liverpool over three days this week. At lunchtime today I made a short presentation on Security Lessons from the Pay Television Industry. A copy of the presentation will shortly be posted on the IET CyberSecurity community page.

Graham Turner
New IET Network To Lead On Internet Of Things

The concept of the Internet of Things (IoT) touches upon every sector and almost every engineering discipline. It is clear that the IET should have a presence in this area, so the development of a new IoT Technical and Professional Network (TPN) has begun. A scoping event late last year identified a number of opportunities for the IET to support the sector. These include providing a forum for developers and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), spreading awareness and adoption, creating a working group and developing partnerships. “There are a great many initiatives and organisations already underway producing excellent guidance, standardisation and technology. We have a clear guiding principle that we will not attempt to be ‘me too’ and duplicate these efforts,” says IoT TPN volunteer…

Former Staff Member
The IET International Engineering Photography Competition

How are your photography skills? The IET has launched a new photography competition to members - and non-members - in a bid to challenge misconceptions of engineering and to demonstrate the ingenuity, breadth and vibrancy of the profession. The IET International Engineering Photography Competition is open to any photograph of an engineering-related subject that captures the dynamic, creative and progressive face of engineering and engineers today. It would be great to see some participation from the Control & Automation community so what are you waiting for? Participants can enter up to five photos to the following five categories: Digital Environment & Energy Structures & Transport Robotics Design & Production The great thing is this competition is also open to anyone from the ages of…

Joanne Longton
Upcoming Event: Scenario Planning For The Power System On The Island Of Ireland

SONI/Eirgrid Event: Scenario Planning for the Power System on the island of Ireland Another extremely interesting event has been added to our calendar. Scheduled for Thursday 6th April . Event is free with refreshments provided from 6pm , this will take place at both the SONI offices Belfast and Eirgrid Offices Dublin linked via video link. The event follows an extremely succesful event that utilised the same format last year. Just how do we keep the lights on with such high penetration of renewable energy and non-synchronous plant? What new scenarios do we need to plan for? How many scenarios do we need to plan for? Registration at the following link: https://localevents.theiet.org/effd79 Speaker bios below: Marie Hayden, Manager Scenario Planning, EirGrid Marie Hayden is the Manager…

Brian Moorhead
Ottawa LN Takes a RISC with ARM processors

In an evening organised by our YP representative, Georges Anke, the Ottawa LN was introduced to the intricacies of RISComputing and the ARM core processors. This was held at the RA Centre on the 23rd February. We were fortunate to welcome Graham Eatherley. Graham is a instructor at Carleton University in Ottawa where he currently teaches a group of 3rd years the "ins and outs" of real time systems. Graham is an experienced researcher and teacher. He worked in the Telecommunications industry for over 30 years and on retirement returned to school to complete post-graduate degrees in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. He is currently a Contract Instructor in the Engineering Faculty at Carleton University where he has taught several Microcomputer and Embedded Systems courses. Additionally…

Former Community Member
Lancashire & Cumbria Network Committee

The IET Lancashire & Cumbria Network organise an annual programme of engineering activities. All of these events and activities are made possible by the efforts of a dedicated group of volunteers. If you would like to know more about our committee, or would like to be a volunteer for us, please get in touch with the Chairman or our Community Manager listed below. Anne Morris - Chairperson Fred Eastham - Senior Vice Chairman/ and Treasurer Michael Bell - Community Secretary and Assistant Treasurer John Cowburn - North West Regional Network Chairman Bill Wilcock - Programme Secretary and LN Website Administrator Abdelrahman Abdelazim - Young Professionals' Contact Brian Flynn - Retired Members' Chairman John Doffegnies - South Cumbria & Kendal Convenor J oseph Dabrera - West Cumbria…

Deborah-Claire McKenzie
JLB 2017 - Meet The Speaker

Neil Hatton, the CEO of the UK Screen Alliance, is an experienced and well-known figure in post-production and broadcast in the UK having worked in the sector since 1979. He started with a stint in the BBC VT department in the basement of Television Centre. For more than 20 years, he worked at MD/CEO or owner level within post production houses in Soho like Frontier Post and Azimuth. In 1992, he pioneered non-linear editing and became the first person to cut a long-form documentary on an NLE in the UK. Over the years, he gained many primetime editing credits on all the mainstream channels. Neil has produced conferences and training events around the UK for the BBC Academy; "Sound Matters" about audibility and loudness in TV sound and "File Delivery Made Real" about the introduction of delivery…

Former Community Member
MMwave and Thz

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 Electromagnetics, RF and Microwave and Antennas & Propagation TPN’s. We’ll be hearing 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. Have you registered yet? If not, head to the registration page and book your place for this FREE event. Places are going quickly so make sure you don’t miss out. We look forward to seeing you in Glasgow!

