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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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Dr. Fredrik Verkroost PhD, CEng, FIET, FIoD
Member of the Innovation and Emerging Technologies Policy Panel
Fredrik Verkroost is an experienced Chairman/CEO of technology companies worldwide, specializing in corporate strategy, company turnarounds and incubating innovation.
For the past 10 years Fredrik has served private and public equity shareholders / Funds and boards of innovative technology companies with their incubation, development, turnaround and financing needs, and presently sits on the boards of a number of innovative companies spanning telecoms, healthcare, environmentally friendly packaging and entertainment.
In his earlier corporate career, Fredrik held the following responsibilities:
- Chief Commercial Officer and deputy CEO at ICO Global Communications Inc. (mobile satellite communications);
- Head of Corporate Development and on the Management Board of Landis & Gyr AG and subsequently the merged group Elektrowatt AG (building automation – now Siemens Building Technologies, power generation & distribution, energy management and payphones);
- Director and Head of the European industrial controls and automation division of Square D Company, and led the merger with Groupe Schneider;
- Country Sales & Marketing Manager for Test & Measurement Systems at Hewlett-Packard (Switzerland) – now Agilent;
- Group Sales Manager at Databit / Siemens Text & Data Communications;
- Sr. Development Engineer on Spectrum Analyzers and European Sales Engineer at Marconi Instruments.
He was a former long-standing participant on the European Council on Corporate Strategy, and a former member on the European Energy Board.
His management roles have covered a broad range of technology sectors, including Test & Measurement solutions; Mobile, Fixed-line and Satellite Communications; Energy Management; Industrial Controls & Automation; Building Automation; Electronic Health Records for healthcare reforms; non-toxic and non-PVC Food Packaging; Database Analytics Software; Kinegram bank note security; Chip Card industry; Signal Processing Algorithms for the oil, automotive, water and voice recognition industries.
During his career, Fredrik has completed over £1bn in company financing through IPO’s, acquisitions, mergers, and disposals. He also secured and managed the sponsorship of the ICO Global Challenger (the infamous Branson/Fossett/Lindstrand round-the-world balloon race).
Fredrik holds a PhD and B.Sc. (Hons) in Electrical and Electronic Engineer from the Victoria University of Manchester. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering & Technology, a Fellow of the Institute of Directors, and formerly a Fellow of the Institute of Management.
