At my institution, we have built our program around the concept of creating "societal engineers" who are dedicated to using their engineering foundation to improve society.
This task has multiple dimensions requiring integration of complex societal and engineering decisions.
Our children and youth have not been getting the right message about the societal value of engineering and, because they represent the very beginning of the engineering talent pipeline, without a better understanding at a young age of what engineers "do" for society, they are unlikely to make the educational or personal choices that lead to an engineering career path.
Successful reclamation, as needed to satisfy today's societal demands, requires engineering, design, and purposeful reconstruction of the full mining disturbance, not just its surface, and control of waters leaving the mine site.
Integration of societal issues, such as engineering ethics, environmental and safety considerations, and impact of technology on society are addressed in the context of case studies.
Under this circumstance, achieving comfortable and healthy indoor environment with minimized energy consumption becomes a very challenging engineering and societal issue.
First, we discuss the engineering and societal framework within which these methods are introduced and present a succinct overview of recent computational advances in the domain.
The coverage of topics and the set of intended learning outcomes is ambitious, spanning concepts of societal and financial benefits, engineering economic analysis, entrepreneurship, physical risk in terms of health, safety and environment, stakeholder involvement, clean production and clean technology, and engineering ethics.
Fosters the development, understanding, and practical use of heuristic solution techniques for solving business, engineering, and societal problems.
It fosters the development, understanding, and practical use of heuristic solution techniques for solving business, engineering, and societal problems.
