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The Life and Work of Guglielmo Marconi 1874 – 1937
Speaker:
Peter Turrell (retired ex Marconi.)
Venue:
Telford Lecture Theatre, BAE SYSTEMS, Gt. Baddow
Synopsis:
Guglielmo Marconi was born in Bologna Italy, the son of a rich Landowner. Mother, Annie Jameson, was a member of the Irish Whisky family. Marconi, credited with the birth of Wireless Communications, came to England in 1895 with his invention. The talk covers mainly the setting up of the Marconi factory in Chelmsford and the work of Marconi until his death. A brief update on the New Street site development will also be included
Technical visit to Tube Lines training facility, Stratford
Venue:
Technical Visit – Assemble at Stratford Station entrance
Synopsis:
Tube Lines’ new Skills Training Centre in Stratford is a state-of-the-art facility which has brought together all of its training facilities under one roof. The visit will take in an overview of the signalling systems currently used on the lines maintained by Tube Lines and a walk around the practical area of the training centre, which is a simulation of the railway with a fully functional signalling system. You will see the majority of the equipment currently used on the railway. There will also be an opportunity to learn about the new signalling system being introduced on the Jubilee and Northern lines. Please register in advance with contact.
Grahame Edwards, Technical Director of IT Automated Ltd
Venue:
Telford Lecture Theatre, BAE SYSTEMS, Gt. Baddow
Synopsis:
Smart buildings combine innovations, both technological or not, with skilful management, to maximize return on investment. Hear how the buildings of the future are being designed to make life easier and cope with technological change. The future of smart buildings is when it knows you as an individual and supplies what you want when you want it. - HVAC, lighting, entertainment, information, fire, and security
Connecting for Health [NPfIT (National Programme for IT)]
Speaker:
Ian Leonard, Programme Director, S.E. Essex Local Health Community
Venue:
Telford Lecture Theatre, BAE SYSTEMS, Gt. Baddow
Synopsis:
The NHS is investing £6 billion in a programme to bring its disparate IT systems into the 21st Century so that it can transform the way it delivers healthcare. This lecture will highlight the various projects within the National Programme for IT, the benefits for patients and clinicians and some of the many challenges to be overcome.
Technical Visit to Highgate Tube Signalling Centre
Venue:
Technical Visit - Assemble at Highgate Station Entrance
Synopsis:
Highgate Test Facility (HTF) is a Tube Lines purpose built test facility with a test track and equipment room. The facility is equipped with all the elements of the new system, and components of existing systems. The facility, segregated from the operating railway, allows the systems to be thoroughly tested in a known and controlled environment, before being installed and tested on the railway. This creates a very efficient and progressive environment for development and problem solving. Depending on the stage of testing on the day, the visit will comprise a safety briefing, site overview and a walk around the facility, a walk onto the test track. Please register in advance with contact.
Tilting Trains - a Modern System for the West Coast Main Line
Speaker:
Harwood, Alstrom, and Gary Hambling, Virgin Trains
Synopsis:
The presentation will describe the main design considerations of the Pendolino tilting train system for the West Coast Main Line and will give abrief back ground to the interfacing of the train with the ungraded infrastructure for tilt operation. It will also give some background to reliability and maintenance operation. The presentation will give the operational experience of the trains and customer perceptions. We will also give some of thoughts to how the system might be improved.
All the top Telcos are working on convergence. What does it mean and how will it affect your use of the telephone? The speaker will discuss VoIP and how it is being used for ordinary telephone calls as well as describing the pulling together of different technologies - convergence - to give you much more flexibility from the 'phone
Antarctica – 2 Years in the Antarctic – 50 Years Hence
Speaker:
Professor Les Barclay, Consultant
Venue:
Telford Lecture Theatre, BAE SYSTEMS, Gt. Baddow
Synopsis:
Professor Barclay because involved with the Antarctic at an early sage in his career and it was to have a profound effect on him. He recounts his memorable experiences from that time and looks at how time has changed the continent.
Lisa Mortiboy, IET Staff.and Mike Williamson, SETPOINT Essex.
Venue:
BAE Systems Insyte, Eastwood House, Glebe Road, Chelmsford, CM1 1QW
Synopsis:
Considering applying for Eng Tech, I.Eng or C.Eng? Come along to discuss your membership progress or, if you are not already a member, what the IET can do for you. Bring your training records to check that you are on the right track and all the latest IET Literature will be available for you to take away. Find out also about the work of SETPOINT who promote science & engineering to young people Please pre-register for this event and bring ID.
DRM - the world standard digital solution for improved short-wave broadcasting.
Speaker:
Jonathan Stott (Technology Group, BBC New Media & Technology) Usual time and place.
Venue:
Telford Lecture Theatre, BAE SYSTEMS, Gt. Baddow
Synopsis:
The speaker will explain how Digital Radio Mondiale works - built on the foundations of DAB and terrestrial digital TV, but especially tailored to the peculiar needs of LF/MF/HF propagation - and will illustrate its development, testing and service launch.
