Embedding education for sustainable development in the engineering curriculum through challenge-based education

An international objective to create a net-zero economy means it is essential that the engineers for tomorrow are fully literate in sustainable engineering, have the agility to engage in large-scale challenges, can identify actionable problems and deliver fit for purpose designs. As the needs of tomorrow's engineers change, so must their education today. The Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering (EEE) at the University of Strathclyde, in the 21/22 Academic Year, have embedded Sustainable Development (SD) into year 1 of all of degree programmes using the Engineers Without Borders Engineering for People Design Challenge as our case study activity. This paper presents a learning framework for integrating a challenge-based sustainability engineering activity into core curricula demonstrating the appropriateness of a Challenge-Based Learning (CBL) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) approach