Examples of how this topic might be included into a standard Engineering curriculum
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Reducing carbon emissions: some choices
The "Stabilization Wedges Game" is a team based activity. Students are asked to collate a portfolio of 'stabilization strategies' to avoid a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide over pre-industrial levels in the next 50 years, and assess their impacts and costs. Each team is judged on its ability to defend its portfolio of strategies in a 5 min oral report, considering both capacity constraints and social (political and economic) impacts of each technology. The team with the highest scoring stabilization triangle wins.
This resource addresses the following points:
- Analysis with Uncertainty
- System Thinking
- Critical Thinking
- Oral Presentation and Inter-Personal Communications
- Contemporary Issues and Values
- Developing a Global Perspective
