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- Look out for your login details
- Giving your students access
- What equipment do I need?
- Live Chats
- Ask questions
- Voting
- Lesson plans
- Extra opportunities to connect with the engineers
- Safeguarding and privacy
- Benefits for students
- Contact us
I’m an Engineer connects students with STEM professionals online
I’m an Engineer is delivered by the team behind I’m a Scientist, Get me out of here.
In the activity, students can:
- Read profiles of engineers in different careers
- Ask them questions
- Chat with them in live Chats
- Vote for their favourite to win!
Look out for your login details
When you register, we’ll send you an email (usually within 2 working days) with instructions about how to access the activity. If you didn’t get this email, please let us know.
After this, we’ll email you each month with access to new available activities in I’m an Engineer, I’m a Scientist, and our other projects.
Giving your students access
Once you have your login details for an activity, you can give your students access from your account dashboard.
You can do this by giving them a unique registration link, or by printing out automatically generated usernames and passwords.
What equipment do I need?
I’m an Engineer runs on a web browser. Students just need a device with internet access.
Or, you can run the activity from the front for the whole class. Read more ❯
Live Chats
You can book a live Chat for each of your classes. These are an opportunity for students to engage in real-time with some of the engineers taking part in your activity.
Live Chats last 40 minutes. They are text-only (no audio or video).
On average, 5 engineers attend each live Chat. You and your students can see which engineers have signed up to your Chat in advance.
We highly recommend booking 1 Chat per class. If there are more than 35 students in a live Chat, the engineers might struggle to keep up with the volume of questions!
Chats must be booked in advance, with at least 24 hours notice. You can book them from your dashboard once you’ve logged in (or ask us to book them for you, if you prefer).
Ask questions
Students can also submit questions to the engineers at any time once they have access. The engineers respond in their own time.
Students can see on their dashboard when their questions have been answered.
Voting
Students get to Vote for their favourite engineers taking part. They get a new Vote each week.
Every Friday, a winning engineers is announced. At the end of the activity, the engineers with the most votes wins £500 to deliver more engineering engagement activities!
Not all activities involve voting. Please check your activity to see if it does.
Lesson Plans
We’ve prepared 3 lesson plans which are designed to increase your students’ engagement with the activity. They involve 2 preparatory lessons, followed by your live Chat.
The lesson plans have been developed in consultation with teachers and have been extensively tested. Most teachers find them extremely helpful.
Extra opportunities to connect with the engineers
Most activities feature extra live Chats on a Thursday evening, from 7pm to 8pm. Please check your activity to see if these are taking place.
These are an extra opportunity for students to chat again with the engineers.
Students just need to log in and turn up – no need to book!
Safeguarding and privacy
All interactions between students and engineers are checked and moderated by our DBS-checked team.
In live Chats teachers can monitor what’s said, and you have the ability to delete messages. Afterwards, you’ll get a transcript of your Chat emailed to you. You can also see which students have logged in, and what they’ve asked on your dashboard.
Student details are private on the site – engineers only see a ‘display name’.
More about student safeguarding and privacy ❯
Benefits for students
Taking part supports the science capital teaching approach, helping students see STEM as ‘for them’.
Research has found that taking part supports four of the science capital dimensions.
Read the science capital impact report ❯ (on the I’m a Scientist site)
Taking part also supports careers development, as measured by the Gatsby Good Careers Guidance Benchmarks.
Read about careers development ❯ (on the I’m a Scientist site)
Contact us
We’re here to help. If you have any questions, or need a hand with anything, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us at support@iaeuk.ddev.site or by calling (+44) 01225 326 892.
Once you get your login details, you can also chat with us in the Staffroom Chat ❯