Interdisciplin­ary courses as part of the project "SustainING. Socially and environmentally sound engineering"

Students and doctoral candidates from the School of Engineering Sciences and the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering are cordially invited to take a closer look at society-environment-technology relationships and their future professional responsibility in the field of tension between economic, social and ecological requirements from their own social and disciplinary perspective.

In the winter semester 2025/26, the following interdisciplinary course willtake place, which can be remunerated with credit points within the framework of subject/faculty-specific examination requirements or via the Studium Generale:

SustainING. What do I want to achieve in my professional future?

• Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Cornelia Breitkopf, Dr. Sandra Buchmüller
• Target group: Students at Bachelor's, Diploma/Master's and distance learning levels
• Further information: https://bildungsportal.sachsen.de/opal/auth/RepositoryEntry/51156910080
  Time: Mondays, 16:40 to 18:10; Location: Room 202, Merkel-Bau, Helmholzstrasse 14-16
• Contact/ inquiries:

The course is part of the SustainING. Socially and environmentally sound engineering , which started in August 2025. The aim of the project is to contribute to socially and environmentally sound technology development and thus to responsible engineering science by integrating social and ecological perspectives into teaching and research. The project responds to the wishes and impulses of students and doctoral candidates who - confronted with multiple social and environmental crises - feel the need for a stronger examination of the responsibility of (technical) science and their own position and contributions to a socially and environmentally just world. Criticism of the lack of offerings that place the strongly technology- and business-oriented engineering and technical sciences more in relation to society and the environment, including the opportunity to exchange ideas with students from the social, environmental and social sciences as well as experiences of discrimination and exclusion, which are mostly experienced by female or non-binary people in male-dominated specialist cultures, was expressed by participants, particularly from the engineering sciences, at the interdisciplinary summer school T*ECO*LOGIES, which took place at the Chair of Thermodynamics in August 2023.

Thanks to two years of funding through the ESF Plus program for innovative university projects to increase student success, events can now be designed with funds from the European Union and tax funds from the budget of the Saxon State Parliament that once again take these wishes and requirements into account.

Further project information can be found at:
https://tu-dresden.de/ing/maschinenwesen/iet/thermo/forschung/forschungsprojekte
https://tu-dresden.de/ing/maschinenwesen/iet/thermo/studium/lehrveranstaltungen

Co-financed by the European Union. This measure is co-financed by tax funds on the basis of the budget adopted by the Saxon State Parliament.