Engineering
Engineering is the application of scientific, social, and practical knowledge in order to invent, design, build, maintain, research, and improve structures, machines, devices, systems, materials, and processes.
The discipline of engineering is extremely broad, and encompasses a range of more specialised fields of engineering, each with a more specific emphasis on particular areas of applied science, technology and types of application.
There are over
Employed in this sector in the Humber
This accounts for over
%
Of employment in the region
Did You Know?
Nationally only
%
of the Engineering workforce is female
Nationally over
%
engineering and manufacturing apprentices are female
The average graduate starting salary for engineering is
over a fifth more than for all graduates
Engineers can work in many different industries including chemicals, food manufacturing, the motor and aerospace industries
Engineers use computers and new technologies to design new products
The Engineering industry requires more qualified people
Will there be opportunities available?
Britain will need more than a million new engineers and technicians by 2020, which will require doubling the number of annual engineering graduates and apprentices
Engineering companies are projected to need 186,000 people nationally with engineering skills each year to 2024
Employment trends for the Humber show that this is an increasing sector for employment
