Airport set to help engineers take off.Byline: By Tony Collins BIRMINGHAM International Airport Birmingham International Airport may refer to:
The Moving Forward scheme aims to bring together organisations and employers with a view to broadening the mechanical engineering experience, particularly of 14-19 year olds. The innovative educational project is designed to strengthen the forecasted renaissance in the West Midlands' engineering fortunes. Under the Moving Forward project, a dedicated training facility called The Engine Room is due to be fully operational by 2008. The building will contain a variety of small and large machines for study, including aircraft engines and fuselage, road vehicles, boats and even a railway locomotive. Visiting students will be encouraged to dismantle, reassemble re·as·sem·ble v. re·as·sem·bled, re·as·sem·bling, re·as·sem·bles v.tr. 1. To bring or gather together again: reassembled the band for a reunion tour. 2. and rework re·work tr.v. re·worked, re·work·ing, re·works 1. To work over again; revise. 2. To subject to a repeated or new process. n. the various machines, which will help to build up an understanding, not just of how something works, but why it was designed in a specific way. Airport managing director Richard Heard said: "It is great to see that our initial support for Moving Forward has sparked a chain of events which could lead to a world-class engineering training and education facility." Moving Forward's project director Ian Pritchard said: "Our aim is to re-ignite the spark of youthful enthusiasm - that used to come from building Meccano and mending your car - by letting students look behind the bodywork bodywork /body·work/ (-wurk?) a general term for therapeutic methods that center on the body for the promotion of physical health and emotional and spiritual well-being, including massage, various systems of touch and manipulation, . "By actually getting dirt down their fingernails and putting these machines back together, young people can enjoy a true sense of individual and team achievement." Although a 'stand-alone' project, The Engine Room is seen as a vital first step towards a Birmingham City Engineering Academy. Director-general of the CBI CBI abbr. cumulative book index CBI Confederation of British Industry CBI n abbr (= Confederation of British Industry) → C.E.O.E. , Sir Digby Jones, said: "We need access to the next generation' people who come out of school understanding engineering and manufacturing. "We have to get better vocational training to ensure that kids do not feel written off if university is not for them. To do it, we need every single businessman and woman to engage, to get kids to think of engineering and manufacturing. Moving Forward will provide that opportunity. CAPTION(S): FLIGHT INTO TOMORROW... an artist's impression of the Engine Room project at Birmingham International Airport. |
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