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Incorporating sustainability in engineering education

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the ongoing shift in sustainable engineering
and the approaches used by universities for engineering students. At the United Nations Earth
Summit, in Rio de Janeiro, in 1992, participating nations agreed to work together to achieve the goal
of sustainable development. Twenty years on, great progress has been made, but many challenges
remain and overcoming them and ensuring a sustainable future will require the knowledge, skills
and input of engineering professionals. Ethics and costs have long been part of engineering, but
broader understanding is now needed because the skill set those engineers will need has grown
dramatically.
Design/methodology/approach – In this paper, the authors describe the ongoing shift to
sustainable engineering and discuss a variety of approaches that universities are currently using to
introduce engineering students and practitioners to sustainability principles and practice and how
those can be utilized in mining and petroleum high education institutions.
Findings – The authors first place sustainability in an engineering context and vice versa, and then
review alternative approaches to incorporating sustainability in engineering curricula, briefly
highlighting a few key concepts and documenting an example.
Research limitations/implications – The authors first place sustainability in an engineering
context and then review alternative approaches to incorporating sustainability in engineering curricula,
briefly highlighting a few key concepts and documenting an example.
Originality/value – The challenge to educators is to ensure that new concepts addressing
sustainability are not only instilled in the next generation of engineers but are also being
communicated to practicing engineers. Incorporating sustainability into mining and petroleum
engineering education is identified as a way to engage students, encourage their enthusiasm and
interest them in pursuing engineering as a career that is not only interesting but also contributes to
society. Distance education is identified as a way to education practicing engineers about
sustainability concepts.

Keywords Systems thinking, Sustainability, Engineering education, Curriculum change, Petroleum engineering, Transdisciplinarity

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International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education

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: Emerald Group., 2014

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International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education Vol. 15 No. 4, 2014 pp. 390-403

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English

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