During the past few months the Aerospace TPN have taken advantage of the warmer weather to organise some technical visits. Bob Darby one of our volunteers organise a couple of visits the first one in May to Farnborough Air Sciences Trust and the National Air Library, with the second one in June to the TAG Airfield. Bob has written a couple of blogs which I’ve highlighted so you can catch up with what they covered.
Its now a busy time for the Aerospace TPN in terms of professional awareness activities and Ray Smith and David Lindley, Vice Chairman and Chairman respectively of the TPN, have recently attended a safety day at the DE&S, MOD Abbeywood to promote the IET/TPN. Ray together with Lee Murton, Chairman of our Aerospace Young Professionals Group also went to a special event at the Shuttleworth Collection to promote International Women in Engineering Day on 23 June.
Next up the volunteers will be linking with the Swindon Network on a stand at the Royal Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford in July, so if you’re planning on attending please call in at the stand to introduce yourself.
The Network have now finalised their business plan for next session and these are some of the activities they are currently planning to organise:
- Sustainment Issues in Addressing Ageing Aircraft – this will be joint with the DE&S at Abbeywood and will follow on from our earlier event on this challenging topic
- Young Professionals Short Papers Competition as part of the Aviation Electronics Europe event in Munich next June
- Metrics for Aviation Safety Management Systems –joint with Aviation Academy, University of Applied Sciences Amsterdam
- YP Aviation Careers Panel Event at University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield campus
Finally, we’re still looking for new experts for the Aerospace Executive Team, so if you’re interested please see our recruitment flyer here.
Lee Murton our Young Professional Group Chairman is also keen to recruit new members from all areas of the Aerospace sector for the Group, so please let me know if you’re interested in any of these vacancies. Our two newest members of the team are Rob Allison and Tal Horton-Horsman, both students at University of Hertfordshire.
Deborah-Claire McKenzie
Community Manager, Aerospace Network