Institution of Railway Signal
Engineers (IRSE), London
Buddhadev Dutta Chowdhury
IRSE (Objectives)
• Established in 1912
- The advancement of public benefit of the
science and practice of signalling……
- The maintenance of high standards of practice
and professional care…….
• Set up sections to promote all or any of the
objectives
• Helps its members to share a common
platform
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IRSE Exam Committee
IRSE Professional Development Committee
IRSE Membership Committee
IRSE Licensing Committee
IRSE International Technical committee
IRSE a constituent member of Railway
Engineers Forum
Publications
Train-borne Signalling
• On-board signalling complexity
• Working Group published this guidance
- UK regulatory and legal requirements
- Benefit of good competence management
- Making use of existing good practice
- System architectures and interfaces
- Software, data and configuration control
- Identifying task and assessing risk
- Selecting and using competence standards
IRSE Exam workshop
IRSE
• Changing working environment
• Introduction of emerging technologies
• Review the existing competency framework
- Considering whole life cycle (Design,
Operation, Maintenance)
- Development of standards, manuals and
guidelines
- Implementation of total training
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4400+ members, over 50 countries
IRSE Licence
IRSE Exam
IRSE Forum
IRSE publications including technical reports
Sections actively engaged for professional
development
IRSE
Use the IRSE resources and it’s accumulated
knowledge-base as a complementary support
to build up an appropriate competency framework suitable to build up a strong signalling
professional workforce to meet the forthcoming challenges.
IRSE
Many Thanks