Sustainability competency pulled by Lean Engineering Education

4 5 Sustainability competency pulled by Lean Engineering Education 

The pursuit of perfection is a lean principle that engages the tools and thinking of continuous improvement to create value by eliminating wastes. Lean specifies nine deadly wastes as overproduction, transports, inventory, motions, waiting, over-processing, defects, knowledge and energy loss. These wastes are clearly related to sustainability competency. For example, consider environmental waste, as defined by the US-EPA (2007, p. 2) as 

Lean attacks these problems evident in environmental waste and advocates for doing more with less and creating more with less, not by 

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