TY - JOUR
T1 - Sustainable engineering education in the United States
AU - Allenby, Braden
AU - Murphy, Cynthia Folsom
AU - Allen, David
AU - Davidson, Cliff
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments This research was supported in part by EPA grant no. X3-83235101-0 and NSF grant no. 0442618.
Funding Information:
into all phases of their practice, so that ‘‘sustainable engineering’’ eventually equates with ‘‘good engineering.’’ In the area of research, respondents self-identified a total of 238 sustainable engineering projects with more than a quarter of a billion dollars (some $235,000,000) worth of funding. The average project length is 30 months, and the average annual funding per project is a little over $240,000 per year. Nearly half of the funding is from the US National Science Foundation (NSF), with NSF plus the Department of Defense (DOD) accounting for nearly 70% ($162 M) of the total funding. If sponsorship is evaluated by funding rates, these two sponsors account for more than 60% at 31.3 million dollars per year (Fig. 1).
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Sustainable engineering is a conceptual and practical challenge to all engineering disciplines. Although the profession has experience with environmental dimensions of engineering activities that in some cases are quite deep, extending the existing body of practice to sustainable engineering by including social and cultural domains is a significant and non-trivial challenge. Nonetheless, progress is being made, as a recent study undertaken by the Center for Sustainable Engineering in the United States demonstrates.
AB - Sustainable engineering is a conceptual and practical challenge to all engineering disciplines. Although the profession has experience with environmental dimensions of engineering activities that in some cases are quite deep, extending the existing body of practice to sustainable engineering by including social and cultural domains is a significant and non-trivial challenge. Nonetheless, progress is being made, as a recent study undertaken by the Center for Sustainable Engineering in the United States demonstrates.
KW - Engineering education
KW - Industrial ecology
KW - Sustainable engineering
KW - Sustainable engineering education
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U2 - 10.1007/s11625-009-0065-5
DO - 10.1007/s11625-009-0065-5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:64449088138
SN - 1862-4065
VL - 4
SP - 7
EP - 15
JO - Sustainability Science
JF - Sustainability Science
IS - 1
ER -