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This National Engineering Day (5 November 2025), we are launching the AI-Z of Engineering: a future-focused online guide, created by engineers, showcasing over 100 current and 100 emerging engineering roles. It’s designed to inspire the next generation and spotlight engineering’s creativity, diversity and world-shaping impact. A futurologist’s vision of the future will sit alongside the guide – helping the public imagine where engineering could take us next.
Thank you for your engineering expertise to help shape the futurologist's vision and create the AI-Z of Engineering.
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A look back at National Engineering Day 2024 - 2023
National Engineering Day impact by year
National Engineering Day 2024: Engineering Role Models
For National Engineering Day 2024 we unveiled a modern statue of a living engineer and a digital artwork of five engineering role models, in a bid to inspire a new generation into the profession.
Our research showed that engineering-specific role models are a strong influencing factor on young people to choose engineering. In the summer of 2024 we launched a public call for nominations of engineering role models. Our judging panel selected a group of these whose stories we shared on National Engineering Day.
Specially designed by visual artist Kelly Anna, the striking new statue is of Macclesfield-based engineer Alice Kan. The statue encapsulates Alice’s remarkable journey, achievements, and personal resilience in engineering and vaccine production. The central, dynamic figure of Alice stands strong with an empowered posture, symbolising her resilience, leadership, and unwavering determination. Alice is shown looking upward, representing hope, optimism, and her visionary approach to the future.
Throughout the Day, thanks to our incredible community of partners and supports we achieved:
- 158 nominations for 96 individuals
- Generated over 42 million impressions and more than 78,000 engagements across social media.
- High profile engineers and engineering champions such as Ferrari UK and Dame Stephanie Shirley, other influential accounts such as Lewis Hamilton, Sadiq Khan, Ferrari UK, Sir Patrick Vallance, EasyJet and many more posted about the Day on social media.
- Baroness Brown FREng, Chair of the Lords Science and Technology Committee, Chi Onwurah MP, Labour MP for Newcastle Central, Chair of the Science, Innovation, and Technology Committee and MPs from South West, Sutton and Cheam and Northampton South joined us to unveil the statue.
- Over 200 people attended Innovation Late to a hear a series of talks from extraordinary engineers and inspiring innovators. We showcased the best of British inventions tackling the world’s greatest challenges, from transforming robots, through to driving simulators, and even brain scanners.
- 267 people attended, gaining an entirely different understanding of what 'innovation' means. 76% of people’s understanding of engineering changed due to this event.
National Engineering Day 2023: Everyday Engineering
Our national competition, Everyday Engineering, was open to all the UK’s kitchen table engineers, with ideas and innovations that could make or are making our daily life more sustainable. A public vote held on National Engineering Day, 1 November 2023, decided the nation's favourite sustainable idea or innovation.
Our news story on the day highlighted how outdated perceptions of engineering could hold the UK back from its net zero goals.
Our partnership with Transport for London, TfL, saw 274 engineering icons celebrated with a reimagined tube map. This drove the conversation on the day, as the community celebrated engineers from every sector of the procession.
The Academy organised the first ever public event in celebration of National Engineering Day. Innovation Late featured a series of TED-style 10-minute talks from speakers about their work which either improves the planet or improves people’s lives. The talks were accompanied by exhibitions featuring chocolate welding, robotic dancing dogs, ergonomic chairs for disabled users, and eco-friendly plastic alternatives. 87.5% of the audience hadn’t been to an event hosted by the Academy before.
Over the course of the Day, and thanks to an incredible community of partners and supporters we achieved:
- Nearly 100 pieces of UK news coverage mentioned National Engineering Day or the Everyday Engineering Competition
- Trended at #6 on Twitter in the UK, with #NationalEngineeringDay generating 76 million impressions and more than 56 million engagements
- High profile engineers and engineering champions such as Sir Tim Peake, other influential accounts such as the Mayor of London, as well as Dragons’ Den ambassador Deborah Meaden all posted on the day
- The tube map generated great conversation on LinkedIn with over 300 posts, including from Google UK MD Debbie Weinstein, George Imafidon MBE, Ella Podmore MBE, Elena Rodriguez FREng, Penelope Endersby FREng and more.
- The first ever Innovation Late event received 780 registrations with 352 people attending. The event was featured in news outlets including Skint London, Cheapskate London, Southwark News, the Londonist and BBC Radio London. 92.5% of the audience rated the event ‘very satisfactory’ and ‘outstanding’.
National Engineering Day 2022: improving lives through engineering
This is Engineering Day returned on 2 November 2022 as National Engineering Day with a focus on showcasing how engineering improves lives.
We produced a video featuring Great British Bake Off stars, Andrew Smyth, Giuseppe Dell'Anno and Rahul Mandal showcasing how engineering and baking are interlinked. We also launched the #EngineeringCakes social media challenge which encouraged the public to bake a vegan chocolate with an inspirational engineering decoration.
