STEM SUSSEX

The Engineering Education Scheme

Aim

To enable students interested in engineering as a career opportunity to gain useful skills and experience.

Description

The Engineering Education Scheme in England encourages young people (Year 12) to recognise the importance of engineering by providing an opportunity to experience a challenging project in partnership with industry. The students are those high flyers who will be tomorrow’s leaders of industry.

Participating companies recognise that these young people can improve the performance of their business. Combined, the two bridge the gap between education and industry, benefiting both. The scheme provides a launch, a residential university workshop and a celebration and assessment day for participating students within Sussex.
Curriculum links

Work-related learning: Recognise, develop and apply their skills for enterprise and employability. Engage with ideas, challenges and applications from the business world.

Promotes the following key skills:

• Application of number
• Problem solving
• Communication
• Working with others
• Improving own learning and performance
• ICT

How it works

A professional engineer with a link company works with a team of up to four high ability Y12 students and their teacher for 5 - 6 months on a real engineering problem.

Students should have a proven track record at GCSE and be studying Maths AS (preferably with Science, Technology. Other subjects such as Business Studies, Economics, ICT etc are also extremely valuable and relevant). Further information including details of your role as contact teacher are available at: http://www.thescheme.org.uk

Benefits for students

• Interview, teamwork and project management experience
• Training in communication and presentation skills
• Extension of AS / A2 level studies to a real life practical problem
• Meet high ability students from a variety of schools/colleges and backgrounds
• Experience of university life
• Exposure to diversity and variety of engineering, thereby raising awareness of possible career opportunities

Benefits to the school/college and contact teacher

• Individual professional development
• Improved higher education links
• Enhanced industrial links
• Raised profile of school within local community
• Facilitation of Key Skills requirements
• Specific input into Careers Department

Activity Mapping

National Curriculum
KS5 - Post 16 STEM
Work related Learning - 1,6,7,9

Other benefits to the school
ECM - 3, 4, 5
SEF - 1b, 4e, 5a, 5b, 5c, 6a
Other - Links with industry, BA CREST Award opportunity, recognition by DofE and Awarding Bodies

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