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Sustainable Development, Technological and Industrial Impacts on Engineering Education

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  • Amr Elsaadani

    (Pharos University, Alexandria, Egypt)

  • Ahmed Helmi

    (Pharos University, Alexandria, Egypt)

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The past industrial revolutions had negative effects on our world especially on environmental and social aspects. Hence, our societies must be able to steer the continued industrial revolution into the direction of sustainability. In particular, the current industrial revolution relies on the technologies of the Internet of Things, which open the ways to the development of sustainable solutions in order to meet the needs of the present without compromising the needs of the future. In the transition towards a sustainable society, teaching sustainability is necessary to ensure sustainable design and preserve the ecosystem. Consequently, educating engineering students on sustainable development is wide spreading and is actually taking place worldwide in many modern faculties and universities. This article examines the teaching methods for a sustainability subject and builds on the experience of others and a wide spectrum of methods in order to provide guidelines for curriculum design. The design is based on innovations in technologies to cover sustainability along with environmental and social implications. The article also provides a criterion for evaluating the impact of executing the proposed sustainable development curriculum.

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  • Amr Elsaadani & Ahmed Helmi, 2018. "Sustainable Development, Technological and Industrial Impacts on Engineering Education," Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems - scientific journal, Croatian Interdisciplinary Society Provider Homepage: http://indecs.eu, vol. 16(2), pages 227-237.
    • Handle: RePEc:zna:indecs:v:16:y:2018:i:2:p:227-237
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    1. Karel Mulder, 2004. "Engineering education in sustainable development: sustainability as a tool to open up the windows of engineering institutions," Business Strategy and the Environment, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 13(4), pages 275-285, July.
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    Keywords

    sustainable development; teaching methodology; learning outcomes; ICT; IoT;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q56 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth

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