Title :
Sustainability: Educating informally
Author_Institution :
Florida Gulf Coast Univ., Fort Myers, FL
Abstract :
Teaching sustainability fosters civic responsibility and develops informed citizens who are responsible to their professions, communities, posterity and the world. A new course focuses on practical applications that utilize and implement existing research and products into the delivery of engineering services. Students are trained to informally educate other others in order to promote sustainability.
Keywords :
engineering education; teaching; civic responsibility; engineering education; informed citizens; sustainability teaching; Certification; Civil engineering; Costs; Councils; Education; Engineering students; Green buildings; Heart; Power engineering and energy; Testing; Engineering Communication; Information Sharing; Sustainability; Undergraduate Engineering Education;
Conference_Titel :
Electronics and the Environment, 2008. ISEE 2008. IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2272-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2298-2
DOI :
10.1109/ISEE.2008.4562931
