Education volunteers


Why become an Education Volunteer?

Educational event in a schoolBe a better engineer:

  • Work with professionals from other disciplines  and companies
  • Enhance your networking and communication skills
  • Build your confidence

Further your professional development:

  • Planning skills
  • Organisation skills
  • Problem-solving
  • Time management
  • Proactive creative thinking
  • People management

Enthuse about engineering:

  • Show how science, maths and technology relate to everyday life.
  • Demonstrate that engineering needs dynamic young people with wide-ranging skills and abilities.
  • Encourage more young people to study science and maths and pursue science and engineering careers.
  • Improve educational achievement in science and maths subjects.
  • Get that “feel-good factor” from seeing students benefit from your involvement.

Become a Science and Engineering Ambassador

ICE North West works with STEMNET -- the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Network -- to introduce the civil engineering profession to young people in the UK. STEMNET aims to ensure that more young people in the UK make a choice to enter science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) related careers at all levels, and future generations are properly informed about the science and technology that surrounds them.

To register as an SEA please register online at the link below (NB: indicate that you are an ICE member on page 2 of the online system and also tick the box on page 3 agreeing that STEMNET may forward your name and contact details to ICE). When you have registered please also email the ICE NW Regional Office at icecube@ice.org.uk.

Register as an Ambassador with STEMNET  

Education volunteer profiles  

Eraina Smith

Eraina Smith

“My career in Civil Engineering has given me much self-respect and a real sense of fulfilment. It is this and the lack of information available, that encourages me to promote the industry to the younger generation.

I want to let them be aware of opportunities the industry offers – it’s not just hard hats, wellies and getting your hands dirty. Civil Engineering is such a great career to choose with vast variety and lots of different avenues to follow, everybody needs to be told.”

Eraina Smith was the Institution of Civil Engineers North West's Education Volunteer of the Year 2008, and she is Engineer in Highway Services at Manchester City Council. She is a Chartered Civil Engineer and a Science and Engineering Ambassador.

Matthew Stott  

Mat Stott with ICE President Jean Venables

"I enjoy my career and I want to share the opportunities I've had in my career to date. I want to convey my enthusiasm  for the job and the diverse range of exciting opportunities available within the profession."

Matthew is a Civil Engineer at Jacobs in Manchester and is a Science and Engineering Ambassador. He was the Institution of Civil Engineers North West's Education Volunteer of the Year in 2009 (pictured left, being presented by ICE President Jean Venables). He is a Chartered Civil Engineer.  

For more information

If you are an ICE member wanting to become an education volunteer, please contact Janice Parkinson t 07976 313 656 or e  icecube@ice.org.uk for more information.

STEMNET creates opportunities to inspire young people in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), and registers, trains and provides CRB checks for Ambassadors. Read more about being a STEMNET Ambassador or register as an Ambassador with STEMNET

Educational event

Request an education volunteer

If you are from a school or college and are looking for a civil engineer to visit, please contact Janice Parkinson t 07976 313 656 or e  icecube@ice.org.uk