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 ).

Now in its seventh year, this event provides an 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 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; and the second Tomorrow’s Engineers Week Big Assembly.

Employers, professional bodies, universities, schools and individual engineers wanting to get involved can get further information from the Web site (www.tomorrowsengineers.org.uk/teweek).

Beth Elgood from EngineeringUK said: “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.”

The Wednesday of Tomorrow’s Engineers Week will see the Royal Academy of Engineering unveil This Is Engineering Day — a new national awareness day dedicated to publicly celebrating the engineers and engineering technicians shaping society and solving global problems.

It will also focus on “changing the stereotypical image of the engineer and engineering among the wider public.”