Crossrail Engineer Your Future challenge

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Crossrail Engineer Your Future challenge
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What is Crossrail?

• Crossrail is Europes biggest engineering project
  and is building major new railway connections
  under Central London

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What is Crossrail?
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• A 73 mile railway line
• 26 miles of new tunnels
• Connecting Reading to Shenfield (Essex) via
  Central London, it is massive!

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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

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• 40 Crossrail stations, including 10 new stations

• The route will run at over 100km of track

• Carry 200m people annually

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Crossrail by Numbers

• Crossrail is Europes largest engineering
  project, work started in 2009 How many people
  are currently working on 40 construction sites?

10,000
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• How many working hours have been spent on the
  project so far?

35 million
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• How much does it cost?

14.8bn
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• How many passengers will Crossrail carry per hour?

72,000
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Objectives

• The Prize
• An invitation to the inspirational winners day
• Skills training
• Networking
• Exclusive site tour
• Going to be working in teams
• Creative minds big problems

The top 5 online winners will also receive a year
of virtual mentoring
Today
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Women in Engineering

• Today we are going to be thinking about
  engineering what it is and why there arent
  enough female engineers in the UK today
• First well 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
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Politics

• 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?

• 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

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Women in Theatre

• Mark Rylance as Cleopatra in 2012, in
  Shakespeares time this was common practice as
  women were not allowed to perform in theatre

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Women in Literature

• Currer Bell, Ellis Bell and Acton Bell

• Otherwise known as Charlotte, Emily and Anne
  Bronte

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Women in Literature

• That was the 19th Century, have things changed
  much in the 21st?

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Women in Aviation

• 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

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Model, Movie Star or Inventor?

• Hedy Lamarr

• 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

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What Were the Barriers?

• Law?
• Culture?
• Societal expectations?
• Lack of ambition?
• Lack of talent?
• Choice of subjects?

• The law did not always dictate the paths and
  obstacles those women faced in their respective
  fields, often it was something else

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What is Engineering?

• 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

• Engineering combines the fields of Science and
  Maths to solve real world problems that improve
  the world around us

• Why is it cool?
• You make things, push boundaries.

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Types of Engineering

• Mechanical Engineering A broad field with many
  branches. It is basically universal engineering

• Everything to do with Automobiles

• Power, Electronics and Computer Engineering

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Types of Engineering

• Chemical Engineering Synthesising new chemicals
  to put to use, it also involves studying chemical
  reactions

• Civil Engineering Buildings, bridges and roads

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Building a Tunnel

• How would a civil engineer be involved?

• 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

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Mechanical Engineer

• Design the ventilation system
• Plan for the amount of emissions that need to be
  removed and the process of removing them
• For instance how many of a particular fan would
  be needed and where to install them

Ventilation ducts on the new Crossrail Canary
Wharf Station
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Electrical Engineer

• Design the lighting as well as any control
  systems for hazards

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What do you need to be an Engineer?
Teamwork
Passion for innovation
Initiative
Communication skills
Problem solving
Analytical skills
Passion for technology
Thirst for a challenge
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Entry Routes

• Good academic grades
• STEM subjects
• Apprenticeships
• Foundation courses
• A university degree

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What Does Your Typical Engineer Look Like?

• Each group draw a picture and well compare
  results

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Britain has a Problem

• Britain is falling behind in Engineering and it
  is having a huge effect on the economy
• The Philippines, Iran, Mexico, China and India
  produce more engineers
• India produce 1.2 million engineers a year

• 12,000 engineering graduates a year
• 54,000 vacancies
• By 2016 we will have close to 200,000 vacancies
• Only 6 female

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Your Challenge Mission Critical

• 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?

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Task 1 Whats the Problem?

• Why are girls not taking up engineering?
• Describe three different kinds of barriers to
  this career

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Task 2 The Solution

• How will you get more females to consider
  engineering?
• When will you engage them?
• How will you engage them?

• 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
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Task 3 The Campaign

• What would be the benefit of doing this?
• Write down 3 arguments to convince them to join
  you

• Joining up with others will make the campaign
  bigger and more successful
• Who could you work with on this campaign?

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Advertising Campaign

• Poster design draw
• How will you use social media?
• Come up with a powerful strap line

• Now you are ready to go public with an
  advertising campaign
• Campaign proposal whats the central idea that
  youll build around?