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Members and registered users
Enhance your career
Seize control of your professional life with the IET Career Manager, our innovative online professional development tool.
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.
Lead by example. Inspire the next generation. Help to shape the profession.
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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
Avoid unnecessary risk of electrical incidents in your business. This new Code of Practice provides a self-assessment process to radically improve management of electrical safety.
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Knowledge Packs
IET members can now take the credit with the world’s leading engineering and technology digital resource.
E&T Marketplace
The essential directory for buyers and suppliers of engineering and technology products and services. Start your search.
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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
29 - 30 April 2014 | Liverpool, UK
24 – 26 June 2014 | London, UK
3 July 2014 | London, UK
Multiple events
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Professor Alice Roberts
05 December 2013
IET.tv
Panel Discussion
27 November 2013
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Media centre
IET corporate news and activities, plus comment and reaction on engineering and technology issues.
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.
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News and Highlights
There is a new European project EXPRESS – this is studying the development of the “Smart Systems Ecosystem” and what measures, funding programmes or other initiatives will help Europe develop an active, vibrant and world leading Smart Systems technology sector. Our friends at ESP are one of the partners in EXPRESS and need your input. The project has just started and they are leading the analysis of the challenges facing the sector – these will be used as a foundation for the rest of the two year programme of activity.
You can contribute by completing one of two surveys.
For clusters (groups of companies)
For individual organisations (companies, universities, consultants)
For a summary of Mobile World Congress 2014 why not check out a great write up by Ian Poole from Radio-Electronics.com. Ian also met with IET past President Mike Short to gather his thoughts on the show.
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Events
29 Apr
Seminar on Intellectual Property in the ICT sector
Barcelona, Spain
30 Apr
Ultra High Definition and 4k TV
Birmingham, United Kingdom
30 Apr
Technical Talk on Enhanced Air Traffic Service through Application of New Navigation Technology
Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
Factfiles
Cloud computing:the security challenge (part 3)
An introduction to the security challenges for cloud computing.
Cloud computing: commercial opportunities (part 2)
An introduction to the commercial opportunities and business cases for cloud computing.
Cloud computing: introducing cloud computing (part 1)
An introduction to cloud computing – a factfile from the IET.
Communities in this sector
Sector Publications
Publications
Electronic Letters
The latest research in electrical and electronic engineering.
IET Journals
The journals contain both original and review papers relating to electrical, electronics, computing and communications technologies.
IET Books
Professional and academic book programme across 21 specialist disciplines in key areas of engineering and technology.
Policy
Government policy
The IET represents the views of its members on a wide range of professional and technological issues.
A call for views and evidence: Cyber Security Organisational Standards
Submitted on 14 October 2013 to Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS)
Submitted on 14 October 2013 to Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS)
Information and communications articles
News analysis: Electronics, drones and satcoms search for MH370
14 April 2014
More than a month after Malaysia Airlines passenger jet flight MH370 mysteriously disappeared, we find out how far technology can help investigators discover what happened.
Analysis: What lessons can be learned from the Heartbleed fiasco?
12 April 2014
The continuing furore over the Heartbleed bug holds important lessons for the IT industry, both about the way it responds to major incidents and also the way software is produced.
Analysis: Facebook's Oculus purchase a good thing in the long run
04 April 2014
A large contingent of people online are upset about Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus, but the cash injection may well prove vital in getting their virtual reality device to market.
Latest news
UK’s slowest broadband street named
Two streets with 30 times slower download speeds than UK average have been named the slowest broadband locations in the country.
Google adds ‘time machine’ to street view
Internet giant Google has updated its Street View feature so users can now travel back through time and see how places have changed since the mapping service launched in 2007
IET.tv videos
Forums
Communications forum
Join the latest discussions on antennas & propagation, networks, electromagnetics, EMC and multimedia in the Communications forum
Electronics forum
Join your peers to discuss the latest in healthcare technologies, microelectronics & embedded Systems and microsystems in the Electronics forum
IT forum
Discuss developments in application development, hardware, IT management, IT and society, security management and software in the IT forum.
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.
E&T Marketplace
E&T Marketplace
The essential directory for buyers and suppliers of engineering and technology products and services.
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