Sustainability and Resilience Education Framework for Interdisciplinary Course Development

9 pages•Published: May 15, 2022

Mohammed Hashem M. Mehany and Shantanu Kumar

Abstract

Climate change has redirected the global focus towards creating a more sustainable and resilient built environment. As natural disasters have been occurring at a higher frequency, buildings and infrastructure systems need to be prepared to withstand the more disastrous events. Furthermore, with an increase in the world’s population and the shortage of resources in various parts of the world, it is necessary to think about sustainability and resilience in conjunction with every aspect of the built environment, including the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) education. Therefore, this research study proposes a unique sustainability and resilience educational course structure that improves the understanding of these concepts in the built environment. This research study introduces a framework that can act as a guideline for sustainability and resilience education integration within various courses across any college campus to further the awareness about sustainability and resilience. The study introduces the course structure and development methods in creating new, flexible, and innovative modules that can be customized to the different educational needs and cover several student learning outcomes which can help prepare the new generations to become conceptually, spatially, and temporally aware while they interact and develop the built environment of the future.

Keyphrases: interdisciplinary education, multidisciplinary, resilience, sustainability

In: Tom Leathem, Wes Collins and Anthony Perrenoud (editors). ASC2022. 58th Annual Associated Schools of Construction International Conference, vol 3, pages 578-586.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/dkmW
	https://doi.org/10.29007/l622

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{ASC2022:Sustainability_Resilience_Education_Framework,
  author    = {Mohammed Hashem M. Mehany and Shantanu Kumar},
  title     = {Sustainability and Resilience Education Framework for Interdisciplinary Course Development},
  booktitle = {ASC2022. 58th Annual Associated Schools of Construction International Conference},
  editor    = {Tom Leathem and Wes Collins and Anthony Perrenoud},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Built Environment},
  volume    = {3},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2632-881X},
  url       = {/publications/paper/dkmW},
  doi       = {10.29007/l622},
  pages     = {578-586},
  year      = {2022}}

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