Why information literacy is an ethical issue in engineering
Navigating the digital landscape.
What's in the Enterprise Collaboration Toolkit?
Finding just what you need in the toolkit is now easier than ever.
Fewer than five weeks until Congress - grab one of five remaining free early career staff spaces
These spaces have now been snapped up. You can still book at the heavily discounted ECS rate though. With fewer than five weeks until Engineering Academics Network Congress 2024, we...
Embedding ethics in engineering education through wide use of deaf awareness: a gateway to a more inclusive practice
Wide use of deaf awareness: a gateway to a more inclusive practice.
Blog: Embedding ethics in engineering education through wide use of deaf awareness: a gateway to a more inclusive practice
Wide use of deaf awareness: a gateway to a more inclusive practice.
Sustainability-focused learning outcomes mapped to AHEP4
This guide maps the Engineering for One Planet (EOP) Framework to AHEP4. The EOP Framework is a practical tool for curricular supplementation and modification, comprising 93 sustainability focused learning outcomes...
Workflow for embedding the SDGs across engineering programmes and modules
This article should be read by educators at all levels of higher education looking to embed and integrate sustainability into curriculum, module, and / or programme design.
Example coursework: Developing intercultural competence in engineering students
This resource describes a coursework aligned to three key pedagogical approaches of ESD.
Evidencing sustainability competencies in assessment
This article should be read by educators at all levels of higher education looking to embed and integrate sustainability into curriculum design. It may also be of interest for students...
Activity: Providing affordable housing that supports net zero
This activity allows students to consider the dilemmas around providing housing that is cheap to heat as well as cheap to buy or rent.
Example project: Peace Engineering Dashboard on water, air quality, health, and finance
This is an example project that could be adapted for use in a variety of contexts. It asks students to devise a “sustainability dashboard” that can not only track indicators...
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 within problem-solving endeavours and addressing...
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 to support the occupants in...
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 made by stakeholders in the...
Activity: Sustainability autobiography
This learning activity is designed to build students’ awareness of different dimensions of sustainability through reflection on their everyday activities.