Engineers for Enterprises

Engineers for Enterprise study

This study takes forward the 2007 report Educating Engineers for the 21st Century, which laid out the changes required in the engineering curriculum to prepare professional engineers for the challenges of the 21st Century. The Engineers for Enterprise study will determine how to enhance undergraduate engineering education in order to meet the future needs of industry.

Following a case study approach examining the views of students, graduates, employers, and staff groups on the opportunities and barriers involved, the study will identify the options that encourage and enable universities to develop engineering courses that better meet the needs of industry and implement the recommendation of Lord Sainsbury’s Review of Government’s Science and Innovation Policies.

The Study is being driven by an Oversight Group chaired by the President and run by a Project Management Group led by Professor Sir William Wakeham FREng, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Southampton. Day-to-day administration is undertaken by the Higher Education Academy Engineering Group Subject Centre.