How to encourage women into engineering - Revision history

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	* Diversity in the construction industry.		* Diversity in the construction industry.
	* Equality Act.		* Equality Act.
		+	* Gender stereotypes examined in Unlimited Potential report.
	* Inclusivity in engineering.		* Inclusivity in engineering.
	* Interview with Harriet Latimer - Graduate Design Engineer.		* Interview with Harriet Latimer - Graduate Design Engineer.

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	* Civil engineering and language.		* Civil engineering and language.
		+	* Dive into diversity.
	* Diversity in the construction industry.		* Diversity in the construction industry.
	* Equality Act.		* Equality Act.
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	* Civil engineering and language.		* Civil engineering and language.
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	* Interview with Harriet Latimer - Graduate Design Engineer.		* Interview with Harriet Latimer - Graduate Design Engineer.
	* Recruiting and retaining talent in the construction industry.		* Recruiting and retaining talent in the construction industry.
		+	* The Retention of Women in the UK Construction Industry.
	* Why so many women leave engineering.		* Why so many women leave engineering.
	* Women in the construction industry.		* Women in the construction industry.

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−	~~<ul>~~	+	* Civil engineering and language.
−	~~<li>~~	+	* Diversity in the construction industry.
		+	* Equality Act.
		+	* Inclusivity in engineering.
		+	* Interview with Harriet Latimer - Graduate Design Engineer.
		+	* Recruiting and retaining talent in the construction industry.
		+	* Why so many women leave engineering.
		+	* Women in the construction industry.

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−	~~Civil engineering and language.</li>~~	+
−	~~<li>Diversity in the construction industry.</li>~~	+
−	~~<li>Equality Act.</li>~~	+
−	~~<li>Inclusivity in engineering.</li>~~	+
−	~~<li>Interview with Harriet Latimer - Graduate Design Engineer.</li>~~	+
−	~~<li>Recruiting and retaining talent in the construction industry.</li>~~	+
−	~~<li>Why so many women leave engineering.</li>~~	+
−	~~<li>Women in the construction industry.</li></ul>~~	+
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	=== Related articles on Designing Buildings Wiki ===		=== Related articles on Designing Buildings Wiki ===

−	* Diversity in the construction industry.	+	<ul>
−	* Equality Act.	+	<li>
−	* Inclusivity in engineering.	+
−	* Interview with Harriet Latimer - Graduate Design Engineer.	+
−	* Recruiting and retaining talent in the construction industry.	+
−	* Why so many women leave engineering.	+
−	* Women in the construction industry.	+	Civil engineering and language.</li>
		+	<li>Diversity in the construction industry.</li>
		+	<li>Equality Act.</li>
		+	<li>Inclusivity in engineering.</li>
		+	<li>Interview with Harriet Latimer - Graduate Design Engineer.</li>
		+	<li>Recruiting and retaining talent in the construction industry.</li>
		+	<li>Why so many women leave engineering.</li>
		+	<li>Women in the construction industry.</li></ul>

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	Engineering has been a British success story. But its future is in doubt unless the country can educate, recruit and retain many more female engineers.		Engineering has been a British success story. But its future is in doubt unless the country can educate, recruit and retain many more female engineers.

−	The sector has survived, even thrived, by importing engineers from India, ~~from~~ China and ~~from~~ Eastern Europe. But all advanced economies are competing for those candidates. Currently one in five engineering graduates in the UK is from overseas. It’s simply not a sustainable model~~. The only realistic solution is to attract more women into engineering and make sure they stay in the profession~~.	+	The sector has survived, even thrived, by importing engineers from India, China and Eastern Europe. But all advanced economies are competing for those candidates. Currently one in five engineering graduates in the UK is from overseas. It’s simply not a sustainable model.

−	~~There are successful models out there. Unfortunately, though we can’t simply replicate the Latvian~~ and ~~Bulgarian model or even the Swedish one, where, according to Engineering UK, 26% of engineers are female, compared to just 9%~~ in the UK.	+	The only realistic solution is to attract more women into engineering and make sure they stay in the profession.

−	For the former Iron Curtain countries the gender balance is actually a consequence of having had a command authority and it took the Swedes 30 years of national government level action to get their gender balance right. We simply ~~don’t have time for~~ the ~~latter approach~~ or, ~~I suspect~~, ~~much inclination~~ to ~~live under a communist state~~.	+	There are successful models out there. Unfortunately, though we can’t simply replicate the Latvian and Bulgarian model, or even the Swedish one, where, according to Engineering UK, 26% of engineers are female, compared to just 9% in the UK.

−	~~STEM cells~~	+	For the former Soviet countries the gender balance is actually a consequence of having had a command authority, and it took the Swedes 30 years of national government level action to get their gender balance right. We simply don’t have time for the latter approach.

−	Instead, we hope projects like our own Women in Engineering programme at Brunel could be the key. The idea is to establish an approach which looks at the entire engineering education and career lifecycle and which eventually bumps up the number of female undergraduates in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).	+	Instead, we hope projects like our own Women in Engineering programme at Brunel could be the key.
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		+	The idea is to establish an approach which looks at the entire engineering education and career lifecycle and which eventually bumps up the number of female undergraduates in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).

