Descriptive Study of the Integration of Sustainability in an Engineering Course

Abstract

Education on sustainability is one of the main concerns of the 21 st century for engineers, it is indeed engineers design technologies and participate actively to industrial activities, their education to design for sustainability is paramount. In the literature, engineering skills for sustainability are well identified. Also, pedagogical experiments on the integration of these competences in engineering curricula are reported. This article describes, in a pedagogical situation the modelling of interactions between a technical system, human organizations and the biosphere. The article analyses whether this type of representation can allow students to acquire certain engineering skills for sustainability.

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“…Furthermore, as products become increasingly interdisciplinary, they will need to have a greater awareness, better understanding, and increased operational knowledge of sustainability and ethical responsibility in the context of design (Isaksson and Eckert, 2022). As briefly described in Grimal et al (2021), there are two different bodies of work: 1) research on the importance of integrating sustainability into design engineering education, as well as the core skills to address (Abd-Elwahed and Al-Bahi, 2021;Perpignan et al, 2020) and 2) a descriptive study of experiences in education for sustainable engineering. We have chosen to be in the second category.…”