Sustainable Development in an Engineering Degree: Teaching Actions
Universities must prepare future professionals with critical thinking skills to effectively addresscomplex social and environmental challenges. In engineering degrees, while technicalcompetences are strongly developed, the acquisition of ethical and social skills remainschallenging within the framew...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2026 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha |
| Repositorio: | RUIdeRA. Repositorio Institucional de la UCLM |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ruidera.uclm.es:10578/46944 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci16010144 https://hdl.handle.net/10578/46944 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Engineering Skills Sustainability Sustainable development goals University teaching |
| Sumario: | Universities must prepare future professionals with critical thinking skills to effectively addresscomplex social and environmental challenges. In engineering degrees, while technicalcompetences are strongly developed, the acquisition of ethical and social skills remainschallenging within the framework of traditional subjects. This paper explores how theintegration of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), following a competence-basededucational model, can contribute to the development of ethical, social, and sustainabilityrelatedcompetences in an engineering degree. A set of activities, exercises, and tasksgrounded in real professional contexts was designed to encourage students to exploresustainable solutions to social and environmental problems, supported by experientiallearning and visible thinking routines. These activities were coherently aligned throughinterdisciplinary coordination among professors teaching in the degree. The results indicatethat the proposed approach was positively received by both professors and students,who valued its contribution to personal and professional development. Students demonstratedenhanced critical thinking and greater awareness of the social and environmentalimplications of engineering decisions. This work aims to support and inspire educatorsseeking to integrate SDGs into their teaching by offering a feasible, transferable, and easy-toimplementframework for embedding ethical, social and sustainability-related competencesin engineering teaching. |
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