The volunteers of the IET Anglian Coastal Network organise events and other activities covering engineering and technology topics for engineers and also members of the public who have an interest in engineering and technology. Even if you’re not a member of the IET, you’re still welcome to join us at any of our events. 

We cover the areas of Norfolk, Suffolk and north Essex. Over the past few years we have organised a large number of highly successful Webinars when face-to-face meetings have not been possible. We are now able to resume face-to-face events.  We aim to retain many of the benefits of the Webinar format where practical.  Most of the lecture events will be hybrid offering both face to face attendance or online options. We also organise occasional visits to places of engineering interest (e.g. Bentwaters Cold War and Bawdsey Radar museums). 

Contact us

We’re always looking for ideas and suggestions for events and visits etc so if there is something you would like us to organise, or to help you to organise, please get in touch: angliancoastalln@ietvolunteer.org. 

Foothold (needs your help) 

This is a plea to all IET members to support your own Foothold (benevolent fund) financially. It is now in a financial crisis because of the change to the way IET membership is renewed and benevolent funding is collected. Until recently you could easily make a small donation as part of your IET membership renewal - the IET has now removed this option. As a consequence, Foothold is facing a circa £350k shortfall and this is nothing short of a crisis for the IET benevolent fund. As a member of the IET you never know when you may need support and it is comforting to know that help and support is available via Foothold which is the IET's own benevolent fund. The Honorary Treasurer of Foothold (see link below) is asking for circa 14,000 IET members to step up and donate what you can (£25 each suggested). Please help if you can.

https://www.myfoothold.org/your-foothold-is-here/news/statement-from-honorary-treasurer-gareth-price-financial-situation/

Watch a recorded webinar

Many of our webinars are recorded and are now available to watch online.  Starting from July 2024 links to any future video recordings will be displayed in the 'Previous Event Information' below.

CPD Certificates

 PDF ITER - Conquering the Challenges of Fusion Energy - 14th Nov 2024 

PDFWhy software is damaging the environment - and what can be done about it - 22nd Oct 2024

PDF Routes to Registration - 25th Sept 2024

PDF New Space: The future of satellite communications - 18th July 2024

PDF Visit to Bentwaters Cold War Museum - 10th July 2024

PDF Visit to BT's Robotics & Drones Research Lab  - 05 June 2024

PDF Quantum: Game changer or niche?  - 16 May 2024

PDF   Calculators with no equal - 25 January 2024

Visit the events page filtered by Anglian Coastal Local Network to find out about our upcoming events.

Previous event information

PDF ITER Conquering the challenges of fusion energy - 14 November 2024

PDF Why software is damaging the environment - and what can be done about it 22nd Oct 2024

Video of 'Why software is damaging the environment'

PDF New Space: The future of satellite communications - 18th July 2024

Video of 'The future of satellite communications, 18/7/24'.

PDF Quantum: Game-changer or niche? - 16 May 2024

Video Recording: "Quantum: Game-changer or niche?" - 16/05/2024

PDF Calculators with no equal - 25 January 2024

PDF    Chaos Theory - from Butterflies, to Predators and Prey - 16 November 2023

PDF    Getting off Gas (PDF of slides) - 18 July 2023

PDF     A to Z architecture aspects for Internet of Things - 19 January 2023

PDF    Reducing food waste in the agri-food supply chain using blockchain and AI - 8 December 2022

PDF     For a few dollars more, a partial and recent history of the UK telecommunications sector - 15 November 2022 

PDF    Machine learning making smartphones smarter - 29 March 2022

PDF   The strange neighbourhood of black holes - 22 February 2022 

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