The Higher Education Academy is holding an Enhancement Event for academics in Higher Education in Cardiff on 2nd July.  There are a number of streams to the day including a New-to-teaching qualitative research methods & a New-to-teaching in laboratory-based subjects.

As you no doubt know, Engineering is a priority area for the Welsh Government and we feel that it would be appropriate to dedicate a full day workshop/workshops to the discipline as part of the Enhancement Event.  Our current thinking is that we have a morning session on Excellence in Engineering Teaching and then look at areas specific to the Welsh agenda in the afternoon however we are open to suggestions regarding the draft programme.  If you feel you would like to contribute to the workshops please contact Karen Fraser, Consultant in Academic Practice (Innovative Pedagogies) at karen.fraser@heacademy.ac.uk to discuss your ideas.

 

 

 

The Engineering Professors’ Council Annual Congress 2015 took place at the University of Salford’s MediaCity Campus on 14/15 April 2015 with the theme: Skills for Impact.

The annual Recruitment and Admissions Forum took place at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers on 10th November 2014 convened by EPC Recruitment and Admissions Sub Committee chair, Professor Mike Bramhall.

The Engineering Professors’ Council Annual Congress took place at the University of Glasgow on 8th – 9th April 2014 with the theme: Engaging in Engineering.

The agenda and papers for the meeting may now be downloaded here.

Agenda and papers

A copy of the following notice was circulated to members on 7th March, 2014.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of the Engineering Professors’ Council (a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England & Wales 06791295) will be held in room 408, Rankine Building, University of Glasgow,  on Tuesday 8 April, 2014 at 16:00 during the first day of our annual Congress. This Notice is served in accordance with Articles 38-40 of the Engineering Professors’ Council’s Articles of Association.

The Annual General Meeting (AGM) is required by our rules and the law to transact the following business (in no particular order):

The minutes of the last AGM

  • The annual report and accounts
  • The subscription levels for the following financial year
  • Adoption of any special resolutions and ordinary resolutions as submitted (see deadlines below)
  • The election of honorary officers, directors and committee members
  • Approval of the venue for the 2015 Congress
  • Other business as tabled by the Members

The AGM is the sovereign members’ forum of the Engineering Professors’ Council and is the body to which ordinarily the Committee and Directors are held to account and required to report.  All Full Members and Associate Members are entitled to attend the Annual General Meeting.  One senior manager from each Corporate Member (if any) is entitled to attend the Annual General Meeting (definition of membership status may be found attached to this Notice).  No business shall be transacted at any meeting unless a quorum is present.  Twelve persons entitled to vote upon the business to be transacted shall be a quorum.  A resolution put to the vote of a meeting shall be decided on a show of hands, and every Full Member present in person shall have one vote.  Corporate Members and Associate Members shall not have voting rights at an Annual General Meeting.  Proposals requiring amendment to the provisions of the Memorandum and Articles of Association (copies of which are available at https://epc.ac.uk/our-committee/) will necessitate a resolution of an Annual General Meeting, carried by a vote of not less than two-thirds of the Full Members present and voting at such a meeting, for which the quorum shall be 20 drawn from the Full Members.

Members may submit resolutions and amendments to resolutions in line with the Companies Acts and the Articles of Association.  If a Member wishes to place a special resolution to the Annual General Meeting, the draft resolution must be received by email to s.kay@epc.ac.uk no later than 09:00 on Friday 14 March 2014.

VACANCIES FOR COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND HONORARY OFFICERS

In line with the provisions of Articles 18-21 and 31-37, a number of positions of honorary officers and Committee members will fall vacant.  Nominations are invited for these positions by the process outlined in Appendix 2 to this Notice.  Notification of nomination should be made to s.kay@epc.ac.uk no later than 09:00 on Friday 14 March 2014.  Details of the current committee may be found at https://epc.ac.uk/our-committee.

Professor D. K. Harrison

Secretary

The Recruitment and Admissions Forum took place at the Institution of Civil Engineers on 4th November 2013. Colleagues from the Royal Academy of Engineering, STEMNET, the IET, Engineering UK, and Mathematics in Education and Industry amongst others gave us their perspectives on recent trends and the impact of the very many changes in the education policy and funding environment which have taken place this year, their impact on recruitment of engineering students and some of the great work that’s taking place to encourage the study of engineering in higher education.

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