Integrating Sustainable Development into the Engineering Curriculum

INTRODUCTION The Universite du Quebec en Outaouais (UQO), a small-sized university in the Ottawa-Gatineau area, is about to offer a new electrical engineering Bachelor degree that incorporates into the curriculum courses on earth-friendly technologies and energy efficiency, in a context of sustainable development. We expect UQO to be the first university in the province of Quebec to offer such a program. In this short paper, we present and discuss the key features of this new bachelor degree, relate the main problems that we had to overcome when shaping the program, and briefly reflect on the challenging issue of motivating students to bridge the gap between theory and practice by actually practicing sustainable engineering in their professional life.