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The Lifelong Loan Entitlement (LLE) will be introduced for the 2025-26 academic year enabling student loan support for individual modules. In preparation for this change, the OfS has called for...
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Topic: Sustainability toolkit; Ethics; Tool type: Teaching. Relevant disciplines: Environmental, Civil, and Systems Engineering. Keywords: Sustainability; Environmental justice; Sanitation; Community engagement; Urban planning; Waste management; Nigeria; Sweden; Competencies; AHEP. ...
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Emerging Stronger: Lasting Impact from Crisis Innovation – a new publication (draft)
At the start of 2020, no-one could have known what major changes lay just three months ahead for HE. Yet, here we are living through a pandemic, and in the...
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Authors: Ahmet Omurtag (Nottingham Trent University); Andrei Dragomir (National University of Singapore / University of Houston).. Topic: Data security of smart technologies. Engineering disciplines: Electronics; Data; Biomedical engineering. Ethical issues: Autonomy; Dignity; Privacy;...
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Welcome to our ‘toolkits’ portal, where you can explore a fantastic range of useful resources and links provided by other organisations in our network. This is a developing a portal,...
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Where possible, the EPC seeks to offer a single, authoritative, HE engineering voice in our responses to consultations. Sometimes, it is even more effective to collaborate with other education sectors...
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Where possible, the EPC seeks to offer a single, authoritative, HE engineering voice in our responses to consultations. Sometimes, it is even more effective to collaborate with other education sectors...
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Where possible, the EPC seeks to offer a single, authoritative, HE engineering voice in our responses to consultations. Sometimes, it is even more effective to collaborate with other education sectors...
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Where possible, the EPC seeks to offer a single, authoritative, HE engineering voice in our responses to consultations. Sometimes, it is even more effective to collaborate with other education sectors...
EPC Congress 2022: Hammermen Student Prize – Finalist posters and Longlisted posters
The Hammermen Awards an annual prize, presented in association with the Hammermen of Glasgow, to celebrate engineering students’ excellence. And this year you get to decide who wins. This year’s award...
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Welcome to EPC Online
Welcome to the EPC's new digital home. This new website and integrated membership services platform will transform the way our members interact with the EPC, network with other Engineering academics...
Reflections on REF
REF 2021 is finally over, and the results are out. Whether we were involved as individual researchers, collating submissions for our institutions or involved directly in the assessment panels and...
Why communication is a critical tool for any engineer
People rarely choose engineering because of their communication skills, but that doesn't mean they're not a vital part of the tool box. Prof Lucy Rogers explains.
EPC responses to OfS Consultations
The EPC has published its responses to two consultations from the Office for Students on proposed changes to Student Outcomes and TEF.
EPC Engineering Enrolments Survey Results 2021/22
The results of the 2021 EPC Engineering Enrolments Survey are now available.
Inspiring tomorrow’s engineers
It’s our ambition at EngineeringUK to inform and inspire young people and grow the number and diversity of tomorrow’s engineers to meet the needs of the UK now and in...
‘Engineering Engineering: A Provocation’ Webcast Summary
A new paper which seeking to challenge assumptions and practice around Engineering higher education and the talent pipeline.
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: The Crucible Project – Advancing the Industry-Academia Agenda
During the course of the 2020 Annual Congress, Industry & Academia: Supercharging the Crucible, members explored the interface between industry and academia and some of the challenges to developing the relationship between...
Engineering Professors’ Council welcomes Professor Mike Sutcliffe as new President
Professor Mike Sutcliffe is the new President of the Engineering Professors’ Council, the representative organisation of UK engineering academics.
Prof Helen Atkinson, former EPC President, awarded a Damehood
We are delighted and proud that Professor Helen Atkinson CBE, FREng, President of the Engineering Professors’ Council 2011-13, has been made a Dame in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2021.
Chi Onwurah MP Webinar Summary
In case you missed it, here is a short summary of Chi Onwurah MP’s speech from the EPC’s Congress 2021 webinar series.
Chris Skidmore MP Webinar Summary
In case you missed it, here is a short summary of Chris Skidmore MP’s speech from the EPC’s Congress 2021 webinar series. A recording of the event is available at Recent...
