The Annual Conference this year is planned (COVID permitting) as an in-person event on Thursday 18th November (all day, including evening dinner) and Friday 19th November (morning, and lunch) on the theme of ‘Civil Engineering – Leading Sustainable Change’. Speakers from industry and academia will inform a debate between the participants over the two days about the nature of the climate emergency that we face and the best ways in which we can prepare our graduates to contribute to its mitigation.



Follow the link Association of Civil Engineering Departments (ACED) Conference 2021 | Anglia Ruskin University for the booking page. There is a discount of 50% full price for a second person from the same institution. There is a recommended hotel for which a discount code will be provided on making a conference booking. Other hotel options are also given. Please distribute this announcement to any colleagues who may be interested.



As a quick reminder, the conference is planned to take place face to face, but if you have difficulties with that in the prevailing COVID environment, please feel free to feed back to us at acedadmin@epc.ac.uk so that we can do the best we can to design the event for maximum participation.



ACED Conference 2021 agenda and presentation slides.

The second in the EPC’s series of webinars for its 2021 Congress on the theme of ‘A Better World’ will feature Shadow Minister for Science, Research & Digital Chi Onwurah MP.

We are extremely proud to welcome former Universities & Science Minister the Right Honourable Chris Skidmore MP to give a presentation on ‘Research for a better world’, followed by a Q&A session chaired by former EPC president Professor Sarah Spurgeon.

This is a lecture organised by the Coventry Branch of the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) which will be delivered by Dr Mike Bromfield who is a Flight Safety Researcher and the Deputy Aerospace Programme Director at the University of Birmingham, and Captain Nils Jamieson.

For more details click here.

To attend on the day: Webinar ID: 864 7147 9072
https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86471479072?pwd=aXRWSGxkWnk0Sm8wSFFkdW1EYnNkUT09
Passcode: 829607

Unfortunately it has proved not possible to hold a physical ACED Annual Conference this year due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and associated restrictions. In its place, ACED has the pleasure of inviting you to the Moving On from Covid Webinar.  We will discuss and reflect upon the effect of the pandemic on our practice in academia, industry and the institutions.



Tim Ibell will represent the JBM and President-elect of the ICE, Rachel Skinner, will  give us an industry and institutional perspective.  ACED will present our experiences from academia so please bring along examples of good practice and also what hasn’t worked quite so well.



The webinar will be hosted on Zoom. To express interest in joining the event, please email acedadmin@epc.ac.uk. Your email will be acknowledged, your email address will be added to the guest list for the event and you will receive a Zoom calendar invite.



Post-meeting:
ACED talk Tim Ibell November 2020
ACED Webinar Nov 2020 agenda



The agenda and the slides by Prof Tim Ibell are attached. A recording of a video about Assessment under COVID, for which there was not time to play on the day, is available here

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