EMGT605-24X (D) General non-calendar-based 2024 (Distance)

Sustainability Systems in Engineering

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 19 February 2024
End Date: Sunday, 20 October 2024
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 3 March 2024
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 18 August 2024

Description

Engineers have a critical role in contributing to positive economic, environmental and social outcomes. The ability to achieve positive sustainable outcomes are grounded in the ability to integrate systems and anticipatory thinking with other engineering management skills of recognising different values and perspectives and beliefs, evidence-based strategy, and collaboration. This course focuses on developing systems and anticipatory thinking, with a focus on understanding the interactions between human, cultural, environmental, economic and technical systems. The development of these skills will then be leveraged to understand the applicability and limitations of different sustainability tools and frameworks for engineering activities. The course will focus on local, regional and global sustainability challenges, and will incorporate the importance of integrating tikanga Maori in engineering activities.

This course is delivered online in the last three weeks of the mid-year break, with synchronous (live) sessions being held every morning from 9 am to 10 am. There will be three topics, one topic for each week. Within these topics, there are four or five sub-topics. In all, there will be a topic for every work day. Each sub-topic will contain some brief readings, videos and occasional pre-work that you will need to complete before the next day’s online session. The synchronous sessions can include assessment (e.g. presentations). You are expected to attend and participate in all synchronous sessions. The assessment occurs through the course, and early into the following teaching period (Semester 2). The assessment due dates are finalised before the first teaching day.

Prerequisites

Subject to the approval of the Programme Director

Course Coordinator

Enda Crossin

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,197.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Electrical and Computer Engineering .

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