Advances in Education for Sustainable Computing, Communications and Applied Engineering

Dear Colleagues,

The inter-and transdisciplinary research field of sustainability sciences has established itself all over the world as a result of global challenges in the protection of the climate and the environment. The idea of sustainable sciences has resulted in new approaches to education that all focus on the goals of sustainable development, which aims at ensuring development that satisfies people's well-being in the present without reducing their opportunities for well-being in the future. UNESCO prioritizes engineering for sustainable development, as engineers play an important role in addressing fundamental human needs such as decreasing poverty, providing clean water and electricity, reacting to natural catastrophes, developing solid energy-aware infrastructure, and bridging the development gap. This Special Issue will focus on innovations in education for sustainability in engineering.

With this Special Issue, we encourage authors to share their experience and insights in educating the new generation of engineers capable of developing eco-friendly, resource-aware solutions for human well-being. We are looking for novel value-based teaching and learning methods, models, methodological tools, techniques and approaches addressing learners’ skills and abilities to think–solve–develop–analyze–implement for: a) sustainable computing—software, coding, sensing, smart systems, multimedia systems, informatics engineering, algorithms and applications; b) sustainable communications—networking, protocols, data protection, sustainable security, hardware, technologies; c) sustainable engineering—design of systems, design of operating systems, control and management, design of technologies, saving of energy and thermal resources. 

Dr. Nadezhda Kunicina
Dr. Rasa Bruzgiene
Guest Editors

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