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Solent Local Network events calendar

 

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February 2010

• Marine Current Turbines: moving from experimental systems to a commercial technology

  This presentation will discuss the background to the development of Marine Current Turbines Ltd's pioneering technology for the exploitation of tidal stream energy. This will include the rationale and an outline of the essential features of MCT’s technology and an overview of the performance and economics of the planned commercial technology, together with an indication of MCT’s future plans.

   

  Lecture 24 February 2010, Portsmouth, UK

• What's in a picture..? Revealing the hidden detail in astro-images

  The advent of the low light CCD cameras has revolutionised astronomy on both professional and amateur levels.  This lecture will explain how image processing processing techniques enable a near perfect image to be obtained.  It will also describe techniques used to recover the image detail from 'out of the noise', manipulate images to match the colour and luminance range of the human eye, and even 'remove' atmospheric errors by de-convolution.  Examples will be shown and basic theory will be explained.

   

  Lecture 25 February 2010, Newport, Isle of Wight, UK

• Technical visit to Siemens Traincare

  The visit will commence with a short presentation, which will be followed by a tour of a typical train, during which significant items of equipment will be identified.  Finally, a visit to the stores area will be made to view equipment destined for train units during the upkeep process.

  Visit 25 February 2010, Southampton, UK

March 2010

• SMART-1 – Europe's first mission to the moon!

  The lecture describes SMART-1, Europe's first mission to the Moon (Europe here being defined as western Europe). SMART missions are engineering test beds to test and develop new technologies. SMART-1 was the first of these missions (and currently still the only one to have flown). The speaker will describe the basics of the technology behind the ion engine and also some of the results from the UK technology demonstration camera flown on SMART-1.

   

   

  Lecture 24 March 2010, Portsmouth, UK

• Naval Aviation

  The lecture will explore and discuss the general topic of naval aviation. It will particularly pay attention to the use of Jets at sea.

   

  Lecture 25 March 2010, Newport, Isle of Wight, UK

April 2010

• Professional Registration Workshop

  This workshop will give members the opportunity to have an individual appointment with an adviser to discuss professional registration in any of CEng, IEng, EngTech or ICT Tech.

  Workshop 26 April 2010, Southampton, UK

• Further FASTER Future (Fourier Assisted Stock Trading Experiment Routines)

  FASTER is a computer spreadsheet application which analyses stock market prices with the aid of FFT (Fast Fourier Transforms), seeking useful patterns in trading.  In January 2005 the first 'issue' of FASTER was the subject of a talk. Since July 2009 there has been further intermittent work and use.

  Results in 2005/2007 seemed to confirm the hypothesis that there were usable trading patterns. More recently there has been a massive problem in the global financial arena, resulting in very different trading circumstances and stock price parameters. Various extensions and modifications have been made to the program, seeking to maintain the early quality results, and are the subject of the talk.

  (The lecture will be preceded by the Annual General Meeting of the IET Solent Network Retired Members Section.)

   

  Lecture 28 April 2010, Portsmouth, UK

June 2010

• Lifeskills: Take control of your career

  This workshop forms part of the IET’s Professional Lifeskills series – an important part of your continuing professional development and support.

  Workshop 09 June 2010, Southampton, UK

• Advanced composites: current applications & technology development

  The talk will cover current materials and manufacturing processes for aerospace secondary structure and high performance automotive applications and then look at industry trends and developments aimed at manufacturing composite components using more automated processes.

  Lecture 10 June 2010, Southampton, UK