Funding research for a better world
The EPC was honoured to welcome former Universities Minister the Rt Hon Chris Skidmore to delivered a speech as part of our 2021/22 Annual Congress on the theme of ‘A...
Engineering opportunity: letting down the drawbridge
A summary of the EPC's report on the contribution to social mobility made by studying Engineering.
MEDIA RELEASE: Studying Engineering gives ‘turbo boost’ to social mobility, reveals new EPC research
A new study, published today by the Engineering Professors’ Council (EPC), reveals that studying an Engineering degree gives a greater boost to social mobility when compared to other subjects.
Brexit impact on UK’s engineering education sector
We are pleased to announce the publication of the EPC’s joint study with UCL’s Centre for Engineering Education on the experiences and perceptions of European (EU) engineering students and academic...
What’s going on with UK Research Funding?
The government has a stated goal of achieving 2.4% of the UK’s GDP to be spent annually on research and development (R&D) by 2027. This would be an increase of...
What is Engineering? Subject coding: HECoS, JACS and engineering, an unofficial guide
If you follow the HE data environment, or even just the policy headlines, you’ll probably have noticed that a new subject coding system - the Higher Education Classification of Subjects...
Data Blog: Become an expert in UCAS engineering data in ten steps
Spoiler: there is no data in this data blog! Instead, we bring you a mixed media UCAS engineering data masterclass to share what we’ve learned about the tools available this...
Policy summary, February 2021
It has been a busy start to the year for HE policy and politics, despite the roll-out of a third UK lockdown at the start of the year – significantly...
Professional recognition post-Brexit
Is my professional title still valid in the EU? Will my combination of academic qualifications and professional experience still count post Brexit? What does the information on recognition of professional...
Trusted Research: How safe is your research?
This was a discussion on the security precautions that academic institutions should take to prevent intellectual property being leaked to competitors or foreign governments. With the aim of preventing research...
Emerging Stronger: Lasting impact from crisis innovation
What have we learned about learning under lockdown? How can we use the experience of trying to deliver high-quality engineering degree programmes to strengthen our teaching in future? This live...
Guest blog: EPC Hammermen student prize
Congratulations to Rachel Beel, Glasgow Caledonian University, and to Dan Hicks, University of Brighton, joint winners of the 2020 EPC Hammermen Student Award.
Are the OfS proposals on quality and standards good for the sector?
EPC Chief Executive Johnny Rich provides a critical commentary on the proposals outlined in the latest Office for Student consultation. These are his personal opinions and they do not necessarily...
The OfS consultation on quality and standards in a nutshell
The Office for Students has just launched a consultation on one of the most important changes to its practice since its inception. What does it say? We've summarised the key...
The Great Grading Scandal Engineering Challenge
This guest blog has been kindly provided by Dr Dennis Sherwood of Silver Bullet machine, an intelligent innovation consultancy, who was a speaker at the first of this year's Recruitment...
EPC Recruitment and Admissions Forum 2020 Series Posters
Click on the thumbnails below to view the posters. UK engineering students' maths entry qualifications: grades and non-progression Tim Bullough, University of Liverpool NMITE recruitment and selection https://vimeo.com/478943915 Costa Coleman,...
Guest Blog: To trust or not to trust?
Imagine the situation, you have worked tirelessly to make a discovery which is important, potentially revolutionary, or worked long days and nights and sacrificed everything in order to bring that...
Guest Blog: Engineering Council on Revised Standards
The fourth edition of Accreditation of Higher Education Programmes (AHEP) has been published, ahead of the 2020-2021 academic year. There will be a transition period, from publication until the start...
EPC Congress 2020: Hammermen Student Prize - Longlisted posters, Finalist multimedia pitches and Finalist posters
The level of talent this year was outstanding! Please do take a look at the longlisted posters, finalist multimedia pitches and finalist posters all created by the students. We were...
Emerging Stronger: Lasting Impact from Crisis Innovation – a new publication
At the start of 2020, no-one could have known what major changes lay just three months ahead for HE. Yet, here we are living through a pandemic, and in the...
Engineering admissions: share your insights and help us make engineering's voice heard in the national admissions debate.
EPC response to the Office for Students (OfS) consultation on the higher education admissions system in England. In response to both the pending consultation and the uncertainty around this...
Does accreditation help or hinder innovation?
