1. IF YOU WERE AN ENGINEER – WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

2. Lesson Plan and information about: The Leaders Award 2017
What is Engineering?
Lesson Plan and information about:
The Leaders Award 2017

3. What is Engineering?
When you hear the word “engineer”, what picture comes to mind?
Write a description of your engineer or draw a picture
What is your engineer doing?
Look around the room – what objects do you think “were engineered”?
Write down a list of your “were engineered” objects
Look around the room – what objects do you think were “not engineered”?
Write down a list of your “not engineered” objects

4. Cars  Mobile Phones  Chairs  Staplers  Bridges  Paper  MP3 Players  Cardboard Boxes  Submarines  Hosepipes  Carpets  Crisps  Motorbikes  Schools  Dyes  Waste Paper Bins  Aeroplanes  Air Conditioning  Laptops  Tables  Bottles  Roads  Flood Barriers  Lamp-Posts  Clothes  Windows  Garage Doors  Office Blocks  Cinematic SFX  Bread  Space Stations  Cameras  Sticky Tape  Nuclear Energy  Doughnuts  Spectacles  Newspapers  Wind Farms  Ovens  Clean Water  Hair Dryers  Houses  Space Rockets  Desks  Helicopters  Microscopes  Toys  PCs  Televisions  Internet  Lorries  Cruise Liners  Pens  Kitchen Tiles  Electricity Pylons  Farming  Weather Forecasting  Espresso Coffee  Satellites  Tinned Food  Sat-Navs  Libraries  3D Printers  Universities  Central Heating  Footballs  Mars Landers  Envelopes  Microwave Ovens  CAT Scanners  Telescopes  Incubators  Tunnels  Computer Programmes  Books  Yachts  Park Benches  Oil Wells  Pyramids   CERN  Vacuum Cleaners  Mechanical Diggers  Pencils  Gravestones  Beer  Chainsaws  Radio Stations  Linoleum  Printer/Scanner/Copiers  Shoes  Town Halls  Key-Hole Surgery  Fracking  Trains  Cosmetics  Racing Cars  CCTV  Solar Power  Cable-Cars  Piers  Cinema  Refrigerators  Tractors  Escalators  Settees  Fire Engines  Flying Scotsman  Grand Union Canal  Eiffel Tower  Bicycles  Perfumes  Crash Helmets  Traffic Lights  Daleks  Headphones  Paper Clips  Powerpoint Presentations  Thameslink  London Eye 

5. What is Engineering?
The list of “stuff” on the previous slide are just some of the things that can only exist because of engineering. Engineering is everywhere – in our homes, schools, offices and factories; on the roads, in the air, on and below the oceans, even in space and on other planets and moons within our solar system; the clothes we wear, the food we eat and the water we drink; our ‘phones, our computers and the music we listen to – engineering is everywhere around us…

6. Everywhere!

7. What is Engineering? Engineers solve problems:
Mechanical problems like moving heavy stuff long distances – build a vehicle with wheels or build a road
Structural problems like getting across a river – build a bridge or a boat
Travel problems like going abroad or into space – build a ship or an aeroplane or a rocket (and space-station)
Educational problems like something kids can write on – build a desk or an ipad or an exercise book or a smart phone

8. What is Engineering? So, back to your lists…
Most, if not all, of the objects in the room will have been engineered:
From the chair you are sitting in to the desk your elbows are resting on
From the floor you are standing on to the socks you are standing in
From the screen you are looking at now to the window you were looking out of earlier
From the pencil you are writing with to the paper you are doodling on

9. What is Engineering?
What about that picture you had in your mind of an engineer?
Was your engineer a man?
Was your engineer a man wearing dirty overalls?
Was your engineer a man wearing dirty overalls working in a noisy factory?

10. What is Engineering?
All of those images are just stereotypes – it’s what most people think but they are mostly wrong!
There are more male engineers than female engineers at the moment but more and more women are entering the profession every year!
Some engineers do get dirty but most don’t!
Many engineers spend a lot of their time in offices and laboratories as well as on-site (or in noisy factories)

12. Never, ever, let anyone tell you that engineering is a male-only profession!!

13. IF YOU WERE AN ENGINEER – WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
What do you need to do to take part in this fantastic STEM award?
Research engineering
Interview a real engineer
Identify something that you see as a problem
Invent a solution to that problem, illustrate and annotate it
Write a descriptive ‘Pitch Letter’ about your invention

14. IF YOU WERE AN ENGINEER – WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
What’s in it for you?
Every entrant is guaranteed, at least, a certificate
Two inventions per year-group from across all participating schools will be selected by a panel of eminent engineers as Trophy Winners
Illustrations from every participating school will be selected to be on display at a Public Exhibition
The Trophy Presentation and Public Exhibition will be held in May/June/July 2017

15. Some of last year’s Trophy Winners from Scotland and London

16. IF YOU WERE AN ENGINEER – WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
Plus… One of the Trophy Winners will be selected as the overall competition winner and receive an Extra Special trophy!!! Just like Archie Cooper did last year…

18. IF YOU WERE AN ENGINEER – WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
plus… One of the inventions on display at the Public Exhibition may be selected to be built as a prototype by University engineering students… Like Aidan McCann’s “Trolley for the Elderly”…

20. Some previous entries (all ages):

22. IF YOU WERE AN ENGINEER – WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
This Leaders Award 2017 Competition is a STEM programme designed to encourage all school pupils in your area to engage with engineering
This Leaders Award 2017 Competition is open to all school pupils in the your area between the ages of 5 and 19 years of age
This Leaders Award 2017 Competition is based on the programme in Scotland that is now entering its 5th year – over the past 4 years, over 20,000 school pupils from 400 schools have participated in the programme
This Leaders Award 2017 Competition is free of charge for pupils and schools alike

23. Now… go engineer!!