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  • Volunteer Spotlight: Sumeet Shah

    Supporting confidence, growth and professional success through mentoring. For Sumeet Shah, engineering has never just been a career. It's been part of his life from the very beginning. A lifelong passion for engineering Growing up in a family involved in manufacturing and engineering, some of his earliest memories are of designing and building projects at his uncle's metal fabrication factory. Inspired by childhood favourites such as Transformers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles , a young Sumeet set about creating his own model aeroplane and even a pair of nunchakus. A few years later, while still at secondary school, he spent a summer helping to commission new plastic recycling equipment at his late father's factory as part of a move towards more sustainable manufacturing. Alongside…

  • The Gap Between Seeing a Problem and Fixing It

    Not by everyone, and not in full. But someone noticed. The trend that kept slipping. The number that never quite reconciled. The supplier update that felt a little too smooth. The signal was in the room. What wasn't there was a system for turning that signal into action while action still mattered. That's the gap. Not a failure to know, but a failure to act. And it's where project controls either earns its place or quietly fails to. Plenty of control functions live on the wrong side of it: measuring everything, catching problems late, producing immaculate reports on disasters they never stopped. So here are three ideas worth sitting with. Control is not monitoring. Monitoring is watching. Control is action taken to make objectives more likely to be met. Say that back to your own function…

  • Café Conversations: Navigating a Career in Aerospace

    Are you excited about a new engineering role, thinking about your next move, or simply curious about where a career in aerospace could take you? The September edition of the IET Aerospace TN’s Café is for you. Bring your career questions, share experiences, discuss challenges together, and connect. Exploring the breadth of aerospace careers Aerospace engineering offers a diverse range of career opportunities, from design and manufacturing to systems integration and emerging technologies. Yet for many engineers, understanding what these roles involve can be hard. The Aerospace TN’s Café helps bridge that gap. It's a space to hear about the skills engineers use in their work across different roles. As one attendee shared: “There are so many different areas within engineering that…

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  • Curiosity, AI and the Future of Engineering - July's Highlights on EngX

    July on EngX was packed with thought‑provoking ideas, career reflections and practical engineering conversations. From exploring the decision‑making challenges behind artificial intelligence to rethinking how we design workplaces and infrastructure, the community shared a wide range of perspectives on how engineering continues to evolve. Alongside these future‑focused topics, personal career stories and lively forum discussions reminded us that some of the most valuable insights come from sharing experiences with one another. Here's a look at some of the content that stood out this month. Blogs worth a read Dead on Arrival: Why fresh produce needs a digital brain, not just a GPS This fascinating blog explored how digital twins, IoT sensors and predictive AI could help tackle one of…

  • June Highlights on EngX: Digital twins, decarbonisation and community conversations

    June on EngX brought together a fascinating mix of future-focused thinking, practical engineering challenges and inspiring community stories. From exploring how digital twins are transforming decision-making across industries to tackling the realities of decarbonising energy-intensive sectors, members continued to share insight, experience and expertise. Alongside these technical discussions, stories celebrating engineering talent, STEM education and inclusion helped showcase the people driving our profession forward. Here’s a look at some of the content that stood out this month. Blogs worth a read Digital twins in motion: why a multi-disciplinary debate matters now Digital twins have rapidly evolved from an emerging concept into a practical engineering tool, and this blog explored…

  • AI, Engineering Skills and Real‑World Challenges: May's highlights on EngX

    As we wrap up May, it has been another thoughtful and wide‑ranging month across the IET EngX community. From deep dives into engineering history and emerging technology challenges to open conversations around skills, wellbeing, and global impact, members have continued to share insight, experience and practical knowledge. Here are some of our top highlights from across EngX in May. Top Discussions This Month The forums have been as active as ever, with conversations spanning cutting‑edge technology, career development, and practical engineering challenges. A number of threads explored AI and digital transformation, including discussions such as Beyond hype: uncovering the critical research axes and future trajectories of AI‑driven digital transformation and Zero Trust was not built…

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Latest Partner News

  • Josie Harries discusses how Domino is working to increase support for women in the workplace

