Sustainability in Engineering
- Sustainability in Engineering
The engineering profession is engaged beyond building structures, shaping tools, or the hardware curtain; professionally engineers are engaged daily in decisions that influence sustainability of humanity [Hasna A M, (2007)Sustainability and Engineering Philosophy: The Paradigm , The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, Volume 3, Issue 4, pp.107-114.] . Literature reveals definitions, themes and descriptions of sustainability in many complex shapes and sizes some ranging from strategy, framework, phrases, concepts, indexes, indicators, weak, strong, externality, internally and criterion, Hence, presenting an immense diversity of opinion, with confusion to its literal implementation. It exposes "sustainability" as function to transdisciplinary variables which are underlined in three common themes, social, economic, technological and ecological. Many questions are raised than answers, is it a Utopian state or pseudo ideal process? [Hasna, A.M. (2008)Sustainability Philosophy in Engineering Context Review and Discussion, University of Southern Queensland, Master’s Thesis, ] Where do the complex issues of sustainability leave us engineers?Sustainability in Engineering concerns responsible use of the world's finite natural resources in a manner which will not compromise the ability of future generations [Hasna A M, (2008)Sustainability in Engineering Design, The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, Volume 4, Issue 1, pp.69-88.] .
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