We drive change so more young people choose engineering and technology careers.
There aren't enough people working in engineering and technology and demand is going up. So, we need more young people to realise there could be a future for them in those careers. Many of them don't understand what the opportunities are and the different ways to get into them. We want to change that. We need a stronger, more representative workforce for engineering and technology to thrive and we have to things differently to make those careers more attractive. We want more young people to see engineering and technology could offer them a varied and rewarding career.
We are a not-for-profit working with hundreds of organisations so we can all grow the future talent pool together. We need more people and more diversity and we all have a part to play in achieving that.
We can't afford not to work together. At EngineeringUK, we drive that collective effort through research and evidence, leadership, activities for schools and advocacy, with a focus on long-term sustainability.
Through our research we provide a clear picture of the current engineering and technology workforce as well as future needs and how to address them. We share our evidence widely, so careers information is accurate, inclusive and impactful, policy development is better informed and so that all engineering and technology engagement activities are inclusive and inspire the next generation.
We also share our evaluation findings and tools so that everyone involved in engineering outreach can monitor and evaluate the impact of their work.
We lead efforts to grow the collective impact of all engineering and technology inspiration and careers activities with young people. We facilitate that collaboration though our membership, by making available learnings and good practice through Tomorrow’s Engineers and with our management of The Tomorrow’s Engineers Code.
Working together we can ensure more students participate in quality engineering and tech experiences. We can also improve the coordination, inclusivity, targeting, efficiency and impact of engagements and create and share relevant, inspiring and accessible careers resources.
A student helps build a bridge from K’NEX
We are keen to expand our own activities for schools to encourage more, and more diverse, young people into engineering, technician and tech roles. We use our expertise to focus our work on 11 to 14s while prioritising content related to sustainability and are currently developing a new programme around renewables.
We aim to increase the reach and impact of our activities for young people through targeting, testing and iteration. We target our programmes to students from groups underrepresented in engineering, offer bursaries to break down barriers to participation and regularly consult with teachers and young people to refine and improve our offer to them.
We are behind the Big Bang – The Big Bang Competition, The Big Bang Fair and Big Bang at School – helping young people across the UK discover exciting possibilities and connect to inspiring role models in STEM.
We're also really proud of Neon, which helps primary and secondary teachers introduce their students to future STEM careers, raise their aspirations and explore excitement of engineering, through brilliant activities, and up-to-date careers resources and inspiring case studies.
We celebrate inspirational engineers throughout the year and lead the annual Tomorrow’s Engineers Week each November, shining a spotlight on engineering careers.
We want to see policy and delivery challenges in STEM and careers education addressed as well as those in workforce planning for engineering and technology.
So, we advocate for policy improvements to help ensure young people get the opportunities they need to go into engineering and tech. We also actively support vocational routes we can grow the number of young people going into engineering and tech careers.
