Water Sustainable Education: Mexico´s Management Challenge Based Learning

Tecnológico de Monterrey an educational institution, as a natural partner for industry has been using Challenge Based Education (CBL) to develop New Generations of Professionals in Sustainability engineering [1]. The paper presents an example of such type of educational project in order to foster a deeper understanding of present Sustainability Issues in a professional context while motivating the students to apply modern techniques of Data Analysis using Design of Experiments (DOE), techniques. The implementation of an environmental project for a Water Sustainable educational challenge is an opportunity to create a conscience in the importance of creating new forms of efficient engineering management within a sustainability context focusing in the United Nations Sustainability Development Goal 6 (SDG6). Mexico faces severe water availability problems, resulting in higher stress on its distribution in many states. Regulatory authorities play a crucial role in the governance of water resources by supervising providers and ensuring services' sustainability to foster sectors' efficiency (Sampaio and Sampaio 2020; Tourinho et al., 2022) [2] [3]. An effective governance for sustainable and integrated management of water resources is necessary to overcome water supply problems. Governance refers to the administrative, political, and institutional rules, processes, and practices necessary for decision-making and implementation (OECD, 2015) [4]. Therefore Water Management as a case of study and data analysis fit well with the subject of "Data Analytics Project" for industrial engineering undergraduate course, in this paper the authors explore the industrial engineering tools used (DOE) by the students to analyze possible improvements in the water management strategy as well as part of the experience obtained by the students in analyzing this major sustainability issue.