The Professional Engineer
This group, formed in 2008, promotes careers in engineering to young people;
Profeng.org A main activity has been the maintenance of the profeng.org website that gives advice about careers in engineering. A special feature is regularly updated information about salaries. This shows that salaries in engineering are rising and are highly competitive with those in other professions.
Career lectures at Schools IES Fellow David Watson organises a lectures at schools by prominent engineers who explain their roles and the relevance of engineering.
Stempedia.com
is an experimental information resource that has initially been set
up to support the teaching of structural mechanics in schools.
Features include: A focus on applications so that learners
understand how the results of calculations are used in making
engineering decisions; clear explanations of processes; extensive use
of hyperlinks; written documents and corresponding videos. The
resource is presently being evaluated for development in structural
mechanics and the potential of the strategies used in a wider range
of STEM learning contexts is under discussion.
Support
for Primary Engineer. IES members have given support of various kinds to this
organisation.