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  • MOU Signed between Ottawa LN and KCG College, Chennai

    The MOU between Ottawa LN and KCG College in Chennai was signed yesterday by the Chair of Ottawa LN David Mann and the Vice Principal of KCG College, Sumathi Poobal.  The signing ceremony took place very appropriately in the Canada-India Centre for Excellence at Carleton University with Dr Harry Sharma, Director.  An overriding aim of the MOU is to foster exchange of ideas and projects between Chennai and Ottawa and the discussions during the week, including those with President Jeremy Watson, underlined the very strong engineering foundations in both centres.  Already a project on water quality is being explored, and a second project was initiated late on Friday, again connected with water surveys and autonomous vessel development. We are hopeful that IET Chennai LN will soon be able to clear…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Visit to Farnborough Air Sciences Trust (FAST) and the National Aerospace Library (NAL) Farnborough. 25th May 2017

    Trenchard House is an unassuming building on the main road from Aldershot to Farnborough.  The only unusual thing about it is that several aircraft are parked in the grounds - although in Farnborough, that isn’t totally surprising.  The Farnborough Air Sciences Trust (FAST) is there, in the oldest aeronautical building in the world.  In 1906, it was a balloon factory; now it holds a colossal collection of items from the aviation history of the UK.    The Aerospace TPN visited on 25 May and heard from David Wilson a fascinating history of British aviation and the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE).  Samuel Cody’s first UK flight of 16 th October 1908, was commemorated a century later by the opening of the Cody Pavilion containing a replica of Cody’s original aircraft.  Cody’s fatal accident…

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • Reflections On The IEEE Robotics Competition

    First, here is a report from Timothy Sears who is one of the twelve children that the Ottawa LN sponsored for the Lego Robotics competition:   Section %u2160: Before the IEEE competition Not long after the FLL competition, coaches Frank and Robert had a drag race. This got the us excited about doing the IEEE challenges. Next came a few robot tutorials about wheels, chassis, etc; these were helpful because they helped to introduce our newer team members to LEGO MINDSTORMS. They also helped our more seasoned team members to consider what is needed for different robotic tasks.  We picked teams and then we went into competition mode the week before Easter Saturday.    Section %u2161: At the IEEE competition Dragrace Teams A and B got 2 nd   and 3 rd   place in the dragrace. Getting to second and…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • IET Faraday Challenge Singapore 2017

    IMDA (Info-communications Media Development Authority of Singapore) has invited the IET Singapore to organise Faraday Challenge on 29th and 30th April 2017 at Sands Expo and Convention Centre. In this two-day event, IMDA aims at educating the public about the importance of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) as a vital nation-building element. This year, the chosen topics for Faraday Challenge was adapted are Communications Challenge and Table Tennis Server Challenge, for Saturday and Sunday respectively. The Faraday Challenge was kickstarted by a fun ice-breaking game to bond the 20 participants of ages 9 to 12 years old. Then the participants were drawn randomly to form 4 groups, with a facilitator in each group to provide guidance and advice to the participants. Afterwards…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Building Trust in an IoT Enabled World

    On Tuesday evening the Ottawa LN hosted a conference on CyberSecurity and we captured all the talks on video. Here is a preliminary pair of videos of the talk by Professor Jeremy Watson, President of the IET: https://youtu.be/yM897jskL1Q https://youtu.be/YGEogl5xw60 Videos of the remaining talks will follow as soon as we can edit them.

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • CM Blog: Visit to Malaysia with a special guest from UK: David Houssein

    Volunteer Training Session by David 20 May 2017 UTAR On Campus Group President with David David shared about TPNs and CPDs at the volunteer training session for both the Main committee and YPS, about 30 volunteers joined the training.  There was a good discussion about TPNs and the hot topics of Malaysia:  Oil and Gas, energy, renewable energy and Railway (high speed train).  Two Malaysia volunteers who joined the Control and Automation TPN shared about how the Network collaborated with TPN.  Their upcoming event will be a Student Competition that will take place in August.  After the session, the Malaysia volunteers have a better understanding of TPNs, how it works and the possible ways of collaborations between LNs and TPNs.   Thank you UTAR On Campus group committee for the venue and event…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Cyber Law; An Intellectual Medley Or Acts Of Enforcement.

