Striving to improve business success through increased environmental awareness and design for the environment education. Case study: AMP incorporated

Companies are beginning to incorporate environmental considerations into their business activities. Focusing on the environmental aspects of product or process, design activities hold a particular promise to generate business success. Progressive companies are developing new ways to teach their engineering communities about the rapidly evolving field of Design for the Environment (DFE). This paper describes an inter-institutional effort to enhance continuing engineering education in a company as well as how one company dealt with a new demand for environmental engineering education. This case study illustrates a working educational model and suggests emerging trends related to the incorporation of environmental criteria into business practice. AMP Incorporated, with the assistance of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, developed a short course to introduce its worldwide engineering community to DFE concepts and tools. The unique aspects of the project included the focus on quality improvement framework, developing business and engineering ownership and the adaptation of the educational program to AMPʹs facilities worldwide.