Building a Sustainability Road Map for Engineering Education

Major environmental, economic, and social trends are transforming the application of sustainability thinking within the engineering profession and within organizations that hire engineers. These include the growing demand for new kinds of knowledge, skills, and abilities to respond to global megatrends; an increased awareness and understanding of sustainability challenges among engineering students; the application of quantitative engineering skills for business risk management; and further developing transform inventions into solutions. This feature sustainability roadmap in major elements of such strategies for engineering specific recommendations the entrepreneurship curricula to marketplace innovations and societal article addresses the need for a engineering curricula; identifies the a framework; reviews collaboration schools, the public sector, private companies, and non-governmental organizations; and presents for curricula development and expanding the influence of engineering professionals in developing solutions to growing societal challenges.