Center targets sustainable engineering education

A new Center for Sustainable Engineering is being launched to help understand and address some of the important environmental and social implications of engineering in the modern world. The center, funded by the National Science Foundation and the Environmental Protection Agency at more than $2 million, brings together researchers from Arizona State University, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Texas-Austin.

The overall goal of the center is to help future engineers design better products and systems in a world where resources may be increasingly limited and where globalization raises new environmental and social considerations.

Some of the programs of the Center for Sustainable Engineering will include holding workshops to improve engineering faculty teaching, creating a website with peer-reviewed education materials about sustainable engineering, and conducting a nationwide survey of sustainable engineering programs and courses.

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