• 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