Former Staff Member
Fundamentals of Project Management Lifeskills Workshop

The Lifeskills Workshop: Fundamentals of Project Management was organised by the Victoria Young Professional Committee on the 21 st of February. This was the first Lifeskills Workshop of the year. The IET offers different workshops every year on various topics related to soft skills engineers need on the workplace and provides the material and the speaker. The material is the same for all IET Communities over the world and as such is designed to be understandable by all kind of engineers with any level of experience. It is the ability of the speaker that makes the workshop interesting for the particular audience. IET Victoria is proud to have Mr Michael Henderson CEng presenting the IET content. He is such a skilled speaker that was able to recognise the level of the audience from the start…

Evan Barrett
Leadership Program 2017

The Western Australia (WA) Young Professionals is thrilled to announce the launch of Leadership Program (LP) 2017. The program is run every year aimed at engineering students from across four different universities in WA: University of Western Australia, Curtin University, Murdoch University and Edith Cowan University. Candidates will be interviewed and successful candidates will be given professional development aimed at leadership skills by leading industry people in WA. Each year we have recruited and retained many new members to join the WA Young Professionals committee. This year we are thrilled to work with our chairperson, Ms Israa Elsayed to develop a Best Practice Guide to be shared with other local networks around the world! Ms Elsayed is the perfect example. She came through as a…

Former Community Member
500 Likes On Our Facebook Page!

Over the long weekend in Western Australia (WA), the WA Young Professionals is delighted to find out that we have passed 500 likes on Facebook! Facebook has been the main social media channel for us to communicate and engage with our audience (engineering students and young professionals). We share the latest happenings within the IET local and global communities, industry updates within and outside of WA and some handy life tips such as project, time and stress management just to name a few. We are really excited about this and we hope you will check out our Facebook page and give us a like too! We have more plans in store so make sure you stay tuned to our Engineering Communities page and Facebook page!

Former Community Member
Young Innovators Day

The Grammar School in cooperation with the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) organised a Young Innovators Day on Saturday 4th March at the Mall of Cyprus. The event was a tremendous success as a great number of visitors had the opportunity to explore the future through 3D technology which included Robotics, Engineering, Electronic Circuits, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, interactive games, 3D printers, 3D Projectors and scanners.

Christos Christou
Intelligent Imaging 2017

There aren’t many events where you can discuss such diverse topics as space imaging, the future of robotic vision and how to identify damaged engineering building materials, but if all of these topics interest you then you’ll want to read on about this year’s Intelligent Imaging event. Delivered in collaboration between the KTN and IET’s Vision & Imaging Technical Network, the event brought together speakers and guests from across industry and academia to hear from equally varied background to give guests an overview of current technologies being developed across the vision field. Guests gathered at Savoy Place, London to hear from industry speakers such as Paul Jerram, e2v, on Imaging from Space ; Robert Lamb, Leonardo, on Image Processing for Long-Range Targeting ; Ken Primrose,…

Former Staff Member
Volunteers Wanted For Careers Awareness Day : Friday 17 March 2017

Host: The Institution of Mechanical Engineers Venue: One Birdcage Walk, London, SW1H 9JJ Enquiries and Registration are given in the event brochure available from the Engineering Your Future (EYF) web-site . This is a long-running careers event for 6th formers, to help inform them about the variety of engineering careers available. As well as interactive sessions run by engineering companies based on their work, we also have a 'speed networking' session, where individual engineers speak about their own career experiences and field random questions from the students. [More background information is available on the web-site ] Partly due to a volunteer having to withdraw at short notice, EYF are still very short of engineers to cover the Electronic and Electrical Engineering discipline at the…

Robert Heaton
Accelerating The Cloud For IoT & Immersive Data (IET London Network Event).

