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Boosting the Sustainable Development Goals in a Civil Engineering Bachelor Degree Program
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Gómez-Martín, M. Esther; Gimenez-Carbo, Ester; Andrés-Doménech, Ignacio; Pellicer, Eugenio – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the potential for implementing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into the civil engineering bachelor degree in the School of Civil Engineering at Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain). Design/methodology/approach: All the 2019/2020 course syllabi were analyzed to diagnose at which extent…
Descriptors: Civil Engineering, Engineering Education, Bachelors Degrees, Sustainable Development
Environmental Awareness of Civil Engineers in the Context of Sustainable Development of Society
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Khyzhniak, Inna; Kravets, Vasyl; Lysak, Larysa; Hryhorieva, Vita – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2021
In the context of the man-made burden on the natural environment, the issues of developing civil engineering students' environmental awareness are important and particularly relevant to low environmental security countries, which include Ukraine. The authors emphasize the need for broad implementation of the Concept of Sustainable Development in…
Descriptors: Civil Engineering, Professional Personnel, College Students, Foreign Countries
Systematic Curriculum Integration of Sustainable Development Using Life Cycle Approaches: The Case of the Civil Engineering Department at the Université de Sherbrooke
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Roure, Bastien; Anand, Chirjiv; Bisaillon, Véronique; Amor, Ben – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a consistent and systematic integration framework of sustainable development (SD) in a civil engineering (CE) curriculum, given the connection between the two. Curriculum integration is a challenging project and requires the development of certain protocols to ensure success.…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Civil Engineering, Engineering Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
A Holistic Approach to Delivering Sustainable Design Education in Civil Engineering
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Vemury, Chandra Mouli; Heidrich, Oliver; Thorpe, Neil; Crosbie, Tracey – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present pedagogical approaches developed and implemented to deliver sustainable design education (SDE) to second-year undergraduate students on civil engineering programmes in the (then) School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences at Newcastle University. In doing so, the work presented offers an example of…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Sustainability, Design, Engineering Education