Management of Material and Energy Flows as Challenge to Engineering - Curricular Implications
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چکیده
Every human movement and action is unavoidably linked to the metabolism of human with nature. Modern technology-based civilization has enhanced this metabolism by several orders of magnitude and thus, created the bulk of pollution problems. To control this metabolism will be the future task of engineering. A withdrawal from hightechnology based production is not viable. Instead solutions for the polltion problems will have to be looked for in the core of industrial design and production. The selfunderstanding of engineering has to be re-directed towards mastering the ubiquitous metabolism of human with nature. Implications of this change of engineering for education are subsequently illustrated. Copyright © 2002 IFAC
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