Engineering the Future

Engineering the Future is an alliance of professional engineering organisations with a combined membership of 450,000 engineers. Our vision is of a thriving UK economy, based on innovative high value businesses and industries that build on our national strengths and address the grand challenges of the 21st century.

Engineering the Future works to promote understanding of the contribution of engineering to the economy and society, and to increase the role of engineering in the development and delivery of national policy. We work with Government and Parliament to inform and shape key areas of policy, such as energy, national infrastructure and biomedical engineering. We promote engineering to the public, with whom we engage in dialogue and debate on the issues that matter. We also work with business and industry to create the right climate for innovation in the UK.

The leadership of Engineering the Future is drawn from the following organisations:

Engineering Council

Engineering UK

Institution of Chemical Engineering

Institution of Civil Engineers

Institution of Engineering and Technology

Institution of Mechanical Engineers

Institute of Physics

Royal Academy of Engineering

Vision for UK Engineering

Engineering is about turning ideas into reality, changing and shaping the material world for the benefit of humankind. To do this, an engineer must be able to apply technical and scientific knowledge to a problem while also working through the cost, sustainability and socio-economic implications of the solution.

This briefing provides an engineering perspective on some major issues currently facing the UK and highlights five policy priorities for government to address.

Download the Vision for UK engineering