文档介绍：Drs. Niko Roorda
Faculty of Technology and Nature
Brabant University for Professional Education
herlands
Integrating Sustainable Technology
into Higher Engineering Education
Abstract
Engineering Education will have to pleted the integration of sustainable technology in all curricula, at last in the year 2010. Since the development and realisation of such drastic alterations require a lot of time, it is necessary to start this process immediately: there is no time to be wasted.
In herlands, a project called Cirrus is started to achieve this for the Brabant University for Professional Education. The results are to be transferred to all engineering education in herlands (and perhaps outside the country, too).
The main elements of the project are: the education in sustainability subjects of the teaching staff; the development of professional profiles for all types of engineers, aiming at the year 2010; and the development of a measuring tool for auditing (parts of) universities with respect to the degree in which sustainability is integrated.
1. Introduction: A challenge to Engineering Education
Although most of the teaching staff in Engineering Education may not be aware of it, there lies a tremendous challenge for all of them.
Within one or two generations, a real sustainable society wil have to be developed. This means, that it will be necessary that the way in which raw materials, energy and the environment are used will be improved by a factor of, roughly, 10 to 50. (see Jansen et al, 1997).
One or two generations - say, some 40 years - may perhaps seem like a lot of time. But the time scale for Engineering Education is remarkably shorter, and this can be demonstrated quite easily.
If we agree upon the goal of reaching a real sustainable society by the year 2040, then a lot has to be done in the meantime. Looking backwards from 2040 till now, the following steps have to be taken:
2040: Sustainable society.
By 2040, lifestyles of all people, in all