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Latest News
- The IET is supporting a new workshop "Sustainability at all Scales" at Bristol's At-Bristol Centre. This will give KS4, BTEC and post-16 students a new opportunity to bring the STEM curriculum to life, using At-Bristol as a case study. See more.
- Slides from our last lecture, Earthquakes: Lessons from the EEFIT Tohoku Mission, are now available on the Past Events page.
Our next few events are shown below, but you can see the full programme on our events page, or download the programme booklet. We often organise extra events as the season goes on; updates will be given on this website and via Twitter ( @IETbristol ), and you can now also subscribe to our Google Calendar feed.
Please register online for our events - there is a registration link on each event's web page. This lets us know how many people to cater for for our evening lectures and is compulsory for our site visits, where numbers are limited. Also, if you haven't already, you can use the MyIET section of the website to register your interest in the Bristol Local Network, which will allow you to receive our emails and printed newsletters.
If you would like to get more involved with the local network, contact one of the committee.
Coming up
Smart Grids and Smart Metering
Dritan Kaleshi explains how the proposed UK Smart Metering system will support active energy management to help make the way we use energy become more efficient, and explore how the system might interact with a Smart Grid.
6 February 2012, Bristol
20th Safety-critical Systems Symposium
Three days of cutting-edge presentations and debate at the 20th annual Safety-critical Systems Symposium, including topics such as goal-based safety standards, safety & cyberdefence, bayesian belief networks for dependability cases, developing and validating safety critical software, railway safety decision making, EMC for functional safety and safety of unmanned aerial systems.
7-9 February 2012, Bristol
24 Hours in the Life of an Engineer
Aimed at students, this event will give an insight into the careers of professional engineers. How did they get where they are now? What are the challenges? What makes it worthwhile? And what do they do all day?!?
22 February 2012, Bristol
The Future of Aircraft Interiors
In a joint event with the RAeS, Airbus marketing VP Robert Lange talks about the design drivers for airline interiors, and the trends and challenges that will influence passenger comfort in the future.
12 March 2012, Frenchay
For details of our full programme of upcoming events see the Events Page. We also make available selected presentations from Past Events.
Events from other Local Institutions
Lessons from Experience in Test Automation
In this BCS presentation, Dorothy Graham uses case studies from her recent book to draw out the lessons learnt from automation of software testing.
13 Februaru 2012, Bristol
In this BCS presentation, Dorothy Graham uses case studies from her recent book to draw out the lessons learnt from automation of software testing.
13 Februaru 2012, Bristol
The Bristol Network is grateful to the University of the West of England and the University of Bristol for providing the free venues our regular lectures. We normally alternate meetings between the city centre and UWE's Frenchay campus.
