The past few years has seen the Aerospace Community, TPN and TAP go through a series of positive changes in terms of refocus, refresh and expansion. We have seen the formation of an Aerospace Young Professionals Group, the inaugural Aerospace Annual Symposium, the delivery and support to a number of successful aerospace technical events around the UK, Europe and Asia, as well as the provision of a significant amount of technical advice in response to requests internally from the IET as well as from a number of UK and global external bodies and media.The 2018 session promises to be another exciting year for the Aerospace TPN as we look to build on the successes of previous sessions, through continuing engagement with industry, academia and government and growing the network and the number of IET Aerospace professionals in the UK and across the globe.
The current and future success of the TPN can only be achieved through the IET Aerospace volunteers. I would therefore like to take this opportunity to thank all Aerospace Executive team, Technical Advisory Panel (TAP) and Aerospace community volunteers for their continued efforts, enthusiasm and support especially those volunteers stepping down from the Executive team onto the TAP.
We would also like to encourage all Aerospace professionals to engage with our Aerospace Engineering Community group. As a member of the community you can post events, start discussions and upload photos/films, so we hope you will take up this opportunity to enhance your contacts and collaborate with your peers. If there’s anything missing that you’d like to see in the community group please let us know. Also if you’ve ideas for events that you think the TPN should consider then please let start off a discussion forum post and we’ll respond.
Together we can continue to maintain and grow the success we have achieved so far as we work together on this exciting journey, wherever it may take us within the field of Aerospace Engineering & Technology.
David M. Lindley
Chairman IET Aerospace Technical Professional Network,