New Developments in Engineering Education for Sustainable Development

✍ Scribed by Walter Leal Filho, Susan Nesbit (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 318
• Series: World Sustainability Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book discusses essential approaches and methods in connection with engineering education for sustainable development. Prepared as a follow-up to the 2015 Engineering Education in Sustainable Development (EESD) Conference held in British Columbia, Canada, it offers the engineering community key information on the latest trends and developments in this important field. Reflecting the need to address the links between formal and informal education, the scholars and professionals who contribute to this book show by means of case studies and projects how the goal of fostering sustainable development in the context of engineering education can be achieved. In particular, they discuss the need for restructuring teaching at engineering‐focused institutions of higher education and provide practical examples of how to do so.

The book places special emphasis on state-of-the art descriptions of approaches, methods, initiatives and projects from around the world, illustrating the contribution of engineering and affiliated sciences to sustainable development in various contexts, and at an international scale.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Comparing the Outcomes of Horizontal and Vertical Integration of Sustainability Content into Engineering Curricula Using Concept Maps....Pages 1-13
A New Program in Sustainable Engineering: A Platform for Integrating Research and Service into the Classroom Through Global Engagement....Pages 15-21
Seeing Beyond Silos: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Education as a Means of Addressing Sustainability Issues....Pages 23-34
Implementing a Collaboration Activity in Construction Engineering Education....Pages 35-44
Multidimensional Sustainability Assessment of Solar Products: Educating Engineers and Designers....Pages 45-56
Development of a Case-Based Teaching Module to Improve Student Understanding of Stakeholder Engagement Processes Within Engineering Systems Design....Pages 57-67
A Practical Approach to Integrating Research and Education: A Course Experiment from KTH, Sweden....Pages 69-79
Developing Global Preparedness Efficacy....Pages 81-90
Sustainability Science in Practice: Discourse and Practice in a University-Wide Transition Initiative....Pages 91-101
An Edible Education in Sustainable Development: Investigating Chocolate Manufacturing in a Laboratory-Based Undergraduate Engineering Course....Pages 103-112
Design and Early Development of a MOOC on “Sustainability in Everyday Life”: Role of the Teachers....Pages 113-123
Understanding Impacts: Community Engagement Programs and Their Implications for Communities, Campuses and Societies....Pages 125-137
Developing Role Models for Engineering and Sustainable Development: Engineers Without Borders’ Global Engineering Certificate....Pages 139-149
Systems Thinking for Dealing with Wicked Sustainability Problems: Beyond Functionalist Approaches....Pages 151-160
A Strategy to Incorporate Social Factors into Engineering Education....Pages 161-172
From Caring About Sustainability to Developing Care-Ful Engineers....Pages 173-184
Sustainability in BioEnergy Academy for Teachers (BEAT): Changing Perspectives and Practices Toward “Greening” the Curricula....Pages 185-197
Fostering Reflective Practice for Sustainable Professional Development: Lead by Design, a Pedagogical Initiative....Pages 199-212
D-Lab and MIT IDEAS Global Challenge: Lessons in Mentoring, Transdisciplinarity and Real World Engineering for Sustainable Development....Pages 213-233
What Do Programme Chairs Think About the Integration of SD in Their Programmes?....Pages 235-247
Injecting Sustainability into Engineering Design Projects....Pages 249-259
Embedding Sustainability Principles into Engineering Education....Pages 261-272
What Do Sustaining Life and Sustainable Engineering Have in Common?....Pages 273-282
Principles, Implementation and Results of the New Assessment and Accreditation System “Engineering Education for Sustainable Industries” (QUESTE-SI)....Pages 283-294
Developing Change Agency for Sustainable Development—Experiences from a New Chemical Engineering Course....Pages 295-307
Sustainable Development for Engineers Through a Thematic Restructuring of Experiential Learning....Pages 309-321

✦ Subjects

Sustainable Development; Engineering/Technology Education; Job Careers in Science and Engineering