2018's Year of Engineering: shattering stereotypes and tackling the skills shortage

摘要

It's a great thing, therefore, that this campaign is shining a year-long spotlight on engineering, highlighting the many varied career choices and breadth of options available in this area to children and young people - and aiming to both inspire their interests in an engineering career and influence their subject choices accordingly. What is so positive about the campaign is that it brings together and involves education, industry and other organisations with the ability to raise STEM subject awareness as a collaborative force to tackle this vital issue. With the UK already facing a chronic shortage of skilled engineers (estimated by EngineeringUK in its 2017 State of Engineering Report at 20,000 annually), the industry must prioritise tangible, effective and sustained efforts to nurture new, homegrown engineering talent.