Sustainability for Engineers course helps to achieve the capacity for long-term continuity

The first delivery of “Sustainability for Engineers", a new two-day CPD course for engineers who are or would like to work towards sustainability, took place at Institution Headquarters on 25-26 September 2013.

Feedback from delegates was positive, and the course is being repeated two more times.

Delegates' comments on the course included “good thought provocation”, “stimulating activities” and “suited to a wide range of engineering disciplines”.

The course is aimed at working engineers who want to enhance their engineering expertise to help their organisation to move towards sustainability – to achieve “the capacity for long term continuity”. It will help you if you work in any sector, and is equally applicable to manufacturing, transport, built-environment, process and energy organisations.

This is an introduction to a new way of using engineering to address the risks of “un-sustainability”, which may not be addressed already. This approach is called “Transition Engineering”. The Institution is the first professional institution to offer training in Transition Engineering.

Transition Engineering steps introduced:

1. Understand the  factors and constraints leading to current engineering solutions.
2. Understand current engineering systems
3. Understand possible future factors and scenarios
4. Identify a desirable future scenario
5. Back-casting: identify engineering steps to achieve the desirable future scenario
6. Path-Break – identify change required to change from a fixed path
7. Change Programme – engineering change to deliver the desirable future scenario

We aim to help you to think differently about your organisation and your engineering work, and to enable you to apply a robust step-by-step approach to making change happen.

After the course you will be able to:

• Identify the business risks and problems facing your organisation because of ‘un-sustainability’
• Find business opportunities available to your organisation from improved sustainability
• Use engineering and non-engineering examples of ‘sustainability in practice’ to improve your own organisation’s sustainability
• Know which tools and management systems can help improve sustainability
• Secure the skills for the future of engineering and sustainability

The course is being repeated two more times. The next deliveries are on 25-26 February and 10-11 June 2014, and spaces are still available. Find out more or book now.

This course is also suitable for non-engineers working in an engineering environment, such as managers.