The EPC’s Sustainability Toolkit is supported by the Royal Academy of Engineering and Siemens. This resource is designed to help engineering educators integrate sustainability-related content into teaching.
Contents
The toolkit currently includes the following, but it is a growing resource and we are currently working on further content.
- Background: An article that introduces the Sustainability Toolkit. You will also be able to access a library of resources from Siemens on this page.
- Knowledge tools: A suite of tools that users can access to improve their knowledge or find more information.
- Guidance tools: A suite of tools that users can access to learn how to do something.
- Teaching tools: A suite of tools that users can access to help them know what to integrate and implement.
- Collaboration resources: A suite of resources that users can access to connect with and support others.
- Get involved: A guide to how you can contribute to the Sustainability Toolkit and community.
- Support the Sustainability Toolkit: Collaborate with us and support this important project.
- Our contributors: We would like to thank everyone who has contributed to making the Toolkit such a useful and vital resource.
- Receive notifications from the EPC: If you are not an EPC member but wish to subscribe to our mailing list, to receive notifications from the EPC, please submit your details.
- Our supporters: We would like to thank the Royal Academy of Engineering and Siemens, who have both supported the Sustainability Toolkit since its inception.
Our supporters
These resources have been produced by the Engineering Professors’ Council in partnership with the Royal Academy of Engineering and Siemens.
Licensing
To ensure that everyone can use and adapt the toolkit in a way that best fits their teaching or purpose, most of this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Under this licence you are free to share and adapt this material, under terms that you must give appropriate credit and attribution to the original material and indicate if any changes are made.
Themes related to Sustainability in other EPC Toolkit resources
Please do take a look at the subset of resources from our other Toolkits that feature themes relating to sustainability.
| Resource | Tool type | EPC Toolkit |
|---|---|---|
| https://epc.ac.uk/toolkit/case-study-implementing-the-use-of-homegrown-mass-timber-for-residential-housing/ | Case study | Engineering Ethics Toolkit |
| https://epc.ac.uk/toolkit/case-study-recycled-materials-and-the-circular-economy/ | Case study | Engineering Ethics Toolkit |
| https://epc.ac.uk/toolkit/case-study-balancing-safety-costs-and-the-environment-in-the-inspection-of-wind-turbine-blades/ | Case study | Engineering Ethics Toolkit |
| https://epc.ac.uk/toolkit/case-study-developing-a-decarbonisation-roadmap/ | Case study | Engineering Ethics Toolkit |
| https://epc.ac.uk/toolkit/case-study-engineers-and-public-protest/ | Case study | Engineering Ethics Toolkit |
| https://epc.ac.uk/toolkit/case-study-feasibility-of-installing-heat-pumps-at-scale-to-reach-net-zero/ | Case study | Engineering Ethics Toolkit |
| https://epc.ac.uk/toolkit/case-study-debating-the-adoption-of-nuclear-energy/ | Case study | Engineering Ethics Toolkit |
| https://epc.ac.uk/toolkit/universal-and-inclusive-co-design-of-the-built-environment-and-the-transportation-systems/ | Case study | Engineering Ethics Toolkit |
| https://epc.ac.uk/toolkit/case-study-choosing-to-install-a-smart-meter/ | Case study | Engineering Ethics Toolkit |
| https://epc.ac.uk/toolkit/case-study-industrial-pollution-from-an-ageing-pipeline-and-its-impact-on-local-communities/ | Case study | Engineering Ethics Toolkit |
| https://epc.ac.uk/toolkit/case-study-choosing-a-career-in-climate-change-geoengineering/ | Case study | Engineering Ethics Toolkit |
| https://epc.ac.uk/toolkit/case-study-business-growth-models-in-engineering-industries-within-an-economic-system/ | Case study | Engineering Ethics Toolkit |
More to come
This is just the beginning – we are already working on expanding this toolkit with future projects, including: developing more case studies, devising a system to make the case studies searchable by engineering discipline, sustainability issues and so on. For more information, see our Get involved page.
Any views, thoughts, and opinions expressed herein are solely that of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, policies, or position of the Engineering Professors’ Council or the Toolkit sponsors and supporters.
