ENG93000 - Engineering Management for a Sustainable Future (2020)

Challenges students to engage in engineering management for a wide range of social, environmental and economic aspects of a sustainable future. Decision-making strategies for shaping sustainability outcomes from infrastructure and engineering technology and new Innovations are explored. A case study enables students to apply strategies for a sustainable future across the engineering system life cycle, from concept to implementation and operation.

• Introduction:
  • What is wrong with our current lifestyles and business paradigms; and
  • Why embedding sustainability in engineering practice is essential;
• A history of the evolution of sustainability thinking;
• Why engineers must embrace the delivery of sustainability outcomes - visioning a safe future;
• A cultural change in Engineering Philosophy - from compliance, through “green”, to “blue";
• A critical analysis of the interdependence of earth systems with technical, economic, and social systems;
• Tools and mechanisms for the analysis and delivery of Sustainability Outcomes; and
• Case studies in the delivery of regenerative outcomes for nature and society.

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

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