Roundtable report: addressing industry's changing skills requirements

The UK engineering skills shortage is hardly a recent phenomenon. For decades now industry bodies, institutes, and engineering organisations large and small, have raised regular concerns over the quality and quantity of new engineers entering the profession.

But in recent years, as industry’s digital transformation has gathered pace, and a host of new technologies have reshaped the role of the engineer, these challenges have become increasingly acute and complex.

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Against a backdrop of rapid and profound technological change, today’s engineering employers must ensure that they have the right skills onboard to fully embrace current technological advances; that they are set up to anticipate and respond to changing skills requirements; that they are doing their bit to shore up the future pipeline of skilled engineers; and that – in the race to tap into emerging areas of expertise - they don’t lose sight of the traditional engineering skills that are still essential.