(280c) Sustainability Body of Knowledge and Role of Credentials
AIChE Annual Meeting
2012
2012 AIChE Annual Meeting
Education Division
In Honor of David Allen: 2011 W.K. Lewis Award Recipient (Invited Session)
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - 1:30pm to 2:00pm
The Institute for Sustainability, an AIChE Technological Community, has developed a body of knowledge to begin to address what a sustainability professional should know and to identify the unique educational content of sustainability. This presentation will review the development of the body of knowledge, present survey results of university courses at the graduate level that address sustainability, and review the new sustainability credentialing program.
The Body of Knowledge (BOK) addresses the following key subject matter areas:
- Summary Definitions and Principles
- Professional Competencies of Individuals
- Corporate and Institutional Sustainability Leadership
- Environmental Stewardship and Performance
- Safety Performance Measurement and Metrics
- Product Stewardship
- Risk
- Societal Impacts
- Economic Growth and Sustainability
10.Value Chain and Supply Chain Management
These categories are crossed matched to various courses being offered at the graduate level at universities. Courses that enable a student to meet learning objectives in the above subject areas are being identified and a capstone design based course will also be reviewed.
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