Engineering Professors' Council

The Engineering Professors' Council is a British university association that represents university staff in UK engineering facilities, for discussing and coordinating course content and direction.^[1]

History

The Engineering Professors' Conference was set up in the early 1950s to allow an annual conference, held in London, where Engineering academic staff could meet. It was set up by Edmund Giffen (1 January 1902 - 2 July 1963), a Northern Irish professor of mechanical engineering from Gilford, County Down, and director of research from 1940 to 1945 for the Institution of Automobile Engineers, notably on diesel engines, which soon after became the Automotive branch of the IMechE.^[2][3][4]

The organisation was formed in January 1994 by the merger of the Engineering Professors' Conference and the Committee for Engineering in Polytechnics.

Function

It has worked with the Office for Students (OfS) and with the UK government (the Science and Technology Select Committee) on funding for engineering research at UK universities.^{[5][6][7][8][9]}

EPC Annual Congress

The society holds an annual two-day conference at different universities.

• 25-27 March 2002, Durham University
• 14-16 April 2003, University of Surrey
• 4-6 April 2004, Cardiff University
• 3–5 April 2006, Staffordshire University
• 26–28 March 2007, University of Leeds
• 1-2 April 2008, University of Warwick
• 21-22 April 2009, Heriot-Watt University
• 13–14 April 2010, Loughborough University
• 12 April 2011, London South Bank University
• 17–18 April 2012, University of Leicester
• 16-17 April 2013, University of Portsmouth
• 8–9 April 2014, University of Glasgow
• 14–15 April 2015, University of Salford
• 4-6 September 2016, University of Hull
• 11-13 September 2017, Coventry University
• 14-16 May 2018, Harper Adams University, Shropshire
• 13-15 May 2019, UCL
• 7–9 June 2022, UWE
• 12-14 June 2023, New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering in Hereford; the local MP Jesse Norman gave the main address
• 9-11 June 2024 Cardiff University, annual congress dinner at the National Museum Cardiff, speakers were Prof John Chudley, chairman of the Engineering Council, Mary Curnock Cook, former chief of UCAS, and Mark Drakeford^[10]

Structure

It is headquartered in Surrey.

See also

• European Society for Engineering Education
• Council for Science and Technology, UK government advisory committee
• HoDoMS
• Royal Academy of Engineering
• Conference of the Directors of French Engineering Schools