Britain's Engineering Future: Are we building the right skills?

This Institution and Tata panel event will discuss the future opportunities for engineers in the UK, and how the country can address its growing engineering skills gap.

With consultation underway on the government’s new Industrial Strategy, Britain's Engineering Future: Are we building the right skills? will explore the value of engineering to Britain’s society and future economy.

Britain experiences a shortfall of 69,000 engineers each year, and with expansion across engineering sectors expected to 2022, the skills gap is set to increase. An engineering ‘image problem’ and a lack of public understanding about the roles and opportunities in engineering mean that the UK continues to train fewer engineers and technicians than we need. This event will explore how we address these issues, and the lessons we can learn from our international competitors.

Panellists will include:

• Dr Colin Brown, Engineering Director, Institution of Mechanical Engineers
• Benita Mehra, President, Women’s Engineering Society
• Jose Lopes, Head of Technical Excellence, Jaguar Land Rover
• Dr David Clark, Principal Fellow, WMG, University of Warwick
• Gavin Lambert, Director, Advanced Manufacturing Business and Science Group, Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

The event will be supported by the results of a new survey of more than 1000 members of the Institution, undertaken in collaboration with the Tata Group.

Britain's Engineering Future: Are we building the right skills? will take place between 8:00-10:00 at the Institution's London headquarters on Thursday 9 March 2017.

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