National Engineering Day 2025
National Engineering Day is a day that aims to make the UK’s engineers and engineering more visible, and celebrate how they improve everyday lives and shape the world around us.
This year, National Engineering Day will be held on 5 November 2025, when we will be launching the AI-Z of Engineering, a collection showcasing the incredible diversity of engineers and the roles they play in shaping our world.
We've produced a toolkit explaining the AI-Z of engineering activity, within this you can find all the ways to get involved with the campaign whether it's sharing the AI-Z of Engineering on the 5 November for National Engineering Day, or celebrating your role and sector within engineering on social media.
Watch the video briefing below for a full breakdown of what National Engineering Day is all about and how you can get involved for 2025. Please be aware the submissions to the AI-Z of Engineering have now closed.
A look back at 2024
National Engineering Day: Engineering role models
For National Engineering Day 2024 we unveiled a modern statue of a living engineer and a digital artwork of five engineering role models, in a bid to inspire a new generation into the profession.
Our research showed that engineering-specific role models are a strong influencing factor on young people to choose engineering. In the summer of 2024 we launched a public call for nominations of engineering role models. Our judging panel selected a group of these whose stories we shared on National Engineering Day.
Specially designed by visual artist Kelly Anna, the striking new statue is of Macclesfield-based engineer Alice Kan. The statue encapsulates Alice’s remarkable journey, achievements, and personal resilience in engineering and vaccine production. The central, dynamic figure of Alice stands strong with an empowered posture, symbolising her resilience, leadership, and unwavering determination. Alice is shown looking upward, representing hope, optimism, and her visionary approach to the future.
Throughout the Day, thanks to our incredible community of partners and supports we achieved:
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158 nominations for 96 individuals
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Generated over 42 million impressions and more than 78,000 engagements across social media.
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High profile engineers and engineering champions such as Ferrari UK and Dame Stephanie Shirley, other influential accounts such as Lewis Hamilton, Sadiq Khan, Ferrari UK, Sir Patrick Vallance, EasyJet and many more posted about the Day on social media.
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Baroness Brown FREng, Chair of the Lords Science and Technology Committee, Chi Onwurah MP, Labour MP for Newcastle Central, Chair of the Science, Innovation, and Technology Committee and MPs from South West, Sutton and Cheam and Northampton South joined us to unveil the statue.
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Over 200 people attended Innovation Late to a hear a series of talks from extraordinary engineers and inspiring innovators. We showcased the best of British inventions tackling the world’s greatest challenges, from transforming robots, through to driving simulators, and even brain scanners.
267 people attended, gaining an entirely different understanding of what 'innovation' means. 76% of people’s understanding of engineering changed due to this event.
Animated GIF Stickers
A series of animated GIFs available via GIPHY to be used on Instagram stories, TikTok, or other social media platforms.
Use the search bar inside the in app sticker/GIF library to search: ‘National Engineering Day’, ‘RAEng’ or ‘NED’
Browse the full collection our GIPHY account.
The This is Engineering image library
A free image library to demonstrate the diversity of the engineering profession. Specifically, the images will depict engineers (particularly those from underrepresented groups) at work – whether that’s in a lab, on a filmset, in the music studio, testing materials, playing with a robot or tinkering with bikes in a velodrome. Above all, these new images will challenge the stereotype, visually presenting engineers and engineering in a way that will surprise and delight the public.
