Section News
Watch Again | IEEE UK & Ireland Section Annual Christmas Lecture – An Engineering Profession Fit for the Future by Dr Hayaatun Sillem, CBE
The IEEE UK and Ireland Section traditional Christmas Lecture took place on 13th December at the iconic Regent Street Cinema at the University of Westminster. This year we had the honour of Dr Hayaatun Sillem, CBE giving a lecture on “An Engineering Profession Fit for the Future”.
Watch Again | IEEE RAS Chapter Prestigious Lecture – Intelligent Automation Methods for COVID-19 Recognition
This presentation describes intelligent automation methods, such as transfer learning, graph neural networks, attention neural networks and weakly supervised networks to label CT-based scans.
Event Review | University of Birmingham Student Paper Competition & Open Presentation Competition 2022
The University of Birmingham Student Paper Competition & Open Presentation Competition 2022 was held on the 23rd November at the School of Engineering, University of Birmingham. This event was organised by the University of Birmingham IEEE Student Branch (PES).
IEEE 2022 Student Awards Programme | Success for IEEE UK and Ireland Section Student Branches
The IEEE UK and Ireland Section Student Branches prospered in the 2022 Student Awards, with two student branches being presented the Regional Exemplary Student Branch Award, and a further two being awarded the IEEE Power & Energy Society High-Performance Student Branch Chapter Award.
Event Review | Manchester Energy and Electrical Power Systems (MEEPS) Symposium 2022
IEEE PES Student Branch Chapter (SBC) at the University of Manchester (UoM) recently hosted their biggest annual event – MEEPS 2022, the Manchester Energy and Electrical Power Systems Symposium at the Core Technology Facility, Manchester.
Watch Again | Control and Communications Ireland Joint Chapter Webinar – Learning-based Fixed-time Control for Collaborative Robots subject to Physical Constraints GalleryWatch Again | Control and Communications Ireland Joint Chapter Webinar – Learning-based Fixed-time Control for Collaborative Robots subject to Physical Constraints
Watch Again | Control and Communications Ireland Joint Chapter Webinar – Learning-based Fixed-time Control for Collaborative Robots subject to Physical Constraints
This presentation introduces new findings about fixed-time control techniques for robotics systems subject to physical constraints, for instance input saturation, working space constraints and obstacle avoidance to increase the response and convergence of the system.
Watch Again | Control and Communications Ireland Joint Chapter Webinar – Autonomous Vessels’ Operations Compliant to COLREGs
The main focus of this presentation will be the design of software agent systems for the autonomous guidance and control of vessels sailing in confined waters (eg ports and waterways) and performing terminal and harbour towage.
Region 8 Awards | UK and Ireland Chair Prof Izzet Kale reflects on the Section’s Region 8 Awards
IEEE UK and Ireland Section won a total of five awards at the 119th Region 8 Meeting in Cairo in October 2022. Here, Prof Izzet Kale, IEEE UK and Ireland Section Chair, gives his reaction to winning these prestigious awards.
Region 8 Awards | Eduardo Audiche on what it means to be an IEEE Region 8 Awards Winner
IEEE UK and Ireland Section won a total of five awards at the 119th Region 8 Meeting in Cairo in October 2022. Amongst the awards at the 119th Region 8 Meeting in Cairo, two were presented to Section Secretary Eduardo Audiche; the R8 Outstanding Volunteer Award and on behalf of the R8 Outstanding SIGHT Group. Here, Eduardo gives the background to the awards, his reaction to winning and what they mean to him on a personal level.
Watch Again | Systems Council Data Analytics Special Interest Group Webinar – A Lecture on Data Analytics and Applications
If you have ever wondered how to use analytics as a way to spot expansion opportunities, this webinar runs us from the initial contact with the business objective, right the way through conceptual prototyping, analytic model design, data sourcing, transformation and visualisation.