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Engaging Girls in Engineering Careers Should Be at the Very Top of Our Agenda Says EESW EESW EESW EESW STEM STEM talentWelsh Engineering Talent for the Future Cymru talentWelsh Engineering Talent for the Future Cymru STEM Issue No. 18 THE JOURNAL OF THE ENGINEERING EDUCATION SCHEME WALES SeptemberIssue No.2014 21 talentWelshWELSH Engineering ENGINEERINGIssue No. 18 Talent TALENTTHE JOURNAL FOR for OF THE THE the FUTURE ENGINEERING Future EDUCATION SCHEMEC WyALESmSeptemberru September 2017 2014 Issue No. 18 THE JOURNAL OF THE ENGINEERING EDUCATION SCHEME WALES September 2014 Tachyon Texas team Falcon Force team Engaging girls in engineering careers should be at the very top of our agenda says EESW There is a well-documented However, 39% of girls who At sixth-form level, the where girls show themselves to will represent Wales in the shortage of engineers in the Author's name were asked what subjects they barrier to taking up careers be high achievers. international final to be held UK. The Royal Academy of Where they are from enjoyed at school nominated in engineering is still the In each of the last three in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Engineering and Engineering design and technology, relatively low number of years, all-girl teams from You can read more about these UK, among others, have current engineering workforce computing and information females pursuing maths and Wales have won through amazing teams on page 6 and 7. conducted research that clearly in the UK: at only 9%, this is the technology. science at A-level. to the UK national finals A quote from the Tachyon highlights the shortfall. lowest percentage of female This research shows a strong However, lower down the age of the F1 Challenge. There, team captures the impact The UK will require 100,000 engineering professionals in interest in STEM areas at school range, the gender gap is smaller competing against other Welsh that EESW interventions can new graduates in Science, Europe. level that is not being translated and girls are seen to engage challengers, they were selected achieve: “The F1 in Schools Technology, Engineering and Recent research by the into the number of females in a range of activities with to represent Wales at the competition has been a life- Mathematics (the ‘STEM’ Institute of Engineering and entering the engineering enthusiasm, commitment and, international final. changing experience for each subjects) every year until Technology in its Engineering industry. most strikingly, enjoyment. Tachyon, an all-female team and every member of Tachyon. 2020 just to match the current a Better World campaign, EESW strives to engage The F1 in Schools Challenge from Denbigh High School, was We are all keen to pursue employment pattern. reveals that a staggering 93% of at least as many females as is a good example of an a finalist in Singapore in 2015 careers in the field of STEM, What is also eye catching parents would not encourage a males in its activities and has engineering-based activity that and in Austin, Texas in 2016. and we aim to keep motivating is the miniscule percentage daughter to pursue a career in achieved considerable success attracts equal numbers of girls This month, a female team people, particularly females, to of females who are part of the engineering. with this goal. and boys. This is also an activity from Brynrefail in Caernarfon do so.” INSIDE FUTURE DESIGNERS: CAEDRAW OUTLAWS Girls into steM: LEGO BLOODHOUND Sixth-formers get 3 Merthyr school represents 8 Opportunity to fly high x Animal Allies and LEGO 14 Set to race 20 years 15 Headstart in product design South Wales at national final at RAF Valley make winning combination after first speed record set THE JOURNAL OF THE ENGINEERING EDUCATION SCHEME WALES 2 WELSH ENGINEERING TALENT FOR THE FUTURE WELSH ENGINEERING TALENT FOR THE FUTURE 3 CONTACT North Wales students go EESW/STEM Cymru Ford steering interest in engineering Waterton Centre sky high with Airbus Waterton The Ford Bridgend Engine BRIDGEND CF31 3WT Plant (BEP) works with EESW Airbus, working in conjunction Tel: 01656 669381 to get more pupils interested with EESW, has substantially Author's name [email protected] in careers in engineering and increased the offering of STEM Where they are from www.stemcymru.org.uk manufacturing. activities in the North Wales One example is the regular area. benefit of increasing STEM On behalf of the Engineering visits which are organised to One such example, the engagement with local Education Scheme in Wales I show girls what opportunities Drone Club at St David’s students while also providing would like to thank all those who are open to them in a modern High School, has got off to a the opportunity to promote have contributed to Talent. Any engineering plant. EESW flying start. Pupils have been Airbus as an employer of suggestions or comments that will particularly focuses the visits able to design, build