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Welcome to the London Young Professionals

First of all, thank you for visiting our webpage, the IET London Young professionals. We are part of the IET London network and are a group of passionate, highly driven, and bright volunteers eager to share our experiences, career development, knowledge, skills, and enthusiasm in the engineering society and the community as a whole.

We, the Young professionals, bring you, the future and next generation of ambitious engineers; events, seminars, challenges, debates, like minded and suitable networking opportunities, and professional career support and development. We organise attractive and demanding events that are of special interest and use to schools, Universities, students, and professionals in their early years in business life. You may be wondering what engineering is really about? What exactly it is that lies ahead? What light at end of the tunnel? Why you are working so hard now? What makes the right engineer? What skills do I need to make it? What is all this for?! What’s business sense got to do with?! How do I get there?! These are some of the questions we know must be provoking. We and our events present these opportunities for reasoning, discussions, and answers to help direct thoughts and promote ambition in the engineering globe.

From here, it is with the greatest pleasure that I welcome you to come around, join us, meet with peers, friends, professionals, and engineers and business moguls at our various events. Together we can take the engineering world forward and to new highs. We are the future; we are the engineers of the future.

Reach out to us, have a look at our many attractive events for best fits for you, academic partner universities, our delightful Savoy place venue, and don’t hold back to contact…your comments; we love them!!

Take care now, wish you all the best in your career and prospects, and most of all; see you soon!

Getting involved

Thanks to the IET and our volunteering members, nearly all of these events are free of charge. Getting involved with the IET is a great way to gain experience and add to your personal and professional development; key elements if you are working towards chartership.

You can always get immediately involved as one of our YP University or Business Ambassadors, volunteering members who help us to connect with students and young professionals. Please contact me for further information or any questions.

For wider volunteering opportunities, please check the volunteering section of the IET website.

Stay in touch

Join our Facebook Group (IET London Young Professionals' Facebook page), LinkedIn Group and Twitter (@IETLondon) to keep up to date about the latest events and developments. Let’s keep in touch!!! ;0)

I look forward to meeting you all during the year.

Femi Olushola
Chairman Young Professionals London
folushola@theiet.org

2011-2012 Young Professional events

1. Engineering Challenge: come along on the 21st May to this exciting event and listen to the former president of Virgin Galactic, Will Whitehorn discuss how we can commercialise space!?

Click here for a full list of upcoming events.

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Make 'Engineer' a protected title

Responsible department: Department for Business, Innovation and Skills Engineering suffers from an image problem. People believe that engineers simply fix things, but we don't: we invent things. Unfortunately the false image is propagated by hundreds of companies out there who term repair-persons and equipment installers 'Engineers'. Engineering suffers from a lack of graduates, and at a time people are looking to manufacturing to fix the economy we need all the graduates we can get. Sadly they are put off by the false image of engineering. It is thus proposed that the title 'Engineer' is protected legally, like 'Doctor' or 'Architect'. It would be restricted to those who are professional engineers or product designers, or those who have retired from the industry.

If you believe in this cause, then sign the petition at the following link http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/6271

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Would you like to act as an inspiring role model to young people? Can you demonstrate science, technology, engineering or maths (STEM) in action, or talk about where your career has taken you? If so, why not register as a STEM Ambassador today?

STEM Ambassadors are people from a huge range of professional, educational and skills backgrounds who volunteer their time to help young people see the link between STEM subjects and their ‘real-world’ applications. Anyone who wants to inspire young people in the STEM subjects can become a STEM Ambassador. The main qualities that Ambassadors share are enthusiasm and commitment, along with a passion for their subject. Working with young people is a great way to enhance your communication and presentation skills and build confidence! If you would like to find out more, please go to www.stemnet.org.uk