Spotlight on ethics: Engineers and public protest
As an engineer, you have a duty to ”maximise the public good and minimise both actual and potential adverse effects for their own and succeeding generations”. Should you break the law...
Spotlight on ethics: Microplastics in cosmetics
You're an engineering student on an industrial placement year at a company that manufactures cosmetics. You notice that a batch of products might have been contaminated with microplastics. What do...
Spotlight on ethics: Choosing to install a smart meter
Our original case study Choosing to install a smart meter is an example of ‘everyday ethics’. Now we have provided an expansion in the form of a Case enhancement: a technical...
EES Committee Meeting 6 October 2025
There will be a meeting of the EES committee taking place Monday 6th October at 10am.
EES Committee Meeting 20 May 2025
There will be a meeting of the EES committee taking place Tuesday 20th May at 10am.
EES Committee Meeting 3 February 2025
There will be a meeting of the EES committee taking place Monday 3rd February at 10.30am.
EES Committee Meeting 23 October 2024
There will be a meeting of the EES committee taking place Wednesday 23rd October at 10.30am.
Spotlight on ethics: How to integrate ethics into a module or course
If you’d like to improve your own ethics learning, then our guidance article How to integrate ethics into a module or course is a great place to start.
EPC Board Meeting 5th December 2024
There will be a meeting of the EPC Board taking place Thursday 5th December at 9.15am.
Spotlight on ethics: Balancing risk and benefits when working with offshore contractors
Your contractor might be using forced labour in its workforce. What do you do?
All in for Engineering: co-designing a neuro-inclusive future
The EPC believes that an inclusive and positive university experience for neurodiverse engineering students is fair, healthy, and what the engineering profession – and society – needs. Universities and engineering...
Spotlight on ethics: Tackling tough topics in discussion
How to make discussing ethical issues less daunting.
Three ways to influence REF 2029
While the assessment itself is still some way in the future, there are three things you can do now to influence the 2029 exercise. 1. Apply to be REF Panel...
RIKT sub group meeting 16th September 2024
Spotlight on ethics: Debating the adoption of nuclear energy
This case study asks students to identify and define an open-ended problem in engineering