and test choice in the North Wales help to improve the quality and on control systems that are their drones, all under the region. content of this magazine will be the heartbeat of modern supervision of professional EESW has played an integral gratefully received. manufacturing. The girls aerospace engineers from part in the delivery of activity We are grateful to all the work on BBC microbit control Airbus, while also learning the days for students from local companies, colleges and activities and then see how basic principles of flight and schools in 2017. Events include universities that work with us important control systems are critical drone safety. F1 in Schools Challenge days, to provide pupils with a greater in the Ford plant. First flights were EESW STEM days and Lego understanding of the importance Another EESW activity performed on July 20 at League at Airbus, while also of STEM subjects to the prosperity supporting other Airbus of Wales and for helping to involves linking teams of Airbus’ manufacturing site develop better employability sixth-formers to industries Students with Steve Cox and the student ambassadors outside the Design and Technology Centre at Bangor University’s Normal Site in Broughton, Flintshire community engagement skills. across Wales to tackle real and proved to be a sky-high events such as Air Smiles. This The Engineering Education engineering challenges. The success. initiative gives worthy young Scheme Wales (EESW) has once Bridgend plant helps with Helen Lloyd-Kerfoot, people the opportunity to have again received funding from the this project by offering teams Future product designers in Airbus’ education partnership a day of activities including European Social Fund through from local schools engineering manager, said: “Seeing the a flight in a small aircraft, the Welsh Government for the challenges to tackle over a pupils from St David’s fly with the aim of engaging STEMCymru II Project. This has sixth-month period. their own drones has been young people most in need of been awarded for a period of The May issue of Ford News The First minister with the Brynteg team and engineers from Ford BEP inspiring. It goes to show support. three years, to enable us to contained the following Wales at Headstart Cymru what can be achieved with the EESW, in partnership with continue our work in West Wales comments about the sixth- stoppages in the plant. BEP programme. enough to work with Ford launch manager Andy Price right partnerships to promote Airbus, willingly give their and the Valleys. EESW also receives form project: senior engineer Carl Duckett "Their solution involved on this year’s EESW project; was one of the judges and the importance of Science, time and resources to support funding from the National Science Ford engine plants around and colleague Mark Bamford designing and fitting a we have met some really presented an award for the Technology, Engineering and these events and continually Academy through the Welsh the world could soon benefit have been working with EESW special drip tray to catch inspirational engineers in the best engineering design to Maths.” engage the students with Government to ensure it can offer at Bangor University from engaging with this organisers on the six-month surplus lubricating oil used plant and they have supported a team from Haberdashers’ Hosting these events at their friendliness and activities to schools in other areas project which they see as project for the school. in assembly which would us all the way and motivated Monmouth School for Girls. Airbus has led to the dual professionalism. of Wales. a community initiative. Mark said: “We identified an otherwise contaminate the boys all the time.” The Ford Bridgend Plant also Chris Evans the standard of this work, Bob Cater, Editor A simple idea developed issue on the production line components and transfer lines He added that the project helped with the South Wales EESW Activity deliverer either in terms of research or with 16- and 17-year-old and challenged the students to in the production system. team was delighted to think Big Bang event, held at the 3D-modelling. They had all students at the local Brynteg come up with a solution which "Previously the spillages that its idea has worked so Liberty Stadium in Swansea, been at it all year too, not a just Comprehensive School, as fully met Ford Production were absorbed by special well that it could be taken up where apprentices had a EESW organised a Headstart a day and a half!” part of their Engineering System (FPS) requirements, mats which have to go to in other Ford facilities. The reaction speed test unit which Cymru course in Bangor The students also enjoyed Education Scheme Wales and they had a brilliantly costly recycling. Now, surplus Brynteg young engineers they had designed and made. University in July for 15 sixth- experiencing university project, is already saving simple answer.
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