Help us celebrate Tomorrow's Engineers Week

The skills shortage in Engineering isn’t going to go away overnight. We’d like you to join with EngineeringUK in being part of the solution by helping us celebrate Tomorrow’s Engineers Week 2017 (#TEWEEK17).

Now in its fifth year, the week runs from 6-10 November 2017. TEWEEK17 is designed to help address the fact that 186,000 people with engineering skills will be needed annually through to 2024. We’re asking employers and professional bodies from across the engineering community to join universities, schools and individuals in the week-long drive to inspire the next generation of engineers.

What can you do?

If you’re already running an activity which promotes STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) during the week , visiting a school or being visited by students, tell us about it. Tweet using #TEWEEK17 so that we can retweet and help spread the word.

#FromIdeaToCareer We’ve recently created a Tomorrow’s Engineers guide to the amazing world of engineering careers. To countdown to the Week, we’re turning it into social media content. We’d love to have your help:

In your tea break: Share the content from the Tomorrow’s Engineers social media accounts – we’ll be posting this regularly right through to the end of #TEWeek17. Ask your staff to do the same.

In an hour: Create your organisation’s own #FromIdeaToCareer content to show how young people can take their ideas, passions and dreams and turn them into engineering careers. There’s a template to use at tomorrowsengineers.org.uk/teweek/templates #TEWeek17

If you’re really busy: Help us spread the word by posting content in your newsletters, on your website and across social media channels. Infographics and the press release will be available to communications contacts nearer the time.

#EngineerOnAMission Throughout #TEWeek17, we’ll be celebrating the engineers who got into their careers to help improve people’s lives. We’ve got some great stories of engineers using their skills to solve some of the world’s biggest problems from helping people recover from natural disasters and creating renewable energy to tackling homelessness and developing new cures for diseases. We’d love you to join a mission to help with the campaign!

On a quick mission: We’ll be creating a series of films and social media content showcasing some inspirational engineers on a mission – share this content throughout #TEWeek17

On a short mission: Create your own suite of social media content showcasing your firm’s mission, the case studies who are helping make the world a better place and hashtag #EngineerOnAMission so we can see them. There are templates for you to use at tomorrowsengineers.org.uk/teweek/templates

If you’re up for a bigger challenge: Think about how #EngineerOnAMission could inspire a school visit or workshop and work with the Tomorrow’s Engineers team to make this one of our “hero events” of #TEWeek17. Please get in touch if you’d like to know more.