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Sustainable Technology / Development and Challenges to Engineering
Education
Barke, Richard
2000 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition: Engineering Education
Beyond the Millennium; St. Louis, MO; USA; 18-22 June 2000. 2000
New ideas may require decades to find mature adoption. The
organizations that implement innovations often must undergo
painful restructuring before their benefits can be applied in
novel and appropriate ways. For the electric dynamo significant
productivity gains required as much as forty years, during which
old manufacturing systems based on steam and water power had to be
discarded and new ways of using electricity in manufacturing were
developed (David, 1990). A lag also appears in the integration of
environmental concerns with technological development. Since
publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962,
environmental groups have become political forces, a multitude of
environmental laws and regulations have been enacted, and the
limits to growth, global warming, and overpopulation have been
debated. Yet the relationship between environmental protection and
technological change has not matured but remains largely
adversarial, with the developers of technology often characterized
as willfully negligent about the impacts of their work, treating
the environmental and social consequences of technological change
as messy, impossible to model, and therefore outside the design
considerations of engineers.
 Descriptors: Steam electric power generation | Engineering education | Global
warming | Company structure | Environmental law | Engineers | Organizations | Control | Rotating generators | Electricity | Environmental legislation | Documents | Productivity | Design
engineering
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