Focusing on the theme of field based technologies, I took opportunity to attend a comprehensive event hosted by IET London Network where Dr Tasos Dagiuklas a leading researcher as LSBU spoke about how cloud based offerings are today maturing as commercial solutions specifically to support the needs of field based users. In addition, how future cloud offerings would provide commodity services these users. Cloudlets, Fog and Edge – These 3 words sound too abstractive to describe technology , however, when considered with 5G services as the end goal, these 3 cloud offerings discussed by Dr Tasos Dagiuklas make clear on how cloud solutions will help deliver on the phenomenon of 5G services. All cloud offerings typically had field users categorised as Machine-to-Machine, Machine-to-Person or Person…

Rimesh Patel
Get Ready For EUCAP17!

It’s that time of year again – EUCAP17! If you’re not sure what EUCAP is, it stands for the European Conference of Antennas and Propagation. It is the main conference in Europe for antennas and propagation, organised by EurAAP. The first EUCAP took place in 2006 in Nice, France. The conference will be held in beautiful Paris this year. The full programme and more details about the conference can be found here ; there is still time to register if you haven’t already. You may notice that the IET Antennas and Propagation TPN will be hosting a convened session on Tuesday morning: CS29 New Antenna Systems Involving Application of Metamaterials and Metasurfaces (IET) . The session will be chaired by Hisamatsu Nakano and the TPN’s own chair, Rob Lewis – come along and join us for what’s sure to…

Former Staff Member
A Mind Blowing Technical Site Visit To Seven Network’s Broadcast Centre In Docklands Organised By IET Victoria

The site visit was hosted by the very welcoming John Albiston, Head of Broadcast Engineering and Development. John has been with the Network’s Operations for 30 years and during this time he has introduced and led all technology developments from project conception through to execution, including the design, installation, testing and commissioning of the Network’s broadcast centre in Docklands, back in 2002. John’s engineering knowledge and passion showed very quickly and got the group engaged right to the last minute of the tour! This exclusive ‘behind the scenes’ tour provided a unique opportunity to the limited group of 15 engineers to see and hear about the new and exciting developments in the broadcasting space that the 7 Network is pioneering. We had the opportunity to see the technology…

Former Community Member
Celebrating International Women's Day

To mark #InternationalWomensDay our Young Woman Engineer (YWE) of the Year awards are now open for entries! Applications are now open for the launch of the prestigious IET Young Woman Engineer of the Year Awards 2017 which look for the best young women engineers in the UK. There are three prizes avaialable which aim to celebrate success and highlight the accomplishments of young women engineers, working in the UK today. To further celebrate the day and the launch the YWE Awards, we also gained the support of IET President; Professor Jeremy Watson, MPs and previous YWE winners to take part in a parliamentary photo call. w ww.theiet.org/ywe #9PercentIsNotEnough

Former Community Member
IT@F1 Speed

One of the ARTS TPN volunteers, John Saville, gave an excellent presentation to the Mersey & Western Cheshire Network just recently, which I was lucky enough to hear. John worked in the F1 industry for several years and, until retiring, was the Chief Information Officer (IT Director) for the Jaguar Racing F1 team. We started the evening with a bit of fun i.e. John asked: Who had been to an F1 Race – a few hands went up Who had watched an F1 Race on TV – lots of hands in the air Who watches regularly e.g. more than 6 races a year – about a 30% drop off on the previous question Who will be getting up to watch the Australian Grand Prix at 6am on 26 March – that will be me and about six other people then! To set the scene John gave us a bit of background on the development of the Jaguar Racing…

Deborah-Claire McKenzie
IT@F1 Speed

One of the ARTS TPN volunteers, John Saville, gave an excellent presentation to the Mersey & Western Cheshire Network just recently, which I was lucky enough to hear. John worked in the F1 industry for several years and, until retiring, was the Chief Information Officer (IT Director) for the Jaguar Racing F1 team. We started the evening with a bit of fun i.e. John asked: Who had been to an F1 Race – a few hands went up Who had watched an F1 Race on TV – lots of hands in the air Who watches regularly e.g. more than 6 races a year – about a 30% drop off on the previous question Who will be getting up to watch the Australian Grand Prix at 6am on 26 March – that will be me and about six other people then! To set the scene John gave us a bit of background on the development of the Jaguar Racing…

Deborah-Claire McKenzie

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