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Major challenges to engineering education for sustainable development: What has to change to make it creative, effective, and acceptable to the established disciplines?
Nicholas A. AshfordScholars and professionals committed to fostering sustainable development have urged a re‐examination of the curriculum and restructuring of research in engineering‐focused…
Advances in education transformation towards sustainable development at the Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona
Didac Ferrer‐Balas, Jordi Bruno, Mireia de Mingo, Ramon SansThis paper presents methodological and strategic results of the first two years of the implementation of the second environmental plan (2002‐2005) at the Technical University of…
Implementing a program in sustainability for engineers at University of Technology, Sydney: A story of intersecting agendas
Paul Bryce, Stephen Johnston, Keiko YasukawaIntegrating sustainability into an undergraduate engineering program at the University of Technology, Sydney has been a challenging project. The authors of this paper have been…
Integrating SD into engineering courses at the Delft University of Technology: The individual interaction method
D.‐J. Peet, K.F. Mulder, A. BijmaWhen sustainable development (SD) is only taught in specific courses, it is questionable if engineering students are able to integrate it into their engineering practices and…
A sustainable development course for environmental engineers in Kyrgyzstan
Igor HadjamberdievCourses on sustainable development (SD) are taught in several institutes of Kyrgyzstan. However, courses for the specialties “eco‐technology”, and “ecological exploitation of…
Learning about environmental issues in engineering programmes: A case study of first‐year civil engineering students’ contextualisation of an ecology course
Cecilia LundholmDescribes how first‐year civil engineering students interpreted the content and structure of an ecology course. Students’ learning processes were analysed from an intentional…
Arsenic mitigation and social mobilisation in Bangladesh
Crelis F. Rammelt, Jan BoesFor the people of Bangladesh, mostly in rural areas, a new disaster is emerging. Two‐thirds of the deep tube wells installed over the last three decades – roughly 3 million in…
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