Integrating Sustainability into the Industrial Engineering Curriculum

该项目的目标是开发一门工业工程课程，为学生提供对可持续发展概念的多重接触，以培养将工业工程工具和方法与可持续实践相结合的热情和技能。项目小组正在修订本科核心工业工程课程，以增加对环境和社会意识以及可持续实践的重视，确定将纳入课程的可持续发展的关键问题，开发包含新学习材料和案例研究的单元，以适应每门工业工程课程，并开发一门关于可持续发展的新的独立课程。在大学范围内的评估单位的领导下，评估工作正在使用学生和教职员工调查、焦点小组和学生产品评估来监控进展。传播是通过网站张贴、会议论文、期刊文章和教师发展研讨会完成的。更广泛的影响包括传播教学材料和具有社会和环境意识以及为更可持续的未来作出贡献的技能的毕业生。

The goal of the project is to develop an industrial engineering curriculum that provides students with multiple exposures to sustainability concepts in order to develop both the passion and the skills to integrate industrial engineering tools and methods with sustainable practices. The project team is revising undergraduate core industrial engineering courses to add an emphasis on environmental and social consciousness and sustainable practices, identifying critical issues in sustainable development that will be integrated into the curriculum, developing modules containing new learning material and case studies customized to fit within each industrial engineering course, and developing a new stand-alone course on sustainable development. The evaluation effort, under the leadership of a university-wide evaluation unit, is using student and faculty surveys, focus groups, and assessments of student products to monitor progress. Dissemination is being accomplished through website postings, conference papers, journal articles, and faculty development workshops. Broader impacts include the dissemination of the instructional material and graduates that have a social and environmental awareness and the skills to contribute to a more sustainable future.