ABSTRACT
Sustainability is the collective willingness and ability of a society to attain its viability, vitality, and integrity over long periods of time, while not hindering other generations and societies from attaining theirs. A new workforce with special skills is necessary to achieve sustainability. Sustainability education requires the incorporation of topics in the curriculum like life cycle assessment, green chemistry, and renewable energy and feedstocks. This may be possible through a curriculum that is inclusive of sustainability issues, to help students become active and conversant in the various dimensions of sustainability. It is particularly important that students achieve competency in system thinking in sustainability, as well as an understanding of and ability to apply sustainability indices, metrics and indicators.
This chapter covers such topics as key competencies and skills in sustainability, as well as education and training for sustainable engineering, including such topics sustainable resources, sustainable processes, increased efficiency, reduced environmental and ecological impact among others. The importance of including process intensification is also covered, as is the importance of related topics in sustainability education for engineers like manufacturing, energy, cyber security, artificial intelligence, and digital transformation.
