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The Engineering Professors’ Council is launching a major project from its Education, Employability & Skills Committee. ‘Emerging Stronger: the 2026 Edition’ will be a comprehensive snapshot of how engineering educators are responding to multiple contemporary challenges and opportunities in the education of engineers, and AI will be a key lens through which we explore the current landscape together. This work will include concise overviews, good practice case studies, and student narratives.

In 2020, in the middle of the pandemic, the original Emerging Stronger: Lasting Impact From Crisis Innovation responded quickly to capture issues, practice and student experience in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. This issue aims to replicate the impact of that work in this new context of institutional financial precarity, high workloads, changing student demographics, new funding models, an evolving graduate job market, and AI.

The work is structured in 3 phases:

A webinar series from May to June on the following topics: assessment, curriculum futures, employability landscape, partnerships, and academic careers. We are excited to be working with colleagues from a range of universities and beyond, and hope to draw on input from a wide range of colleagues across the sector to understand different practices, responses and approaches.
Case studies and student voice, from May to August, to show how students are engaging with AI and how they feel it is impacting their education, and how educators are responding in their work
A publication, Emerging Stronger: the 2026 Edition, which will be released in October 2026

How you can get involved

Please, register for the webinars – this is a project where the community is listening and sharing rather than telling. Come and discuss how you are engaging with, and tackling, some of these challenges and opportunities. Register below to attend this webinar. Links to future webinars are listed below.

Friday 22nd May 12.30-13.30 – Assessment

Thursday 28th May 12.30-13.30 – Curriculum Futures

Tuesday 2nd June 12.30-13.30 – Employability Landscape

Wednesday 10th June 12.30-13.30 – Partnerships

Wednesday 24th June 12.30-13.30 – Academic Careers

Digital technical standards are increasingly shaped by wider geopolitical, economic and security dynamics. This webinar will explore what this means for global cooperation, trust and openness in standards development. The discussion will focus on systems, trends and principles and will be forward‑looking in nature.

The webinar will cover three themes:

Digital standards as global infrastructure — influence, trust and cooperation
Regional perspectives on the global standards system
Maximising opportunities and minimising risks

Confirmed speakers span government, industry, international organisations, academia and standards bodies, bringing a wide range of perspectives on standards participation, capacity‑building and international coordination.

Join the Royal Academy of Engineering for the launch of a new report on Data‑centric engineering and AI skills, where you’ll be the first to hear how data, AI and advanced analytical skills can be more effectively embedded and scaled across engineering education.

As engineering systems grow in complexity, data‑centric engineering (DCE) and AI are increasingly shaping how engineering is taught and practised. DCE brings together a set of cross‑cutting competencies that are now essential across the modern engineering workforce.

Developed by the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Alan Turing Institute and Lloyd’s Register Foundation, this report sets out the knowledge and skills needed to apply DCE in industrial contexts and to better prepare graduates for a digital, data-driven future.

Hear directly from the report authors and leaders from academia and industry through a panel discussion and a live Q&A.

Our Annual General Meeting this year will be held on Tuesday 14th July. There will be elections to important roles and the chance to hear about everything the EPC has been doing in the past year. EPC representatives from each university should attend and the AGM is open to all individual members.

There will be a meeting of the RA Committee taking place 1st June at 1pm.

T-levels are a set of qualifications offered in England where one T-level, a mix of classroom-based study and work placement, equivalent to 3 A-levels. They are appearing ever more regularly on UCAS applications, but should you admit those students? If not, what? And what should be done?

This webinar will include:

The findings of the EPC’s in-depth research into the real strengths and weaknesses of T levels, A levels and other level 3 qualifications.
A presentation by Pearson, the new providers of future Engineering T-levels, about their plans for an overhaul.
Share your views on what you’d like to see changed – this is a genuine moment of consultation and an opportunity to influence the future.

This is an important webinar for anyone involved in admissions, recruitment and access; strategic planning or curriculum design, especially foundation years.

This event will feed into the wider consultation that Pearson is pursuing to inform its future development of T levels. As well as attending the webinar, you can contribute to the consultation through the survey.