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Tomorrow’s Engineers Week 2026: what students can do
Tomorrow's Engineers Week runs from 9 to 13 November 2026. Here is how to join in, with five things to do that week.
Born to Engineer: The honest guide to becoming an engineer in the UK
News, careers guides and opportunities for 14 to 18 year olds, and the parents and teachers helping them.
Energy & Environment
Raindrops Can Launch Microplastics Into the Air, High-Speed Cameras Show
Engineers at Oxford, UCL and UNAM filmed raindrop-sized drops hitting water covered in plastic particles, and found the splash and a thin upward jet…
Space
National Engineering Day 2026: Now Hiring the Engineers of 2076
For National Engineering Day, the Royal Academy of Engineering is advertising nine jobs for the engineers of 2076. Here is what they tell us…
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The main branches of engineering: what engineers in each one do, what they earn and how to get in.
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Degrees, apprenticeships, T Levels and vocational qualifications: how each route into engineering works and who it suits.
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The A levels, IB and Scottish qualifications that lead into engineering, and why each one helps.
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Work experience, competitions, clubs, scholarships and applications: how to stand out and pay for your studies.
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Construction & Infrastructure
Duct Tape Beats Sandbags in University of Hull Flood Door Tests
The jobs behind the story: Behind it all are civil and hydraulic engineers who work out how floodwater moves and the forces it exerts on buildings, and laboratory technicians who build and operate the test rigs (e.g.
Health
Bristol Start-Up Shrinks Hospital Eye Scanner Onto a Chip Smaller Than a £1 Coin
The jobs behind the story: Biomedical engineering is one of the fastest-growing areas in the UK.
Construction & Infrastructure
Progressive Collapse: Surrey Engineers Make It Easier to Check a Floor Can Survive a Lost Column
The jobs behind the story: Structural engineers design concrete frames to survive damage, and forensic engineers study failures like the one in Santander to make future buildings safer.
Construction & Infrastructure
Wales Completes £1 Billion Railway Electrification, Wins UK’s Top Infrastructure Award
The jobs behind the story: At the moment railway electrification is the greatest civil engineering problem in the UK and all major rail projects require engineers who know about power systems, track design, signalling and structural engineering.
Aerospace, Defence & Marine
Why Jet Engine Makers Are Going Back to Materials They Abandoned 50 Years Ago
The jobs behind the story: Materials science is at the heart of almost every major engineering challenge, from jet engines to batteries to medical implants.
Energy & Environment
Pacific Fusion Achieves Pulsed Power Fusion Breakthrough at Sandia
Aerospace, Defence & Marine
Offshore Wind Cargo Drones Deliver 65 kg Loads to North Sea Turbines
Engineering disciplines
Compare them all- Discipline guide Civil engineering Updated October 2026. All links and schemes verified against official sources. The short answer Civil engineering…
- Stories Structural engineering
- Discipline guide Mechanical engineering Being an engineer is not just one profession but covers those working in many different engineering…
- Discipline guide Electrical engineering Have you ever used a mobile phone, cooked your food in a microwave, or flicked the…
- Discipline guide Electronic engineering Once considered a subset of electrical engineering, electronic and electronic systems engineering has now emerged as…
- Discipline guide Chemical engineering What chemical engineers do, what they earn, which subjects help, and how to get in by…
- Discipline guide Aerospace engineering Updated November 2026. All links and schemes have been checked against the official sources. The short…
- Discipline guide Biomedical engineering Biomedical engineers design, test, maintain and manage the technology that keeps people alive and well (scanners,…
- Stories Software and systems engineering
- Stories Manufacturing engineering
- Discipline guide Automation engineering As technology continues to evolve, the field of engineering has seen significant growth, especially in the…
This week for teachers
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Tutor pack
Engineering in the News: 2 November 2026
How to run it in 10 minutes Minutes 0 to 3: one slide per story (slides 2 to 4). Read the three lines, then…
Meet a real engineer
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Professor Eleanor Stride, biomedical engineer
Professor Eleanor Stride is a biomedical engineer at the University of Oxford. She develops new ways of delivering chemotherapy drugs. Her work uses tiny…
For studentsReal engineer
Ebony Allison, electronic engineer
Ebony Allison is an electronic engineer. She joined fellow engineers Mimi-Isabella Nwosu and Minal Patel for the Born to Engineer roundtable, an honest conversation…
For studentsReal engineer
Milly Hennayake, civil engineer
Milly Hennayake is a civil engineer. She studied civil engineering at the University of Cambridge, and first got involved with Engineers Without Borders UK…
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Aerospace Engineering Careers in the UK
Updated November 2026. All links and schemes have been checked against the official sources. The short answer Aerospace engineers design, build, test and look…
For studentsCareers guides
Biomedical Engineering Careers in the UK
Biomedical engineers design, test, maintain and manage the technology that keeps people alive and well (scanners, monitors, prosthetics etc). In the UK you can…
For studentsCareers guides
Chemical engineering careers in the UK: jobs, pay, subjects and routes in
What chemical engineers do, what they earn, which subjects help, and how to get in by degree, apprenticeship or T Level.
Careers guides
Engineering salaries in the UK, from apprentice to chartered engineer
The guide is aimed at students considering a career in engineering and at parents and carers assisting them with their decision. It explains the…
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The Engineering Behind Formula 1
Ever watch a Formula 1 race and wonder, "How do those cars even exist?" We just did a deep dive into the engineering beneath the bodywork, and honestly? It’s wilder than you…
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STEM Classroom Toolkits
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Ages 16–19 (A level / post-16)
Fusion
“When you tell people you make stars for a living, their heads turn and their mouths open.”
Ages 14–16 (KS4 / GCSE)
Cancer and biomedical engineering
Explore the biology of cancer, and how a targeted approach avoids some of the damaging side effects of traditional chemotherapy
Ages 11–14 (KS3)
Combustion
Explore different ways of extinguishing a flame with some surprising results