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CROSSRAIL ENGINEER YOUR FUTURE CHALLENGE
What is Crossrail?
Crossrail is Europe’s biggest engineering project and is building major new railway connections under Central London
What is Crossrail?
A 73 mile railway line26 miles of new tunnelsConnecting Reading to Shenfield (Essex) via Central London, it is massive!
Why do we need Crossrail?
Overcrowding is a common issue at many London Underground stations, particularly during rush hour
Quicker, easier and more direct travel opportunities across the capital, meaning better access for the 750,000 people who commute to London every day
The trains will be 200 metres long and able to carry 1500 people
The route will run at over 100km of track
40 Crossrail stations, including 10 new stations
Carry 200m people annually
Crossrail by Numbers
Crossrail is Europe’s largest engineering project, work started in 2009 – How many people are currently working on 40 construction sites?
How many working hours have been spent on the project so far?
How much does it cost?
How many passengers will Crossrail carry per hour?
ObjectivesThe Prize: An invitation to the inspirational winners day
Skills trainingNetworkingExclusive site tour
Going to be working in teamsCreative minds – big problems
The top 5 online winners will also receive a year of virtual mentoring
Today:
Women in Engineering
Today we are going to be thinking about engineering – what it is and why there aren’t enough female engineers in the UK today
First we’ll look at women in politics, business and the arts – are these fields fair and representative? Crossrail Shift Engineer Irina
Zolotareva keeps a 1,000 tonne tunnel boring machine working to construct the new Crossrail train tunnel
What percentage of the House of Commons are women?
How many of the FTSE 100 companies have women Chief Executives?
Are men & women paid equally?
Politics
650 MPs, just 22% are women
Only 4 – Royal Mail, Easyjet, Imperial Tobacco and Burberry
No – women working full time earn on average £5k less than men / year
Mark Rylance as Cleopatra in 2012, in Shakespeare’s time this was common practice as women were not allowed to perform in theatre
Women in Theatre
Women in Literature
Currer Bell, Ellis Bell and Acton Bell
Otherwise known as Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte
Women in Literature
That was the 19th Century, have things changed much in the 21st?
Amelia Earhart - First woman to fly across the Atlantic, and the first PERSON to make a solo flight across both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
Women in Aviation
Hedy Lamarr
Model, Movie Star or Inventor?
Invented a remote controlled communications system for U.S. Military during World War II
Her invention now serves as the basis for modern communications technology, such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connections
The law did not always dictate the paths and obstacles those women faced in their respective fields, often it was something else…
What Were the Barriers?
Law?Culture? Societal expectations? Lack of ambition? Lack of talent?Choice of subjects?
Engineering combines the fields of Science and Maths to solve real world problems that improve the world around us
What is Engineering?
Why is it cool?
You make things, push boundaries….
The ability to take a thought, or abstract idea and translate it into reality is what separates an engineer from other fields of Science and Mathematics
Mechanical Engineering – A broad field with many branches. It is basically universal engineering
Types of Engineering
Everything to do with Automobiles
Power, Electronics and Computer Engineering
Types of Engineering
Civil Engineering – Buildings, bridges and roads
Chemical Engineering – Synthesising new chemicals to put to use, it also involves studying chemical reactions
How would a civil engineer be involved?
Building a Tunnel
Specialising in structural design, would calculate the size of the tunnel
How it should be constructed (all of the stages) and what it should be made of
Design the ventilation systemPlan for the amount of emissions that need to be removed and the process of removing themFor instance how many of a particular fan would be needed and where to install them
Mechanical Engineer
Ventilation ducts on the new Crossrail Canary Wharf Station
Design the lighting as well as any control systems for hazards
Electrical Engineer
What do you need to be an Engineer?
Good academic grades STEM subjectsApprenticeships Foundation courses A university degree
Entry Routes
Each group draw a picture and we’ll compare results
What Does Your Typical Engineer Look Like?
Britain is falling behind in Engineering and it is having a huge effect on the economyThe Philippines, Iran, Mexico, China and India produce more engineers India produce 1.2 million engineers a year
Britain has a Problem
12,000 engineering graduates a year
54,000 vacancies
By 2016 we will have close to 200,000 vacanciesOnly 6% female
You are now working as consultants for Crossrail
Your task is to protect the future of engineering in the UK
How will you go about recruiting the next generation of female engineers in Britain?
Your Challenge – Mission Critical
Why are girls not taking up engineering?
Describe three different kinds of barriers to this career
Task 1 – What’s the Problem?
How will you get more females to consider engineering?
When will you engage them?
How will you engage them?
Task 2 – The Solution
What action will you take tackle the barriers? (awareness & perceptions, choice of subjects)
Project Manager Nisrine Chartouny, leads the construction of the new Crossrail Farringdon station. Seen centre, with engineers Khouloud El-Hakim (left) and Patricia Sanchez
Joining up with others will make the campaign bigger and more successful
Who could you work with on this campaign?
Task 3 – The Campaign
What would be the benefit of doing this?
Write down 3 arguments to convince them to join you
Now you are ready to go public with an advertising campaign
Campaign proposal – what’s the central idea that you’ll build around?
Advertising Campaign
Poster design – draw
How will you use social media?
Come up with a powerful strap line
