WES: The Future of Engineering Education

What was it all about? This year students working on the Community Based Challenge had an extra challenge within a challenge in the form of ‘Dragons’ Denmite’. Held at the kind invitation of Jack Wratten at Hereford’s Bloomspace each student was given a thirty-minute session with a pair of mentors...

As an engineer, I find Ada’s flying horse captivating and inspiring. At their best, engineers rely on imagination, empathy, creativity, vision and readiness for change - capabilities that come from an understanding of what it is to be human rather than an overly narrow devotion to maths and science.

Remembering Ada Lovelace’s life and work is bittersweet. She was a trailblazing visionary, able to articulate the computational process 100 years before the first analytical machine was developed. She was also alive in the 19th century, when women were not considered full citizens, could not access...