Technology Innovation Awards 2021 | SCTE | 31 March 2021 | TBA

Founded in 1945, the SCTE is constituted as a Learned Society and is registered as a non-profit making organisation. The Society is run by an Executive Committee whose members, all volunteers, are elected for a term of three years at the Society’s Annual General Meeting. The Executive Committee elects three officers; a President, Vice-President and Treasurer who also act as trustees for the Society. The Society has a small secretariat and is based in its own offices in Watford, UK.

The SCTE holds lecture meetings six to seven times per year, in the UK (mainly London), in the Balkans and through its Benelux Group at selected European venues including IBC in the Netherlands. The Society also organises events, including gala dinners, to enable members to meet and exchange views of the industry in a social environment.

As a Learned Society, SCTE is able to provide accreditation and certification for its members, giving them professional standing within the industry. Full Members and Fellows are allowed to use the designations MSCTE and FSCTE after their names. Technician and student members are allowed to use the designationsTMSCTE and SMSCTE respectively after their name.

The SCTE provides a wide range of training courses which have gained wide acceptance as the standard for young technicians wishing to enter the field of cable telecommunications and for those wishing to advance their knowledge and career prospects. They are used in-house by a number of operating companies and SCTE engineers can be found working in a variety of international organisations.

The Society chairs the British Standards Committee for cable systems and represents the UK at European (CENELEC) and world (IEC) levels.