Sustainability and Education: To Sink—or to Swim?
作者:
DAVID THOM,
期刊:
European Journal of Engineering Education
(Taylor Available online 1996)
卷期:
Volume 21,
issue 4
页码: 347-352
ISSN:0304-3797
年代: 1996
DOI:10.1080/03043799608923422
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
In the 1960s, the role of engineering education was clear, whereas in the 1990s there is a search for a new rationale. These changes have been wrought by social concerns for the environment at both local and global levels. This trend will accelerate further, and both the rate of development of the trend and its implications have been underestimated. There is now a hope and expectation that technology, until now a contributor to environmental problems, can in the future play a large part in the reduction of these problems. While professional engineering organizations have addressed the problem at a policy level, implementation is a major difficulty. This is also true in education, despite efforts by some schools of engineering to adapt existing courses in an environmental direction. It is now clear that the changes needed are too fundamental and the rate of change too great to be dealt with adequately by adaptation. Basic questions of philosophy and capacity will have to be addressed by academia, engineering practice and major business.
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