Enforcing Education for Sustainability in Engineering (EESY Engineering)

Focus:	Resource efficiency Talents
Type of funding:	Project funding programmes
Programme:	CZS Individual funding
Funded institution:	Karlsruhe Institut of Technology (KIT)

In the EESY Engineering project, four focus modules on sustainability are being developed and anchored in engineering degree programs. Students should use their specialist skills in a critical and application-oriented manner for sustainable development.

Goals

The Enforcing Education for Sustainability in Engineering (EESY Engineering) project is developing a basic scheme for anchoring education for sustainable development (ESD) in the curriculum of engineering degree courses at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Students should learn to use their specialist skills in a critical and application-oriented manner for sustainable development and to sharpen their interdisciplinary awareness. Findings and approaches from research are to be transferred to teaching in a timely manner

To this end, existing structures in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering will be further developed into a model for Bachelor's and Master's degree programs with associated teaching and learning materials and successively transferred to the engineering degree programs at KIT. Students are taught sustainability skills at the system and material level as well as in the areas of energy systems and the circular economy.

After completion of the project, at least one sustainability focus will be established in every engineering degree program at KIT.