The latest news and updates on the development of the Complex Systems Toolkit.

20th June 2025 – The Working Group co-chairs, Dr. Nikita Hari (University of Oxford) and Peter Martin (Quanser), discuss why they believe the toolkit is a vital resource and why people should get involved.

7th June 2025 – A Call for Contributions is opened for the Complex Systems Toolkit, closing on 30th June.

27th May 2025 – The first Launch & Engagement sub-group meeting takes place.

28th April 2025 – The first Review & Curation sub-group meeting takes place.

17th April 2025 – The first Curriculum & Pedagogy Content sub-group meeting takes place.

15th April 2025 – The first Technical & Simulation Content sub-group meeting takes place.

April 2025Sub-group kick-off meetings are confirmed.

24th March 2025 – The second meeting of the Complex Systems Toolkit Working Group takes place.

March 2025 – Sub-groups of the Working Group are confirmed, to work on Curriculum Pedagogy Content, Technical and Simulation Content, Review and Curation, and Launch and Outreach.

27th February 2025 – The first meeting of the Complex Systems Toolkit Working Group takes place.

February 2025 – The first official meeting of the Working Group leadership team takes place.

December 2024 – Membership of the Complex Systems Toolkit Working Group is confirmed. The Working Group comprises subject experts from academia and industry who will manage the development of the toolkit.

November 2024 – The EPC announces that the development of a Complex Systems Toolkit, which will be supported by Quanser, and is aimed at supporting educators in their teaching of the subject. A call is put out for volunteers to be members of the Working Group, content reviewers, content contributors, and toolkit ambassadors.

 

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2025

We’re excited to announce that we’ve been working hard behind the scenes on our brand-new Inclusive Employability Toolkit, our resource designed to help engineering educators integrate EDI principles and practices in engineering, computing, design and technology – across education, employer engagement, career preparation, and progression into the workplace.

We will be previewing the toolkit at our in-person event, EAN Congress 2025: Realising the vision, next week (Monday 9th June – Wednesday 11th June 2025), followed by the official launch on Wednesday 3rd September 2025, during our live webinar.

 

What is the Inclusive Employability Toolkit? 

The Inclusive Employability Toolkit, formerly known as the EDGE Toolkit, was originally developed in partnership with Canterbury Christ Church University, Wrexham University, and Equal Engineers. Following funding from the Royal Academy of Engineering, the two universities have now collaborated with the Engineering Professors Council to relaunch the resource under its new name. This newly relaunched version has been redesigned and enhanced to improve the toolkit’s usability and ensure wider accessibility for students, educators, and employers alike. 

This toolkit is more than a set of activities – it’s a strategic resource for students, graduates, academics, employers, and managers. It provides tools to develop the employability skills needed for graduate-level roles and long-term career progression in STEM fields. 

At the heart of the toolkit is a focus on inclusion, diversity, and the power of bringing your authentic voice – especially social minority experiences – into the world of work. 

  

What’s available now? 

While we continue to develop some of the toolkit’s additional features, we’re pleased to share that the core activities are ready to use now. These include a range of twelve interactive resources – including a game – labelled Activities A through L, that are ideal for embedding into session planning or curriculum development. Each activity has been thoughtfully designed to deepen your understanding and practical application of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) principles across a range of academic, professional, and social contexts.   

These activities are intended to challenge you to think critically, reflect on real-world scenarios, and consider your own experiences, assumptions, and behaviours through an EDI lens. Through engaging with these exercises, you will: 

We have also developed a new addition to the toolkit: a University Career Services Library, where you can find direct links to the career services of 96 EPC affiliated universities. This library serves as a valuable starting point for exploring career development support, including workshops, employment opportunities, internships, mentoring schemes, and other services available through your university. 

You can access the available activities and the University Career Services Library here.

Additionally, you can access the Inclusive Employability Toolkit homepage here.

Whether you’re just beginning to explore inclusive employability or looking to enhance your existing practices, these activities provide a strong foundation for understanding and applying EDI (Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion) in your teaching or workplace environment. 

 

What’s coming next? 

We’re currently finalising the rest of the toolkit, which includes: 

This resource will be published in September, following our official webinar launch. 

 

Join us at the official launch 

Date: Wednesday 3rd September 2025 @ 1pm – 2.30pm  

Event: Webinar: Introducing the Inclusive Employability Toolkit and Launching the EPC’s DEI Community of Special Interest

At the webinar, you’ll experience a live demonstration of the Inclusive Employability Toolkit. We’ll walk through the toolkit’s design, showcase the new resources, and share insights from students and partners who helped shape it. It’s a great opportunity to learn more and ask questions. 

We’ll also introduce the DEI Community of Special Interest – a professional network committed to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in teaching, research, institutional systems, and engineering culture. You’ll hear more about its aims, upcoming events, and how to get involved in shaping a more inclusive future in engineering and beyond.

Click here to register for the webinar.

  

Looking ahead 

The Inclusive Employability Toolkit marks the beginning of an exciting journey. Beyond September, we’ll be adding more materials, and creating opportunities for users to contribute, collaborate, and share feedback. 

