Aspiring engineers are likely to enjoy maths and science, as well as design and humanities subjects. They'll want to use their creative thinking abilities to apply their knowledge to problems around them. You'll often hear engineers say that from a young age they liked to take things apart, see how they worked and then put them back together again. There's a curiosity, creativity and practicality that's shared across their profession.

The engineers of the next 50 years will need to handle big data, work in interdisciplinary teams and know the right questions to ask. So, communication, collaboration and critical thinking will increasingly form an engineer's skill set. If you have a student who is interested in a career tackling climate change, fighting poverty and coming up with innovative ways to reuse resources, then you might like to suggest engineering as a study option at university.

We recommend you begin with our Engineering & Design Taster Talk series. These five-minute mini-lectures are designed for your tutor time and cover a range of accessible topics including water, electricity and building design. Alongside each talk, we've put together a classroom discussion activity to consolidate learning outcomes. You can also watch interviews with each of our academic presenters to find out about their backgrounds and career paths.

Next, you can work your way through our What is Engineering? web page for an overview of the discipline before exploring specific subjects with our two-minute introductory videos for chemical engineering, civil engineering, electronic and electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering. These videos cover study and careers.

The two-minute introductory subject videos are very useful for us as they sum up the key points, then the students can go away and do further research. As a set of videos, they help to show the overlap between the different disciplines and that whatever engineering subject you take, it will prepare you in a particular way for a similar number of industries. — Kam Stylianou, Deputy Headmistress at The Grammar School in Nicosia, Cyprus

Contact us to book a ready-made presentation from a member of our team or to discuss a bespoke event. We offer presentations on engineering as a whole, as well as introductions to the engineering disciplines. We can also talk to your class more generally about applying to higher education and writing their statements.

Many of our student competition teams and societies take part in outreach events at local schools, including our Student Women's Engineering Society (WESBath).

Our Widening Participations team encourages underrepresented groups to consider university study. They run workshops and summer schools with subject-specific focuses. Students may need to qualify for the eligibility criteria to attend these events.

Discover Bath Engineering Residentials

This is a chance for students in Year 12 to experience what it's like to live and study engineering at the University of Bath. The four-day programmes include first-year undergraduate lectures, workshops, laboratory experiments and projects.