EngineeringUK and the Royal Academy of Engineering have called on engineers and engineering technicians across the UK to get behind plans for Tomorrow’s Engineers Week (4-8 November 2019, #TEWeek19).
Now in its seventh year, Tomorrow’s Engineers Week provides a unique opportunity for engineers, employers, universities and schools to showcase how engineers working in all sectors are on a mission to make the world a better place.
Highlights of the Week include the first This is Engineering Day on Wednesday 6 November to challenge the public stereotype of the engineer, a series of films celebrating engineers on a mission to help the nation’s health and well-being, as well as the second Tomorrow’s Engineers Week Big Assembly.
The This Is Engineering Day, offers a new national awareness day dedicated to publicly celebrating the engineers and engineering technicians shaping society and solving global problems.
This year, This Is Engineering Day will see engineering organisations, engineers and supporters like Amazon, Ocado and Facebook showcase what 21st Century engineers and engineering really look like.
To help the public better understand engineers and engineering, the Royal Academy of Engineering will be creating a public online photo library of more representative images of engineers, and launching a challenge to use this to change the mix of images that appear when you search for ‘engineer’ online.
The Academy is calling on the engineering community to get involved in the challenge and contribute to the library, which will also be populated by the Academy’s own This is Engineering imagery and hosted on Flickr. Contributions can be made directly to the Academy and more details can be found by contacting the Academy at photos@raeng.org.uk. The This Is Engineering Library will be launched to the wider public on This Is Engineering Day.
Beth Elgood from EngineeringUK, the organisers of Tomorrow’s Engineers Week, explained, “Tomorrow’s Engineers Week provides an opportunity for the engineering community to work together to inspire the next generation of engineers. The number of professional engineering institutions, engineering employers and individual engineers who participate in this collective drive to raise the profile of engineers grows each year.
“Whether it’s visiting a school to talk about engineering careers as part of the Big Assembly, staging an event to celebrate what engineers do or supporting Tomorrow’s Engineers Week on social media there are lots of ways to get involved.”
Employers, professional bodies, universities, schools and individual engineers are invited to get involved to help inspire the next generation of engineers by downloading toolkits of ideas at www.tomorrowsengineers.org.uk/teweek.