Welcome to the teaching tools pages of the EPC’s Sustainability toolkit, produced in partnership with the Royal Academy of Engineering and Siemens. Click here for the toolkit homepage.
Teaching tools are those that users can access to help them know what to integrate and implement. These tools will be designed to support educators’ ability to apply and embed sustainability topics within their engineering teaching.
Project materials 
In this section, you will be able to access project materials such as project checklist, project brief examples etc. that you can use to apply and embed sustainability topics within your teaching:
- Project material 1
- Project material 2
- Project material 3
- Project material 4
Assessment and Accreditation materials
In this section, you will be able to access assessment and accreditation materials such as sample rubrics, AHEP mapping tools etc. that you can use to apply and embed sustainability topics within your teaching.
- Assessment and accreditation material 1
- Assessment and accreditation material 2
- Assessment and accreditation material 3
- Assessment and accreditation material 4
Learning activities
In this section, you will be able to access learning activities materials such as case studies, activity guides etc. that you can use to apply and embed sustainability topics within your teaching:
- Learning activity 1
- Learning activity 2
- Learning activity 3
Case studies:
Case studies are one tool that can be used to address the context and impact of sustainability, and have been proven to be an effective teaching and learning method.
These case studies cover a variety of engineering disciplines, professional situations, and issues related to sustainability and focuses on several areas of sustainability pedagogy. They were developed for use in higher education, but may also be of use in other settings.
To help target your specific needs, the have been mapped to Engineers Without Borders UK’s Reimagined Degree map intervention types, UNESCO’s sustainability competencies and the UN’s SDGs. They are written in parts so that educators have the flexibility to use them as is best suited to their teaching content and environment, and all cases permit and encourage the integration of technical content. Along with learning and teaching notes, the cases contain suggested questions and activities as well as supplementary materials.
They are aligned to the expectations of the 4th Edition of the Engineering Council’s Accreditation of Higher Education Programmes and are therefore appropriate for UK teaching and learning contexts. They are, however, easily adapted for use in other countries.
Guidance articles are also available to help situate the case studies in an educational context and to signpost to additional research and resources on sustainability.
In developing the cases and articles in this resource, the authors and steering group took into account reviewed existing material on sustainability in education in order to add to the growing body of material available on sustainability.
| Case study | Topic | Keywords | Disciplines | Sustainability competencies | The UN’s SDGs | Degree map link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case study example 1 | Topic 1 | Keyword 1 | Discipline 1 | Competency 1 | SDG 1 | Intervention type 1 |
Additional information
When developing these tools, steering group members and stakeholders agreed that providing educators with support in this area is a critical step. These tools will enable educators to quickly and easily find help with:
- Adapting existing sustainability resources to their disciplinary context;
- Implementing new and different pedagogies that support sustainability learning;
- Structuring lessons, modules, and programmes so that sustainability skills and outcomes are central themes.