This presentation reviews the Seawolf missile design characteristics and the history leading up to the current Blk ll Missile design features. The presentation covers a review of the major components of the missile including:- Propulsion Systems, Payload, Airframe, Instruments and control concepts. Comparisons with other missile control concepts (US, Russian and European) are also included. This leads then into the design trade-offs for the System Kinematics, the Autopilot and the Guidance Loop, with examples of the Open and Closed Loop response characteristics and the important parameters. Estimates of System performance with Range are explored and some of the limitations of CLOS (Command to Line Of Sight) guidance over extended ranges are made. During the presentation competing systems (RAM, VT1, VLMICA, ESSM (Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile) & ASTER 15) are briefly compared.
Dr. Andrew Ball, Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute, The Open University, Milton Keynes
Venue:
Telford Lecture Theatre, BAE SYSTEMS, Gt. Baddow
Synopsis:
In January 2005, after an interplanetary journey of 7 1/4 years, the European Space Agency's Huygens probe entered the atmosphere and descended to the surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, having been released from NASA's Cassini spacecraft 20 days before. Titan is the only planetary satellite in the Solar System possess a significant atmosphere, with a thick orange organic haze that obscures our view of the surface. The journey of the Huygens probe will be described and some of the results presented, with emphasis on the Open University's contribution.
A brief introduction to Britvic Soft Drinks Ltd and the issues faced due to increasing energy costs. The talk will also highlight some of the projects past and current in the company to reduce our energy usage / costs. We will then cover the different systems / management tools we use to monitor our energy usage and how we identify blips, spikes and variances. The talk will then pull together what we have done so far and our strategy for the future.
There is still evidence around some areas of the East of England and in particular in the rural areas of Essex of an era pre-dating the industrial revolution, over 200 years ago, when small scale machines were built to provide power where it was required.
With the advent of the industrial revolution larger machines were developed powering the mills, the mines and the plants processing raw materials and producing products for the World. During this revolution machines were powered by coal and on a far scale larger and more sophisticated than ever witnessed before, but nevertheless they were built where the power was required.
The model for producing power on a local scale continued well into the beginning of the last century. The more famous remains of these larger scale distributed generators can still be seen as art galleries and major developments on London’s South Bank and at Battersea.
Over the past decades it is easy to assume that our power has always been generated from large centralised generators, distributed by a well connected grid. It is perhaps more difficult to imagine that distributed generation is once again being considered as means of supplying power and heat on a small and even on a micro scale.
This time it is not just about feeding economic growth, or sustaining a quality of life it is about mitigating climate change by reducing carbon emissions. This talk on ‘Distributed Generation’ will take a look at the drivers, the technologies being developed and the measures being put into place to encourage the use of ‘Distributed Generation’ and how we may source power in the not so distant future.
The first laser was produced in the early 1960’s. Advances in lasers and fiberoptics in recent years make them ideally suited to travel through routes in the human body where no hand or scalpel has gone before. Urology is the diagnosis and treatment of diseases or disorders of the prostate, bladder, ureter and urethra. With an increase in use of small-diameter endoscopic instruments, urology has been drastically and positively influenced by this technology. This lecture will outline some of the developments and procedures used today.
Location: SELEX, Christopher Martin Road, Basildon, SS14 3EL
Synopsis:
Negotiating: To confer with another with a view to compromise or agreement. (Oxford English Dictionary) This practical workshop will help you to appreciate the benefits of effective negotiation and develop a range of negotiating skills. It covers the process of negotiation, establishing the bargaining range, the discussion phase, trading concessions and communication types.
At the end of the course, you will understand the use of power and techniques to achieve movement through bargaining to an acceptable result. This course is free of charge for IET members, but please register in advance at: http://www.iee.org/link.cfm?link=17403
It is crucial to have accurate and prompt interpretation of signs of acute ischemia during Electrocardiograph (ECG) monitoring though ST segment analysis. Yet, competency in reading ECGs among 120 junior doctors was shown to be low. ECG monitors with automated ST segment analysis are available for ischemia detection. However, the use of such monitors is limited.
A new ECG monitor with automated ST analysis capability has been developed to assist healthcare professionals identify changes of acute ischemia with the site and severity of the changes. The monitor projects the changes as a 3D image of the heart showing progression of acute changes in real time. Hear about this exciting local development.
Radar technology is developing rapidly and can be used as a sensor for imaging targets and for Non Co-operative Target Recognition. The main techniques employed for land and naval-based air defence target recognition applications are discussed. Peter Tait, who has recently written the IEE book entitled “Introduction to Radar Target Recognition”, will be presenting the talk.
CPD NOTE The events listed here may contribute to your CPD. Under
the new CPD scheme arrangements, members will need to evaluate
the personal benefit of each lecture.
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Anyone with special needs wishing to attend should contact the
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