Campaigns
Sustainability
There is an urgent need to increase sustainability awareness and skills. This is especially important for Engineering education so that all new graduates are motivated and equipped to tackle the serious sustainability challenges facing the environment and society.
To achieve this the Engineering Professors’ Council (EPC) (with support and funding from Siemens and The Royal Academy of Engineering) is developing a Sustainability Toolkit for UK Engineering academics to ensure that sustainability is essential to and fully integrated within the learning of Engineering students. The toolkit will be launched in early 2024, open source and in time it will be connected with similar projects to create a global resource for Engineering educators. The aim of this project is to develop and curate a toolkit of resources that help academics explicitly embed sustainability in their day-to-day practice of engineering teaching and to help make sustainability integral to rather than tangential to engineering learning.
Along with the Sustainability Toolkit, there is a myriad of sustainability-related content on EPC Online. Please find a wide selection of resources related to this campaign below.
Using projects for integrating sustainability into engineering education
Projects, and thus project-based learning, offer valuable opportunities for integrating sustainability education into engineering curricula by promoting active, experiential learning through critical and creative thinking...
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Activity: Do passive houses need passive people? Adapting to low carbon housing
The purpose of this exercise is to encourage students to think in a socio-technical perspective of delivering extreme low carbon housing (e.g. Passivhaus), in order...
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Activity: Rolling out e-scooters
The objective of this activity is to provide students with an understanding of the complexity of technology development and different considerations that need to be...
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Activity: Sustainability autobiography
This learning activity is designed to build students’ awareness of different dimensions of sustainability through reflection on their everyday activities.
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Flood warning system project brief
This resource outlines a project brief that requires an engineer to assess the local area to understand the scale of flooding and the local context
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Using a factory fitness model to improve sustainability
The following are a set of use cases for a maturity model designed to improve energy and resource efficiency in manufacturing facilities.
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Case study: The upward spiral - contrasting Stockholm and Lagos in an analysis of waste management challenges and solutions
This case study juxtaposes the waste management strategies of two cities: Stockholm, Sweden, renowned for its advanced recycling and waste-to-energy initiatives, and Lagos, Nigeria, a...
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Case study: Beyond the grid - sustainable powering of remote villages
This case study offers learners an explorative journey through the multifaceted aspects of deploying off-grid renewable solutions, considering practical, ethical, and societal implications.
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Case study: From plastic waste to infrastructure: understanding circular business models in context
This case study is focused on the role of engineers to address the problem of plastic waste in the context of sustainable operations and circular...
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