Educating engineers to embrace complexity and context

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dc.contributor.authorByrne, Edmond P.
dc.contributor.authorMullally, Gerard
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-11T15:56:53Z
dc.date.available2016-04-11T15:56:53Z
dc.date.issued2014-10
dc.date.updated2014-11-03T12:36:02Z
dc.description.abstractEducation represents a key intervention point in encouraging the emergence of a professional engineering ethos informed by a sustainability ethic. In terms of establishing an appropriate relationship between sustainability and education, many would contend that incorporating sustainability as merely add-on material to already overcrowded curricula is insufficient. Instead sustainability should actually be a leading principle for curricula. Traditional reductionist models of engineering education seek to extinguish context and uncertainty and reduce complexity across socio-economic and ecological domains. They therefore constitute a wholly inadequate response to the need for fit-for-purpose, twenty-first century graduates required to address broader sustainability issues. This paper presents research from an undergraduate module at University College Cork, Ireland. The module is aimed at developing students' conceptions of complexity, uncertainty, risk, context and ethics as foundational bases for productively engaging with sustainability. The paper also highlights some problematic issues.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationByrne, E.P. and Mullally, G. (2014) 'Educating engineers to embrace complexity and context', Proceedings of The Institution of Civil Engineers, 167 (6), pp. 241-248. doi: 10.1680/esu.14.00005en
dc.identifier.doi10.1680/esu.14.00005
dc.identifier.endpage248en
dc.identifier.issn1478-4629
dc.identifier.issued6en
dc.identifier.journaltitleProceedings of The Institution of Civil Engineersen
dc.identifier.startpage241en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/2442
dc.identifier.volume167en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherICE Publishingen
dc.relation.urihttp://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/10.1680/esu.14.00005
dc.rights© ICE Publishing 2014, all rights reserved.en
dc.subjectEducationen
dc.subjectEducatingen
dc.subjectEngineersen
dc.subjectComplexityen
dc.subjectSustainabilityen
dc.subjectContexten
dc.titleEducating engineers to embrace complexity and contexten
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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