A study on impact of the UN decade of education for sustainable development on Industrial engineering education

• Autor(a) principal: Colombo, Ciliana Regina
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Alves, Anabela, Moreira, Francisco, Hattum-Janssen, Natascha van
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFRN
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/31135
• topic: Education for Sustainable Development; Sustainable Development; Engineering Education; Industrial Engineering

The United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, UN/DESD 2005-2014, is reaching its term. The decade was launched with an international footage with the main objective of providing general guidelines that could be readily adapted to a broad audience and diverse learning contexts, so as to further disseminate the concept and rationale of Sustainable Development. Following a bibliographical and documentary review of key journals and conference proceedings, akin to the field of Engineering Education, we present some key figures and trends regarding the introduction of sustainability aspects into engineering degrees within the last 15 years, and review key dissimilarities among the distinct approaches identified. The study reveals a growing number of publications in the field, but a rather small number related to Industrial Engineering Education. Another result relates to the fact that the review rarely found papers that make a reference to the UN/DESD, which surprisingly seems to indicate a poor awareness of such global program