Join us for the first Engineering for Teachers conference to explore this fascinating multidisciplinary field. You’ll get the chance to really appreciate what engineering is and how to bring this exciting topic into the classroom, as well as exploring the opportunities your students could unlock by studying it at university.

Engineering, whilst not directly taught in many schools, brings together many different subjects: mathematics, physics and chemistry are vital for understanding the nature of materials and how to transform them, computing and design technology feed into the practical aspects of making, and biology feeds into sustainable and healthcare engineering. These diverse topics are united through the engineer’s approach of creativity, critical thinking and problem solving. As such, many students studying A level STEM subjects could go on to study engineering at university but may have little information about what it actually entails. This is where you can help! You will leave this event equipped with the knowledge and understanding to bring this amazing subject to life, and to support any budding engineers in your school to see what a future in this sector could be like.

This event will be hosted by academic staff and students from the Department of Engineering, in our modern teaching labs. This free, in-person event is open to teachers, careers advisors, and other school staff from London and beyond.

 

Talks & Sessions

13:30 - Registration

14:00 - Welcome

14:15 Introduction talk: What is Engineering?

14:30 Interactive activity: Project-based learning

15:30 Q&A with engineering undergraduate students

15:50 Networking + Refreshments

16:10 Panel discussion: The evolution of engineering education

16:40 Makerspaces and accessible making

17:20 Wrap up

17:30 Optional 30 min networking

 

Applications are now open. Register to this event here by Sunday April 13. 

If the conference is over-subscribed, we will prioritise places to STEM teachers at schools that meet the following criteria:
• State secondary school or college
• Non-selective secondary school, or sixth form college
• Higher proportion of students eligible for Free School Meals

 

Accessibility

Sessions during the day will take place in a teaching room on the Strand Campus. The room is fully wheelchair accessible via lift, and there are accessible bathrooms in this building.

The nearest step-free underground station is Blackfriars, but a number of bus routes stop outside the Strand Campus.

 

If you have any questions or would like any further details, please email nmes-outreach@kcl.ac.uk.