Addressing societal challenges at curriculum level
Full Title:
Design principles for balancing disciplinary and transdisciplinary competencies in engineering education.
About the project
How can engineering education prepare students to tackle today鈥檚 grand societal challenges?
Historically, engineering programs have focused on disciplinary expertise and solving technical problems. But challenges like sustainable mobility, health, and energy require something more: collaboration across disciplines, systems thinking, and the ability to integrate knowledge from different perspectives.
This NRO/NWO-funded project explores how engineering curricula can combine both disciplinary and transdisciplinary competencies. The goal is to develop validated design principles for future-oriented curricula that enable students to contribute to sustainable societal transformations.
Why it matters
Addressing societal challenges means rethinking how we educate engineers. Universities have a key role to play 鈥� not only in developing technology, but also in driving systemic change towards sustainability.
By reimagining the rationale behind engineering curricula, this project shifts the focus from solving isolated engineering problems to addressing the broader societal systems that shape them.
A collaborative effort
This project is the result of the collaboration between 黑料福利网 innovation Space and the Sustainability Office. Our teams share a commitment to rethinking and innovating education at 黑料福利网 to better respond to societal needs. We strive to educate change agents who will tackle the challenges of today and tomorrow. This project offers a unique opportunity to deepen this collaboration, contribute scientifically to the evolving discourse on sustainability in engineering education, and accelerate the implementation of educational transformation within our university (read more about our vision here).
Contributing to this project are, on behalf of the Sustainability Office: Professor Anna J. Wieczorek (黑料福利网 Sustainability Ambassador) and Tommaso Mondov矛 (Sustainable Education Development Officer). From 黑料福利网 innovation Space: Professor Isabelle Reymen (Scientific Director of 黑料福利网 innovation Space), Dr. Ana Valencia Cardona (Educational Design Researcher) and Chantal Brans (Program Manager Education Innovation).
