Revistes Catalanes amb Accés Obert (RACO)  Educating Engineers
for Sustainability. Why? What? How?  Jordi Segalàs i Coral
Sustainable development (SD) is a process which all actors of
our society must be involved in to achieve a sustainable world.
Those in the engineering profession, who are among the
stakeholders involved in this path towards SD, have a key role
to play. This paper analyzes the role of higher education in
graduating professionals that should lead the shift to a more
sustainable future. Specifically, the role technological
universities should play is studied and WHY they should
integrate sustainability education as a core value in the
engineering curricula. Then WHAT competences, in the domains of
knowledge and understanding, skills and abilities and attitudes,
should be learnt by engineering undergraduates at the
universities are presented. Finally, HOW to make the acquisition
of these SD competences possible is analyzed through the
pedagogical improvement needed in existing higher educati