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Much progress has been made over the last decade in introducing concepts of sustainable development into both undergraduate and post graduate engineering curriculum.  Many specialist lecture courses and even whole programmes have emerged which have steadily gained acceptance alongside the more traditional skills associated with the physical sciences. However there is still a need to educate and develop a new kind of engineer who can add to the familiar analytical problem solving skills  new approaches to deal with wicked and messy problems, and who can apply a wider set of choice or assessment criteria when formulating solutions.

Engineers need to be educated to understand the effects of issues such complexity, uncertainty, environmental limits, social acceptability, and full whole life cost accountability. In addition they need to work in multidisciplinary teams and engage across a broad spectrum of policy, governance and ethical dimensions. To achieve these goals there is a fundamental need to rethink the engineers role and contribution in society, the skills needed to be effective, and how University education can help deliver a reconfiguration of an engineer’s professional outlook and responsibilities.

This conference will address these themes and share best practice across academic disciplines and educators and explore how to move beyond only advocating the next technical fix to increasingly difficult and diverse problems.

Web link for further event details: http://www-eesd13.eng.cam.ac.uk/

Email Address for further details: s.colling@cranfield.ac.uk