Document Type : Scientific - Research
Authors
1 Research Instructor, Engineering Sciences Department, The Academy of Sciences
2 Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
Nowadays, environmental issues affect almost all commercial and industrial sectors, and are a central concern for the public, governments and even international relations. Announcing The years 2005 – 2014 as decade of education for sustainable development by UN is considered as an awareness on environmental awakening movement and more promotion of sustainable development. This announcement has faced the global systems of engineering research and education with great challenges. Following that, scholars and professionals committed to fostering sustainable development have urged a re-examination of the curriculum and restructuring of research in engineering, This focused institutions of higher education, in order to minimize the negative impacts of engineering activities on the environment. Meanwhile, developing countries have concentrated their efforts on building the needed infrastructure for improving the living conditions of their people without considerable attention to sustainability. One of the major components of sustainable development is educating engineers the required knowledge and professional skills. This is the responsibility of engineering schools to make engineers aware of identifying potential risks and impact of their decisions on environment. This paper reviews the fundamental concepts implemented by industrial states to analyze and renew their research and education systems and finally tries, on the basis of global experiments, to introduce the roadmap of engineering education for sustainable development.
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