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Conference is 22nd to 25th September 2013 in Cambridge, U.K

The theme of this conference, the 6th in the series, will be ‘Rethinking the Engineer’.

The conference will address the following questions:

The Conference will explore how to develop the new skills needed by engineers so they can be more effective in dealing with messy problems in an increasingly complex and constrained world. A key theme will also be to reflect on how successful graduates who have received a sustainable development education have been in their subsequent working lives, as well as how useful their wider approach has been to their employers. The conference is the premiere forum for the dissemination of new advances in the evolution of sustainable development thinking in young engineers and associated professionals and will bring together students, academics, graduates and practitioners to rethink the professional engineer’s role and responsibilities in modern society.

Special sessions will be presented and we particularly invite papers on the following:

 

  • Social Justice in EESD: Challenges Opportunities and Best Practices
  • Water/Energy/Food  Nexus Education for EESD
  • Alternative pedagogies for ESD: Practice Based Learning (PBL), Learning Through Service (LTS), Engineering by Doing (EBD)
  • Education for Sustainable Development at Universities in South America
  • A special session in celebration of Leo Jansen who sadly passed away in 2012. We invite papers for a special “Leo Jansen session” that will be devoted to the main topics of Leo’s talks of the last decade: how to teach –  long term thinking, –  interrelation between culture/structure/technology and –participatory democracy To engineering students.
  • A session led by The United Nations Environment Programme, Environmental Education and Training Unit on topics relating to the Global Universities Partnership on Environment & Sustainability
  • Improving decision-making for sustainable development

A selection of papers which are accepted for the Conference will be published in the following peer reviewed Journals: i. Cleaner Production, ii The International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education and iii Engineering Sustainability.

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About EESD13: http://www-eesd13.eng.cam.ac.uk/

EESD 2013 is the sixth conference in a series of international conferences which began at TU Delft in the Netherlands in 2002.

The date of the conference is 22nd to 25th September 2013 in Cambridge, U.K.