Purpose The purpose of this paper is to deliver a roadmap that displays pathways to develop sustainability skills in the engineering curricula. Design/methodology/approach The selected approach to enrich engineering students with sustainability skills was active learning methodologies. First, a survey was carried out on a sample of 189 students to test the current sustainability literacy and determine the roadmap starting point. Next, a scientometric study regarding active learning methodologies was executed. A total of 2,885 articles and conference proceedings from the period 2013-2016 were retrieved from the Web of Science database. The records were then imported into text mining software to undergo a term clumping process. Annual knowledge clusters based on key terms were outputted. Finally, a roadmap was created by experts based on the annual knowledge clusters. Findings Four annual pathways were created along the roadmap to develop sustainability skills during the four-year college course in engineering. The first consisted on promoting a recycling campaign through a circular economy. The second aimed at creating educational videos regarding sustainability. The third reinforced reasoning and argumentative skills by preparing a debate on environmental issues. The last path assumed that the student is working in internship programs and prepared him/her to apply environmental management models to solve sustainability issues within the company. Research limitations/implications Roadmaps should be updated approximately every two years to reflect novelty. The proposed methodology shows an easy way to create them. Practical implications Results from this paper, as well as the proposed methodology, can be applied to any organization forming individuals: from primary school education to employee training programs in organizations. Social implications The development of sustainability skills has a direct, positive impact on professional decision-making and, ultimately, on the environment. Originality/value This paper presents a roadmapping process to develop sustainability competences throughout engineering college education.
This article analyses how the concept of sustainability is being incorporated into global research of higher education. This study utilizes different scientometric reviews of global research between 1991 and 2018 using text mining techniques in order to generate first and second-generation bibliometric indicators, the latter are displayed in science maps. A total of 6724 articles and conference proceedings were collected from the Web of Science and Scopus databases to generate this research. From the results obtained, it was possible to build a canvas of the main institutions that have significantly contributed to the topic of sustainability in higher education, and it was found that 40.58% of the records originated in institutions from the United States, China, United Kingdom, and Australia. This study also provides an insight into emerging trend themes, and patterns of research in the area of sustainability worldwide. Terms such as regional planning and environmental protection inside the top keywords found, suggest a greater interest in issues of sustainable planning and social awareness and that higher education is becoming the cornerstone of environmental awareness, innovation, and guidance to achieve sustainability goals in higher education institutions, as well as in society and government.Sustainability 2019, 11, 3521 2 of 18 both basic and applied, (c) campus operations, (d) community outreach, and (e) assessment and reporting. Similarly, Urquiza [7] proposes the labels of (a) education, (b) research, (c) public engagement, (d) operations, and (e) administration. By considering this frame of reference, it is possible to analyze each dimension in order to examine how sustainability has been integrated into higher education.The bibliometric method has been employed to study the research perspective in the area of sustainability and education, some of the most representative studies are: Bibliometric analysis of sustainability and sustainable development [8], evolution of collaborative economy business [9], the identification of emergent trends in education for sustainable development and ecopsychology in higher education [10], the mapping of tools to determine the implementation of sustainability in higher education [11] and the study of environmental education during the period 2001-2010 in Spain [12]. Ávila and co-workers reported a bibliometric analysis of sustainability and higher education from Web of Science (WoS) publications in the period between 2005 and 2014 [13]. Similarly, Hallinger and Chatpinyakoop conducted a bibliometric review related to the scientific production contained in Scopus regarding higher education and sustainable development in the period 1998-2018 [14]. Currently, there are no bibliometric studies that merge documents from both databases in order to conduct a global sample and construct a full visualization canvas along with the analysis of the evolution of the field through different time periods.The authors of this study suggest the use of the text mining methodology along w...
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