About Tomorrow's Engineers

Tomorrow’s Engineers is a careers programme led by EngineeringUK and the Royal Academy of Engineering, delivered through a broad partnership between business and industry, the engineering profession, activity delivery organisations and schools working together to inspire learners. Our long-term objective is to reach every state-funded secondary school in the UK to:

• improve awareness about engineering and what engineers do among pupils, their teachers (and parents)
• enthuse young people about engineering and the career opportunities available
• encourage young people to make the subject choices that keep open the routes into a career in engineering

The Tomorrow’s Engineers initiative brings engineering into the classroom to give young people the chance to get hands on with engineering and ask questions about what real-life engineering jobs entail. Working with the engineering community, Tomorrow’s Engineers has the potential to reach more than 133,000 new learners every year and influence over half a million pupils through the use of its evaluation scheme and careers resources.

With support from The Lloyd’s Register Educational Trust and others, our delivery partners include Primary Engineer, The Engineering Development Trust (EDT), The Industrial Trust (now part of EDT), Smallpeice Trust and Young Engineers.

Become involved

The engineering industry will need over 2.2 million employees over the next 5-10 years, yet research tells us that attracting this number of young people is going to be a challenge. Only 12% of 12 – 16 year olds surveyed for EngineeringUK’s 2011 Brand Monitor said that they know what an engineer does and most see engineering as less well paid than other professions.

To rise to this challenge and ensure that young people consider engineering as a career, the engineering community must make a concerted effort to engage young people through a targeted, ongoing careers programme – that is what Tomorrow’s Engineers is all about.

If your organisation would like to be involved in our aim to reach every state-funded secondary with robust engineering activities and careers messaging, please get in touch to discuss how you can help inspire tomorrow’s engineers.

Contact Heather Williams, Programme Head, at:
Email: hewilliams@EngineeringUK.com
Telephone: 020 3206 0431

 National partners