Campaigns
Engineering Ethics
The EPC Board considered its own ethical responsibility – including representing our members’ views, supporting good practice and as an organisation – at its retreat in January 2020.
This led to the clear action for the EPC to promote engineering ethics more proactively and adopt clear ethical positions.
A key aspect of this is enabling the embedding of ethical best practice into the UK engineering higher education curriculum through creation of an ‘Engineering Ethics Toolkit’.
Please find a wide selection of resources related to this campaign below, including the Engineering Ethics toolkit (created by the Engineering Professors’ Council with support from the Royal Academy of Engineering).
Spotlight on ethics: Aid vs trade
You're a newly appointed engineer. You're being asked to sell equipment that you believe is entirely unsuitable to a developing country. What do you do?
Toolkits
President's Report
Prof John Mitchell, the immediate past EPC President, summarises his time as President and looks forward to new projects coming to fruition in 2025 and...
Reports
A focus on... Events
Our extensive events programme has provided hundreds of members with access to a wide range of free online webcasts and highly engaging in-person events.
Reports
A focus on… Resources
Within the EPC family, we provide leadership and representation to support members through ongoing challenges, offering events, blogs, and access to our online best-practice resources,...
Reports
A focus on… Campaigns
Many of our initiatives combine all of our workstreams, informing and supporting our members while also providing a springboard for networking events and guiding our...
Reports
Spotlight on ethics: Engineers and public protest
As an engineer, you have a duty to ”maximise the public good and minimise both actual and potential adverse effects for their own and succeeding generations”....
Toolkits
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Toolkits
Spotlight on ethics: Choosing to install a smart meter
Our original case study Choosing to install a smart meter is an example of ‘everyday ethics’. Now we have provided an expansion in the form of...
Toolkits