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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
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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IET.tv
E&T magazine news
Atomic weapon maker admits responsibility for blast
The Atomic Weapons Establishment, which makes and maintains the UK’s nuclear warheads, has admitted putting employees at risk.
Drones used for oil exploration in Norway
Geologists in Norway are using flying drones with cameras to hunt for oil.
Latest events
22 May
All-Energy 2013 Exhibition and Conference
Aberdeen City, United Kingdom
25 May
13 Jun
History of Power Engineering: Legends from the Past
Manchester, United Kingdom
Factfiles
Electricity storage
This Briefing provides an introduction to electricity storage technologies and answers some key questions about the roles that storage can play within the electricity system.
What is a Smart Grid?
This IET briefing document explains what a smart grid is and why it is different from the existing electricity grid. It explains why the move to low carbon electricity with significant amounts of variable wind generation will require new ways of balancing the electricity grid.
Journals
IET Electric Power Applications
Publishing papers of a high technical standard with a suitable balance of practice and theory. Its scope covers a wide range of applications and apparatus in the power field.
Virtual library
Virtual library
IET members can access for free electronic books and journals from: EBSCO, Engineering and IT Reference Library, Faulkner reports, Knovel, Wiley, and Key Note.
Communities in this sector
Resources
Sector Review - Q1 2013
A roundup of the Sector's activities so far this year and plans going forward.
Sustaining Engineering and Technology Skills
The IET Energy Sector is actively engaged in highlighting the potentially catastrophic UK Engineering and Technology skills gap.
IET Policy Evidence on Gas Strategy
The IET gave oral evidence to the UK Parliament on 13 February 2013 in response to the Gas Generation Strategy.
Heat Debate
Following a cross sector roundtable debate between senior executives from the Energy and Built Environment on the topic of the future for Heat provision, we are planning a UK road show of activities in conjunction with IET local and technical networks to obtain input from key stakeholders around the country in preparation to produce an IET positional document in conjunction with our Energy Policy team to the UK government on District Heating and Combined Heat and Power (CHP).
UK Power Networks Flexible Plug and Play
Ofgem’s Low Carbon Network (LCN) Fund is being invested to help Britain’s current electricity distribution network support faster and more cost effective distributed generation connections.
Events and Conferences
If you would like to meet with representatives of the IET’s Energy Sector and other IET departments in the near future then please review the key activities we will be attending in the first part of this year.
How the IET and nano-scale research are helping the global conservation effort
The IET’s Micro & Nano Letters publishes cutting edge global research in energy storage and energy harvesting, based on selected papers from the Asia-Pacific Conference on Transducers and Micro/Nano Technologies (APCOT 2012).
Power Electronics Skills Competition – enabling a resilient energy system
Calling for Power Electronics innovators to help enable a resilient energy system and address some of the high level challenges facing the Energy industry.
London Olympics delivery success: the lessons for nuclear
What did the nuclear industry learn from the London Olympics delivery with respect to the key areas of Commercial, Project Control and Delivery?
Energy articles
Beam it down
12 April 2013
It sounds like science fiction, but beaming solar power from space is now technically feasible.
Alcatraz: lighting up the Rock
10 April 2013
It used to be home to notorious criminals but now Alcatraz is the site of an ambitious renewable energy project.
Q and A - Energy efficiency with Dr Nick Eyre
11 March 2013
With energy efficiency sitting high on the political agenda, we caught up with Dr Nick Eyre, a Jackson Senior Research Fellow in Energy at the Environmental Change Institute (ECI) at Oxford's Oriel College, to unravel the tangled web of policy and technology.
About this sector
Sector publications
Energy Sector Newsletters
Bringing you all the latest on IET Energy Sector initiatives, partnerships and thought leadership together with details of upcoming events, Sector highlights on IET.tv and opportunities for you to get involved!
IET Sectors 2012: A year in review
This high-level review summarises the major outcomes from a remarkable year of activity for IET Sectors.
UK Power Networks: Engineered to Generate the Future
View the UK Power Networks case study to learn more about their "Energy Storage System (ESS)" technology.
Books
Energy storage for Power Systems book
Covers all existing energy storage techniques and at the same time deals with power system considerations for energy storage and storage applications.
Distributed Generation
This book discusses the connection of generation to distribution networks and then moves on to consider how sustainable generation can be fully integrated into the operation of the power system.
Protection of Electricity Distribution Networks
This book refers to most aspects of electrical protections, with emphasis in Distribution Systems.
Policy
Government policy
The IET represents the views of its members on a wide range of professional and technological issues.
Electricity Demand Reduction: options to encourage permanent reductions in electricity use
Submitted on 31 January 2013 to Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)
Submitted on 31 January 2013 to Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)
Contact us
If you would like to learn more or have any questions about the Energy Sector, please email: energy@theiet.org
Collaborations
Flexible Plug and Play
The IET and UK Power Networks have formed a unique partnership to share knowledge gained from an innovation project (Flexible Plug and Play) that is largely funded by Ofgem’s Low Carbon Network Fund.
E3 Academy
The E3 Academy involves three universities (Bristol, Newcastle and Nottingham) and six companies (Emerson – Control Techniques, Cummins Generator Technologies, Edwards, Parker SSD, Ricardo and Siemens Industry) working together to address the graduate recruitment crisis in the Electrical Energy Engineering (E3) sector
