Addressing inequality and exclusion from engineering education of those who are wired to think differently calls for more than just a research project, instead we seek momentum for a movement.

The EPC’s track record in thought leadership and our unique position to empower and amplify the knowledge skills and experiences of the Engineering Academics Network inspires us in our campaign: All in for Engineering.

A summary read on this important EPC campaign to date can be found here or by visiting our Campaigns page.

You do not need to have previously contributed to this work to attend. All welcome.

The EPC, in partnership with the Engineering Council, is hosting a virtual roundtable to support a review of professional registration of engineers. You can read more about here.

If you’d like to hear more about this work and feed into a process that aims to change the face of the engineering sector, come along to this online discussion and express your views. The roundtable will be chaired by Prof Jonathan Seville, Chair of the Registration Working Group that is running the review.

Attendance will be limited in order to facilitate a vibrant discussion, so register below to reserve your place.

At a board meeting last year, we revisited the conversations that had taken place at the Retreat around what the EPC’s vision and missions are. It was decided that we need to clarify where the EPC and EAN have separate visions. We agreed the best way forward would be to create a task and finish group to work on the strategic plan and then bring it back to the Board. This meeting will take place 24th June from 13.00-15.00.

As Chair of the House of Commons Science, Innovation & Technology Select Committee, Chi Onwurah MP is one of the most powerful voices in UK science and engineering. In this public lecture, she will outline her personal vision for the role of science policy in shaping all our futures.

We are honoured that she has agreed to present this year’s Annual Lecture, a prestigious event where the EPC invites a high-profile individual to reflect on issues surrounding engineering and their wider impact on society.

This event is free for anyone to attend, but registration (see below) is required. Doors open at 5.45pm.

The public lecture is part of the Engineering Academics Network Annual Congress, which is this year kindly hosted by Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Manchester.

If you have already registered to attend the EAN Congress, you do not need to register separately for the public lecture.

Hosted by Middlesex University’s Dr Homeira Shayesteh, Senior Lecturer in Construction, Architecture and BIM and Pedagogic Research Group Lead for the Faculty of Science and Technology and supported by the University’s Centre for Academic Practice Enhancement (CAPE).

Date:  Monday 19 May 2025
Time: 12:30pm – 1:30pm  (UK Time)
This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.

The Webinar will be led by Dr Patricia Xavier and Prof. Sarah Jayne Hitt from the New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering (NMITE) and will discuss challenges and barriers to pedagogy research in engineering education and explore approaches to overcoming them in order to develop and enhance scholarship of teaching and learning.

Professor Sarah Jayne Hitt was one of NMITE’s founding faculty members, joining the institution in 2019. Before that she worked at the Colorado School of Mines, where she was Director of the Writing Center and Director of the McBride Honors Program in Public Affairs. Professor Hitt also serves as Project Manager for the Engineering Professors Council’s Ethics, Sustainability, and Complex Systems Toolkits.

Dr Patricia Xavier is an engineering educator, interested in interdisciplinarity and its complexities. She is the Programme Lead for BSc Construction Management. Patricia is fascinated by engineering identities and habits, and what it means to become an engineer. Her research includes characterising the intersection between personal and professional value systems, how the process of training appears to prioritise certain habits (e.g., an adherence to tradition and authority), and de-prioritises others (e.g., the role and value of considering emotion and ethics in engineering design).

NMITE  (The New Model Institution for Technology and Engineering) is a new university in Hereford that is designed to be different. NMITE uses block learning, challenge-led assessment and liberal studies-informed team teaching to curate immersive learning experiences and develop work-ready graduates. The courses in Integrated and Mechanical Engineering and Construction Management all have intensive industry engagement built in, with students getting regular opportunities to work on challenges set by industry challenge sponsors. The liberal studies teaching encourages student to engage critically with the roles that engineering and technology have in shaping society. NMITE also has open entry criteria and does not require maths or physics A-level to start Year 1 of the engineering programmes, instead providing catch-up opportunities for students to build up from their GCSE-level knowledge during their first year of study. NMITE provides a model for alternative thinking about Higher Education – challenging traditional assumptions about what kinds of students can become great engineers and about what engineering learning looks like.

The Webinar will explore interdisciplinary approaches to pedagogy research and is open to all Faculties and disciplines.
For any questions, please contact Dr Homeira Shayesteh: H.Shayesteh@mdx.ac.uk 

Please register via this link:
https://mdxstaffdev.libcal.com/event/4372231

There will be a meeting of the Congress 2025 steering group taking place Monday 19th May at 1pm

 

There will be a meeting of the Complex Systems Toolkit Working Group: Launch & Engagement sub-group on Tuesday 27th May from 2:30pm to 4:00pm, (London, UK time).

Answering the Call: The next 5 years of the Engineering Council

This 1 hour webinar will take place Monday 7th July at 10am and will be followed by the EPC Annual General Meeting 2025 at 11am.

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