There is a consensus that engineering design practice and education needs to change, to address the sustainability challenges facing the planet. This shift towards sustainability engineering requires illustrating successful design practices that embed sustainability values, particularly designs that move away from the current focus on input–output efficiency, towards eco-social and socio-technical approaches to design. We present three cases where the designs illustrate such a widening of the design space, to include parameters beyond input–output efficiency and optimization for profit, and leading to innovative socio-technical solutions. These cases suggest that the socio-technical connection is highly plastic, allowing for a range of ways in which the ecological, social, and technical could come together to form innovative and sustainable solutions. They illustrate a novel design principle – 'Solving for Pattern' – where the designs seek to address many problems simultaneously in an interconnected way. These cases indicate that designing for sustainability requires a broadening of the roles and identities of engineering designers, to include themes wider than engineering sciences and mathematics. Including these and similar case studies in engineering curricula could support the shift towards such a broader engineering design identity, where sustainability is a key component of design practice.

Geetanjali Date

Sanjay Chandrasekharan

Engineering Studies

ENGINEERING STUDIES 是一本跨学科的国际期刊，致力于工程师和工程的学术研究。它的使命有三重：1. 推进对工程师和工程的历史、社会、文化、政治、哲学、修辞和组织研究的批判性分析；2.帮助建立和服务于对工程研究感兴趣的各种研究人员社区；3。将工程研究的学术工作与关于工程教育、研究、实践、政策和代表性的更广泛的讨论和辩论联系起来。ENGINEERING STUDIES 的编辑对考虑以下问题的论文感兴趣：• 本文如何增强对工程师的批判性理解还是工程？• 工程实践的技术和非技术维度之间的关系是什么？这些关系如何随着时间和地点而变化？

Engineering Studies is an interdisciplinary international journal dedicated to the academic research of engineers and engineering. The journal has three main missions: 1. To advance critical analyses of the history, social, cultural, political, philosophical, rhetorical, and organizational studies of engineers and engineering; 2. To help establish and serve various communities of researchers interested in engineering studies; 3. To connect the academic work of engineering research with broader discussions and debates about engineering education, research, practice, policy, and representation. The editors of Engineering Studies are particularly interested in papers that address the following questions: • How does this paper enhance critical understanding of engineers or engineering? • What is the relationship between the technical and non-technical dimensions of engineering practice? How do these relationships change over time and across different contexts?

《Engineering Studies》是一本跨学科的国际期刊，专注于工程师及工程领域的学术研究。期刊的使命有三方面：1. 推动对工程师及工程的历史、社会、文化、政治、哲学、修辞和组织研究的批判性分析；2. 帮助建立和服务于对工程研究感兴趣的各类研究人员社区；3. 将工程研究的学术成果与关于工程教育、研究、实践、政策及代表性的更广泛讨论和辩论相结合。《Engineering Studies》的编辑对以下问题的论文特别感兴趣：• 本文如何增强对工程师及工程的批判性理解？• 工程实践的技术和非技术维度之间的关系是什么？这些关系如何随着时间和地点的变化而变化？

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工程技术, 工程综合	3
工程技术, 学科教育	4

Beyond Efficiency: Engineering for Sustainability Requires Solving for Pattern

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