Engineering education for sustainable development: A review of international progress
Engineering education for sustainable development: A review of international progress
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促进可持续发展的工程教育：国际进展回顾
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2010
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K. Hargroves
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E. Byrne;C. Desha;J. Fitzpatrick;K. Hargroves
自20世纪80年代末以来，世界各地要求在工程课程中嵌入可持续发展内容的呼声越来越高，特别是在过去十年里。然而，总的来说，在高等教育机构提供的课程中，几乎没有通过战略或系统整合的方式。随着人们对可持续发展问题的认识日益增强，国际上一些专业工程机构(PEI)越来越重视与工程在应对21世纪挑战中的作用有关的政策和倡议。这导致考虑按照认证准则的设想，将可持续发展纳入工程课程。本文提供了此类认证发展的全球概览，突出了新出现的可持续性能力(或“毕业生属性”)，并将这些放在相关的PEI宣言、倡议、政策、道德准则和指南出版物的背景下。
Since the late 1980s there have been increasing calls around the world for embedding sustainability content throughout engineering curricula, particularly over the past decade. However in general there has been little by way of strategic or systematic integration within programs offered by higher education institutions (HEIs). Responding to a growing awareness towards the issues surrounding sustainability, a number of professional engineering institutions (PEIs) internationally have placed increasing emphasis on policies and initiatives relating to the role of engineering in addressing 21 st Century challenges. This has resulted in some consideration towards integrating sustainable development into engineering curricula as envisaged by accreditation guidelines. This paper provides a global overview of such accreditation developments, highlighting emerging sustainability competencies (or ‘graduate attributes’) and places these in the context of relevant PEI declarations, initiatives, policies, codes of ethics and guideline publications.