The Academy published new research revealing that the UK is an engineering powerhouse, with the profession generating up to an estimated £645bn gross value added (GVA) to the UK’s economy annually – equivalent to 32% of the country’s economic output. A map was produced highlighting that hotspots of engineering appear all over the UK, with a high proportion of local populations of Mid Ulster, West Cumbria, and Flintshire and Wrexham working in the profession.
Over the course of the Day, and thanks to an incredible community of partners and supporters we:
- Achieved over 77 million potential impressions this year across social media, more than double last year's equivalent number.
- Trended at #3 on Twitter in the UK
- Amassed more than 200,000 video views for National Engineering Day activities
- Organised a parliamentary reception and panel hosted by Lord Mair. The event was attended by over 70 people including nine Parliamentarians, industry partners, professional engineering institutions, Fellows and representatives from the This is Engineering campaign.
- Secured widespread media coverage including in the Metro, the Express, Daily Mirror, The Times. As well as mentions on BBC Radio 2 and a dedicated slot from Steph McGovern on her show Steph’s Packed Lunch on Channel 4
This is Engineering Day 2021
In 2021, This is Engineering Day landed at the start of COP26, when public conversations were focused on what we need to do to tackle climate change and become net zero by 2050. Through reimagined artworks, we envisioned what landscapes, seascapes, and cityscapes would look like in a net zero world in 2050. From agriculture to travel and energy to housing, we shared how engineers can mitigate the effects of climate change and help us live a more sustainable life tomorrow.
The Academy worked with a digital artist who reworked masterpieces by Monet, Van Gogh, Constable and Pissarro to inspire a conversation about the engineering advances that could help to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
Innovations such as agricultural robots, smart thermochromic windows, vertical farms and flying taxis have been woven into the reimagined impressionist masterpieces to depict what a more sustainable world may look like in the future.
Over the course of the Day, and thanks to an incredible community of partners and supporters we:
- Achieved a total media reach of 33 million
- Hashtags from the day were seen over 30 million times
- Set up a pop-up art installation at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, the host city for COP26
- Hosted a special Green Skills themed panel discussion as part of our COP26-linked Ask the Engineers event series
- Secured widespread media coverage including in The Mirror, The Sun, Channel 4, Radio 4, The Times, and on Steph’s Packed Lunch with engineers who feature in This is Engineering and the Great British Bake Off.
This is Engineering Day 2020
This is Engineering Day 2020 saw the Academy’s plans to launch a new, pandemic-proof, virtual museum: the Museum of Engineering Innovation on Google Arts and Culture, with an inaugural collection showcasing the engineering behind Paralympian Jonnie Peacock’s blade, vaccine manufacturing and Shakespearean theatre.
We also hosted five online Q&A sessions for students, attracting over 420 registrations from schools and the engineering community. The discussions were recorded and are available to view here.
Media highlights included features on BBC World Service and Channel 4’s Steph’s Packed Lunch, and articles in the FT, The Metro, Daily Express, and Forbes.
Engineers and engineering organisations across the country got involved in the day both online and offline. Highlights included:
- Transport for Greater Manchester provided over 170 poster sites around their network featuring the Museum QR code
- Network Rail shared campaign content on over 50 screens in stations across the UK
- Amazon re-programmed Alexa to answer questions about engineers and This is Engineering Day and created an Alexa engineering quiz, and special engineering book list.
- The Mercedes F1 Team and Lewis Hamilton created a bespoke new video for their social media accounts, which generated over 836K views and 316K likes
This is Engineering Day 2019
In 2019, we hosted our very first This is Engineering Day on 6 November 2019, in the middle of Tomorrow’s Engineers Week, a day to raise awareness of what engineers really do and celebrate those who are shaping the world we live in.
To challenge the narrow public perception of engineers and engineering, we launched a new public image library of more representative images of engineers, a new Instagram channel @ThisisEngineering, and a challenge to help us change image search results for the word ‘engineer’.
Engineers and engineering organisations across the country got involved in the day both online and offline:
- Over 130 organisations signed a pledge to increase the public visibility of more representative images of engineers and engineering
- Over 780 images were dontated to our free engineering photo library by over 40 partner organisations
- Amazon Alexa answered questions about This is Engineering Day and the role of engineers, and Amazon ran engineering-focused tours of Amazon’s fulfilment centres
- Network Rail showcased real images of engineers on 60 screens across 15 stations in the UK, and across the Virgin train network
- Facebook created and promoted new engineering video content featuring their engineers
- Google hosted an engineering takeover at its Portsmouth Digital Garage
- Celebrities including F1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton, author and present Konnie Huq, astronaut Tim Peake and Great British Bakeoff finalist Andrew Smyth marked the day on social media, helping #ThisisEngineering reach over 12 million people on 6 November alone
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