Demography, Education, Training, Employment

18 Oct Young researchers futures meeting: Neural engineering

Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) (RAEng)
2012
Abstracts from a three-day conference organised by the Institute of Digital Healthcare and the Royal Academy of Engineering Panel for Biomedical Engineering.
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18 Oct Jobs and growth: the importance of engineering skills to the UK economy

Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) (RAEng)
2012
Final report of the econometrics of engineering skills project. Examining the link between STEM education, training and qualifications and economic growth.
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18 Oct Engineers for Africa: Identifying engineering capacity needs in Sub Saharan Africa

Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) (RAEng)
2012
This report identifies engineering Introduction capacity needs, in terms of the size and skills base of the work force.
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18 Oct Skills for the nation: engineering undergraduates in the UK

Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) (RAEng)
2013
This report provides a mapping of the complex landscape of undergraduate engineering education in the UK and provides a sense of how it has been changing over time.
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18 Oct Thinking like an engineer – Implications for the education system full report

Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) (RAEng)
2014
This report, commissioned by the Royal Academy of Engineering, offers fresh insights into the ways engineers think. It goes on to suggest ways in which the education system might be redesigned to develop engineers more effectively.
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18 Oct Thinking like an engineer – implications for the education system summary report

Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) (RAEng)
2014
This report offers fresh insights into the ways engineers think. It suggests ways in which the education system might be redesigned to develop engineers more effectively and makes suggestions as to how the wider public might become engaged with these issues.
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18 Oct Making design engineering fascinating Recommendations for training qualified design engineers

National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)
2012
Today's design engineers act as developers, drivers and originators in the process of creating new products. They conceive new products for businesses taking account of all the phases in the product's life cycle, and they provide the documentation needed to manufacture them. As such, they have a direct influence on the success of manufacturing companies. They need to be creative and continuously rise to the challenge of using new materials and technologies. In addition to traditional design engineering know-how in areas such as machine components and materials, functional groups, production and assembly technology, design engineering methodology, systematic problem solving and spatial visualisation skills, they increasingly also require IT and programming skills as well as electrical engineering and mechatronics know-how. Systems design draws on a combination of all these skills.
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18 Oct Slovenia Needs a New Vision for the Development of the Economy and Society (16 pages – en)

Engineering Academy of Slovenia (IAS)
2014
Slovenia is falling behind in technological development because of economic reasons as well as because technological intelligence has been left out from deciding on key questions on economic, predominantly industrial, and general society development. Slovenian Academy of Engineering has carried out consultations to point out, for the public and decision-makers, the inadequate state on different fields that are creating the present economic crisis. The position paper is focusing on the Purpose of the Initiative and Propositions of Slovenian Academy of Engineering, and is explaining propositions from first two parts of the position papers in Slovenian language. The position paper was distributed to international partner organisations of the Slovenian Academy of Engineering and other interested organisations.
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