Engineering can be described as a creative industry, according to one renowned inventor. James Dyson, famous for inventing the vacuum cleaners which bear his name, writes in the Guardian that engineering is often classed as "an old industry", however he believes it is about "inventing and solving problems". Currently, universities across the UK produce 24,000 engineering graduates, which is not enough to full the 37,000 industry vacancies which exist each year. Mr Dyson claims that youngsters are "funnelled away from this most interesting and fulfilling of professions at an early age". The expert stated: "Today, engineering is more exciting than ever. It's about making things, be it cars, planes, ships, appliances or large hadron colliders "So the discipline is not about banging two pieces of metal together. It ties together many different elements: design, maths, technology - and, most essentially for success, creativity. " Bristol University was recently awarded £3.7 million of funding to help it train the next generation of scientists and engineers.
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