IET Queensland

Welcome to the home page of IET Queensland. These pages are designed to complement and supplement the most comprehensive information which is available on the UK-based website http://www.theiet.org, providing local information where necessary. For this, please select from the links in the Navigation menu.

Welcome to the new Institution!

Submitted by colmorwood on Wed, 05/04/2006 - 3:01pm.

On 31 March 2006, the IEE and IIE formed a new organisation, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). The Institution welcomes involvement from and communication between all sectors of science, engineering and technology.

Membership of the IET places you at the heart of a global community of more than 150,000 engineers and technologists, providing you with a passport to a powerful knowledge network, the opportunity to develop your own expertise and to share ideas with fellow professionals.

Tripartite Agreement between Engineers Australia, IET and IEEE

Submitted by Steve Dalton on Wed, 08/02/2006 - 4:25pm.

On 1 October 2000 the former Australasian Region Board of the IEE was replaced (within Australia) by the IEE Australia Forum, which now operates as the IET Australia Forum. For details of the initial (and still largely current) Forum operation see National Guidelines..

The Tripartite Agreement, or Memorandum of Understanding, was first set up in January 2003, and a revised document was signed by the three parties in Sydney on 7 April 2006.

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Newsletter - October 2007

Submitted by colmorwood on Mon, 17/12/2007 - 8:13pm.

Newsletters

Please find October 2007 Newsletter attached.

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The Electrical Manufacturing Lecture

Submitted by Steve Dalton on Tue, 22/05/2007 - 6:49am.

Start: 19/09/2007 - 5:30pm

Refreshments from 5.30 pm (enhanced, with sandwiches and hot savouries).
Lecture at 6.15 pm

The Electrical Manufacturing Lecture, jointly with Engineers Australia. The 2006 IET Achievement Medallist (and IET Queensland member) Professor John Billingsley of USQ will speak on “Industry and Academe — which one holds the cutting edge?”.

Note the change of date (from 12 September) due to a rearrangement of the Engineers Australia programme schedule.

Speaker

Professor John Billingsley MA PhD CEng FIEAust FIET
Professor of Mechatronic Engineering, University of Southern Queensland.
Director of Technology Research of the National Centre for Engineering in Agriculture.

Newsletter - October 2006

Submitted by Steve Dalton on Fri, 23/03/2007 - 7:58pm.

Newsletters

Please find October 2006 Newsletter attached.

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Younger Members Regular Meet-up

Submitted by Steve Dalton on Wed, 28/06/2006 - 2:16pm.

The younger members of the QLD branch of the IET regularly meet on the 2nd Thursday of every month. The venue is currently The Brew House, 142 Albert St, Brisbane CBD. Please note this has recently changed from Zen bar.

Everyone is invited, the emphasis being on networking in a laid-back social setting.

Check out the calendar on the main page for the next event.

Science & Engineering Podcast Directory

Submitted by Steve Dalton on Thu, 09/02/2006 - 7:09am.

Here is a list of a few podcasts that relate to Science & Engineering, and should be of interest to IEE members. To access the podcasts, copy and post the urls below into your podcast software.

Australia

Dr Carl (Triple J) - http://abc.net.au/science/k2/podcast/drk_rss.xml
Science Show (ABC Radio National) - http://abc.net.au/rn/podcast/feeds/science.xml
Linux Australia Update (Linux Australia) - http://la-pod.k-sit.com/rss/la_pod_mp3.xml

The World: Technology - http://www.theworld.org/rss/tech.xml

CNET News Daily - http://news.com.com/html/ne/podcasts/daily_podcast.xml
IEEE Spectrum Radio - http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/snippet/radio_podcast_xml
New Scientist - http://www.newscientist.com/podcastfeed.ns
Science@NASA - http://science.nasa.gov/podcast.xml
Berkeley Groks - http://www.groks.net/groks.rss
Nature - http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/rss/nature.xml

Avoiding SPAM Email

Submitted by Steve Dalton on Thu, 09/02/2006 - 7:07am.

Spam unsolicited email is an ever increasing problem. Many of my friends and colleagues regularly change their email address to avoid spam. However this is very inconvenient, and can often mean you might miss something really important (a friend of mine almost lost a contract as a result of this).

I have had the same email address for 12 years and get very little spam email. Here are some of my tips.

Register your own domain for email - this allows you to create new email addresses at will, and provides a lot of flexibility
Don't enter your email address into any forms, especially those on sites or forms that you do not have a trust relationship with. Use another spam email address for these forms if you need to
Do not post your email address anywhere on the net, mailing lists (they are often publicly archived on the web) or usenet. Spammers run something called a "bot" that scours the web for email addresses that it can "harvest" - these lists are then used for spam and sold on to other spammers.