Assessing SDGs‘ learning objectives in Engineering Education. Case study Engineering in Industrial Design and Product Development at UPC Barcelona Tech

Research paperEducation for the Sustainable Development Goals (ESDG) in higher education requires a methodology to diagnose its presence in the degrees as a starting phaseto design a desired scenario, where graduates are qualified with the needed SDG competences. The EDINSOST2-SDG project, involving 8 Spanish universities, pursues this transition and sets the framework for this study. This paper shows the methodology and results of diagnosing the presence of sustainability competences and the SDG at the undergraduate engineering degree in Industrial Design and Product Development at the School of Engineering of Vilanova i la Geltrú of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. The methodology can be applied to any engineering degree and synthetases the results through Sustainability maps. The starting point is the Engineering Sustainability Map, from the project EDINSOST2-SDG that states the learning outcomes in relation to Sustainability and SDG that engineering students must master when graduating. From there we build assessment maps of the degree analysed. Map 1: shows the Sustainability learning outcomes. Map 2: shows the SDG based on their learning objectives. These maps allow curriculum designers to verify to what extent Sustainability and SDGs are embedded in the subjects, semesters and in the whole engineering degree.Peer ReviewedObjectius de Desenvolupament Sostenible::4 - Educació de QualitatObjectius de Desenvolupament Sostenible::12 - Producció i Consum ResponsablesPostprint (published version