Cultivating Ecology-Conscious Engineers: Learning for Thriving Together on Planet Earth
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2024 | Viewed by 231
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We live in an engineered world, such that the engineering profession highly influences our collective fate. Increasingly, the attention of engineering education has narrowed to support exploring other worlds for the elite minority, while the many needs of Planet Earth and the majority of its inhabitants go unmet. Business-as-usual has produced engineering education’s preoccupation with technology (e.g., robots, AI, space travel). We need to re-design our way of learning to engineer if we desire to thrive together. This Special Issue is dedicated to that central question: what does the next engineering education look like? We presume that engineering is a profession intended to prioritize the well-being of society; we live on Planet Earth, and therefore our collective well-being requires what the Climate Justice Alliance (https://climatejusticealliance.org/) calls a "just transition" to a regenerative life on Planet Earth. The principles within the "just transition" framework require an awareness of our relationship with one another and our surroundings—an ecology-consciousness. We invite scholars to present in this Special Issue visionary ideas regarding engineering education, grounded in wisdom, that are transformative—a view of learning that produces sensitivity, care, empathy, humility, equity, and generosity, while cultivating technical competencies among engineers. We welcome papers that explore questions and propose insight into what an engineering education for our future could be. We are particularly interested in amplifying perspectives that have been excluded or minimized.
Prof. Dr. Linda Vanasupa
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- engineering education
- sustainability
- transdisciplinary
- holism
- transformative
- just transition
- social justice
- equity
- curriculum
