Incorporating the Social Dimension of Sustainability into Civil Engineering Education

Valdes-Vasquez, Rodolfo; Klotz, Leidy

doi:10.1061/(asce)ei.1943-5541.0000066

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“…Too often, there is a lack of training in how to best engage and partner with the community to ensure 'community buy-in' and ownership. Current engineering education must shift towards recognition of the social impact and sustainability in engineering development efforts (Adams et al 2011;Amadei, Sandekian, and Thomas 2009;Valdes-Vasquez and Klotz 2011;Woodruff 2006). This obviously starts with the engineering curriculum models.…”

Section: Importance Of Community Engagementmentioning

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Teaching ‘community engagement’ in engineering education for international development: Integration of an interdisciplinary social work curriculum

Gilbert

Held

Ellzey

et al. 2014

European Journal of Engineering Education

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This article reviews the literature on challenges faced by engineering faculty in educating their students on community-engaged, sustainable technical solutions in developing countries. We review a number of approaches to increasing teaching modules on social and community components of international development education, from adding capstone courses and educational track seminars to integrating content from other disciplines, particularly the social sciences. After summarising recent pedagogical strategies to increase content on community-focused development, we present a case study of how one engineering programme incorporates social work students and faculty to infuse strategies for community engagement in designing and implementing student-led global engineering development projects. We outline how this interdisciplinary pedagogical approach teaches students from the two disciplines to work together in addressing power balances, economic and social issues and overall sustainability of international development projects.

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Section: Importance Of Community Engagementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Teaching ‘community engagement’ in engineering education for international development: Integration of an interdisciplinary social work curriculum

Gilbert

Held

Ellzey

et al. 2014

European Journal of Engineering Education

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“…Other, deeper, aspects of sustainability, particularly non-technical aspects, can be difficult to define or describe, making them an ambiguous concept for companies of various sizes and its workforce (Heidrich and Tiwary, 2013;Jowitt, 2004;Valdes-Vasquez and Klotz, 2011). The double challenge posed by sustainability to both paradigm (i.e.…”

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Teaching sustainability to first year civil engineering students

Bramald¹,

Heidrich²,

Hall³

2015

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering

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The role of, and need for, universities to create and promote a holistic approach to engineering is a key part of developing sustainability literacy among future engineers. This paper reports on three different, but linked, exercises that teach undergraduates the complexity of sustainability in civil engineering. In the first exercise, students prepared a written commentary on an exploration of their campus locale to identify typical civil engineering issues such as construction trends over time and set these against economic and social demands and impacts at a city scale. The second exercise asked students to rank the importance of components of sustainable communities as a civil engineer, and then rank them separately as a citizen. In the third exercise, ten groups of approximately ten students were led through a discussion around a holistic approach to engineering and the impact of civil engineering infrastructure development. These exercises provide students with an understanding of hard-to-measure boundary conditions, more informally 'context', which can surround the technical excellence at the heart of civil engineering systems. The paper reports student feedback and discusses implications for teaching sustainability. The exercises and experiences presented in this paper can be utilised by other civil engineering degree providers.

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“…Valdes-Vasquez and Klotz [33] presented a conceptual sustainability model that consists of four parts (social sustainability, community involvement, corporate social responsibility, and safety) and presented teaching methods how to introduce social sustainability.…”

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Theoretical-Hypothetical Model of Management Culture Level Determination

Žukauskas¹,

Vveinhardt²,

Andriukaitienė³

2018

Management Culture and Corporate Social Responsibility

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Management culture and corporate social responsibility (CSR) are not separate, but they are two complementary dimensions. This part introduces the theoretical model of evaluation of the level of management culture in order to implement corporate social responsibility. It is constructed after the analysis of the concepts proposed by various authors, focusing on factors determining the effectiveness of implementation of corporate social responsibility, the quality of the relationship with stakeholders. The steps of the implementation in companies using internal and external resources are described. By offering a new conceptual model, it is emphasized that the management culture is a deliberately constructed and developed system that can have a significant impact on the quality of organizational performance, providing both an instrumental and an ethical framework for addressing corporate social responsibility objectives given a clear value decision of the majority of the company shareholders.

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Incorporating the Social Dimension of Sustainability into Civil Engineering Education

Cited by 41 publications

References 32 publications

Teaching ‘community engagement’ in engineering education for international development: Integration of an interdisciplinary social work curriculum

Teaching ‘community engagement’ in engineering education for international development: Integration of an interdisciplinary social work curriculum

Teaching sustainability to first year civil engineering students

Theoretical-Hypothetical Model of Management Culture Level Determination

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