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The findings ofĀ Brexit impact on UKās engineering education sector: Exploring EU students and staff experiencesĀ shine a spotlight on the importance of the long history of collaboration and shared purpose with the UKās direct geographical neighbours to advancing excellence in engineering and engineering research. The research demonstrates that the readiest and most promising opportunities are in preserving and strengthening existing relationships, exploiting geographical proximity, to further research collaborations.
Drawing on surveys, interviews and data analysis, the independent research was conducted to support an evidence-based approach to the recruitment and retention of European talent into UK engineering education, research and practice through understanding the concerns and expectations of European students and academic staff. Find out more here.
You may already know that you can access engineering data using MS Power BI at discipline level on theĀ UCAS website. If not, let me excite you.
You can quickly and easily produce headline tables and charts filtering UCAS applications and acceptances profiles for engineering, drilling down into a host of variables including the cohortās gender, age and where they are from.
This blog outlines EPCās engineering focused instructions, coupled with a brief video tutorial to walk you through visually.
Academic accreditation of engineering degrees is a well-established feature of UK higher education. It is seen as a valuable ākite markā for degree providers operating in a marketized higher education system and confers some benefits for graduates who wish to seek professional registration. However academic accreditation has both costs and benefits.
Read more here.
Drawing on her own thoughts on what made her choose engineering and experiences as a young graduate ā Prof Rogers explores just how important good communication skills are when working as an engineer, and what these skills actually consist of. Find out more about this in her
blog here.
Prof Rogers has also distilled her communications knowledge into online courses that she is licensing to universities to assist with the new AHEP4 rules ā see more details here.Ā
Former EPC President, Prof Sarah Spurgeon, looks back at the process from her insider perspective as an Engineering sub-panel member and interdisciplinary advisor. Read more here.
EPC Board member and Professorial Teaching Fellow, Mike Bramhall, at The Engineering and Design Institute (TEDI-London) has incorporated three of the EPC’s ethics case studies from our recently produced toolkit into TEDIās BEng (Hons) in Global Design Engineering. Mike and two of his students, Stuart Tucker and Caelan Vollenhoven, gave a presentation at this yearās EPC Annual Congress about their positive experience teaching and learning with the case studies.
In this blog, Mike reflects on how and why he incorporated these resources – read more here.
The decisions engineers make on a daily basis can have significant consequences for underrepresented and disadvantaged groups in society.
Prof Dawn Bonfield, Visiting Professor of Inclusive Engineering at Aston University, Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence at Kingās College London and a member of the EPCās Engineering Ethics Advisory Group explains this concept and how we can use the EPC’s RAEng funded Engineering Ethics Toolkit resources to help integrate ethics throughout an engineer’s education and professional development. Read more here.