    The ISO standards are one of the strongest examples of facilitating people, process and technology to create governance models.  What is not seen in the ISO standards is the ability to actively promote the need to examine big-data for commercial use, innovation for competitive edge or influence of policy. These standards, just like most technology standards are not a Law, just a tool to aid in regulation. The concept of Cyber Law itself is still maturing. When flight companies have major technology break downs, the Law of commerce enforces consumer protection. So what does the concept of Cyber Law enforce. To answer that, we need to understand what is Cyber? As an analogy, Tax comes about when a business transaction takes place, without a buyer and a seller, you cannot Tax. Similarly, Cyber…

  • Ottawa LN sponsors three teams at the IEEE Ottawa Robotics Competition.

    In three years the IET sponsored group of Lego Robotics enthusiasts has quadrupled in size (from three members to twelve!).  This year three teams entered the IEEE Robotics Competition, pitting their skills against over 120 other teams with all kinds of amazing talents. Our teams entered a nifty robot in the SUMO wrestling match.  Here is a link to show how they did:  http://bit.ly/BackStreetSumo.  There was an interesting fault in one of the three rounds when it looked as if the robot was bemused by the iPhone the referee was using to time the match, and we lost that round and conceded the match. And two of the teams entered the DragRace.   Getting to the second and third place was a fantastic achievement.  Here is the photofinish of the final race: http://bit.ly/BackStreetDragRace  The scoring…

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    Former Community Member

  • 50 Years On A Local Network Committee

    At our Ottawa LN AGM on Wednesday the 24th of May, 2017 we celebrated 50 years of service by Colin Billowes. Colin's name is the first on our plaque of Presidents since 1967 which in Colin's honour is now named the Colin Billowes Presidents Plaque. Colin has been an active member on the committee in all of his terms. Those who know him will tell you that he always comes up with good suggestions, will work to make them happen and can ask the really awkward but always relevant question when needed! Colin also works with our younger members, offering support and mentorship and when they help him when computers dont work, he gives thm real credit but he also wants to know what went wrong. On the 50th anniversary AGM, Colin gave the meeting a good and humerous description of a his work in Tanzania…

    David Mann
    David Mann

  • By keeping a record of your goals, you're more likely to complete them - but, How Smart Are Your Goals?

    As we head toward the middle of the year, you'll find yourself thinking about the plans for the next few months - you might be thinking about a Summer holiday or looking forward to a particular sporting event - but how many of you can say that you're putting as much thought into your career goals? I've mentioned in a previous blog the importance of recording your development (for which we recommend  Career Manager ).  By keeping a record of your goals, you're more likely to complete them.  The very act of committing them to paper (or in this case adding them to Career Manager) will act as a reminder of what you want to do and allow you to keep track of your goals as you progress. If you want to be even more certain that you'll achieve your goals then you should aim to make them smart. SMART…

    Kathryn Bain
    Kathryn Bain

  • CM Blog: Get To Know More About The Australia Networks (Western Australia)

    An interesting fact about WA: Perth is the most isolated capital in Australia, it takes less time to fly to Bali, Indonesia (3 hours) than to any other capital cities in Australia (more than 3 hours). Hot sectors:   Mining, Oil and Gas. About IET WA Network:  They have a strong YPS team , about 20 members.  One of their flagship activity/program:  Leadership program .  They have just set up their first On Campus group at Curtin University.  Their "How to win a job" workshop is a best practice event that other Aussie Young Professionals sections are now orgainising at their LNs copied from WA.   Great to meet up with the WA Network members earlier and good to hear that they have just started running Leadership Programme 2017.   They have just set up an On Campus group in Curtin University ,…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • CM Blog: Get To Know More About The Australia Networks (Victoria)

    An interesting fact about Victoria :  Longest train track in Australia (>800km)  The volunteers also said that they have the best coffee in Australia.   Hot sectors :  Railway, Renewable Energy, IoT. About Victoria Network: Leadership programme which first started in Victoria 2014 and is now back to Victoria Network.  LP VIC 2017 ranked No. 1 in the month of March 2017 in the list of landing pages on Engineering Communities from social media. Main committee organised a very successful Channel 7 Site visit and watch out for other upcoming events of VIC Network such as Professional Registration Workshop by their IPRA Sashi.

