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Membership
Career development & professional registration-
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Members and registered users
Enhance your career
Professional registration recognises your competence, commitment, skills and experience.
The IET provides guidance and support to enable members to undertake planned and structured Initial Professional Development (IPD) and Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
Professional development courses designed to help individuals and organisations reach and stay at the leading edge of engineering and technology.
The IET Awards reward and celebrate individual excellence, innovation and ambition (engineering scholarships).
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Resources
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E&T Jobs
Engineering & Technology Jobs
Search today for your next engineering role on Engineering & Technology Jobs, the job board hosted by the IET.
Standards
Code of Practice for Electrical Safety Management
Managing electrical safety effectively is vital in avoiding accidents, delays and unseen costs to your business. IET Standards' newest publication will help non-technical managers manage electrical safety in their organisations. The Code of Practice is now available to pre-order.
Publications
Open access
Open access publishing now available in all existing IET research and letters journals, plus our new fully open access online journal, The Journal of Engineering. Now accepting submissions.
E&T webinars
Free-to-attend, interactive webinars that enable you to stay abreast of the latest technology developments, whilst improving your knowledge across a host of engineering-related disciplines.
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Get Involved
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MyCommunity
Shape your community. Shape your world.
MyCommunity, the IET's professional network and collaboration platform, enabling you to connect, interact and exchange knowledge with your peers.
Volunteering
Interact with the IET and raise your professional profile
Volunteering can enhance your career development, is a personally rewarding experience and also benefits your Community.
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Events
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Highlighted events
20 May 2013 | IET London: Savoy Place, UK
11 - 14 June 2013 | Wyboston Lakes Hotel, Bedfordshire, UK
14 June 2013 | IET London: Savoy Place, UK
8 - 10 April 2014 | Midland Hotel, Manchester, UK
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Policy & Media
Thought leadership, media centre & public affairs-
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Media centre
IET corporate news and activities, plus comment and reaction on engineering and technology issues.
Read what the media is saying about the IET and our activities.
We can provide independent experts to talk to the media on a range of engineering and technology related subjects.
Advice and support to IET members on promoting IET activities via the media and social media.
Policy
Key topics offer summaries of the IET’s positions on many of the most important policy topics.
The IET represents the views of its members on a wide range of professional and technological issues.
Offering unbiased, independent, evidence based policy advice.
The engineering profession speaking with one voice on key issues relating to engineering.
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Communications Policy Panel
Identifying policy issues applicable to the communications sector and providing guidance to IET members, government and the public.
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As part of the IET, the Communications Policy Panel (Comms PP) is an independent group, that undertakes to proactively identify policy issues applicable to the sector and provide guidance to IET members, Government and the public. Its remit covers all relevant IET professional activities including submissions to government or third party consultations, and IET strategy formulation. This work being in a national, European and international context. In support of this endeavour the Comms PP's scope embraces the following policy issues:-
- Economic and political influences on/due to communications technology.
- Environmental impact of communications technology.
- National and European Community communication legislation change.
- Convergence of information technology and traditional telecommunications and broadcasting.
- Emerging technologies likely to impact communications implementations.
- Safety, security and reliability of communication systems.
- Theory and practice of communications engineering at device and system level.
- Communications engineering skills, skills attrition, education and recruitment.
It is one of fourteen policy panels established by the IET policy department.
Members of the Communications Policy Panel
Recent events
- Mobility and access: femotcells, LTE and the new revolution in radio
- Engineering the future - Key communications issues for tomorrow
Relevant submissions
- S938 - Proposal to remove the programme of study for ICT from the national curriculum
- S901 - Assessment of future mobile competition and proposals for the award of 800 MHz and 2.6GHz spectrum and related issues
- S870 - Consultation on Access to traffic and travel data - Universal Traffic Information
- S869 - Traffic management and net neutrality
- S834 - Digital Dividend: Cognitive Access
- S828 - Digital Britain: Interim Report
Additional submissions made by the IET may be found in the submissions archive.
If you are a member, and would like to input into the IET's policy work, please join the Communications Policy Key.
