Systems Change Lab: Global Responsibility in Engineering Higher Education

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Systems Change Lab: Global Responsibility in Engineering Higher Education

Join us for this in-person Systems Change Lab to explore and test how and why to integrate global responsibility as a central feature within university engineering education.

15 September 2023

Prince Philip House

9.30am - 4.00pm

INVITATION ONLY

If you have any questions, please contact Siobhan Silas, Education and Skills Policy Officer at Royal Academy of Engineering, at [email protected] and Emma Crichton, Head of Engineering at Engineers Without Borders UK, at [email protected].

Overview

Empowering engineers with the skillsets to address the challenges created by climate change requires adapting both the technological and philosophical frameworks used in engineering education.

This goal has been the subject of a programme of work at the Royal Academy of Engineering which aims to transform undergraduate engineering education – what is taught and how – to embed global responsibility (sustainability and wider ethical and inclusive practice) across all engineering courses in the UK.

The focus of this Systems Change Lab co-hosted by the Royal Academy of Engineering and Engineers without Borders UK will be to explore, with leading representatives and shapers of engineering higher education, both the need and the opportunity to embed global responsibility as a central feature within engineering degree courses.

Programme

9.30am	Arrivals and coffee
10.00am	Welcome and Keynote addresses Ellie Carey, student at the University of Bristol and Engineers Without Borders UK student champion outlining the need to reimagine degrees. Santiago Mejia Rendón, Director Social Ecosystems, Ashoka sharing their experience of creating the structures to support change makers. Royal Academy of Engineering setting the mission for the Systems Change Lab.
10.45am	Workshop 1 - Visioning workshop Where are we now and where do we need to be? Co-creating strategic initiatives to reshape engineering education.
11.30am	Break
11.45am	Workshop 2 - Analysing our context What is the change needed? Problem statement deep dive.
12.40pm	Lunch
1.30pm	Presentation: What can we do? Overview of existing change initiatives and a proposal for future Systems Change Lab engagements
2.00pm	Workshop 3 – Action Planning Planning out the next steps for participants and for the Systems Change Lab as a collective.
4.00pm	Sharing actions, feedback and closing remarks.
4.15pm	Event ends

*Programme subject to change

Venue and accessibility

It is very important to the Royal Academy of Engineering that our events are accessible to all. If you have any accessibility requirements, please contact the Events team more than one week in advance of this event so that necessary arrangements can be made. Contact details: [email protected].

Further information about accessibility at Prince Philip House can be found at: https://raeng.org.uk/about-us/accessibility.