The Manchester IET is part of a North West initiative called the Joint Institutions Group. This Group includes a number of engineering institutions that have branches in the North West of England. Over the summer period the Joint Institutions Group has been working on two initiatives.
The first one is the Engineering Your Future Initiative, which is a series of seven events across the North West that provide an opportunity for school students to see benefits of a career in engineering. The first event is in Liverpool on 16th October 2015 and there are two events in Manchester on 6th November 2015 and 26th February 2016. There are also events in Preston, Burnley, West Cumbria and Warrington. The IET is looking for volunteers to help with the running of the events, if you are interested more details can be found at http://www.northwest-engineering.org/engineering-your-future-careers-days.html.
The second initiative partly funded by the IET has been to provide a new website for the Joint Institutions Group. The work on the website also included the creation of an interactive calendar of events for all the engineering events across the North West of England. The calendar uses a new type of interactive website called a Wakelet. The work included the creation of a Wakelet for all the engineering events in Manchester.
The new website can be found at http://www.northwest-engineering.org/ and the Wakelet for events in Manchester can be found at http://wke.lt/w/3VUksH7lRH.
Currently Keith McCabe of the Manchester IET is the Chair of the Joint Institutions Group, he would welcome your feedback on the Joint Intuitions Group initiatives, you can contact him at the following email address keith.mccabe@kamfutures.co.uk.