DocumentCode
1922511
Title
Special Session - engineering for a sustainable world: How do we incorporate sustainability in undergraduate engineering education?
Author
Prins, Robert ; Kander, Ronald ; Moore, Towana ; Pappas, Eric ; Pierrakos, Olga
Author_Institution
James Madison Univ., Harrisonburg, VA
fYear
2008
fDate
22-25 Oct. 2008
Abstract
Sustainability principles in engineering are currently taught and promoted through graduate programs and professional engineering societies. It is appropriate that sustainability principles are also addressed in undergraduate engineering education. Retooling an existing undergraduate engineering curriculum to include comprehensive coverage of sustainability may be outside of the expertise or purview of an individual educator. However, sustainability principles can still be introduced to different degrees and at different class levels within an existing curriculum. This Special Session seeks to facilitate discussion of how to best incorporate sustainability in undergraduate engineering education and also seeks to build a cohort of engineering educators that join James Madison University in a desire to bring sustainability education into the engineering classroom.
Keywords
educational courses; educational institutions; engineering education; professional aspects; James Madison University; engineering educators; graduate programs; professional engineering society; sustainability education; sustainability principles; sustainable world; undergraduate engineering curriculum; undergraduate engineering education; Assembly; Curriculum development; Educational programs; Engineering education; Engineering management; Engineering profession; Engineering students; Knowledge engineering; Springs; education; engineering; sustainability;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Frontiers in Education Conference, 2008. FIE 2008. 38th Annual
Conference_Location
Saratoga Springs, NY
ISSN
0190-5848
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-1969-2
Electronic_ISBN
0190-5848
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/FIE.2008.4720521
Filename
4720521
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