Integrating sustainability perspectives into traditional technical courses in Danish design engineering education

ABSTRACT: This paper explores how sustainability is integrated into technical courses across Danish design engineering programmes. It finds a gap between program goals and technical courses, where sustainability remains absent or at best implicit. Structural barriers like outdated materials and traditional teaching hinder integration. We propose three reforms: make sustainability an explicit learning objective, update teaching materials and use design-oriented examples and exercises. This will strengthen sustainable change an integral aspect of design engineers training.