Event Date: 16 – 17 April 2013
University of Portsmouth
Portland Building
Portsmouth
PO1 3AH
The Engineering Professors’ Council presents:
Engineering Professors’ Council Congress 2013
Engineering in Higher Education: investing for impact
“The importance of engineering to the world is often overlooked. It is engineering in all of its many and varied forms that enables the world to work. We engineers are our own worst enemies – too busy delivering solutions to talk about them !” Paul Westbury FREng, CBE, Chief Executive, Buro Happold.
As we prepare for the next CSR and enter the final furlong in our preparations for the Research Excellence Framework, which now seeks to measure the impact of what we do, Congress2013 will take as its theme, how engineering in higher education “ticks all of the impact boxes” and contributes in diverse ways to the future success of UKPlc. There will be speakers from the funding councils, media, industry and senior academics plus workshops offering the opportunity to share best practice in writing impact case studies, university-industry collaboration, delivering innovation in the curriculum and others on understanding the future finances of high cost subjects and managing change.
Programme: Tuesday 16th April, 2013
Dr Graeme Reid (Head of Research Funding, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills) – Next steps for UK research funding policy
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Professor Helen Higson OBE (Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Aston University) – Implementing the Wilson Review
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Allyson Reed (Director of Enterprise and Communication, Technology Strategy Board) – Innovating for Impact
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Jane Nicholson (Head of International Policy, EPSRC) – Opportunities for support of international research collaborations
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Beck Smith (Acting Director, Campaign for Science and Engineering) – Influencing the influencers
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An audience with… Kate Bellingham (former presenter of Tomorrow’s World and active STEM advocate) interviews Paul Westbury (FREng CBE, CEO of Buro Happold)
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Public Lecture: Professor Jim Al-Khalili (Professor of Theoretical Physics and Chair in the Public Engagement in Science at the University of Surrey) – The importance of communicating science and engineering in the 21st century
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Programme: Wednesday 17th April, 2013
Kirsten Bodley (Chief Executive STEMNET) – The importance of inspiring the next generation of engineers/STEM Ambassadors
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Elisabeth Edwards (Senior Policy Adviser, HEFCE) – Future funding of strategic and vulnerable subjects and Master’s programmes
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Professor Brian Collins (University College London) – Establishing an engineering policy think-tank
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Aaron Porter (Council for Industry and Higher Education) – Establishing the National Centre for Universities and Business
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Keith Attwood (CEO e2v technologies and Chair of CBI’s Education and Skills Panel) – University-Industry engagement in preparing the next generation of graduate engineers
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Professor Cliff Hardcastle (Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research and Enterprise, Teesside University) – The impact of the Wilson Review into university-business collaboration
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