Master's programme in Sustainable Digitalisation
The project involves course development for EECS's new master's program, with progression in sustainability and equality, ability to handle wicked problems, clear connection between sustainability and the school's subject areas, and adaptation to lifelong learning.
Project context
Society is facing major changes related to sustainability issues, with some describing the future/present as VUCA – volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. Engineering education has so far been successful in creating engineers and leaders who solve problems in a systematic way and with experience. In today's VUCA situation, we need to tackle wicked problems – problems or situations that in the Cynefine framework end up in the complexity space (or even in chaos). We do not have methods for this or much experience when we want to develop courses and methods. Finally, at EECS there has not previously existed a Master's programme with a clear sustainability profile.
Purpose (outcome)
The aim is to offer a Master's programme with a clear sustainability focus and a clear connection between sustainable development and the school's subject areas, thereby:
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Provide Master of Science in Engineering students with a strong sustainability profile.
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Prepare students to manage problems and lead change related to sustainable development.
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Modularise individual courses so that professionals can easily further their education in sustainable digitalisation.
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Contribute to sustainable societal development, primarily in the field of digitalisation.
Project results (output)
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Four newly developed courses and harmonisation of existing courses for the programme (first admission 2024).
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Workshops with staff who will be active in the programme; its teachers, Programme directors (PA) for the school and PA for the school's four Master's programmes in engineering, representatives from PriU groups for sustainability and JML as well as for interested administrative staff.
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Solutions for progression in handling intractable problems and the connection between sustainability/JML and technology should be usable in other programmes.
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A scientific article with a focus on evaluating how to work with intractable problems in higher education. Presentation of the results both scientifically and popularly.
Time plan
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2024-05-31
Project documentation
If you have a KTH ID, you can read the latest project documents on OneDrive when logged in:
- Poster: Poster_FrU24vt_2311-EECS_MasterHållbarDigitalisering_240506.pdf (English)
- Project initiation document: Projektdirektiv_FrU23_2311-EECS_Master hållbar digitalisering.pdf (Swedish)