Analysis of the integration of Sustainable Development Goals in the Industrial Engineering Degree Course

Gabriela Bracho; Ana M. Pedrosa; Elizaveta Klyatskina; Julien Maheut; Soledad Bernal-Perez; Juan Giner-Navarro

doi:10.4995/muse.2023.18898

Authors

Gabriela Bracho Universitat Politècnica de València https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9198-7044
Ana M. Pedrosa Universitat Politècnica de València https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8069-5620
Elizaveta Klyatskina Universitat Politècnica de València https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5620-4959
Julien Maheut Universitat Politècnica de València https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5796-9053
Soledad Bernal-Perez Universitat Politècnica de València https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5431-9792
Juan Giner-Navarro Universitat Politècnica de València https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0513-3625

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4995/muse.2023.18898

Keywords:

University, industrial engineering, SGD, educational innovation

Abstract

Universities play a key role in transforming society, which necessarily leads them to promote the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) laid down in the UN’s 2030 Agenda. The Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Industrial (ETSII) of the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) is working on a project to design and develop strategies and interventions to include the SDGs in their degree courses. For this, the present paper proposes a map of the industrial subjects in both the BSc in Engineering in Industrial Technologies and the MSc in Industrial Engineering to determine how far the SDGs have been incorporated into these courses. An exhaustive review of the syllabus of the related subjects was carried out, together with a diagnosis of the current status of the SDG concepts so far included. The subsequent analysis of the data identified the possibilities of each subject to develop a sense of responsibility for educating students in the SDGs.

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