Engineering institutions, universities and businesses are celebrating the inaugural World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development today. The event will be marked on 4 March every year as a UNESCO international day of recognition for engineers and the contributions of engineering to sustainable development and modern life. This comes after a resolution was backed by member states of UNESCO at its
Continue reading
A 16 year old female student from Southampton has been awarded a prestigious six-year engineering apprenticeship with Associated British Ports (ABP), having been selected ahead of hundreds of male candidates. Katie Hopper, who attends Salisbury’s University Technical College (UTC), will undertake a higher level degree apprenticeship with ABP. She was the only female candidate to have applied for the role. “It
Continue reading
Major employers in the North West have formed a partnership with the University of Chester’s Faculty of Science & Engineering to offer the UK’s first chemical engineering degree apprenticeship. The Science Industry Process/Plant Engineer degree apprenticeship is the first in the UK to be based on an Institution of Chemical Engineers accredited degree: the BEng in Chemical Engineering which is
Continue reading
A mum is aiming for the skies after returning to the classroom to qualify as an aerospace engineer. The former RAF engineer, who was sent on detachment around the world, has returned to the Tees Valley to continue her education at Hartlepool College of Further Education. Catherine Lollis, 26, who has toured Italy, Gibraltar, Spain and the USA is now
Continue reading
Launch of a new degree level apprenticeship programme to equip employees with high level manufacturing skills has been announced by Coventry’s Manufacturing Technology Centre. The Degree Apprenticeship in Product Design and Development will be a four year, Apprenticeship Levy funded course, allowing students to get a BEng (Hons) degree in advanced manufacturing while in full time paid employment, without having
Continue reading
EEF Education and Skills Policy Advisor Bhavina Bharkhada outlines the growing challenges in recruitment and suggests how to close the gap The Government, businesses and policymakers can all agree on one thing: the maintenance-related industrial sector, and manufacturing industry more widely, face a growing skills gap. We desperately need more young people in our industry: here are few statistics that
Continue reading
Through project-based learning, NMiTE aims to create practical engineers in three years. Steve Dale reports. A radical new approach to the training of future engineers is set to be taken forward in Hereford where Britain’s first new university for 40 years was inaugurated in October. Known as the New Model in Technology & Engineering (NMiTE), the establishment is due to
Continue reading
There seems to be little doubt that advances in robotics and artificial intelligence are bringing radical change in all industries. Academics McAfee and Brynjolfsson call it the Second Machine Age,while Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum sees it as part of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Whatever it is called, it involves significant change. Many of those who work with
Continue reading
The British Compressed Air Society (BCAS) has welcomed Jason Morgan, managing director of HPC as its new president. Mr Morgan, who has been BCAS vice-president since June this year, takes over the role from James Maziak, managing director of Maziak Compressors. The next few months will mark a crucial moment in the society’s history, as Brexit negotiations continue and industry
Continue reading
Dr Hilary Leevers will take up the position of chief executive of EngineeringUK in January, the organisation has announced. Dr Leevers is currently head of education and learning at Wellcome, where she has led a programme to improve science education and position it as an organisational priority for the charitable foundation. Before joining Wellcome, she was assistant director at the
Continue reading
