Engineering Professors' Council Chairman's Review of the Year Professor F J Maillardet

General Meetings 7 scheduled committee meetings Venues included –EEF, ETB, IChemE and IMarEst Presentations from –EPSRC and HEFCE

Focused Meetings Officers’ meeting in August Committee Retreat in September Representatives’ meeting in November

Membership Retiring Members –Best, Bonner, Nandi and Shenoi –Carter –Huxley

Professor W M Banks Distinguished Chairman and Vice Chairman Congress Convenor 2001 Co-opted to Committee for

Priorities Output Standards Work UK-SPEC The Mathematics Challenge Marketing EPC

Working Groups Admissions to Degree Courses Tom Ruxton Communications, both internal and external Ray Allen Ethics (jointly with RAEng) Tim Whiteley

Sectorial Groups The 6 groups represent:- -Chemical -Civil -Computing -Electrical -Manufacturing -Mechanical Clarifying their relationship with EPC

Formal Responses RAE Review Improving Standards in Post Graduate Degree Programmes HEFCE Funding Proposals Scientific Publications Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning

External Links Further web-site development Close liaison with other bodies –EC UK, ETB, LTSN Eng, LTSN Maths, –Save British Science, APEG, SEFI....

The Future Continue to pursue current priorities Implement recommendations from the Working Groups Improve internal and external communications

The Future Raise the profile of the Bologna debate in the UK Take a more active role in European education developments