Conference proceeding
INFUSION OF GREEN ENERGY MANUFACTURING INTO ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY CURRICULA
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASME INTERNATIONAL MECHANICAL ENGINEERING CONGRESS AND EXPOSITION, 2013, VOL 5
01 Jan 2014
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Abstract
This paper discusses a joint educational effort that incorporates sustainability in engineering and technology curricula at Drexel University (DU) and University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). A critical component of a national "green industries/green jobs" effort is to motivate our citizenry to become proficient in STEM and associated manufacturing fields and societies, thus ensuring we have a 21st century workforce. Sustainable engineering is about design that recognizes the constraints applied by natural resources and the environmental system. The needs for engineering students and practicing engineers to understand sustainability concepts and concerns have been noted by many educators, scientists or engineers, and it is the philosophy of the authors that all engineering students need to become versed in sustainability ideas. This paper describes key factors in enhancing the ability of future engineering graduates to better contribute to a more sustainable future, preserving natural resources and advancing technological and societal development. Two approaches are used to incorporate sustainability into the undergraduate engineering and technology curricula that can be adopted or adapted by science and engineering faculty for this purpose. The two approaches described in the paper include: (1) redesigning existing courses through development of new materials that meet the objectives of the original courses and (2) developing upper division elective courses that address specific topics related to sustainability, such as green manufacturing, clean energy, and life-cycle assessment. The efforts presented in the paper also include an increase in social responsibility, development of innovative thinking skills, better understanding of sustainability issues, and increasing students' interests in the engineering and technology programs. Projects, included in the senior courses or in the senior design project course sequence have been also part of them.
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- Title
- INFUSION OF GREEN ENERGY MANUFACTURING INTO ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY CURRICULA
- Creators
- Richard Y. Chiou - Drexel UniversityRadian Belu - Drexel Univ, Goodwin Coll, Sch Technol & Profess Studies, Engn Technol, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USATzu-Liang (Bill) Tseng - Univ Texas El Paso, Dept Ind Mfg & Syst Engn, El Paso, TX 79968 USAASME
- Publication Details
- PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASME INTERNATIONAL MECHANICAL ENGINEERING CONGRESS AND EXPOSITION, 2013, VOL 5
- Conference
- ASME INTERNATIONAL MECHANICAL ENGINEERING CONGRESS AND EXPOSITION, 2013
- Publisher
- Amer Soc Mechanical Engineers
- Number of pages
- 8
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Engineering Leadership and Society/Engineering Technology
- Identifiers
- 991019170498604721
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- Engineering, Mechanical