Survey of Registered Engineers 2007

The 2007 survey will add to the data collected as part of the 'Survey of Registered Engineers 2005'. It will provide the engineering community with up to date work on engineering salaries and will sample 10,000 respondents through a mail questionnaire. 

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Teaching Costs in Engineering Departments

This project is part of the ETB’s work to develop its position at the forefront of the skills agenda within UK engineering higher education.  This is at a time when higher education engineering departments are suffering from severe financial constraints, with the future of many undergraduate and postgraduate teaching programmes being under threat. Added to this is the risk of departmental closures and reductions in the size of engineering departments. Current understanding of the real costs associated with running an undergraduate teaching programme is limited to anecdotal evidence.  Recent research published by the Institute of Physics (IOP) and Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), highlighted the teaching costs of physics and chemistry departments. This project aims to address the challenges facing engineering teaching programmes in UK universities in order to ensure that the UK supply of engineering graduates meets the needs of UK industry.

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International Benchmarking Project

The project identifies promotional best practice in engineering through benchmarking of international promotional activity.  The benchmarking activity will be put into context by updating the 'Hamilton Review (2000)' – this will update an international comparison of the operation of the engineering profession in the United Kingdom and other countries. The report will provide a country by country guide to engineering promotional activity and the operation of the engineering profession in various countries, relative to the status and health of the profession in each.

Skills Implications of the Lisbon Agenda

The project reviews the current literature in relation to the Lisbon Agenda. The project will involve a consultation exercise in the UK and in Brussels. The aim is to review and make relevant the extensive work on the Lisbon Agenda, by focusing on the UK implications for the science, technology, engineering and mathematics community.