In advance of the EPC's forthcoming live webcast, one of the panellists, Prof Sean Wellington, considers whether the requirements of accreditation help foster new approaches to engineering higher education.
Recent events
Recordings and presentations from key EPC events are available below. EPC Crucible Project Event 16th February 2022 Welcome and Guest Presentation - University-Industry linkages and engagement in the 4th...
President's Prize announced: Professor John Perkins honoured by the engineering academic community.
The Engineering Professors’ Council (EPC), the representative body of engineering academics in UK universities, has announced that its biennial President’s Prize has been awarded to Prof John Perkins CBE FREng...
Media release: University engineers across the UK commit expertise and equipment to join coronavirus struggle
Media Release Tales are emerging of the many ways that universities across the UK have stepped up to beat coronavirus and Engineering departments in particular have been at the forefront,...
Engineering departments and the Covid-19 response
University engineers donate expertise and equipment in coronavirus struggle
How will the probable collapse in international student numbers as a result of coronavirus affect UK Engineering departments? We’ve crunched the numbers.
We’ve all seen the higher education and national media coverage on the uncertainty around this year’s university admissions following the cancellation of exams and the extended UK-wide lockdown. The worldwide...
EPC's continued response to Covid 19
Thank you to those members who responded to our latest Covid-19 initiative; a survey to gather details of the activities undertaken by engineering departments and academics in helping the national...
GUEST BLOG: Engineers Without Borders UK
Engineers Without Borders UK kindly facilitated the recent EPC Board Retreat discussions on Ethics. Here they tell us about the two design challenges they run at universities.
New approaches to Engineering Higher Education
Best Practice in Engineering Education The EPC has been working with the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), academics and industry for over two years to encourage and support changes...
EPC Engineering Enrolments Survey 2019
Firstly, a huge thank you for your contributions to this year's EPC engineering enrolments survey. The survey gives us all an early temperature check of the health of HE undergraduate...
Guest blog: Time to Reflect on the Wellbeing of our Engineers
Students’ mental health is a deservedly hot topic in higher education. But is the conversation more difficult when it comes to engineering? Are the challenges greater?
Brexit impact on UK’s engineering education sector: Exploring EU students and staff experiences
The Engineering Professors’ Council and the UCL Centre for Engineering Education are running a research project, funded by the Royal Academy of Engineering, that seeks to address and understand the...
Guest blog: ‘If you were an engineer, what would you do?’
If you are one of the 125,000+ passengers per day heading through Gatwick South this summer, you may just spot your university’s Leaders Award prototype on the huge hoarding showcase.
New! DATA BLOG: Grade inflation?
Earlier this month, the OfS published a new release of degree classification data, concluding that the growing proportion of the first and upper second class degrees awarded cannot be fully...
Congress 2019
The theme for this year’s Congress was ‘Engineering Change: surviving and shaping the policy environment’, the programme designed to help our members navigate unprecedented engineering change. Following a fascinating walking...
Blending arts and sciences: gimmick or necessity?
The two culture of arts and sciences are like oil and water, but, asks Prof Mehmet Karamanoglu, could they be mixed? Indeed, perhaps it's essential that we get them to...
Augar arrives
EPC Chief Executive, Johnny Rich reports on the long-awaited Review of Post-18 Education Funding in England and the possible implications for engineering in HE. At over 200 pages and...
Annual Congress 2019 Summary
The EPC Annual Congress 2019, Engineering Change: surviving and shaping the policy landscape, was hosted by UCL Engineering Education. Following a fascinating walking tour (where it turned out Bloomsbury's engineering...
Guest blog: Compensation and condonement - incoming rules for accredited degrees
By Catherine Elliott, Engineering Council The Engineering Council has updated its policy on compensation and condonement[1], which has resulted in new rules being put in place. The key consideration in...
EPC Elections 2019
NOMINATIONS FOR ELECTION TO THE BOARD OF THE ENGINEERING PROFESSORS’ COUNCIL Honorary Treasurer, Secretary and four elected Ordinary Board Members On the occasion of the AGM, the period of office...
Bid to host EPC Congress in 2020 or 2021
Proposals are invited from higher education Engineering departments to host the Engineering Professors’ Council Annual Congress in 2020 or 2021. ‘Hosting the 2018 Engineering Professors’ Council Congress was a great way to...