Sustainability SMART indicators of engineering education for sustainable development

• Main Authors: Al-Bahi, Ali M., Soliman, Abdelfattah Y.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Subjects: Accreditation; Curriculum Development; Economics; Engineering education; Face; Monitoring; Sustainable development
• ISSN: 2165-9567
• DOI: 10.1109/EDUCON.2018.8363212

The purpose of this paper is to develop a coherent framework of SMART indicators for assessing and monitoring the sustainability of engineering educational process that targets sustainable development of the society. The indicators address the sustainability of the process as well as its impact on the sustainable development of the society. The approach is to find ways to achieve the sustainability goals of the society via a sustainable process by constructing measurable reliable indicators, which combine factors that affect the sustainability of an engineering education process, and those that which represent the impact of engineering educational process on the sustainable development of the society. The indicators reflect measures of the sustainability of the educational process starting from institutional strategic planning to the delivery of trained professionals and development leaders, while measuring the impact of the process itself on the environment, society, and economy. Developed indicators are intended to help in achieving the sustainability goals via sustainable high quality educational process. Indicators are constructed to map all the engineering institutions' activities and their impact on environment, society, and economy. The framework of indicators gives a broad picture of sustainability of engineering education in general and the engineering education for sustainable development, in particular. Developed indicators facilitates assessment and monitoring of the institutional strategic planning and daily activities for sustainability.