Engineers 2030 consultation

The EPC response to this consultation can be found here.

The Engineering Professors’ Council, in collaboration with our Engineers Without Borders UK partners, invites you to contribute to the National Engineering Policy Centre’s visions and principles for Engineers 2030. Engineers 2030 aims to identify how engineering knowledge, skills and behaviours are changing in the 21st century and what is needed to attract, educate, recruit and support the engineers and technicians of the future.

This is the first publication from the Engineers 2030 working group open for consultation. The consultation is seeking feedback specifically on the vision and principles for the project, with an invitation to contribute from across engineering and beyond.  

This is your opportunity to shape both Engineers Professors’ Council and Engineers Without Borders UK’s response and influence efforts around change within engineering. 

To provide your reflections, please take the short survey below (estimated completion time of 10-15 minutes) by Tuesday 25th June. Individual responses will be non-attributable; the collated responses will be attributed to EPC and EWB UK. Thank you.

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Reflections on Engineers 2030

Read the Engineers 2030 report

What is your overall impression of the Engineers 2030 project? *

• Clear and aspirational. I can understand why it is needed and how it could enable meaningful impact across the sector.
• Raises interesting points for consideration and provides some insight into practical application.
• The project is vague. I am not sure how I, or anyone else, would be affected by it.

Please explain your answer:

The broader aim of Engineers 2030 is "to challenge how we think about engineering today, and how the engineering workforce needs to be different. It will examine what and how we teach and professionally develop young people and our existing engineers and technicians. Ultimately, it will determine whether the systems, cultures, and policies currently in place across the United Kingdom are ready to deliver what we need from our engineering and technology workforce now and for the next 25 years".

The Engineers 2030 Vision statement is: Engineers play an urgent and pivotal role in sustainable growth and environmental regeneration and are recognised as a force for good in understanding society’s needs in reshaping the future. At the heart of this, is a revitalised engineering profession that responds quickly and effectively to rapidly evolving environmental, social, and technological imperatives.

To what extent do you agree with this vision proposed for the engineering sector? *

• Strongly agree
• Slightly agree
• Neither agree or disagree
• Slightly disagree
• Strongly disagree

How could the vision statement be strengthened or clarified?

The Engineers 2030 principles are that Engineers are:

1. Resilient and future-facing: we are adaptable and can evolve to respond to a world that changes dramatically over timescales shorter than our career.

2. Socially responsible and inclusive: we know how to work with people and draw upon broad ranging perspectives to create solutions that work for everyone.

3. Trusted agents of public good: we put people and planet at the centre of our work and embody hope for a better future.

4. Holistic in approach: we can find creative solutions that work in the broadest contexts and understand risk in all its forms.

5. Data and digitally fluent: we are equally comfortable working in the physical and digital worlds, and at the interface between them.

6. Commercially and economically literate: we generate knowledge for enterprise and develop broad-ranging skills in the pursuit of sustainable and equitable growth.

These six Engineers 2030 principles are presented as three interwoven strands of People (1+2), Planet (3+4) and Prosperity (5+6).

To what extent do you agree with the principles proposed for the engineering sector? *

• Strongly agree
• Slightly agree
• Neither agree or disagree
• Slightly disagree
• Strongly disagree

How could the principles be strengthened or clarified? Please include any general comments and specific comments you have for one particular principle or strand.

How do the vision and principles align with your organisation’s strategy?

Do you have any recommendations for supporting materials or initiatives that could improve Engineers 2030?

Do you have any recommendations for supporting materials or initiatives that could support how Engineers 2030 is translated into practice?

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Optional additional questions

The following questions address the report on the Engineers 2030 Visioning Workshops, which outline more specific aspirations and timelines for the sector.

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Report of the Visioning Workshops (March 2024)

Page 16-23 highlight timelines for schools, further education, higher education and workplace training.

The HE timeline is shown below; please refer to the report for other timelines.

What are your initial reactions?

Do you agree with the pace of change indicated? What would you recommend is quicker? (copy)

What would you recommend is quicker?

What would you recommend is slower?

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Conclusion

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Was this consultation easy to read, understand and engage with?

• Yes
• No
• Room for improvement

Please explain your answer:

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