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Members and registered users
Enhance your career
Seize control of your professional life with the new version of Career Manager, the IET’s online skills development and recording 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.
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.
Inspiring teenagers
Fun, but educational, Flipside magazine gets young teenagers interested in how science, engineering and technology underpin the world we live in. Available by subscription.
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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
February 2014
5 - 6 February 2014 | Holiday Inn Bloomsbury, London, UK
20 February 2014 | Grosvenor House Hotel, London, UK
8 - 10 April 2014 | Midland Hotel, Manchester, UK
Latest event videos
3D Printing The Future of Manufacturing?
Richard Hague
24 October 2013
London, UKIET.tv
The IET President's Address: Engineers who make a difference
Barry Brooks
3 October 2013
London, UK
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Policy & Media
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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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News and Highlights
The Technology Strategy Board will soon be launching a £4.75m competition as part of the High Value Manufacturing - Electronics Programme. Its main scope will be accelerating innovation and growth in electronics manufacturing through technologies to enhance functionality, reduce size, reduce cost, adapt form and/or enable rapid scale-up. The ESP KTN will be producing a series of events and activities leading up to the competitions launch, so be sure to check the connect site for the latest information.
CeBIT is one of the world’s leading technology events with over 230,000 visitors from more than 120 countries. In 2014 the UK will be CeBIT’s official partner country. As country partner, the UK will have an unprecedented level of exposure and access to services and opportunities to maximise business potential. Recognising this opportunity the ICT KTN, UK Trade & Investment and techUK are partnering to deliver a comprehensive business and technology programme leading up to and during CeBIT 2014 in Hannover. The first of these activities will be an opportunity for the UK’s most innovative SME’s to win a free space on the UK pavilion.
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Events
09 Dec
Solar Superstorms - Why, When and Impact
Malvern, United Kingdom
10 Dec
Christmas Lecture: Resonance to Radio: Simple Motion to Simple Selection
Cardiff, United Kingdom
11 Dec
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.
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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.
Proposal to remove the programme of study for ICT from the National Curriculum
Submitted on 11 April 2012 to Department for Education
Submitted on 11 April 2012 to Department for Education
Information and communications articles
Machine to machine communication: finding M2M solutions
12 November 2013
The machine-to-machine applications market needs a way to communicate, and the communications sector is busy finding different ways to help it.
Hacking contactless with homemade technology
12 November 2013
Researchers at the University of Surrey have shown that the much-vaunted near-field communications systems being rolled out for contactless card transactions could possibly be 'hacked' at the point-of-sale using inexpensive, rudimentary technology.
Big Analogue Data - why bigger isn't always better
15 October 2013
Big data sets are valued for the patterns and trends that they reveal when analysed by equally massive computing resources, but scientists are now questioning whether bigger is always better when it comes to deriving value from the analogue world.
E&T magazine news
Apprenticeships get £40m boost in Autumn Statement
An additional 20,000 higher apprenticeships will be offered in England up to 2014/15 with employers being funded directly for them.
Space technology centre named after Peter Higgs
A new £11m space technology centre named after "God particle" scientist Peter Higgs is to be built in Edinburgh.
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.
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