It represents the nation's best practising engineers, innovators, and entrepreneurs, who are very often in leading roles in industry, business, and academia.
[1] Fellowship of the RAEng is a national honour, bringing prestige to both the individual and any organisation the Fellow is associated with.
In 2010 the Council determined a policy that over time 10–20% of newly elected fellows should be women.
[4] The Academy published a diversity and inclusion action plan for the five years from 2020 [5] but does not regularly publish the proportion of female engineers in the current fellowship, estimated in 2019 to be less than 7%.
[6] In July 2020 it launched a campaign aimed at delivering a 'Fellowship that is Fit for the Future' by the time it celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2026 and set an aspiration that at least half of all candidates elected each year will be from under-represented target groups.