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Student Perceptions of Sustainability Education in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology
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In this paper, student interest in, knowledge of, and experiences related to sustainability in civil and environmental engineering (CEE) at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) were examined and a survey was developed and administered to students enrolled in CEE capstone courses.Abstract:
For sustainable engineering to contribute to sustainability, curricular reforms are needed to train sustainability-conscious engineers. Examining student perceptions of sustainability education can provide insights for benchmarking the current quality of a curriculum and for identifying strategies for reforming a curriculum. Thus, the goal of this study was to examine student interest in, knowledge of, and experiences related to sustainability in civil and environmental engineering (CEE) at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). A survey was developed and administered to students (n=153) enrolled in CEE capstone courses. The results indicated that although students are interested in sustainable development, there is potential for further enhancing sustainability learning. In addition, students reported that CEE courses strongly impacted their learning, which underscores the importance of curricular quality. Finally, although students were generally satisfied with CEE sustainability ed...read more
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Assessing curricula contribution to sustainability more holistically: Experiences from the integration of curricula assessment and students' perceptions at the Georgia Institute of Technology
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the results from the assessment of the sustainability content of the Civil and Environmental Engineering curriculum at the Georgia Institute of Technology using two complementary approaches: the Sustainability Tool for Assessing UNiversity's Curricula Holistically system and two students' perceptions surveys.
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The Sustainable Development Goals: An Experience on Higher Education
TL;DR: In this article, the evaluation of individual works based on the sustainable development suggested to students in a subject of the Master's of Thermal Engineering at the University of Vigo is presented, which was used to analyze the ability of students to incorporate sustainability principles in their work.
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Engineering Education and the Development of Competencies for Sustainability.
Osvaldo Luiz Gonçalves Quelhas,Gilson Brito Alves Lima,Nicholas Van-Erven Ludolf,Marcelo Jasmim Meiriño,Chrystyane Gerth Silveira Abreu,Rosley Anholon,Julio Vieira Neto,Leandro Silva Goulart Rodrigues +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the skills for sustainable development in engineering courses and identify which competences should be developed in these courses to contribute to the resolution of conflicts related to sustainability, as well as the means used by universities for their development.
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Education for sustainability in construction management curricula
TL;DR: In this paper, a content analysis of its course structure, unit aims, learning objectives and lecture materials is conducted to examine the sustainability elements incorporated into the CM curriculum, and the results show that the course incorporates sustainability components into the existing course structure mainly through horizontal integration, embedding sustainability into general units rather than as an add-on subject.
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Assessing impacts of a learning-cycle-based module on students' conceptual sustainability knowledge using concept maps and surveys
TL;DR: In this article, a learning-cycle-based sustainability module was integrated into a senior-level, civil and environmental engineering capstone design course at a large, research-intensive university in the southeastern United States.
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