Community Insights from IET EngX

Water,Water Nowhere: The Utility We Can't Live Without

Phil Snuggs — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:30:00 GMT

The summer of 2026 brought record-breaking temperatures across the UK, with hosepipe bans affecting around 75% of the country. These conditions highlighted the growing importance of water as a precious resource. Yet despite its critical role in our d...(read more)

This blog set alarm bells ringing!

IET Archives — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:31:33 GMT

Guest blog by David Knights FIET David, a researcher and visitor to the IET Archives, has written this blog about an item he found in one of our collections. Having an interest in his locality and an engineering background, it was the perfect way to ...(read more)

Because every mission builds a skill for life

Ana Lovick — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:43:42 GMT

What happens when young people are given the opportunity to tackle real-world challenges, work as a team, and put their STEM skills to the test? As one group of students from George Stephenson High School discovered, the results can be truly life ch...(read more)

The bit between the diagrams

Jamie Riley — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:30:00 GMT

Practical lessons on judgement, safety, teamwork and changing technology from nearly 30 years working in the electrical trade.(read more)

Distinguished scientist, famous inventor and suffragist: mourning Hertha Ayrton in 1923

IET Archives — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT

Graeme Gooday, University of Leeds Her many friends, scattered in various places on their summer holiday, were shocked to read in their newspapers, one morning, that she had passed away on August 26, 1923, at the age of sixty-nine, leaving uncomplet...(read more)

Volunteer Spotlight: Sumeet Shah

IET Volunteering Team — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:55:24 GMT

Supporting confidence, growth and professional success through mentoring. For Sumeet Shah, engineering has never just been a career. It's been part of his life from the very beginning. A lifelong passion for engineering Growing up in a family in...(read more)

Why Stop at the Digital Product Passport: Should Industrial Waste Have a Passport of Its Own?

Dr. Mohammad Harris — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:30:00 GMT

Often when you ask a manufacturing site how much waste it produced last month and you will get an answer. Ask what it cost to remove and you will get that too, often to the penny, because somebody had to approve the invoice. Ask where the material ca...(read more)

The Next Milestone for Space Manufacturing Is Trust

Matthew Deans — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:30:00 GMT

Advanced manufacturing is changing how spacecraft and aerospace systems are designed, produced and maintained. WAMS 2026, the third ESA/NASA International Conference on Advanced Manufacturing, brought together researchers and engineers from across in...(read more)

We all have our cheese moved

Peter Brogan — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:31:25 GMT

Change is something we all experience, yet few of us truly welcome it. Whether it's a new role, new technology, organisational change, or an unexpected challenge in life, our first instinct is often to resist. We become comfortable with what we ...(read more)

BEYOND A SINGLE CDE: Why ISO 19650 governance automation must be designed for platform diversity

Shahin Khalilian — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:30:00 GMT

When we talk about a Common Data Environment (CDE), it can sound as though everyone is working inside the same type of system. My recent survey experience suggested something very different: the standard may be common, but the digital workspaces behi...(read more)

William Morris Mordey

IET Archives — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:01:26 GMT

Guest blog by Alex Mordey Look at almost any electrical device in your home. The phone charger, the kettle, the television, printed or moulded beside the voltage figures, you will find a small wavy line: ∿. The alternating current sinusoidal wave (or...(read more)

Engineering the Adaptive Workspace: From Asset Maintenance to System Strategy

Peter Brogan — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 08:30:00 GMT

Managing change in modern engineering requires a radical shift in how we look at infrastructure. For generations, the focus has been on maintaining physical buildings. Today, the true challenge lies at the intersection of workplace strategy, data-dri...(read more)

Exploration vs Exploitation

Patrick Capaldo — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:30:00 GMT

Reinforcement Learning (RL) is the branch of machine learning where an 'agent' (the actor, in an environment) learns by trying an action, observing the result, and adjusting its behaviour accordingly to achieve its goal. It is not unlike teac...(read more)

Making Photons Count with Lean Manufacturing

Magdalena Wywijas — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 08:30:00 GMT

Introduction What manufacturing strategies can help improve yield and consistency in the production of advanced photonic devices? One approach is the application of lean manufacturing principles to the critical photocathode deposition stage at ET Ent...(read more)

Navigating the hidden costs of disability

Foothold — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:25:18 GMT

Engineering thrives on different perspectives and ways of thinking. Yet disabled people are still underrepresented in the profession. According to Engineering UK, 14% of people working in engineering and technology identify as disabled, compared with...(read more)