Dear Colleagues,

With the current global pressures on climate change and an increasing realization that we have one planet of resources and ongoing exponential increases in population, sustainability education is becoming critical. This Special Issue will focus on the importance of systems thinking and life cycle assessment in guiding our course content and pedagogy. Sustainable engineering education is about the need to ensure our engineering design, materials, energy choice, and end-of-life waste management are focused on the triple bottom line and our need to include protect and conserve resources for future generations in our engineering decision-making. How are we to frame modern engineering education and the responsibility we have in producing engineering graduates that can both understand and manage the increasing sustainability pressures the world will face? This SI will cover engineering education content, pedagogy, and curricula design and will review the ways in which modern engineering educators are having to develop education programs that also focus on multi-disciplinary approaches to engineering education, including engineering management responsibilities like risk management, engineering governance, sustainability assessment, and reporting, and stewardship. We hope this SI will inspire engineering educators to share their wisdom and learnings as the global demand for sustainability-focused engineering increases. Engineers are at the heart of the management solutions needed to manage climate change, resource depletion, renewable energy adoption, land conservations, and resource efficiency. It is time to extend our learning in this arena and increase the development of the well trained and resourceful sustainable engineering graduates that we need to save our future.

Dr. Michele John
Dr. Sally Male
Guest Editors

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• sustainable engineering education
• life cycle thinking
• life cycle assessment
• systems thinking
• sustainability education pedagogy
• sustainable development goals