Since the trend of uprising awareness of sustainability in which strives for the balance of environmental protection, economic growth as well as social concern is mentioned and further discussed in important events before and slowly put into enforcement, neither industry nor education can ignore from this trend. This paper will contribute to address the important issues:
1. Discussing the background of sustainability issues from the important historical events and scholars points of view.
2. Endeavoring in discovering the current efforts made of sustainability by industries and educational institutes
3. Understanding sustainability education status applied in business and engineering schools in two accredited systems AACSB (The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business), and ABET(Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) in United States by analyzing the sustainability-related courses difference among academic backgrounds (accredited systems), regions, school ranking, undergraduate and graduate levels, topics as well as teaching methods.
4. Comparing the result of web-based survey between AACSB 460 accredited business school and ABET 382 engineering schools as well as to the similar sustainability-related course in previous studies based on questionnaire or web-based surveys.
The results are as follows:
1. ABET accredited engineering school shows much more aggressiveness on providing sustainability-related courses, especially in west region.
2. Our web content analysis in both AACSB and ABET have lower result than questionnaire survey studies before.
3. Top 100 ranked school in both colleges have more than twice related course; however, AACSB places related courses on graduate level with compulsory and ABET tends to put on undergraduate level with electives.
4. Regarding to the sustainability issues, AACSB focus moral thinking &culture diversity while ABET endeavors in management of natural resource
5. Both colleges adopt most of traditional teaching methods: 61 % of AACSB have case study and discussion and 80 % of ABET use textbooks and assignments
At the end, this study will apply the results to business practitioners, enables them have an understanding about their recruited professionals and students who have received which kinds of related subjects and issues taught in the school. For educators, the study provides them the comparisons in leading universities to examine their existing program for sustainability so as to enrich the cross-institutional academic exchanges.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-1011111-164528 |
| Date | 11 October 2011 |
| Creators | Wang, Hui-chin |
| Contributors | Min-hsin Huang, Yen-Chun Wu, Wen-Hsiung Wu, Shih-ping Huang |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-1011111-164528 |
| Rights | user_define, Copyright information available at source archive |
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