Powering Discovery, The Future of Particle Accelerating

The IET Particle Accelerator Engineering Network (PAEN) is pleased to announce its annual meeting, hosted at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot.

Powering discovery, The Future of Particle Accelerating

This meeting will deliver a comprehensive overview of the wide-ranging and impactful applications of particle accelerator engineering. Discussions will cover its essential contributions to advanced materials science, the operation and significance of high-intensity synchrotrons, and the development of innovative clean energy technologies. The session will also highlight the vital role accelerators play in medical diagnostics and therapeutic treatments, alongside their growing use in industrial processes such as radiation sterilisation and semiconductor manufacturing. A key area of emerging interest will be the integration of digital transformation and digital twinning, showcasing how advanced computational models and real-time data are being harnessed to improve accelerator design, optimise operations, and enable predictive maintenance.

This annual meeting serves as a crucial platform for reinforcing the UK's leadership in particle accelerator engineering and its multidisciplinary applications.

Early-career engineer poster prize

The Particle Accelerator Engineering Network is proud to open our early-career engineering poster competition for 2025. Applicants should be within 4 years of their undergraduate degree OR be registered in an industry or national lab graduate or apprenticeship programme.

Posters can cover any area of particle accelerator engineering (mechanical, electronic, electrical, control, etc) but must be mostly covering an area of the engineer’s own work. Membership of the IMECHE or IET is not required although is strongly encouraged for all engineers.

The competition is open to graduate engineers, engineering technicians and engineering students either in industry, national laboratories or universities and is open to all age ranges. Entrants must be available to stand by their poster A0 during the PAEN Annual Meeting on the 24th November.

The prize is £100 plus an IET certificate.

Entrants must submit by 5pm on the 14th November. To enter the prize, please register for the event and select the relevant prize when prompted.

Accelerator Technician of the year prize

The Particle Accelerator Engineering Network, one of the IET technical communities, is once again running a technician of the year prize. We are looking for technicans who have added value to particle accelerator projects by changing something to make the project better, cheaper or faster. This can be designing or building tools, modifying a design, writing or changing a procedure or how people work, anything that has added value to the organization or project.

Entrants can demonstrate this in any way they see fit. It can be a video presentation, a report, an essay, a poster, whatever you think best demonstrates your contribution to the judging panel.

The entrants can be a technician at a lab, industry or university and can be of any age or engineering discipline as long as the contribution is to a particle accelerator project. Entrants must either work in the UK or be a UK national.

The prize is £100 plus an IET certificate.

Entrants must submit by 5pm on the 14th November. To enter the prize, please register for the event and select the relevant prize when prompted.