Sustainability: affirming engineering values

• Autores: Clive L. Dym
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 26, no. Extra 2, 2010, págs. 240-246
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper encompasses and extends opening remarks made at a workshop on sustainability and design education by the chair of theworkshop’s organizing committee. Held at Harvey Mudd College in May 2009, and supported by Mudd’s Center for Design Education,Mudd Design Workshop VII provided a forum for engineers and designers—in their roles as educators, researchers, and practitionersinterested in learning and in design—to identify and articulate important aspects of sustainability in design and engineering education.The remarks detailed below are intended to remind us, as engineering and design educators, that issues of sustainability are inherent inand central to our professional obligations as engineers.