	Our own pilot gives female postgraduates a senior engineering mentor from industry for 12 months plus coaching in leadership and presentation and communication skills. This will be extended to more students in the next academic year. However, one of the crucial aspects of this approach happens outside the curriculum.		Our own pilot gives female postgraduates a senior engineering mentor from industry for 12 months plus coaching in leadership and presentation and communication skills. This will be extended to more students in the next academic year. However, one of the crucial aspects of this approach happens outside the curriculum.
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	We are at a critical moment in time – if the UK economy is going to continue to recover then we must make a significant dent in the gender imbalance in engineering now, and build Britain’s capacity to deliver home-grown engineers that support economic growth.		We are at a critical moment in time – if the UK economy is going to continue to recover then we must make a significant dent in the gender imbalance in engineering now, and build Britain’s capacity to deliver home-grown engineers that support economic growth.

−	~~Bridging~~ the ~~gap~~	+	So we need to create a virtuous cycle that reaches into the earliest stages of an engineering career. We’ve developed a set of activities - from welding with chocolate, to building water filters, to running robot races - that can be delivered by our engineering students within a normal school science lesson.

−	So we need to create a virtuous cycle that reaches into the earliest stages of an engineering career. We’ve developed a set of activities, from welding with chocolate to building water filters to running robot races, that can be delivered by our engineering students within a normal school science lesson.	+	An engineering student STEM ambassador will go into a school and spend a couple of days teaching chocolate welding to pupils and then return to deliver an engineering careers talk to young people with whom they’ve enjoyed a stimulating and fun science and engineering-based activity (unless you’ve tried it would you believe a simple bridge made of four bars of chocolate could bear a 3.8 kg load?)
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−	An engineering student STEM ambassador will go into a school and spend a couple of days teaching chocolate welding to pupils and then return to deliver an engineering careers talk to young people with whom they’ve enjoyed a stimulating and fun science and engineering-based activity. (~~Oh,~~ unless you’ve tried it would you believe a simple bridge made of four bars of chocolate could bear a 3.~~8kg~~ load?)	+

	Students will regularly return to schools to deliver other, hopefully stimulating, sessions so pupils are exposed to fantastic role models several times before they start making decisions about GCSE choices.		Students will regularly return to schools to deliver other, hopefully stimulating, sessions so pupils are exposed to fantastic role models several times before they start making decisions about GCSE choices.
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	That may be a pipe dream but it’s a good target.		That may be a pipe dream but it’s a good target.

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		+	Written by Geoff J. Rodgers Vice Chancellor, Brunel University

−	~~Geoff J. Rodgers Vice Chancellor, Brunel University~~	+	This article was originally published on the [https://futureofconstruction.org/blog/how-to-encourage-women-into-engineering/ Future of Construction Knowledge Sharing Platform] and the [http://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/03/elon-musk-innovation-construction-industry WEF Agenda Blog].
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−	This article was originally published on the [https://futureofconstruction.org/ Future of Construction Knowledge Sharing~~] [https://futureofconstruction.org/~~ Platform]and the [http://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/03/elon-musk-innovation-construction-industry WEF Agenda Blog].	+

	--[[User:Future_of_Construction\|Future of Construction]] 16:46, 15 Jun 2017 (BST)		--[[User:Future_of_Construction\|Future of Construction]] 16:46, 15 Jun 2017 (BST)

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		+	* Diversity in the construction industry.
		+	* Equality Act.
		+	* Inclusivity in engineering.
		+	* Interview with Harriet Latimer - Graduate Design Engineer.
		+	* Recruiting and retaining talent in the construction industry.
		+	* Why so many women leave engineering.
		+	* Women in the construction industry.
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		+	[[Category:Education]] [[Category:Organisations]] [[Category:Theory]] [[Category:Policy]] [[Category:Roles_/_services]]

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	Engineering has been a British success story. But its future is in doubt unless the country can educate, recruit and retain many more female engineers.		Engineering has been a British success story. But its future is in doubt unless the country can educate, recruit and retain many more female engineers.

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	This article was originally published on the [https://futureofconstruction.org/ Future of Construction Knowledge Sharing] [https://futureofconstruction.org/ Platform]and the [http://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/03/elon-musk-innovation-construction-industry WEF Agenda Blog].		This article was originally published on the [https://futureofconstruction.org/ Future of Construction Knowledge Sharing] [https://futureofconstruction.org/ Platform]and the [http://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/03/elon-musk-innovation-construction-industry WEF Agenda Blog].

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	This article was originally published on the [https://futureofconstruction.org/ Future of Construction Knowledge Sharing] [https://futureofconstruction.org/ Platform]and the [http://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/03/elon-musk-innovation-construction-industry WEF Agenda Blog].		This article was originally published on the [https://futureofconstruction.org/ Future of Construction Knowledge Sharing] [https://futureofconstruction.org/ Platform]and the [http://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/03/elon-musk-innovation-construction-industry WEF Agenda Blog].
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	Engineering has been a British success story. But its future is in doubt unless the country can educate, recruit and retain many more female engineers.		Engineering has been a British success story. But its future is in doubt unless the country can educate, recruit and retain many more female engineers.