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Sustainability in Engineering
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The engineering profession is engaged beyond building structures, shaping tools, or the hardware curtain; professionally engineers are engaged daily in decisions that influence sustainability of humanity. Literature reveals definitions, themes and descriptions of sustainability in many complex shapes and sizes some ranging from strategy, framework, phrases, concepts, indexes, indicators, weak, strong, externality, internally and criterion, Hence, presenting an immense diversity of opinion, with confusion to its literal implementation. It exposes "sustainability" as function to transdisciplinary variables which are underlined in three common themes, social, economic, technological and ecological. Many questions are raised than answers, is it a Utopian state or pseudo ideal process? Where do the complex issues of sustainability leave us engineers?
Sustainability in Engineering concerns responsible use of the world's finite natural resources in a manner which will not compromise the ability of future generations.
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