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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
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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.
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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
14 June 2013 | IET London: Savoy Place
Call for papers deadline: 28 June 2013
19 September 2013 | Strand Palace Hotel, London, UK
Call for papers deadline: 18 October 2013
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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.
Catch up on the latest IET and engineering developments with our regular IET News video.
Share what’s on your mind through this series of interactive webcasts for members of the IET.
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.
The IET serves the specialist requirements of the legal profession by nominating expert witnesses to present technical information in court.
Strengthening the debate between engineers, policy-makers and wider society on technology solutions for 21st Century global issues.
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Archives highlights
The Archives holds information on many subjects relating to the history and development of science, engineering and technology. The articles highlight some of these subjects from the collections.
Latest news from the IET Archives
This video footage shows an early motion-picture device known as a mutoscope that was manufactured by an English company called Kinora Ltd from about 1895 to 1914.
The gentleman seen here is Sir William Crookes (1832-1919), a chemist and physicist who invented the Crookes tube, an early form of the cathode ray tube. This item is held in the IET Archives alongside collections relating to Sir William Crookes.
Please see the biography for Sir William Crookes for more information.
Manchester Histories Festival
As part of the 2012 Manchester Histories Festival the IET Archives helped to sponsor a conference looking at the archaeological impact of communications technology from early canals to today's digital revolution. We are now happy to provide a link to the conference where you can watch videos of each paper presented. Many thanks to the University of Salford for providing this link:
Archaeology of Communications conference 2012
Featured articles
- Aristotle's De Naturali Auscultatione
- Chaucer's Mathematical Works and the Astrolabe 1391
- Galvani's Frog's Leg Experiment
- Methodus Geometrica
- Ampere-Faraday Correspondence
- The French Connection- The Dover-Calais Submarine Telegraph
- Earth the Magnet - William Gilbert's Terrella
- GEC Wembley Laboratories and the Cavity Magnetron
- Charles Merz- Lessons from Boston
- Julius Hyginus - Poeticon Astronomicon
- Guyot - 'The Ingenious Swan'
- Avicenna - Canon of Medicine
- Philipp Reis- inventor of the telephone
- Edward Davy - 'A Magnificent Failure'
- Edison's Speaking Telegraph - Notes by William Preece
- The Rose of the Winds
- Morse's Visions of Submarine Telegraphy
- L'Abbe Nollet's dispute with Benjamin Franklin
- Sir Francis Ronalds's Telegraph
- Aldington's Machine
- Lane Fox - 'An Illuminating Letter'
- Secret Machines- A history of British Code-Breaking during World War II
- Colonel R.E.B Crompton in India
- The history of the Kelvin Lectures
- The First Transatlantic Telegraph 1858
- The Cooke drawings of the First Transatlantic Telegraph 1858
- The Transatlantic Telegraph 1865
- The Young Cricket Trophy
- Vitruvius' On Architecture- 1511 illustrated edition
- First World War Roll of Honour
General histories
Darjeeling Hydro Power System
Paris Electrical Exhibition 1881
Great Exhibition 1851
New Electricity Timeline poster!
The IET Archives has been involved with creating a fun timeline poster that illustrates the key achievements in the history of electricity up to 1900. It features original images from the IET Archives' collections and information on important dates.You can order your free poster from the IET Education 5-19 department, alternatively you can view it by downloading it from the link below.
Electricity timeline poster (1199 k)Free Archives exhibition brochures!
If you would like to receive a free copy of one of the IET's Archive brochures that accompanied our past exhibitions held at Savoy Place, please contact us and we shall post them out to you. Topics covered are: "Sailing Ship to Satellite - the Transatlantic Connection"; "The BBC at Savoy Place 1923-1932"; "Secret Machines- British Code-Breaking during World War II" and "A new kind of vision- the discovery of X-rays".
