An Engineer Like Me

The From Awareness to Action: STEPS at 25 advocating for engineering outreach paper examines the pivotal role of early engineering and STEM education and outreach in reversing this trend, presenting a strategic vision to build a strong, diverse, and future-ready engineering workforce. The analysis reveals significant gaps in Ireland’s current STEM education landscape - particularly in how engineering is positioned, taught, and promoted.

The Engineers Ireland STEPS Programme has made substantial strides over the past 25 years engaging over 2 million students, teachers and parents through initiatives such as Engineers Week, Engineering Your Future, and the STEPS Young Engineers Award.

Real life engineers

From Biomedical to Structural engineering, these four incredible Irish students and professionals show us just how high you can achieve in a career in engineering.

Watch these engineers tell their story, and be inspired by their journey.

Anna Juda, Structural Engineer at Mott MacDonald. Click here to watch Anna's video.

Anna's engineering story

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Anthony, Alan and David O’Connor - brothers and engineers who are all MTU Cork students or graduates. Click here to watch the brother's video.

The O’Connor brothers' engineering story

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Rachel O'Dell, Muirne McCarthy, Mary Carey and Ella Murphy, University of Limerick, Year 5 students. Winners of the 2024 Siemens Innovative Student Engineer of the Year Award. Click here to watch the students' video.

Biomedical students' engineering story

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Harrison Jones, Civil Engineer working for Crown. Click here to watch Harrison's video.

Harrison's engineering story

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Cities of the Future Competition

The Engineers Ireland STEPS programme has teamed up with the EPA to launch the Engineer the City of the Future Competition that challenges primary and secondary school students to engineer how Irish cities will look by 2050. The competition aims to introduce engineering in a fun way and encourages students to develop their problem-solving, creative and communication skills.

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Is engineering for you?

STEPS Guide to Engineering Careers

Engineering is the use of science in the real world. Engineers play a critical role in shaping the world around us and play an important role in addressing some of society's biggest challenges, from providing renewable energy and smart, sustainable infrastructure to our water supplies and advancing healthcare development.

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