Integrating Sustainability Across the Curriculum: Engineering Sustainable Engineers
Melanie Sattler, Victoria Chen, Brian H. Dennis, Stephen Mattingly, K.J. Rogers, Yvette Pearson, Madhu Rani, Ketwalee Kositkanawuth
Abstract
Engineering Sustainable Engineers is a program designed to improve student knowledge of and competency in addressing sustainability issues in engineering design and problem solving. Three (3) engineering departments at The University of Texas at Arlington -Civil (CE), Industrial (IE), and Mechanical Engineering (ME) -are collaborating to infuse their curricula with sustainability concepts of varying degrees of complexity from the freshman through the senior year. The expected outcomes of the project are to (1) increase students' knowledge of sustainability concepts, (2) increase students' ability to analyze project components for sustainability, (3) increase students' ability to propose mitigation strategies for reducing negative impacts and (4) provide opportunities for students to apply their knowledge of sustainability to real-world projects and problems.