Sustainability and Resilient Systems Education Subcommittee

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Background

Many of today’s pressing engineering challenges, including energy, water, food, transportation, infrastructure, and smart cities, share a fundamental trait: they are large, interconnected systems. Students see the relevance of these topics to their lives and careers, yet traditional coursework often lacks a practical, integrative systems perspective. The Systems Council is uniquely positioned to bridge that gap by framing sustainability and resilience as system-level problems rather than domain-specific ones.

This subcommittee is not a new technical group. It is an educational home where students and early-career researchers learn to apply systems engineering to sustainability and resilience challenges, complementing existing IEEE education efforts.

Objectives

  1. Introduce students to sustainability and resilience through a systems engineering lens.
  2. Foster interdisciplinary collaboration by bringing together different engineering communities around shared challenges.
  3. Emphasize learning by doing through practical problem-solving, design activities, competitions, and hackathons.
  4. Create a recognizable year-round theme for educational events that connects academic knowledge to real-world systems.