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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
IET Standards
IET Standards publishes authoritative standards, codes of practice and guidance materials for professional engineers and other key stakeholders, using its expertise to achieve consensus on best practice in emerging and established technology fields. ISL also works with expert partners to deliver training based on its publications.
Publications
Buses, Bankers and the Beer of Revenge
From Greek computers to aircraft carriers made of ice - a collection of 50 of the best stories from Justin Pollard’s Eccentric Engineer column in E&T magazine.
Engineering & Technology magazine
E&T is the leading monthly magazine for all engineering professionals. Its award winning content is available in print, online and on iPad.
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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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Inspec Thesaurus
The Inspec Thesaurus is a subject key to the Inspec Database and as such provides a powerful search aid.
The 2012 edition contains 18,755 terms of which 9,722 terms are preferred terms (called Controlled Indexing, Descriptors or Subject Headings on various platforms). 9,033 terms are lead-ins (synonyms) - terms that advise the searcher which controlled term they should use for searching.
Inspec records contain on average three to six Thesaurus Terms that reflect the main concepts described by the title and abstract. This allows the searcher to retrieve all the major concepts dealt with by the author(s) without having to know all its synonyms.
The Thesaurus has a hierarchical structure, and for each Term there are other associated Terms. This enables the searcher to explore efficiently all ‘Inspec subject areas’. This is particularly important for information specialists who often have to search a wide range of very complex topics.
A typical entry for a Thesaurus Term and its associated terms is shown below:
Thesaurus Term: MOSFET
Scope note: Introduced: January 1995
Related Classification(s):
B2560R Insulated gate field effect transistors
More Specific (narrower) Terms: power MOSFET
More General (broader) Terms: MISFET
Related Terms: FinFET
metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistors
MOS transistors
NMOS transistors
PMOS transistors
VMOS transistors
Search tips:
Searching by Thesaurus Terms field leads to more precise results as only topics that are important are indexed.
Because the various concepts are indexed consistently using Thesaurus Terms, it is not necessary to consider all the synonyms.
Inspec policy is to assign the most specific term appropriate to the subject of the document.
On most platforms (online systems), the Thesaurus Terms are part of the ‘Default search fields’ (also known as the Basic Index). This means that if you do not specify which fields you want to search, the system will search by default the four subject fields - the title, abstract, the Thesaurus Terms and the Uncontrolled Indexing Terms.
The full Inspec Thesaurus is available in XML format, print and PDF.
