A new, three-day festival focusing on increasing diversity in the engineering sector will take place in Newcastle city centre this spring.
The Face of Engineering Festival , which runs from April 7-9 at The Common Room, will spotlight women working in engineering and aim to encourage the next generation of potential engineers to find out about careers on offer to them.
Liz Mayes, chief executive of The Common Room, said: “According to a recent report by Engineering UK, only 14.5% of engineers are female. We want to help increase that figure and make the industry more accessible to women, women of colour, and female school pupils and students who will be the next generation of innovators and engineers. And to be inclusive of LGBTQ+ people too.”
