Is Progress to Sustainability Committed Engineers Stalking?

(Delft UT, The Hague UAS, The Netherlands)

Abstract: Engineering Schools were among the first to address the challenge of Sustainable Development, and integrate Sustainable Development into their curricula. This paper identifies a tendency that this progress is stalking. Main factors are an increased tendency to train more narrowly specialized engineers, while specialized SD programs sometimes became an alibi to remove SD course from the major programs. Broader engineering programs are required for mainstreaming SD in engineering education.

Key words: engineering education, interdisciplinarity, specialization