How do graduate civil engineers working in London learn global responsibility and support UN Sustainable Development Goals?

Chance, Shannon M.; Direito, Inês; Mitchell, John E.

How do graduate civil engineers working in London learn global responsibility and support UN Sustainable Development Goals?

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2021-06-14

Authors

Chance, Shannon M.

Direito, Inês

Mitchell, John E.

Publisher

University College Cork

Abstract

In this paper, we report what topics the participating engineers associated with global responsibility and how they learned about the topic over time. We then compare the findings with the UN’s SDGs and with recommendations by PwC regarding where engineers can make the most difference related to the SDGs.

Keywords

Engineering education , Sustainable development , Sustainable development (SD) , UN SDGs , Sustainable Deveopment Goals (SDG)

Citation

Chance, S. M., Direito, I. and Mitchell, J. E. (2021) ‘How do graduate civil engineers working in London learn global responsibility and support UN Sustainable Development Goals?’ EESD2021: Proceedings of the 10th Engineering Education for Sustainable Development Conference, 'Building Flourishing Communities', University College Cork, Ireland, 14-16 June.