Day: September 26, 2006

I attended an IET event organised by the Manchester Branch on Automation Trends at Chancellors Hotel & Conference Centre this evening. It has been awhile since I attended an IEE event, and this was the first event I attended after IEE changed their name to IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) to reflect the importance of "Technology" in engineering. Catalyst for the name change was the merger of IEE with IIE on 31st March 2006. Unfortunately, I missed the first half of the seminar given by Duncan Botting, Head of Technology at ABB on "automation in the energy sector", and…