TY - JOUR
TI - Educating engineers for/in sustainable development? What we knew, what we learned, and what we should learn
AU - Mulder Karel F
AU - Segalas-Coral Jordi
AU - Ferrer-Balas Didac
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2010
VL - 14
IS - 3
SP - 625
EP - 639
PT - Article
AB - In the past decade, several engineering universities, mainly in Europe, but  also in Australia, North America, and Japan, have been addressing the issue  of sustainable development. Engineering education in sustainable development  has been discussed at many occasions. What questions have been addressed,  what answers have been provided, and what are the main remaining topics for  research into engineering education in sustainable development? What should  engineers learn regarding sustainable development? How to trigger  institutional change within engineering schools: top-down or bottom-up? How  to trigger cultural change, how to win the hearts and souls of the faculty?  Curriculum change: starting new programs or changing existing ones? The  contribution of active learning and project based learning? The role of  external stakeholders, external cooperation? How to measure sustainable  development learning effects? Practice what you preach: how to green the  campus, diminish resource consumption and sustainabilise procurement? How to  teach normative content in an academic context? The paper, based mainly on  the European literature on EESD of the last decade, discusses the answers  that were provided and present an agenda for further research in EESD (This  paper has mainly a European perspective. An overview of sustainable  development engineering education in the U