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WHAT IS SUSTAINABLE DESIGN ENGINEERING (SDE)? PERSPECTIVES FROM A PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING EDUCATION: M.SC. IN SDE AT AALBORG UNIVERSITY COPENHAGEN

Part of: Design Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2020

A. F. Valderrama Pineda  and
M. Niero
A. F. Valderrama Pineda
Affiliation:
Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark
M. Niero*
Affiliation:
Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark
*
*monian@plan.aau.dk

Abstract

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Sustainable Design Engineering (SDE) is an emerging research field and the development of programmes aiming at educating sustainable design engineers is very limited. One example is the SDE program at the Aalborg University in Copenhagen, which is based on a Problem Based Learning (PBL) model. In this article we aim to address the following three research questions: i) why Sustainable Design Engineering? ii) what is Sustainable Design Engineering? iii) How can Sustainable Design Engineering be implemented? By means of two examples from master thesis projects in the building and food sectors.

Keywords

design educationsustainable designengineering designproblem-based learningscience and technology studies

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Proceedings of the Design Society: DESIGN Conference , Volume 1 , May 2020 , pp. 1825 - 1834
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