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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
Library, archives, bookshop, publications & factfiles-
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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
Communities, sectors, volunteers & discussion forums-
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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
Conferences, seminars, courses, lectures & visits-
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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 Search Aids
Inspec produce a range of search aids to assist the user to find the right results. These comprise the Inspec Classification, the Inspec Thesaurus and the List of Journals.
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Electronic Search Aids
The Inspec Search Aids (Inspec Classification, Thesaurus and List of Journals) are available to buy in the IET shop, either in PDF, print or as a data file in XML. The XML Search Aids can be bought either individually or as a combined package. To purchase in our web shop, please click on the name of the publication.
Inspec Classification 2012 (PDF)
Print version
The Inspec Classification is the subject guide to the subject guide to the Inspec Database and print publications. Each code represents a specific subject area. When searching the Inspec Database the codes are useful in refining a search to a particular subject e.g. mechanical engineering applications, which improves the retrieval accuracy.
The Inspec Classification show the period of use of each entry and, where appropriate, indicates the codes that should be used when searching the Inspec database for references prior to that date.
Inspec Classification XML
The Inspec Classification is available as a data file in XML suitable for using with your own search software.
Inspec Thesaurus 2012 (PDF)
Print version
The Inspec Thesaurus contains a listing of the controlled items and the lead-ins or cross-reference terms used in the Inspec database. It also gives the relationship between terms, the dates on which they were added, and the terms in use before these dates. The Thesaurus contains over 9700 preferred terms. As well as listing the controlled terms and lead-ins or cross-reference terms, the thesaurus gives further help by showing the relationship between terms, the dates on which they were added and the terms in use before these dates.
Inspec Thesaurus XML
The Inspec Thesaurus is available as a data file in XML suitable for using with your own search software.
Inspec List of Journals XML
A useful reference to the serial publications covered by the Inspec database, including the dates and publishers of each title. This is a data file in XML suitable for using with your own search software.
Inspec user documentation package XML
A combined version of the Inspec Thesaurus, Classification and List of Journals in XML. Available to purchase through the IET shop.
