Education for Engineering (E4E) objectives

Education for Engineering is the mechanism by which the engineering profession offers coordinated and clear advice on education to UK Government and the devolved Assemblies. It deals with all aspects of learning that underpin engineering with particular emphasis on mathematics, science, ICT and design and technology. It is both proactive and reactive to ensure that the education system remains appropriate to meet the challenges facing society. It is hosted by The Royal Academy of Engineering with a wide membership drawn from the professional engineering community.

The Education For Engineering Website can be found at www.educationforengineering.org.uk

Mission

• Education for Engineering works to inform education policy and practice by:

• initiating and contributing to policy debates

• providing decision-makers with high quality information and analysis

• ensuring that all learners are enabled to make connections across areas of learning that support an education for engineering

• highlighting the needs of future engineers and routes into engineering that are open to all

E4E Policy Group

Chaired by Dick Olver FREng, membership is drawn from the CEOs of the professional engineering Institutions, The Royal Academy of Engineering, the Engineering Council UK and the Engineering and Technology Board. The Policy Group:

• Supports the Chair.

• Represents the engineering profession on the STEM High Level Strategy Group.

• As a co-ordinated voice of the engineering and technology profession, seeks to influence Government and opinion-formers on issues of education for engineering.

• Understands and relays accurately the national STEM agenda.

• As appropriate, endorses, commits to and acts on the advice of the Operational Group.

Operational Group

Chaired by Doug Oughton FREng, membership has been agreed with the 36 professional engineering institutions. Members are the people who hold education briefs for their organisation. The Operational Group is a forum for discussion on education policy matters to develop well-considered and consensual policy positions on behalf of the profession for action by the Policy Group. The Operational Group meets three times a year, three weeks before the meeting of the Policy Group. The Operational Group:

• Ensures cross-profession representation to develop a consensus on education for engineering.

• Makes specific policy and strategy recommendations to the Policy Group.

• Establishes and manages working groups as required to research and analyse STEM education issues of common interest.

Membership of E4E:

• Institution of Engineering and Technology

• Institution of Civil Engineers

• Institution of Mechanical Engineers

• Institution of Structural Engineers

• Institution of Chemical Engineers

• Institution of Materials, Minerals and Mining

• Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology

• British Computer Society

• Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers

• Royal Aeronautical Society

• Society of Operations Engineers

• Institution of Gas Engineers and Managers

• Royal Institution of Naval Architects

• Energy Institute

• Institution of Engineering Designers

• Institute of Measurement and Control

• Institute of Highway Incorporated Engineers

• Chartered Institute of Plumbing and Heating Engineers

• Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management

• The Welding Institute

• Institute of the Motor Industry

• Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Estate Management

• British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing

• Institute of Physics

• Institution of Agricultural Engineers

• Institution of Lighting Engineers

• Nuclear Institute

• Institution of Water Officers

• Institute of Cast Metals Engineers

• Institution of Fire Engineers

• Institute of Acoustics

• Institution of Highways and Transport

• Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine

• Institution of Railway Signal Engineers

• Society of Environmental Engineers

• Institution of Royal Engineers

• The Engineering Professors Council

• The Engineering and Technology Board

• Engineering Council UK

• Institute of Mathematics and its Applications

• Semta

• STEMNET

• Specialist Schools and Academies Trust

• The Royal Academy of Engineering