<p style="text-align: justify">A growing body of academic research and educational institutions are recognizing the need to incorporate sustainability learning into fundamental engineering courses. Furthermore, the recent COVID-19 global pandemic has created a sudden need to augment traditional lecture-based teaching with effective web-based learning platforms. In light of these challenges the engineering education community needs to place a greater focus on designing and testing interactive, information technology-based tools for sustainability learning. This design tool showcase will present Økoengineer: a web-based game platform that supports guided discovery-based learning of sustainability concepts in engineering curricula.&nbsp;Økoengineer is designed to familiarize engineering students with &nbsp;sustainability concepts and provide them with an understanding of how sustainability can be considered in the engineering design process. Therefore, Økoengineer hosts a collection of &nbsp;open-ended design tasks in multiple engineering disciplines.&nbsp;Students can solve these tasks iteratively and receive guidance through a combination of pre-recorded lectures on sustainability concepts and discussions with domain experts.&nbsp;Økoengineer also aims to increase students’ learning outcomes through the use of gamified elements, including high-score leaderboards, formative feedback &amp; peer discussions, and rewarding achievements through virtual collectible badges.&nbsp;The Økoengineer platform is architected for scalability and allows course instructors to easily add new learning materials and design tasks.</p>

Økoengineer: A Web-Based Game Platform for Guided Discovery-Based Sustainability Learning in Engineering Curricula

Paper Proceedings: https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/IDETC-CIE/IDETC-CIE2021/volume/85369

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