TY - JOUR
T1 - Multistage Sustainability Education for University Engineering Students
T2 - A Case Study from Mechanical Engineering in Technological University Dublin
AU - Delaney, Kevin Dominic
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Sustainability will be a key challenge that future engineering graduates must consider when solving problems. This paper sets out the approach taken in the mechanical engineering discipline of Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin) to help students acquire and develop the requisite skills to integrate aspects of sustainability when tackling engineering problems. The approach, which has already been implemented across a number of different design and innovation modules, consists of two distinct phases. In the first, students are educated about sustainability and related issues. In the second phase, students are educated for sustainability and are taught to identify, define and solve problems so they can plan, develop and implement solutions to complex sustainability challenges/problems. Implementing this approach has raised questions, particularly in relation to helping students deal with conflicting requirements, understanding the limitations of their own knowledge, and the relationship between ethics and sustainability. Engineering educators will need to address such questions as they develop their approach(es) to sustainability education.
AB - Sustainability will be a key challenge that future engineering graduates must consider when solving problems. This paper sets out the approach taken in the mechanical engineering discipline of Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin) to help students acquire and develop the requisite skills to integrate aspects of sustainability when tackling engineering problems. The approach, which has already been implemented across a number of different design and innovation modules, consists of two distinct phases. In the first, students are educated about sustainability and related issues. In the second phase, students are educated for sustainability and are taught to identify, define and solve problems so they can plan, develop and implement solutions to complex sustainability challenges/problems. Implementing this approach has raised questions, particularly in relation to helping students deal with conflicting requirements, understanding the limitations of their own knowledge, and the relationship between ethics and sustainability. Engineering educators will need to address such questions as they develop their approach(es) to sustainability education.
KW - mechanical design
KW - multistage
KW - sustainability education
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85171553857&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.21427/t3nw-be65
DO - 10.21427/t3nw-be65
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85171553857
SN - 0949-149X
VL - 39
SP - 74
EP - 86
JO - International Journal of Engineering Education
JF - International Journal of Engineering Education
IS - 1
ER -