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ENGINEERING
POLICY UNIT (EPU)
EPU
helps engineering interests to improve perceptions of engineering
in society at large and, especially, among those who have yet
to make career choices. Underlying this, since otherwise it wouldn't
matter if engineers were social outcasts, is a belief that the
nation's economic future depends on enough of the brightest in
our society entering engineering and that this is partially linked
to the extent to which society at large appreciates the importance
of engineering. There are two related strands to our work: the
promotion of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
(STEM) to young people and the general promotion of engineering
and the structure of the profession. We deal with:
Our principal
activities at present are: ·
- Strengthening
the UK's STEM Delivery Infrastructure through increasing the
number and scale of activity of those who support teachers.
- Drawing
up and implementing a Science and Engineering Ambassadors Scheme
that will involve people going into schools to encourage an
interest in STEM, in support of the STEM Delivery Infrastructure,
and bring together under one heading the many such schemes that
already exist.
- the Hawley
Group - reviewing the role of the Engineering Council, now
set to evolve into the Engineering and Technology Board, and
how it can best add value to the 'wider engineering community'
and
- working
with the industry-led Campaign
to Promote Engineering.
Who's who?
Tony Kesten
is Head of the Engineering Policy Unit (IBD5). Tel: 020 7215 1811
(office) E-mail: tony.kesten@dti.gsi.gov.uk
Other members
of the team are:
Nick Morgan
Tel 020 7215 1648 E-mail: nick.morgan@dti.gsi.gov.uk
Michael McDermott Tel 020 7215 4148 E-mail:
michael.mcdermott@dti.gsi.gov.uk
Isoken Imaghodor Tel 020 7215 1620 E-mail: isoken.imaghodor@dti.gsi.gov.uk
Edgar Bernard Tel 020 7215 1588 E-mail: edgar.bernard@dti.gsi.gov.uk
The EPU fax
is 0207 215 1631.
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