CEAB GRADUATE ATTRIBUTE: IMPACT OF ENGINEERING ON SOCIETY
Students graduating with an engineering degree from the University of British Columbia possess the ability to analyze social and environmental aspects of engineering activities. Such an ability includes an understanding of the interactions that engineering has on the economic, social, health, safety, legal, and cultural aspects of society, the uncertainties in the predication of such interactions, and the concepts of sustainable design and development and environmental stewardship.
CIVIL ENGINEERING PROGRAM INDICATORS (required by CEAB):
Those graduating with a civil engineering degree will be able to:
- 9.1: Current Affairs – demonstrate an awareness of current affairs, particularly as they relate to the civil engineering profession;
- 9.2: Sustainability – apply sustainability concepts, including holism (i.e. systems thinking as it relates to large-scale interactions between societal, economic, technical and ecological systems), knowledge integration, working with others, and engineering-relevant sustainability decision-making concepts such as life-cycle analysis, large-scale mass and energy balances, and multi-criteria decision matrices;
- 9.3: Impact of Human Activity – describe relationships between human activities and earth systems.