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Turning Engineers Into Rock Stars!

James Shaw
Naomi Climer, president of the IET, outlines her campaign called - Engineer a better World - to make us realise that engineering is an exciting and creative activity, as part of her interview by Jim Al-Khalili on Radio 4's The Life Scientific.


Can she find a 'rock star' of engineering, a new Watt, Stephenson or Brunel, or are we all ensemble players in a huge engineering orchestra? Does it matter that there are no 'stars'? Does stardom come as a result of large incomes? Good Engineering is invisible, (it just works!); is it inevitable that good engineers are invisible too?

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    Why is it that few girls ever consider doing Engineering? Why is it that the brightest of working class boys hardly ever think of doing Engineering? Simple - in their universe there is no species called an Engineer. Medical doctors, yes; Lawyers, yes; Entrepreneurs, yes; Waiters and Chefs, yes; Engineers, no.  And how do we get them to know and hunger after Engineering? One great possiblity - we need to enter into their lives - both online and offline - and we need to do so according to their own terms.  Hence the need to identify and support role models who can enter and inhabit the world of Britain's girls and working class boys, and who do not look alien in it. We therefore need Engineering Role Models, and this has to be done in an evidence-based, thoughtful and strategic manner.
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    Why is it that few girls ever consider doing Engineering? Why is it that the brightest of working class boys hardly ever think of doing Engineering? Simple - in their universe there is no species called an Engineer. Medical doctors, yes; Lawyers, yes; Entrepreneurs, yes; Waiters and Chefs, yes; Engineers, no.  And how do we get them to know and hunger after Engineering? One great possiblity - we need to enter into their lives - both online and offline - and we need to do so according to their own terms.  Hence the need to identify and support role models who can enter and inhabit the world of Britain's girls and working class boys, and who do not look alien in it. We therefore need Engineering Role Models, and this has to be done in an evidence-based, thoughtful and strategic manner.
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