UK and Ireland Engineering Education Research Network Annual Symposium: 17th – 18th June 2024
Registration has now closed for this event. The UK & Ireland EERN are pleased to announce the Annual Symposium for 2024, hosted by Ulster University on the Belfast campus.
Guest blog: Embracing Neurodiversity in Engineering: A path to success through lived experience
For Neurodiversity Celebration Week, we hear from an experienced professional in ground engineering a who is neurodivergent (autistic, dyslexic, and dyspraxic) and visually impaired. Martin Griffin (CEng, FIMMM, CGeol,...
PEE24: The Practical Engineering Education Conference
Excitement is building as we gear up for the third Practical Engineering Education Conference (PEE24), scheduled to take place on July 2nd and 3rd at The University of Sheffield's Diamond...
Media Release: Engineering Professors’ Council launches major new resource to transform sustainability in engineering education
Media release 18th March 2024 As part of a major initiative to ensure the engineers of tomorrow can rise to the challenges of the climate emergency, the Engineering Professors’ Council...
Guest blog: Embracing Neurodiversity in Engineering: A path to sustainable development
To kick off Neurodiversity Celebration Week, we bring you the first of a series of guest blogs... Prof Amanda Kirby, Neurodiversity expert and founder and CEO of Do-IT Solutions...
Blog: Welcome to the EPC's new Sustainability Toolkit
The EPC has introduced a major new initiative to ensure the engineers of tomorrow can rise to the challenges of the climate emergency: The Sustainability Toolkit, produced with support from...
Sustainability Resources Library
In developing the resources for the EPC's Sustainability Toolkit, we took into account recent scholarship and best practices and reviewed existing material available on sustainability in engineering. You can find...
Sustainability-focused learning outcomes mapped to AHEP4
This guide maps the Engineering for One Planet (EOP) Framework to AHEP4. The EOP Framework is a practical tool for curricular supplementation and modification, comprising 93 sustainability focused learning outcomes...
Workflow for embedding the SDGs across engineering programmes and modules
This article should be read by educators at all levels of higher education looking to embed and integrate sustainability into curriculum, module, and / or programme design.
Example coursework: Developing intercultural competence in engineering students
This resource describes a coursework aligned to three key pedagogical approaches of ESD.
Evidencing sustainability competencies in assessment
This article should be read by educators at all levels of higher education looking to embed and integrate sustainability into curriculum design. It may also be of interest for students...
Activity: Providing affordable housing that supports net zero
This activity allows students to consider the dilemmas around providing housing that is cheap to heat as well as cheap to buy or rent.
Example project: Peace Engineering Dashboard on water, air quality, health, and finance
This is an example project that could be adapted for use in a variety of contexts. It asks students to devise a “sustainability dashboard” that can not only track indicators...
Using projects for integrating sustainability into engineering education
Projects, and thus project-based learning, offer valuable opportunities for integrating sustainability education into engineering curricula by promoting active, experiential learning through critical and creative thinking within problem-solving endeavours and addressing...
Activity: Do passive houses need passive people? Adapting to low carbon housing
The purpose of this exercise is to encourage students to think in a socio-technical perspective of delivering extreme low carbon housing (e.g. Passivhaus), in order to support the occupants in...