Our editorial and poll about the Sainbury's Management Fellowship calling for an end to the portrayal of engineers as wearing hard-hats triggered a debate on how modern engineering should best be illustrated. This is a difficult one. How do you portrait an engineer accurately? Taking a picture of engineers sitting in front of their screens in a big office could easily be confused with a call centre. I am not alone in thinking (many of my colleagues agree) that the hard hat image is not the issue at all. The issue is that the media is hardly if ever reporting about engineering and what engineers do.
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