Engineers empowered towards Design for Sustainability

Design engineers are more aware of the world in which they live than the average person; they have a better appreciation of the resources that are required to manufacture products and of the finite nature of the world’s resources. 

Most have also now formed an opinion about how urgently man-made climate change needs to be tackled.

Yet design engineers and design managers may feel there is little they can do to make a difference within the constraints of their day-to-day work activities, that it is more a question of governments legislating and consumers being educated to change their behavior.  Find out why...

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