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Jordi Segalàs

Researcher at Polytechnic University of Catalonia

Publications -  30
Citations -  1311

Jordi Segalàs is an academic researcher from Polytechnic University of Catalonia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sustainability & Sustainable development. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 27 publications receiving 1096 citations.

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What do engineering students learn in sustainability courses? The effect of the pedagogical approach

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the results of a 5-year research project that analyzed how sustainable development competences were introduced into technological universities and evaluated which pedagogical approach best facilitates sustainable development learning.
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What has to be learnt for sustainability? A comparison of bachelor engineering education competences at three European universities

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present and advance the work on describing desired sustainability competences for engineering Bachelor graduates in three technical universities (Chalmers in Sweden, DUT in The Netherlands and UPC-Barcelona in Spain) using the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) descriptors.
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Transdisciplinarity in higher education for sustainability: how discourses are approached in engineering education

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a literature review of articles published in relevant journals in the field of sustainability, which focussed on transdisciplinarity approaches in engineering education.
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How to Educate Engineers for/in Sustainable Development: Ten Years of Discussion, Remaining Challenges.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse the process of changing engineering universities towards sustainable development (SD) and highlight the types of changes needed, both in respect of approaches, visions, philosophies and cultural change, which are crucial for engineering universities which want to implement sustainable development as part of their progammes.
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Embedding sustainability in higher education through interaction with lecturers: Case studies from three European technical universities

TL;DR: In this paper, three universities compare their work on the integration of sustainable development into their educational programs and show examples of how this can be done and illustrate important generalised success factors.