Education

The Academy is committed to the support of engineering education from the sixth form through to postgraduate level and continuing professional development. We run a wide variety of education schemes and awards.

• Standing Committee for Education and Training

  The role of the Education and Training Committee is to oversee and be responsible to the Academy Council for all activities in engineering education and training and to establish and maintain links with other organisations working in these fields.

• The National Engineering Programme

  The National Engineering Programme encompasses schemes across the UK that provide outreach activities for schools, continuing professional development for teachers, and support for further and higher engineering education.

• Schemes for undergraduates

  The Engineering Leadership Scheme comprises two types of Award for engineering undergraduates: the Standard Award and the Advanced Award. The awards can enable undergraduates fulfilling the criteria to undertake short courses to enhance their undergraduate studies or undertake a three year personal development programme.

• Schemes for professional engineers

  The Academy provides financial support for conference attendance, personal development training and the study of courses at universities or business schools.

• Visiting Professors' schemes

  A curriculum enrichment programme based on the experience-led education concept whereby senior industrial engineers are appointed as Visiting Professors at specific universities to teach students about the latest knowledge and practices being used by innovation-focused industries.

• Educating Engineers for the 21st Century

  The report of a Royal Academy of Engineering Working Group which investigated the changes needed in the teaching and content of the engineering education curriculum for the formation of engineers required to meet the challenges of the 21st Century.

• Shape the Future and the STEM Directories

  Shape the Future was a campaign to raise awareness of engineering and technology as a stimulating career option and an essential and exciting part of modern Britain. It also aimed to bring coherence to the many STEM activities and schemes already in existence, thereby increasing their impact and effectiveness and directed young people towards these activities by inviting them to ‘do one more thing’.

• The Engineering Diploma

  The Academy has played in important role in the introduction of the new 14-19 Diploma in Engineering in Lambeth and Southwark and in the development of the mathematics component of the syllabus.

• Education links