Sustainability Toolkit

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Welcome to the EPC’s Sustainability toolkit, produced in partnership with Siemens and the Royal Academy of Engineering. Here you will find our resource designed to help engineering educators integrate sustainability-related content into teaching.

 

The Sustainability Toolkit is currently in the development phase, we are working with our steering group to complete the project. We aim to launch the toolkit in early 2024. In the meantime, please read on to learn more about the project.

  • Get involved: A guide to how you can contribute to the Sustainability Toolkit and community.
  • Background: An article that introduces the Sustainability Toolkit and the work that is being done so it is ready to launch in early 2024. You will also be able to access a library of resources from Siemens on this page.
  • Steering group biographies: Learn more about the members of the Sustainability Toolkit steering group.
  • Receive notifications from the EPC: If you are not an EPC member but wish to subscribe to our mailing list, to receive notifications from the EPC, please submit your details.

 

More to come

This is just the beginning – the toolkit is currently in the development phase, we are working with our steering group to complete the project. We are in the process of working in sub-groups to create a suite of resources and tools based on four key areas:

  • Tools for understanding: Developing a suite of resources on  sustainability competencies. 
  • Tools for assessing and measuring: Developing a suite of resources on accreditation.
  • Tools for integrating: Developing a suite of resources on problem-based learning.
  • Tools for connecting/collaborating: Developing a suite of resources on circularity.

We aim to launch the toolkit in early 2024. For more information on the Sustainability Toolkit click here. If you wish to get involved click here.

 

In the meantime…

Please do take a look at the subset of case studies from our Engineering Ethics Toolkit that feature themes relating to sustainability (below), or view our call for contributions page to learn how you can get involved (below): 

Contributions sought for the Sustainability Toolkit

For this cycle, this call has now closed. If you have already registered an interest and we are e...[Read More]

#Research #Sustainability #Sustainability toolkit #Teaching & learning #Work-related learning
1 Sep 2023
Case study: Implementing the use of homegrown mass timber for residential housing

This case involves an early-career consultant engineer working in the area of sustainable constru...[Read More]

#Civil engineering #Engineering ethics toolkit #Ethics #Manufacturing #Teaching & learning
23 Mar 2023
Case study: Recycled materials and the circular economy

This case involves an engineer responsible for verifying the source of recycled construction mate...[Read More]

#Civil engineering #Engineering ethics toolkit #Ethics #Sustainability #Teaching & learning
23 Mar 2023
Case study: Balancing safety, costs, and the environment in the inspection of wind turbine blades 

The case is based on a genuine challenge raised by a multinational energy company that operates a...[Read More]

#Engineering ethics toolkit #Ethics #Sustainability #Teaching & learning
23 Mar 2023
Case study: Developing a decarbonisation roadmap  

This case involves an engineer who is one of the stakeholders invited by the president of Nigeria...[Read More]

#Electrical and electronic engineering #Engineering ethics toolkit #Ethics #Sustainability #Teaching & learning
23 Mar 2023
Case study: Engineers and public protest

This case study involves an engineer who has to weigh personal values against professional codes ...[Read More]

#Civil engineering #Engineering ethics toolkit #Ethics #Sustainability #Teaching & learning
22 Mar 2023
Case study: Feasibility of installing heat pumps at scale to reach net zero

This case study considers not only the environmental impacts of a clean technology (the heat pump...[Read More]

#Chemical Engineering #Civil engineering #Engineering ethics toolkit #Ethics #Teaching & learning
22 Mar 2023
Case study: Debating the adoption of nuclear energy

This case study involves an early career engineer tasked with leading the development of plans fo...[Read More]

#Engineering ethics toolkit #Ethics #Teaching & learning
21 Mar 2023
Universal and inclusive co-design of the built environment and the transportation systems 

Every citizen must have the same equality of opportunities in using spaces because the existence ...[Read More]

#Civil engineering #Diversity & inclusion #Engineering ethics toolkit #Ethics #Teaching & learning
20 Mar 2023
Case study: Choosing to install a smart meter

This case is an example of ‘everyday ethics’. [Read More]

#Electrical and electronic engineering #Engineering ethics toolkit #Ethics #Teaching & learning
21 Feb 2022
Case study: Industrial pollution from an ageing pipeline and its impact on local communities

This case requires an engineer to balance multiple competing factors including: economic pressure...[Read More]

#Chemical Engineering #Civil engineering #Employability and skills #Engineering ethics toolkit #Ethics #Manufacturing #Teaching & learning #Undergraduate
21 Feb 2022
Case study: Choosing a career in climate change geoengineering

This case involves a dilemma that most engineering students will have to face at least once in th...[Read More]

#Engineering ethics toolkit #Ethics #Sustainability #Teaching & learning
21 Feb 2022
Case study: Business growth models in engineering industries within an economic system

This case involves the CEO of Hydrospector, a newly formed company that makes devices detecting w...[Read More]

#Engineering ethics toolkit #Ethics #Teaching & learning
21 Feb 2022
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