Sustainability in Higher Education

1: Putting sustainable development in practice: campus greening as a tool for institutional sustainability efforts

• Abstract
• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.2 Role and areas of campus greening
• 1.3 Overview and evaluation of campus greening efforts
• 1.4 Discussion
• 1.5 Lessons learned and needs to be addressed
• 1.6 Conclusions

2: Management education for sustainability: deriving learning formats from competence requirements

• Abstract
• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 New profession requires profound management education for sustainability
• 2.3 Corporate change agents for sustainability: competence requirements to manage corporate sustainability
• 2.4 Learning formats to educate change agents for sustainability
• 2.5 Conclusion

3: U.S. and international community-based sustainability projects for deep learning

• Abstract
• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 Background: high-impact educational practices, deep learning, and stakeholder outcomes
• 3.3 WPI: interactive qualifying projects
• 3.4 Interactive community-based projects and deep learning
• 3.5 Common challenges
• 3.6 Lessons learned
• 3.7 Summary and conclusion

4: Inculcating sustainability among first-year engineering students using cooperative problem-based learning

• Abstract
• 4.1 Introduction
• 4.2 The cooperative problem-based learning model
• 4.3 Learning environment design in the introduction to engineering course
• 4.4 Example problem the introduction to engineering course
• 4.5 Study on the impact of the learning environment
• 4.6 Conclusion

5: Sustainability in engineering education: an approach to reach significant learning and character skills

• Abstract
• Acknowledgments
• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 Sustainability in higher engineering education
• 5.3 A qualitative, longitudinal research of students’ sustainable behavior in a Mexican HEI
• 5.4 Results and discussion
• 5.5 Concluding remarks