Technical Education for Sustainability An Analysis of Needs in the 21st Century Mahshid Sotoudeh Frankfurt 2009 Peter Lang-Verlag ISBN 9783631585948 244 S. Br. ca. € 45 Bestellen

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Aus dem Inhalt

• Development of engineering challenges
• Needs for the future engineering skills based on engineers´ opinions

• Context of technology development and application
• A concept for a socio-technical system
• Methods to examine consequences of technical solutions

• The responsibility of technical universities as sustainable universities
• A list of documents for higher education in sustainable development
• Technical universities needs and objectives
• A participatory approach for technical education in the future
• Summary of results

• A - A summary of an internet discussion: Has engineering been changed?
• B - Questionnaire for the Survey 2006-2007
• C - Networks, clusters, cooperation and integration of actors in the decision-making
• D - CSR, Environmental Management systems, (History of) EMAS

Über das Buch

How does technical education fit into today's society? What is the implication of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014) for technical education? This book examines these questions. The author analyses the corresponding needs within technical education from various perspectives. She has identified different domains within the world of engineering including the domain of engineering profession and practice for manufacturing, design and development of technical solutions to fulfil the consumers' needs, the domain of technology assessment which considers potential impacts of technical solutions on human beings, and the domain of technical education as the foundation for engineering knowledge and skills. This book will be helpful to both researchers and practitioners in shaping the future of technical education.

Über die Autorin

Mahshid Sotoudeh finished her Doctoral thesis on modelling methods in Environmental Engineering in 1994 in Austria. In 1998 she started her research work at the in Vienna on the implications of sustainable development for clean integrative technologies.