Engineers for a Sustainable World

Engineers for a Sustainable World, accessed September 19, 2011, http // www.esustainableworld.org. 

The website of EWB-Intemational is http //www.ewb-international.org/. The website of EWB-US is http //www.ewb-usa.oig/ Another example Engineers for a Sustainable World http //www. eswusa.oig/. 

What are the fundamental needs of our world and of die future generation The UN Millennium development goals may give us a few insights. What is needed for a better world is engineers who are aware of social issues and who are able to respond to the challenge of development and sustainable development. 

ASCE s Vision 2025 (ASCE 2007) provides another example of a vision. A companion document (ASCE 2009) illustrates a roadmap for implementing that vision. The ASCE - sponsored vision for civil engineering follows. Entrusted by society to create a sustainable world and enhance the quality of life, civil engineers serve competently, collaboratively, and ethically as master ... 

In October 2007, the Inter Academy Council (IAC) published a report on the road the world needs to take to attain a sustainable energy future [2]. The IAC represents the 150 science and engineering academies of this world and the report was written upon the request of Brazil and China (http //www. interacademycouncil.net). The co-chairman for this project was the 1997 Nobel laureate for physics, and current, as of 2009, Secretary of State, Steven Chu from Stanford University. 

The chemical engineering profession needs to develop a strategic framework that fits with the current world in which we operate — flexible, proactive, engaging, communicating. Sustainability is a new concept for a new century. The elements of sustainability are more like the network (multi-faceted interactions) than the hub-and-spoke . Sustainability offers a framework for proactive interaction with the community by the chemical engineering profession. This chapter seeks to explore this concept and to outline what such a framework might look like. 

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