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New campaign aims to challenge engineering stereotypes, encouraging women and ethnic minorities into the profession
A campaign to encourage a more diverse range of young people to consider a career in engineering has highlighted the stark misrepresentation of the profession as male, pale and stale.
Ahead of This is Engineering Day on 6 November, the Royal Academy of Engineering employed an AI algorithm to study online image search results for the word “engineer”, generating images of what it learned a typical engineer might look like.
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