IT-Augmented Learning Modules for Integrating Sustainability Education Into Engineering Courses

ØkoEngineer is a sustainability learning platform created to educate engineering students in Aarhus on sustainability concepts and how they couple with engineering design through the gamification of project-based learnings. The project aims to prepare our future engineers to play their crucial role in the significant global issues that we face. In response to the above challenges, future engineers, today’s students are embracing initiatives that stimulate sustainability education. Our students are motivated by the urge to relate sustainability with their domain-specific engineering theories. ØkoEngineer is a web-based game platform designed for integrating sustainability learning in engineering curricula. The platform of ØkoEngineer has integrated learning certificated, which are in the form of short videos and short text, where students can design their individual learning path according to their studies and preferred areas of sustainability. The learning certificated are followed by case projects that are real- life inspired. Engineering students are provided with instructions on how to solve the cases, with results as sustainable as they can, without compromising the quality of the engineering task at hand. The development of ØkoEngineer started in March 2020 and is still under development to equip the platform with more case-project from company collaborations and with the ambition to make the platform accessible to students across all departments at Aarhus University.