Engineering & Sustainable Development: Can we get there from here?
Presentation Type
Long presentation (faculty/staff) 15-20 minutes
Location
Student Union Event Center, Room 165A
Start Date
28-1-2020 11:15 AM
End Date
28-1-2020 11:35 AM
Presentation Description/Abstract
This presentation will explore the sometimes conflicting role that engineers play with regards to sustainability. By examining the rhetoric that engineers use to describe engineering work and how engineers are expected to address sustainability, we will identify some of the inherent conflicts and challenges that the profession of engineering must overcome. The presentation will also discuss potential changes to the engineering education curriculum that might help shift questions related to sustainability from the purely technical realm to something much broader that includes issues of ethics and social justice.
Keywords
Ethics, Sustainability, Engineering Education
Engineering & Sustainable Development: Can we get there from here?
Student Union Event Center, Room 165A
This presentation will explore the sometimes conflicting role that engineers play with regards to sustainability. By examining the rhetoric that engineers use to describe engineering work and how engineers are expected to address sustainability, we will identify some of the inherent conflicts and challenges that the profession of engineering must overcome. The presentation will also discuss potential changes to the engineering education curriculum that might help shift questions related to sustainability from the purely technical realm to something much broader that includes issues of ethics and social justice.
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Engineering and Sustainable Development: Can we get there from Here? by Jeff Brown