Overview
- Addresses a highly topical subject: engineering education for sustainable development
- Includes contributions by a wide range of authors from different countries
- Thanks to its strong interdisciplinary focus, it will be of interest to a wide academic audience
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: World Sustainability Series (WSUSE)
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This book discusses essential approaches and methods in connection with engineering education for sustainable development. Prepared as a follow-up to the 2015 Engineering Education in Sustainable Development (EESD) Conference held in British Columbia, Canada, it offers the engineering community key information on the latest trends and developments in this important field. Reflecting the need to address the links between formal and informal education, the scholars and professionals who contribute to this book show by means of case studies and projects how the goal of fostering sustainable development in the context of engineering education can be achieved. In particular, they discuss the need for restructuring teaching at engineering‐focused institutions of higher education and provide practical examples of how to do so.
The book places special emphasis on state-of-the art descriptions of approaches, methods, initiatives and projects from around the world, illustrating the contribution of engineering and affiliated sciences to sustainable development in various contexts, and at an international scale.Similar content being viewed by others
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Front Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Developments in Engineering Education for Sustainable Development
Editors: Walter Leal Filho, Susan Nesbit
Series Title: World Sustainability Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32933-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-32932-1Published: 30 June 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81403-2Published: 31 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-32933-8Published: 23 June 2016
Series ISSN: 2199-7373
Series E-ISSN: 2199-7381
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 321
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 32 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Engineering/Technology Education, Job Careers in Science and Engineering