The UK engineering profession has commissioned a survey to gather opinion and ideas from engineers about what a successful Industrial Strategy should look like, following the publication last month of the government’s green paper Building our Industrial Strategy.

The 38 national engineering institutions representing the engineering profession have joined forces, under the leadership of the Royal Academy of Engineering, to respond collectively to the consultation.

In the green paper, government set out its vision for a modern industrial strategy and identified 10 pillars that it believes are key to enabling stronger productivity and driving growth: science, research and innovation; skills; infrastructure; business growth and investment; procurement; trade and investment; affordable energy; sectoral policies; driving growth across the whole country; and creating the right institutions to bring together sectors and places.

The survey is available until midday on Monday, 13 March 2017.

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Notes for editors

The engineering profession’s response to the industrial strategy is being published by the Royal Academy of Engineering through the Engineering the future (EtF) policy group.

Engineering the Future is an alliance of professional engineering institutions and national organisations that between them represent 450,000 professional engineers. Through EtF, the engineering profession speaks with one voice on engineering issues of national and international importance. It provides independent – and expert – engineering advice to government. It promotes understanding of the critical contribution that engineering makes to national policy and to addressing the grand challenges.

EtF membership comprises the UK’s 35 engineering institutions plus EngineeringUK, the Engineering Council and the Royal Academy of Engineering. The full list of members is as follows:

• BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
• British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing (BINDT)
• Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE)
• Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation (CIHT)
• Chartered Institute of Plumbing and Heating Engineering (CIPHE)
• Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM)
• Energy Institute (EI)
• Engineering Council
• EngineeringUK
• Institution of Agricultural Engineers (IAgrE)
• Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE)
• Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE)
• Institute of Cast Metals Engineers (ICME)
• Institution of Engineering Designers (IED)
• Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
• Institution of Fire Engineers (IFE)
• Institution of Gas Engineers and Managers (IGEM)
• Institute of Highway Engineers (IHE)
• Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Estate Management (IHEEM)
• Institution of Lighting Professionals (ILP)
• Institute of Marine Engineering, Science & Technology (IMarEST)
• Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE)
• Institute of Measurement and Control (InstMC)
• Institution of Royal Engineers (InstRE)
• Institute of Acoustics (IOA)
• Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3)
• Institute of Physics (IOP)
• Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM)
• Institution of Railway Signal Engineers (IRSE)
• Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE)
• Institute of Water
• Nuclear Institute (NI)
• Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng)
• Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS)
• Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA)
• Society of Environmental Engineers (SEE)
• The Society of Operations Engineers (SOE)
• The Welding Institute (TWI)

For more information please contact the Royal Academy of Engineering press office:
Jane Sutton
 T: 020 7766 0636
 E: Jane Sutton