Higher Education Academy Engineering Subject Centre

These workshops for engineering lecturers aimed to introduce and explore, curricula content, ways of thinking, and pedagogical and assessment approaches which will facilitate engineering students’ abilities in the following areas:

• recognise the importance of environmental sustainability in impoverished communities as well as developed nations
• critique the environmental, economic and social impact of a development and its sustainability in all three domains and appreciate the connections in relation to engineering practices
• question what is being sustained and for whom with any engineering project
• ensure full participation with any affected community
• question whether local communities lifestyles will be maintained or improved
• critique the difference between environmentalism and environmental justice in relation to engineering practice
• appreciate the connections between social, environmental and economic spheres in relation to engineering practices
• know the interrelationship between poverty reduction and environmental sustainability.

Resources from this event

• Workshop flyer
• Workshop programme
• Engineering Education for Sustainability
  Deborah Seddon, Deputy Director of Formation Engineering Council