    Encouraging women to choose careers in STEM subjects has been top of the agenda for many years – but what fresh ideas can you introduce within the workplace to attract and support female employees? At Domino, we are committed to improving the gender ratio in leadership roles within a business to 40% by 2030. This target, endorsed from Board level down, now stands at 25%, from a starting figure of 18%. Support networks Recently we re-launched our Women@Domino global network to promote inclusion within the business and facilitate the sharing of ideas and experiences, as well as networking, mentoring, events and training. Gender was also one of three key areas in our new Inclusion & Diversity strategy. The network is not limited to female employees; male colleagues are encouraged to participate…

  • Road to Engineering event introduces children to the world of engineering

    BAE System's Submarines Academy for Skills and Knowledge (SASK), Barrow-in-Furness successfully hosted the 6th Road to Engineering event which took place over three action-packed days. Over 200 children from the Furness area participated in the event which aims to inspire future careers in Engineering. This year's theme was 'Adapt and Change' following the British Science week theme. Supporting the event were the Institution of Engineering and Technology, the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, Barrow District of Associate Engineers and the Royal Institute of Naval Architects who contributed valuable insight, merchandise and STEM packs for schools. Stephen Rowe, Project Director of Engineering Transformation said, "It was a privilege to attend the Road to Engineering event and…

  • H&MV Engineering appointed as principal designer and contractor for the Thorpe Marsh Battery Energy Storage System (BESS)

    H&MV Engineering has been appointed as principal designer and contractor for the delivery of the 400 kV grid connection and electrical infrastructure for the Thorpe Marsh Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) – the largest of its kind in the UK and among the largest in Europe. This landmark project, led by Fidra Energy and backed by major investment from EIG and the UK Government’s National Wealth Fund (NWF), has now reached financial close with construction commencing immediately. Located on the site of the former Thorpe Marsh coal-fired power station in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, the 1,400MW / 3,100MWh facility will be capable of exporting over 2 million MWh annually, supplying clean energy to approximately 785,000 homes. Once operational in mid-2027, it will be three times larger than…

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Latest articles from E+T Magazine

  • Industry insight: Why AI benchmarks don’t prove real-world reliability

    This article has been provided by Gleb Tsipursky, CEO of Disaster Avoidance Experts. Engineering teams are being asked to make consequential decisions from a deceptively simple object: a benchmark score. A model appears more accurate, capable or efficient than its competitors, and the number begins to stand in for a much harder question—whether the system will behave dependably in the environment where it will actually be used. The distinction matters because benchmark performance is not operational fitness. NIST’s recent work on AI evaluation separates benchmark accuracy from generalised accuracy. The first describes performance on a fixed set of test items. The second tries to estimate performance across a broader population of similar tasks. Those measures can differ, and both depend…

  • China data centres to use nearly three times UK total electricity by 2030

    China’s rapid build-out of data centres will see the sector using nearly three times as much energy as the entirety of the UK by 2030, analysis from Wood Mackenzie shows. Like many countries around the world, China has wholeheartedly embraced AI technologies in the last few years, which has necessitated the need for massive data centre construction. The report suggests that by 2030, electricity requirements from the sector will triple, equating to around 6% of the country’s entire electricity consumption, or around 774TWh. To put that in perspective, the UK’s total national power grid currently sees generation of around 275-320TWh. The report – Rewiring China’s grid for the AI era – predicted that by 2060, data centres could account for 17% of China’s total electricity consumption. “Data…

  • Sonar system could protect undersea cables and pipelines from attack

    Subsea cables and pipelines are highly vulnerable to attack from underwater vehicles. But start-up Ultra Maritime says its underwater sonar system could help fend them off. Energy interconnectors, gas pipelines and communication cables are uniquely vulnerable to physical sabotage and hybrid attacks because of their immense geographic footprint, publicly charted locations and position at relatively accessible depths. Carrying roughly 99% of intercontinental data and vital energy supplies, these assets represent critical national infrastructure that remains nearly impossible to monitor continuously across thousands of miles. But Ultra Maritime has demonstrated a new integrated active-passive sonar solution capable of providing persistent surveillance across contested maritime environments…

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