News & events
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills – Accelerated courses and switching university or degree
This call for evidence ran from May 2016 to July 2016. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills aimed to gauge demand from students for more switching between universities and...
Consultations
Could your students inspire the engineers of the future?
Teaching physics is not necessarily the first thing that comes to mind as a career for an engineering graduate. However, it is a rewarding, valuable and important occupation and engineers...
News
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills – Teaching Excellence Framework. Technical consultation for year 2
This consultation ran from May to July 2016. This consultation sought to attain views on the detailed proposals for the operation of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) in year 2,...
Consultations
AAU Committee meeting followed by technical discussion on aerospace materials
The next AAU Committee meeting will be held during the afternoon of Tuesday 5th July at the University of Hertfordshire starting at 1pm. The main item in the Committee meeting...
Events
Professor Helen Atkinson among ‘Top 50 Women in Engineering’
An inaugural list of the top 50 Women in Engineering, featuring former EPC President and University of Leicester Head of Engineering Professor Helen Atkinson, was published in the Daily Telegraph...
Press & media
Engineers Without Borders Challenge Finals
Engineers Without Borders UK invites you to spend the afternoon at the EWB Challenge Finals 2016. The EWB Challenge is an inter-university design competition where student teams develop design solutions...
Events
“Children as Engineers – Paired Peer Mentors in Primary Schools”
EPC’s Engaging in Engineering Public Engagement Grant Award 2014 At its2014 Congress, the Engineering Professors’ Council launched a public engagement funding call:Engaging in Engineering. One of the two winning projects...
Research papers
Policy Lab: UK research and innovation - visions for 2030
The National Academies are hosting a series of four Policy Lab events considering the landscape for UK research and innovation after the 2015 Spending Review. This event will look ahead...
Events
Challenges of introducing and designing new engineering programmes...
Grant Campbell and Daniel Belton at the University of Huddersfield have just published this useful paper about introducing a new programme in a high cost subject at a time of...
Research papers
GEDC Airbus Diversity Award 2016
The Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC) Airbus Diversity Awardis sponsored by Airbus andaims to encourage and acknowledge work that inspiresstudents of all profiles and backgrounds to study and succeed in...
News
The Shadbolt Review of Computer Sciences Degree Accreditation and Graduate Employability published
The much-anticipated Wakeham and Shadbolt Reviews were published this week (16th May) alongside the Higher Education White Paper giving the sector much to chew over. Sir Richard Shadbolt’s report, The...
Reports
Wakeham Review of STEM Degree Provision and Graduate Employability published
The much-anticipated Wakeham and Shadbolt Reviews were published this week (16th May) alongside the Higher Education White Paper giving the sector much to chew over. Sir William Wakeham, this year’s...
Reports
HE White Paper: Success as a Knowledge Economy published
The much-anticipated Wakeham and Shadbolt Reviews were published this week (16th May) alongside the Higher Education White Paper giving the sector much to chew over. To read the HE White...
Reports
ACED Annual Heads of Department Meeting 2016
The 2016 meeting was held on 16 May 2016 at the ICE offices at 1 Great George Street, London Programme Links to files from the meeting are below: Welcome toACED...
Events
Policy Lab: What is the future of innovation support in the UK?
The National Academies are hosting a series of four Policy Lab events considering the landscape for UK research and innovation after the 2015 Spending Review. This event will look at...