Role Models And Environmental Education: The Good, The Bad, And The Mia

Students 'know' that learning about communication, sustainability, social issues, even environmental issues, is "not very important." They know this because many, perhaps even most, of their engineering professors do not pay much attention to these things; they know because learning about such things means picking up a couple of courses outside of the engineering faculty as part of their 'complementary studies' requirement. "Besides," says one student, "I've never seen anyone deal with these things during work experience." Other students in the group not their heads in agreement. "Yeah," says another student, "and companies aren't going to hire 'tree-huggers' anyway."