Title:
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Engineering education and sustainability. Sustainable Technology Excellence Program (STEP-Vilanova)
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Author:
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Segalàs Coral, Jordi; Hernández Gómez, M. Angeles
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Other authors:
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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Mecànica de Fluids; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. STH - Sostenibilitat, Tecnologia i Humanisme; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. GPLN - Grup de Processament del Llenguatge Natural |
Abstract:
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Embedding Sustainability in technological curricula has become a crucial factor for educating
engineers with competences in sustainability. The Sustainable Technology Excellence Program
STEP2015 has been designed in order to assure a successful Sustainability Embedding into all the
degrees offered at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – Barcelona Tech. This Program takes
advantage of the opportunity that the redesign of all Bachelor and Master Degrees in Spain by 2010
under the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) framework offered.
The STEP program goals are:
• To design compulsory courses in sustainability in each degree;
• To develop the conceptual base and identify reference models in sustainability for all
specialities;
• Create an internal interdisciplinary network of faculty from all the schools;
• To initiate new transdisciplinary research activities in technology-sustainability-education;
• To spread the know-how attained,
• To achieve international scientific excellence in technology-sustainability-education
• To graduate the first engineers/architects of the new EHEA bachelors with sustainability as a
generic competence.
The program has been structured in 4 phases:
Phase 1. To analyse Sustainability Competences and strategies within Barcelona Tech, and
benchmark with other technological universities in order to develop a feasible and effective program.
Phase 2. To carry out a pilot implementation of the STEP program in 5 schools.
Phase 3. To spread the implementation to 10 Schools of UPC taking advantage of the lessons learnt
in the pilot experiences. The goal here is to spread out all the know-how attained in the process to all
schools in order to ensure that all UPC graduates acquire the competence in sustainability and social
commitment.
Phase 4. To apply the program to all UPC schools and departments.
In this context, the goal of this document is to present the different actions carried out in the
Engineering School of Vilanova i la Geltrú, the lessons learnt and the outcomes of the application of
the program. |
Subject(s):
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-Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Desenvolupament humà i sostenible::Desenvolupament sostenible::Educació, valors i sostenibilitat -Sustainability--Study and teaching. -Sustainability--Technological innovations--Research -Curriculum and methods in education -Engineering--Study and teaching (Higher)--Spain--Catalonia -Desenvolupament sostenible -- Ensenyament universitari |
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Article - Published version Conference Object |
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