Webinar: Chartership and Career Path

  • Date: 5th August 2020
  • Time: 2pm -3.30pm (UK Local Time)
  • Type: Webinar
  • Organisers: IEEE PES SBC UoM, CIGRE NGN UK

Calling for young researchers and professionals in the power and energy industry to join us for this special webinar! Come and learn how you can benefit from IEEE and GIGRE for career-boosting. Through interesting talks, our distinguished guest speakers will share their own career development experience with valuable advice and tips for anyone who is seeking a career in the power and energy industry. The IEEE fellowship scheme and Engineer Chartership will be introduced as well.

Please register by using the following link: Eventbrite registration and you will receive the Zoom invitation for attending this webinar

This event will be delivered via Zoom and details on how to join are given below: https://zoom.us/j/99755272471 or search in the Zoom app with

Meeting ID: 99755272471

Password: 20200805

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Event agenda:

  1. Opening by a brief introduction of organisers – IEEE Student Branch PES Chapter at the University of Manchester and CIGRE UK NGN – 15min
  2. Career path in Academia and IEEE fellowship:
    • Talk #1 by Prof Xiaoping Zhang, University of Birmingham– 10min + 5min Q &A
    • Talk #2 by Dr Panagiotis Papadopoulos, University of Strathclyde – 10min + 5min Q &A
  3. Career path in  industry and Chartership:
    • Talk #3 by Dr Stephanie Hay, TNEI – 10min + 5min Q &A
    • Talk #4 by Dr Dechao Kong, National Grid Electricity Transmission – 10min + 5min Q &A

Invited Guest Speaker: