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Published: 11/12/2024
The Engineering Council congratulates Marisa Kurimbokus CEng MIMechE FWES for winning this year’s IET Young Woman Engineer of the Year Award. The award celebrates the contribution of young women engineers and challenges outdated perceptions of engineering. …
Published: 14/11/2024
The UK Government has announced a £500m skills drive that will support thousands of engineering and science students studying advanced degrees at 45 universities in the UK. …
Published: 13/11/2024
The Engineering Council would like to congratulate registrants Marisa Kurimbokus CEng MIMechE FWES and Salma Alarefi CEng MIET FWES, who have been recognised among this year’s five finalists of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Young Woman Engineer of the Year (YWE) Awards. …
Published: 02/09/2024
The 2024 Women's Engineering Society (WES) Lottie Tour is now underway. The campaign is taking the ‘Lottie’ doll to various locations, where she is accompanied by different engineering professionals who demonstrate their work in engineering and related fields. …
Published: 23/01/2023
Professionally registered engineers and technicians are among those best placed to encourage a new generation of people into engineering. They are inspiring students and young people at all levels – by teaching and assessing in schools and colleges, through to university research and supervision. …
Published: 11/01/2023
Former Labour and Conservative ministers Lord Knight and Lord Willetts, with support from charity EngineeringUK, are today launching an inquiry to uncover the reasons behind the worrying decline in engineering, manufacturing and technology apprenticeships starts seen over recent years in the UK. …
Published: 21/12/2022
Computing degrees have seen a 23% growth in accepted applications from women since 2019; according to new analysis by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT. This is a higher percentage rise than for any other UCAS subject group, meaning that the number of young women taking computer science degrees is growing faster than for any other UK university subject. …
Published: 20/12/2022
The MSc Motorsport Scholarship Programme, a new programme created with the support of the Ignite Partnership, aims to support individuals from Black or mixed Black ethnic backgrounds who wish to study a Masters degree in motorsport (or a related eligible course). If you are in the final year of your undergraduate degree, or you have graduated within the last 3 years and you meet all other eligibility criteria, you can apply. …
Published: 17/11/2022
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT welcomes the Government’s ambition for the UK to be the next Silicon Valley. …
Published: 16/11/2022
Space technology pioneer Dr Asad Madni FREng has been presented with the Academy’s most prestigious individual award, the Prince Philip Medal, Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal, Royal Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng), presented the award in London …
Published: 10/11/2022
Produced by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), Tomorrow’s Engineering Research Challenges (TERC) was a UK-wide community engagement activity that aimed to identify key challenges and the research needed to tackle them. …