Engineering Report Soft Release at the World Engineering Convention

The first ever international report on engineering from UNESCO, and it is intended to:

• Identify issues and challenges facing engineering
• Promote better public understanding of engineering and its role in society, and
• Highlight ways of making engineering and engineering education more attractive to young people, especially women

The report had a "soft launch" this week at the World Engineers’ Convention in Brasilia on 2-6 December 2008, and be published at UNESCO in spring 2009.