EngineeringUK invites the engineering community to take part in the Big Engineering Conversation, a new campaign to encourage discussion and realise the ambition to increase the diversity and number of young people entering engineering.
A series of talking points released over the next three months will aim to get employers, individual engineers, professional engineering institutions, delivery organisations and anyone connected to the engineering sector discussing their expertise and insights to propel the change needed to work together and grow the sectors’ collective impact.
‘What have we learned from delivering engagement activities in a pandemic, how can we improve diversity in engineering and why is it important and why collaboration is so important in inspiring the next generation are just some of the topics to help stimulate debate. The EngineeringUK team will share their insights in the form of blogs and short videos.
As part of the campaign, EngineeringUK invites the community to engage online and on social media with the hashtag, #BigEngConversation and offer their thoughts and expertise.
Posts could:
• Share key statistics on social media to bring the topic to life
• Write a blog including an example or case study
• Ask a spokesperson from their organisation to record and share key insights.
According to EngineeringUK research, nearly 50 percent of 11 to 19 year olds said they knew little or ‘almost nothing’ about what engineers do. It’s EngineeringUK’s ambition to grow the number and diversity of tomorrow’s engineers, working with the wider engineering community so young people understand the thousands of engineering roles available in the future.
Dr. Hilary Leevers, CEO of EngineeringUK, said, “The Big Engineering Conversation is a chance to get everyone sharing ideas and insights to build our collective knowledge. If we’re to realise the ambition of having a greater number of young people enter engineering from a wider range of backgrounds, it’s essential we work together.“