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • CM Blog: Get To Know More About The Australia Networks (South Australia)

    SA & NT Network main committee An interesting fact about SA : Most Festival state in Australia, one volunteer told me that they have the second largest Fringe Festival in the world. Hot sectors:  Biomedical, Aerospace, Defence. SA & NT YPS About IET SA & NT Network : YPS was  established in 2014 with just 2 members (Ben and James) and currently they have 10 members.  They organised events such as the life skills workshops, their first Women Engineers event took place earlier this year (3 talks and networking event) this year.  Main committee organised a very successful Networking event with the Australia Minister of Defence as keynote speaker. It is the first time I’ve met two volunteers (father and son:  John and Conor Noonan) who joined the Main committee and YPs.  I’ve also met Maged (YP…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • What IET Lifeskills course would you like to attend in Norwich?

    Help us to choose what Lifeskills session we run in Norwich next, by completing this short survey .

    Alex Barrett
    Alex Barrett

  • Present Around The World Australia Final 2017

    Clash of the giants! It was definitely the clash of the giants at the Australia for the Present Around The World (PATW) Australia Final! 6 champions who won the PATW in their local network were representing their networks in the Australia Final. I had the opportunity to watch these champions present their research finding and to keep myself updated with the latest happenings around the engineering community. The topics presented ranged from recycled polymers in the civil engineering field to groundbreaking researches in the biomedical engineering field to better mankind. We were all invited to a formal dinner on Friday evening after the competition. Apart from the delicious three course meals on the top floor of the hotel, the spectacular Brisbane city view illuminated with colourful lights…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • IET On Campus GIKI Volunteer Committee (2017 To 2018)

    Assistant Professor Dr.Husnul Maab On Campus Facilitator (Supporting University Faculty Member) Mr.Muhammad Umar Shaikh President   I  Official OnCampus GIKI Network email id:  liaison.iet@gmail.com      Mr.Shahrukh Shaikh Vice President Mr.Muhammad Haris Naseem Secretary          Ms.Mahjabeen Baig Treasurer Mr.Gulbaz Khan Event Coordinator for GIKI Innovation Summit Mr.Shahryar Baloch Event Coordinator Mr.Akhundzada Zaheer Ahmed Director Outreach Mr.Omer Farooq Shah Director Support Ms Gemma Tuck  IET OnCampus Student Coodinator (IET Staff at UK) oncampus@theiet.org

    Nouman Abid Chuhan
    Nouman Abid Chuhan

  • IET OnCampus CIIT Abbottabad Volunteer Committee (2017 To 2018)

    Assistant Professor Dr.Jawad Saleem On Campus Facilitator  (Supporting University Faculty Member) Mr.Saad Shafqat Chaudhry President    I    Official OnCampus CIIT Abbottabad Network email id:    oncampusiet @gmail.com Mr.Zeshan Ajmal Secretary     Mr.Haris Ahmad Treasurer Mr.Muhammad ilyas Malik Social Media and Online PR Manager Ms Gemma Tuck IET OnCampus Student Coodinator (IET Staff at UK) OnCampus@theiet.org

    Nouman Abid Chuhan
    Nouman Abid Chuhan

  • News from the Community

    Ideas! The TPN’s are currently in the midst of planning for the next year and the IoT TPN, though still in its infancy, is no exception.   We have a few activities in the pipeline, but we want to hear from you and if there are any ideas, speakers, initiatives we need to get involved in.   Let us know in the discussion area and we’ll do our best to incorporate your ideas into our planning The 100 We now have 100 member of this community! This is a great achievement – the community was only created at the end of last year and I am looking forward to watching it grow even further   We want you! As we have many new members I thought this would be a good opportunity to appeal for new members for the committee. We have a small committee already and would love to have new members on board. We hold…

