Engineering graduation: why introduce sustainability

Graduation in Biomedical Engineering

Re-engineering Sequential Software to Introduce Parallelization

In the quest for additional computational power to provide higher software performance, industry have shifted to multi-core processing units. At the same time, many existing applications still contain sequential software; in these cases, multi-core processors would not deeply improve performances and in general would be under-utilized since software running on top of them are not conceived to e...

Sustainability Science and Engineering

As an instrument of sustainable development, sustainable design intends to conceive of products, processes, and services that meet the needs of society while striking a balance between economic and environmental interests [1]. By definition, the benefits of sustainable design are publicly shared, and to achieve them individual designers must place their decisions into a context larger than any ...

Teaching engineering ethics and sustainability

Most professional engineering code’s of ethics require that engineers shall understand and promote the principles of sustainability and/or sustainable development and have due regard for their environmental, social and economic obligations. However the ethical obligations towards sustainability are incorporated into the teaching of engineering ethics in very few programmes. Typically engineerin...

Engineering Requirements for Social Sustainability

Software is no longer a passive tool, but is an active agent in shaping modern communities. Yet, to date, software engineers do not endeavour to explicitly state requirements which a software system must fulfil if it is to positively contribute to the well-being (that is the social sustainability) of its user community. This paper presents a proposal on how to bridge this gap. It notes that soc...