| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北科技大學 === 環境工程與管理研究所 === 96 === In Taiwan, current sustainable education for higher education mainly focuses on environmental aspect, and it is categorized into general knowledge courses. Taiwan’s sustainable engineering education is still at its initilal first stage. From paper review, we found that engineering education must seek to give future engineers an understanding of the qualitative as well as quantitative aspects of their practices and it should also be considered in addressing sustainability which requires a systems thinking approach, and trains students to communicate with multi-stakeholders. There are three stages to incorporate sustainability into traditional engineering education: design a sustainability-oriented core course, developing a possibility to graduate in a sustainable development (SD), and intertwining the concept of sustainable development in all regular disciplinary courses. This study utilized the Fuzzy Delphi Method (FDM) has successfully screened the sustainable-oriented core courses, and the Fuzzy Analystic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) to prioritize the importance of different courses in order to propose an sustainable engineering degree program for Taiwanese engineering students.
The results of FDM show that: sustainability-oriented core courses include nineteen courses. Conceptual and technological aspects are more important than application and basic ability aspects on sustainability-oriented core courses. It is due to sustainability-oriented core courses should equip students with basic knowledge of sustainable development. “SD Introduction” is the most important sustainability-oriented core course, and the second important courses are “Technological Innovation and SD”, “Environmental Science and Climate Change”, “Life Cycle Assessment”, “Environmental Impact Assessment” and “Corporate Social Responsibility”; and they hold same importance. The results of FAHP show that sustainable engineering degree program includes twenty-six courses. Conceptual courses are more important than application, technological and basic ability courses on sustainable engineering degree program. Five courses are recommended for the sustainable engineering program, they are “Environmental Science and Climate Change”, “Ecological Protection and Biodiversity”, “SD of Population and Social Environment”, “Environmentally-Friendly Design” and “Technology and Environment”. This study recommend seven obligatory courses on sustainable engineering degree program: “Environmental Science and Climate Change”, “SD of Population and Social Environment”, “Life Cycle Assessment”, “Corporate Social Responsibility”, “Environmentally-Friendly Design”, “Critical Issues and Systems Thinking”, and “Communication Skills”. It is suggested that the courses framework established in this study should be tested and to corfirm its suitability and feasibility under Taiwanese education system.
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