Sustainable Innovation for Private and Public Sector Infrastructure: Next Generation Challenges for Engineering Education

摘要

Emerging concepts and innovations in the design and operation of private and public infrastructures are transforming the application of sustainability thinking within the engineering profession. These changes result from global megatrends such as climate change; water resource availability; population growth and mega-urbanization; a dramatic expansion in the size of the global middle class; technological innovations such as widespread digitization and emergence of new information technology capabilities and services; and new collaboration strategies. The paper presents several mini-case studies that illustrate the new challenges to engineering education in private and public infrastructure and identifies emerging strategies for collaboration involving business, academia and other stakeholders to prepare the next generation of engineering leaders to implement sustainability.