Introducing Sustainability in a Robotic Engineering Degree: A Case Study
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Títol: | Introducing Sustainability in a Robotic Engineering Degree: A Case Study |
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Autors: | Pujol, Francisco A. | Tomás, David |
Grups d'investigació o GITE: | UniCAD: Grupo de investigación en CAD/CAM/CAE de la Universidad de Alicante | Procesamiento del Lenguaje y Sistemas de Información (GPLSI) |
Centre, Departament o Servei: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Tecnología Informática y Computación | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos |
Paraules clau: | Education for sustainable development | Engineering education | Robotic engineering | Gender bias |
Àrees de coneixement: | Arquitectura y Tecnología de Computadores | Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos |
Data de publicació: | 10-de juliol-2020 |
Editor: | MDPI |
Citació bibliogràfica: | Pujol FA, Tomás D. Introducing Sustainability in a Robotic Engineering Degree: A Case Study. Sustainability. 2020; 12(14):5574. doi:10.3390/su12145574 |
Resum: | This paper describes a group activity concerning the topic of climate change, designed to introduce the concepts of sustainable development into a Robotic Engineering degree. The purpose of this activity was to make students reflect about the impact of their work on the planet as future engineers by asking them to design an environmentally friendly robot that also integrated social and economic aspects, covering the three dimensions of sustainability in this way. Students were surveyed in order to study different aspects of their commitment, attitudes, practices, and motivation towards sustainability. In addition to the overall analysis of the survey, three specific studies were carried out with the aim of comparing the responses of different population groups: (i) Students who completed the proposed assignment and students who did not, (ii) female and male students, and (iii) roles played in the assignment. The results of the analysis revealed the high commitment of the students with respect to sustainability, but also a lack of active participation and awareness of their impact as future engineers. The activity was not only a way to introduce sustainability concepts, but in many cases, it also became a motivation for the participants, especially for the female students. |
Patrocinadors: | This research work was partially funded by the Spanish Government through project RTI2018-094653-B-C22. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/107957 |
ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
DOI: | 10.3390/su12145574 |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipus: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Drets: | © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Revisió científica: | si |
Versió de l'editor: | https://doi.org/10.3390/su12145574 |
Apareix a la col·lecció: | INV - UNICAD - Artículos de Revistas INV - GPLSI - Artículos de Revistas |
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