The goal of the project is to develop an industrial engineering curriculum that provides students with multiple exposures to sustainability concepts in order to develop both the passion and the skills to integrate industrial engineering tools and methods with sustainable practices. The project team is revising undergraduate core industrial engineering courses to add an emphasis on environmental and social consciousness and sustainable practices, identifying critical issues in sustainable development that will be integrated into the curriculum, developing modules containing new learning material and case studies customized to fit within each industrial engineering course, and developing a new stand-alone course on sustainable development. The evaluation effort, under the leadership of a university-wide evaluation unit, is using student and faculty surveys, focus groups, and assessments of student products to monitor progress. Dissemination is being accomplished through website postings, conference papers, journal articles, and faculty development workshops. Broader impacts include the dissemination of the instructional material and graduates that have a social and environmental awareness and the skills to contribute to a more sustainable future.
The outcomes of the project are: The development of multiple educational modules targeting undergraduate students in Industrial Engineering majors in the US and internationally. The modules cover topics that include issues in: green supply chains, sustainable packaging, humanitarian logistics, corporate social responsibility, and green facilities design. Dissemination of the methodology that was in this project followed as well as the assessment results through journal publications and conference presentations. Development of a case study targeting undergraduate students majoring in industrial engineering or logistics that engages them in a humanitarian logistics supply chain design. Engaging multiple undergraduate students in researching the area of sustainable logistics and sustainable production. The resulting published/In press products are: 1. Nazzal, D., Batarseh O., Patzner*, J., and Martin*, D.R. (2013). "Product servicing for lifespan extension and sustainable consumption: an optimization approach". International Journal of Production Economics, v 142, n 1, p. 105–114. 2. Nazzal, D., and Zabinski*, J., Hugar*, A., Reinhart, D., Karwowski, W., and Madani, K. (2013) "Sustainability in Industrial Engineering Education: a Modular Approach", Accepted with revisions by Advances in Engineering Education, an ASEE publication. 3. Nazzal, D., and Zabinski*, J. "Sustainability in Industrial Engineering Education: a Modular Approach", Proceedings of the 2014 Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference, Montreal, Canada 2014.
