Current Activities
Recent Activities
As the only body which represents the interests of engineering in higher education right across the UK, we are active in many fora.
We maintain contacts with government and parliament. At a recent meeting with BIS, the President and other Officers set out our concerns about the potential difficulties with funding of engineering departments in the future, raising also our concerns – shared across the HE sector, but particularly acute in engineering departments – about the damaging changes to student visas. The latter is also one of many areas in which we have been working with CaSE and UUK. Currently we are monitoring the effect of the visa changes on MSc recruitment, where some engineering departments have been affected severely.
Annual Congress
An annual meeting at which university professors of engineering take part in an informal exchange of ideas about engineering education, research and other matters of common interest.
Policy Forum Meetings
A biennial meeting for EPC Representatives which focuses on EPC initiatives.
Working Groups
These are established to address particular issues.
Where appropriate the activities and reports of these Working Groups have been brought to a wider audience through publication as EPC Occasional Papers.
Interaction with other bodies
EPC holds regular meetings with a variety of organisations, including the Engineering Council and the professional engineering institutions, to exchange views on matters of mutual interest. One-off meetings are also held with other bodies, such as the Quality Assurance Agency, on specific issues.