Abstract
Educating engineering students in sustainability is becoming increasingly important since engineering is expected to play a vital role in solving the sustainability challenges facing us. At the Technical University of Denmark this awareness is visible in the strategy where sustainability is expected to be an integrated part of all study programmes. The division for Quantitative Sustainability Assessment (QSA) aims to provide this competence to the DTU students. QSA focus mainly on Life Cycle Assessment based methods but have designed a course curriculum that can provide different levels of sustainability competences to students with a progression of complexity from the bachelor to the master or even PhD level. This role is unique since LCA is not systematically a component of engineering studies today. We present and discuss our experience with attempts to integrate LCA and life cycle thinking in an educational curriculum to teach sustainability broadly to engineering students at DTU. A main challenge is how to integrate the teaching into study programmes and eventually how to accommodate an increasing number of students on the individual courses.
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Conference Paper, 2018
UN SDG Classification
DK Main Research Area
Science/Technology
