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National Engineering Day 2024 honours inspiring engineering role models

Published: 08/10/2024

National Engineering Day, led by the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) aims to make engineering and the UK’s engineers more visible. Held on 13 November, the day is a celebration of how engineers enhance our daily lives and help shape a better world. …

Hawley Award 2023: Applications now open for engineering innovations that will help achieve Net Zero

Hawley Award 2023: Applications now open for engineering innovations that will help achieve Net Zero

Published: 22/03/2023

Applications are now open for the Hawley Award for Engineering Innovation. An engraved medal, certificate and £5,000 prize will be presented to an individual who has personally produced an engineering innovation that has demonstrable benefits in the drive to achieve Net Zero Carbon by 2050. …

National Careers Week: Opportunities in engineering and technology

National Careers Week: Opportunities in engineering and technology

Published: 09/03/2023

A new report due to be published next week by EngineeringUK reveals that engineering and technology is the fourth most popular subject for first degree undergraduates and the most popular subject for postgraduate research students. It is also the fifth most popular subject when looking at all degree levels combined. …

Women’s History Month 2023: Inspirational women in engineering

Women’s History Month 2023: Inspirational women in engineering

Published: 08/03/2023

Engineering affects every aspect of our lives and day-to-day is a problem solving, creative career, that offers variety and mobility. Our case studies library includes many inspirational female engineers and technicians who are professionally registered and at the top of their profession, winning prestigious awards and representing their professional engineering institutions (PEIs) at the highest levels. …

Opportunities to volunteer with EngineeringUK’s Big Bang

Opportunities to volunteer with EngineeringUK’s Big Bang

Published: 21/02/2023

EngineeringUK are looking for volunteers to get involved with the Big Bang Fair and to be judges for the Big Bang Competition. Big Bang activities aim to engage young people with Science, Technology, Engineering and Medicine (STEM) and inspire the next generation of engineers and scientists. …

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology created

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology created

Published: 09/02/2023

The UK Government has announced that it has created three new departments to replace the former Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). A new Department for Energy Security and Net Zero will be working towards securing the UK’s long-term energy supply, including the need to secure more energy from domestic nuclear and renewable sources to achieve net zero. …

Solar technology recognised by 2023 QEPrize

Solar technology recognised by 2023 QEPrize

Published: 08/02/2023

The winners of the 2023 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (QEPrize) have been announced at an event hosted by Yewande Akinola MBE CEng FIET HonFREng, an innovator and specialist in sustainable water supplies, with guest of honour HRH The Princess Royal. …

Judging will soon be underway for this year’s MacRobert Award

Judging will soon be underway for this year’s MacRobert Award

Published: 27/01/2023

Nominations for the MacRobert Award close at 5pm on 31 January 2023, and the judging process will get underway shortly after that. The award is a prestigious national prize for engineering that recognises outstanding innovation, societal benefit and proven commercial success, founded in 1969. The winning team - of five or more members – will receive a gold medal and a cash prize of £50,000. …

100 years of The Welding Institute

100 years of The Welding Institute

Published: 27/01/2023

2023 marks 100 years of The Welding Institute, formally registered in February 1923 as ‘The Institution of Welding Engineers’. This is a milestone for a professional engineering institution created to support the development of members in the fields of welding, joining and allied technologies …

Royal Academy of Engineering prizes – deadline 3 February

Royal Academy of Engineering prizes – deadline 3 February

Published: 27/01/2023

There is still time to nominate, or be nominated, for some of the Royal Academy of Engineering’s (RAEng) medals and prizes for 2023. …

Opportunity for aspiring entrepreneurs in Northern England and Northern Ireland to apply for business start-up funding and support

Opportunity for aspiring entrepreneurs in Northern England and Northern Ireland to apply for business start-up funding and support

Published: 26/01/2023

Opportunity for aspiring entrepreneurs in Northern England and Northern Ireland to apply for business start-up funding and support …