Lifelong Learning Initiatives

 

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Engineering Education Scheme Scotland | Return to Top

Encourages the most able young people to consider engineering as their professional career by enabling them to work in teams on significant industrial projects through partnerships between schools and companies. Senior pupils work in teams of four or more with the companies over a period of 4/5 months on the project, which includes a residential workshop in a University Engineering Department.

 

Student Team from Inverness Royal Academy working on their project at Inverness Airport

Residential Project Development Workshops were held during September at Strathclyde, Aberdeen and Heriot-Watt Universities.  For photographs and project information click here.

The project culminates in a written report which is professionally assessed at the Annual Exhibition and Awards Day.

Click here for details of previous award winners.

The Engineering Education Scheme is designed to forge links between industry, careers teachers and University departments and to create an on-going alliance.

For more information contact

The Engineering Development Trust

on Scotland@yini.org.uk or 0141 548 2845

Year in Industry | Return to Top

The Royal Academy of Engineering administers this scheme, which provides young people with a paid work experience ‘gap year’ between school and university.

A Scottish Director of the Year in Industry, based at the University of Strathclyde, works to match up students with companies to the benefit of both.  The students already have a university place assured at the University of their choice. 

During the year the students have off-the-job training and are given responsibility for completing project work within the company.  At the end of the year a selection of the students compete for a cash prize.

For more information see the Year in Industry web site at www.yini.org.uk.

Wise Outlook | Return to Top

Designed to encourage Women into Science and Engineering, this scheme offers a three-day course in Further Education colleges to 13-14 year old girls.  Within the course they will be actively involved in a practical engineering project and will have the chance to meet and speak to women engineers. 

The students will also have the opportunity to visit manufacturing companies and to prepare and submit presentations on their projects at the end of the course.