    Former Staff Member
    Former Staff Member

  • IET OnCampus CIIT Attock Volunteer Committee (2017 To 2018)

    Assistant Professor Akbar Ali Khan On Campus Facilitator  (Supporting University Faculty Member) Mr.Ali Shan President Mr.Talha Nadeem Secretary      Mr.Faisal Saeed Treasurer Ms.Sumbal Iqbal Social Media and Online PR Manager Ms Gemma Tuck IET OnCampus Student Coodinator (IET Staff at UK) OnCampus@theiet.org

    Nouman Abid Chuhan
    Nouman Abid Chuhan

  • Professional Registration Talk At Kertih 4 May 2017

    A professional Registration Talk was organised  at Gas Processing Kertih. There were around 3o particiapnts from Petronas Gas Berhad (PGB), Petronas Penapisan Terengganu (PPTSB and Petronas Carigali (PCSB). There were engineers from Instrument, Electrical, Mechanical and Process. Our Committee Member Fauzan organised the event Regards Chris Chew

    Chris SF Chew
    Chris SF Chew

  • 1 Day Leadership Program

    From the perspective of the volunteer who helped make this event a reality! My name is Julian Goh and I am a recent chemical engineering graduate from Curtin University. Despite going through four years of university and hearing about the IET, it was only a month ago when I attended my first IET WA YP committee meeting in April. From there I volunteered to undergo a trial by fire which was to organise a day of Lifeskills workshops designed to engage and provide values to unsuccessful Leadership Program 2017 candidates. At the end of the meeting, I was given a succinct summary from Peta Blight of the rough steps I had to take to get everything together and from that point onwards it was up to me to make it happen. A challenge arose in the final week when there were less than 3 sign ups. I decided…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Leadership Program 2017 Workshop #2

    This workshop focussed on project management and how to effectively collaborate with team members. It was presented by Rob Moore who was an engaging and experienced presenter who could relate his material to real-world examples. I had no knowledge of the programs Slack or Trello prior to this workshop but have now learnt that they are very useful tools when trying to manage people in group projects!   We were seated in groups that we later found would be our groups for the IET projects and events, these being the IET Quiz Night, Present Around the World (PATW), World Record Breaker and the Can Structure challenge. Groups were organised based on our Myer-Briggs results and mixed a range of different personality types. This will no doubt be an opportunity to put into action what we all learnt…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Australia New Zealand (ANZ) Young Professionals Campaign (YPC) Workshop

    How often do we get a sneaky short getaway from our busy schedules? Thanks to the IET I had the privilege and experience of meeting other like-minded volunteers from across Australia and New Zealand in Brisbane, a city which I had yet to set foot in.  Brisbane is charming and we were lucky to be situated on the picturesque South Bank river front.  On occasion I pondered why I was stuck in the conference room when I could see the amazing day it was outside.  I attended the ANZ YPC workshop where I had the joy to reconnect with familiar faces and meet new ones. In the conference, we exchanged ideas and shared our best practices allowing all the Local Networks to further develop the plan for their LN and the YPC objectives. Everyone present was motivated and passionate. On Saturday, we all met…

    Karla Smith
    Karla Smith

  • Augmented and Virtual Reality technologies in industry

    The West Yorkshire region recently held an event at the Rose Bowl in Leeds on the subject of augmented and virtual reality technologies in industry.  The event, which highlighted the use of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) technologies in industry, attracted interested members of the public, IET colleagues, and professional engineers from companies such as BAE Systems, NG Bailey, and global design firm, Arup.  Leeds Beckett University CCTE Senior Lecturer, Balbir Singh gave an exciting presentation describing a work in progress - an ongoing project that makes use of both AR and VR technologies in the construction industry. Together with contributions from developer (and former LBU student) James Fenwick, Balbir also discussed some of his successful knowledge transfer partnerships…

    Oliver Clarke
    Oliver Clarke

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