Education for Sustainability - Pasqueline Tierney

Email: pasqueline.tierney@tudublin.ie

This Fellowship project involves the preparation for a comprehensive competition requiring students from different disciplines to collect analyze develop and action solutions on a sustainable engine design.

This enhanced and active learning environment has multiple teaching and learning benefits including: cooperation between engineering accounting and media students on research and solution design; technology skill development including the understanding of various analytical and scientific software elements; mathematical and scientific problem solving; critical thinking and effective communication.

A key element of the preparation for competition and competition itself is the face to face defense of research design and business plan to exacting international judges. Formula assessment takes place of students in each discipline. Involvement in this very elite competition with other European and international universities aligns closely with TU Dublin’s sustainability mission and the embedding of sustainability in a very measurable way into its curriculum across disciplines.

This Fellowship project, led by Pasqueline Tierney, involves collaboration between staff and students across the TU Dublin Schools of Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Accounting and Finance, Marketing and Media Disciplines.