If you’d like to stay informed or get involved, you can register your interest here. We’ll ensure you’re among the first to hear when we begin accepting resources and sharing new opportunities to engage with the toolkit. We’d love to have you on board as we continue working towards a more inclusive and equitable future in engineering and technology. 

  

A shared commitment to inclusion 

At its core, this toolkit reflects our shared belief that diversity is not just an asset – it’s essential to innovation and progress. By engaging with the Inclusive Employability Toolkit, you’re not just using a resource – you’re joining a community committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion in engineering and beyond. 

We invite you to explore the activities, join our September launch, and be part of the movement. Let’s work together to build a profession – and a future – that values every voice. 

  

Please note: Discussions around discrimination, prejudice and bias are highly complex and part of a much wider national and international debate, including contested histories. As such, we have limited the scope of our resources to educating and supporting students. 

The resources that the EPC and its partners are producing in this area will continue to expand and, if you feel there is an issue that is currently underrepresented in our content, we would be delighted to work with you to create more. Please get in touch.    

 

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With nearly 15,000 views to date (as of March 2025), it’s not surprising that awareness of the Sustainability Toolkit is growing. This has also been boosted by academics and advocates including the Toolkit in their events and talks.

In the last few months, the Sustainability Toolkit has been featured at recent events both home and abroad:

We want to know about where you’re talking about the Sustainability Toolkit! Have you featured a resource in a conference presentation or meeting? Tell us about how the resources have helped you over the past year – we’d love to feature your story.

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With over 60,000 views to date (as of April 2025), it’s not surprising that awareness of the Ethics Toolkit is growing. This has also been boosted by academics and advocates including the Toolkit in their events and talks.

In the last few months, the Ethics Toolkit has been featured at recent events both home and abroad:

June 2025

December 2024

November 2024

October 2024

July 2024

As academics know, it’s been “conference season” recently, with the usual rush of meetings and symposia and events that mark the beginning of summer. We’re pleased that the Engineering Ethics Toolkit has been featured at several of these, both home and abroad:

September 2023

Between February 2022 and April 2025 the Ethics Toolkit has had over 60,000 views, so we know you’re looking at it, but we also want to know where you’re talking about the Ethics Toolkit! Have you featured a resource in a conference presentation or meeting? Tell us about how the resources have helped you over the past year—we’d love to feature your story.

 

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The Engineering Ethics Toolkit is a suite of interactive resources, guidance and teaching materials that enables educators to easily introduce ethics into the education of every engineer.

We’re always pleased to see the #EngineeringEthicsToolkit featured in news articles, blogs, podcasts etc., and we’ll be keeping track of those mentions here.

The latest workshops, conferences and events to feature the Ethics Toolkit

Sarah Jayne Hitt talks to Neil Cooke and Natalie Wint about the EPC’s Engineering Ethics Toolkit

Educating the educators – why the UK’s engineering teachers need reskilling too 

A look at engineering ethics education and research in 2023

Ethics workshop

Using the Engineering Ethics Toolkit in your teaching

Engineering ethics in the spotlight

Seen us in the news? Let us know!

Want to feature us? Get in touch for press kits, interviews etc.

 

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Any views, thoughts, and opinions expressed herein are solely that of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, policies, or position of the Engineering Professors’ Council or the Toolkit sponsors and supporters.

Here you’ll find a list of our events related to the Engineering Ethics Toolkit.

You can also search here for meetings of the Ethics Advisory Group, and Ethics Ambassadors.

We’re pleased to announce that we have just published some much requested new materials focused on helping you to assess ethics learning within the classroom.

Assessing ethics: Guidance & rubric is designed in a way that encourages students to grapple with the numerous tensions involved in ethical decision making, with a focus on assessment of the decision-making process as opposed to the ‘answer’ given, the decision made, or the outcome of the scenario.

Assessing ethics: Case study example: Water wars demonstrates how the questions provided in the rubric can be used to assess the competencies stipulated at each level, with this example focusing on our Water Wars case study.

We would like to thank Dr. Natalie Wint (UCL) and Dr. William Bennett (Swansea University) for the time and effort they have put into creating these resources.

You can see all of our assessment content here.

If you would like to submit content to the Engineering Ethics Toolkit, you can do so here.

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We are seeking academics and other engineering professionals to review the various case studies, enhancements, guidance articles and other resources that are submitted to us for publication within the Engineering Ethics Toolkit.

What you can expect as an Engineering Ethics Toolkit content reviewer:

What we expect from you:

You can read our current Guidance for Reviewers document here.

To become a volunteer reviewer for the Engineering Ethics Toolkit, please complete this application form.

 

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We’re excited to share with you that we are starting work on a Complex Systems Toolkit, aimed at supporting educators in their teaching of the subject. Toolkit development will start in early 2025. The Complex Systems Toolkit is supported by Quanser. Read on to learn more and find out how you can get involved.

WHY is the EPC developing a Complex Systems Toolkit?

WHAT is a Complex Systems Toolkit?

HOW will the Toolkit be developed?

WHO is involved in Toolkit development?

 

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