The newly elected president of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), representing more than 150,000 members, recently completed a series of meetings and seminars at leading U.S.-based academic and industry stakeholders. IET President Christopher Snowden, FRS FREng, shared his and his organization’s expertise while looking for opportunities of closer collaboration and strategic partnerships.
Snowden’s schedule included meetings with officials at the California Institute of Technology, SRI, and Dow Key Microwave Corporation. “Engineering is at the core of the global agenda,” says Snowden. “Today’s biggest global issues, such as carbon reduction, health and well-being, security challenges, infrastructure improvements, require innovative engineering to ensure their success.” Snowden notes that IET is exploring new avenues in order to be more useful to its partner companies and universities, including the development of new advanced training, wider availability of research resources, and offering engineers “a home for life.”
“The engineering profession is evolving rapidly,” says Snowden. “We see an opportunity to support U.S.-based engineers throughout their careers with professional development and advanced training to help them stay strong, nimble and successful now and in the years to come.”
IET is one of the world’s leading professional societies for the engineering and technology community, with members in 127 countries and offices in Europe, North America, and Asia-Pacific. It provides a global knowledge network to facilitate the exchange of ideas and promote the positive role of science engineering and technology in the world. In North America, IET is probably best known for its popular Inspec databases, the largest and most-comprehensive English-language bibliographic databases of their kind in science and engineering.
