An Engine for Change - A Chronicle of the Engineering Council

104A CHRONICLE OF THE ENGINEERING COUNCILfrom 1983 to 1988, and a ‘European Engineering Yearbook’ in July 1994 containing detailson professional engineering associations in Europe, which sold at £10.95, followed by the‘European Engineering Yearbook 1996’ published in May 1995 by FEANI with considerableencouragement from the EngC.Interfacing with the PublicEnvironmental IssuesThroughout the period from 1991 to 1995 the EngC had become more concerned with theenvironment and, as we mentioned above, had set up an Environmental Working Group toprepare a Code of Conduct and accompanying Guidelines. With many of the unificationissues of the Fairclough Initiative now settled, the EngC took part in an environmentalexhibition at Birmingham for the first time in 1994. This provided an opportunity to publicisethe EngC and its concern for the environment. The Environment Award for Engineers for1994, sponsored by Lloyd’s Register, was won by Jon Lindley who was awarded the trophyplus £3,000.At EnviroTech95, held at the NEC Birmingham in May 1995, the EngC had a display thatwas used to promote the Environment Award for Engineers, the Council’s Guidelines onEnvironmental Issues and the profession in general. The 1995 Environment Award forEngineers, sponsored by Lloyd’s Register, BT and British Aerospace, was won by SteveMaxwell and Ian Barnard. The Lloyd’s Register Trophy and £5,000 were presented byenvironmentalist Jonathan Porritt.The Public Affairs team during this period was heavily involved in promoting and publicisingmany of the issues that we have mentioned in this chapter through newspapers, magazinesand other news media. Fact Sheets, summarising various activities of the EngC, were madeavailable in early 1992; topics covered included The Register, WISE, NeighbourhoodEngineers, the Eastern Region Teacher Education Consortium, and the Role of the EngC. Theintention was to up-date these Fact Sheets quarterly. Other dedicated publications including‘Response to the Consultation by the Office of Science and Technology to the ProposedWhite Paper on Science and Technology’ in December 1992, and ‘A Vision of TechnologicalResearch for visually disabled people’ in March 1993. Twelve months later the colourful andwell-received guide, ‘Engineering for People’ was published for school pupils; and then inNovember 1995 a brochure, ‘Engineering for Life’ was published to celebrate theachievements of engineers, as a back-up to the BBC-2 TV series, sponsored by the EngC, theDTI, the IEE and Nuclear Electric plc. A total of 43,500 copies of the brochure weredistributed, 8,500 in response to viewers’ requests. The Times and the Daily Telegraphpublished names of new Registrants on four occasions during 1995.In November 1991, Newsletter Extra was distributed with details for Registrants on EngCoperations and finances; this was in addition to the regular six-monthly Newsletter that wassent to every Registrant each Spring and Autumn. The annual corporate leaflet ‘ShapingBritain’s Future’ was published in August 1991, December 1992, September 1993 andNovember 1994 while the EngC’s annual reports continued to be released each May for thepreceding year.© Engineering Council UK 2004