Teaching Sustainable Engineering
نویسندگان
چکیده
In some ways, sustainable engineering may be thought of as the operational arm of industrial ecology: first use the methodologies of industrial ecology, such as life-cycle assessment, materials flow accounting, or product and process matrix analysis, to determine relevant social and environmental considerations; then use sustainable engineering methods to integrate that knowledge into process, product, and infrastructure design
منابع مشابه
Teaching Design for Environment through Critique within a Project-Based Product Design Course*
Future environmental regulations are creating new employment requirements within traditional engineering organizations. These organizations require recent graduates to have a strong handle on environmental issues related to newproduct development. Sincemechanical engineering curricula are saturated with courses covering a broad spectrumof engineering fundamentals, there is little room to develo...
متن کاملTeaching Engineering Ethics to PhD Students: A Berkeley–Delft Initiative
A joint effort by the University of California at Berkeley and Delft University of Technology to develop a graduate engineering ethics course for PhD students encountered two types of challenges: academic and institutional. Academically, long-term collaborative research efforts between engineering and philosophy faculty members might be needed before successful engineering ethics courses can be...
متن کاملSustainable Product Design: Designing for Diversity in Engineering Education*
Current and future engineers will need to address sustainability’s triple bottom line, simultaneously addressing financial, environmental, and social goals. There is also a need to improve diversity in engineering, both in the communities served by new technology and the representation of gender and ethnic minorities among engineering professionals. We present data gathered from ‘Engineering 10...
متن کاملAc 2010-207: What Can Teachers Learn from Engineering Experts? Using a Three-phase Model to Improve K-12 Teacher's Knowledge of Engineering and Technology
A convenient way to improve K-12 teachers’ understanding of engineering and technology is to use experts in these areas as resources. The Tufts University Student Teacher Outreach Mentorship Program (STOMP) model forms collaborations between undergraduate or graduate students and classroom teachers to take advantage of each party’s expertise. These undergraduate and graduate students, or STOMP ...
متن کاملFostering Sustainable Energy Entrepreneurship among Students: The Business Oriented Technological System Analysis (BOTSA) Program at Eindhoven University of Technology
The Business Oriented Technological System Analysis (BOTSA) program is a new teaching and learning concept developed by Eindhoven University of Technology (the Netherlands) with participation from innovative companies in renewable energy. It is designed to stimulate sustainable entrepreneurship among engineering students in this field. The program combines the placement of students in companies...
متن کامل