Seminar 3

Sustainability

The 3rd seminar will be about sustainability.

Schedule

There will be 6 groups

1. Mon Feb 16, 13-15, Elling, Conference room, floor 8, Osquldasv. 10 (be at the entrance door 13.15; after that you will not be able to enter).
2. Tue Feb 17, 13-15, Patric, Teknikringen 14, floor 3, room 22:an
3. Wed Feb 18, 10-12, Dimos, Osquldas Vag 10, floor 6 at the Automatic Control Dept
4. Wed Feb 18, 13-15, Patric, Teknikringen 14, floor 3, room 22:an
5. Thu Feb 19, 10-12, Elling, Conference room, floor 8, Osquldasv. 10 (be at the entrance door 10.15; after that you will not be able to enter).
6. Fri Feb 20, 10-12, Dimos, Osquldas Vag 10, floor 6 at the Automatic Control Dept

Assignment (Deadline February 11 in BILDA)

• Log into bilda.kth.se in another tab of the browser and the move back to here again
• Direct you browser to https://bilda.kth.se/courseId/12271/content.do?id=23106706
• Go through the course "The Environment and Sustainable Development" (available also in Swedish "Miljö och hållbar utveckling"
• Pass the quiz before the deadline
• Complete the survey https://bilda.kth.se/courseId/12271/content.do?id=23136552
• Write a short text 500-600 words, reflecting on the below questions. Write a continuous text and use the questions as guidelines. Some of you have a habit of putting each question into the text in big font turning your text into some sort of QA document. This is not OK.
  • How important do you think that sustainability issues will be in your future role as an engineer? Motivate!
  • How will the technology that you will work with influence the sustainability of the society? Motivate!
  • How can you apply what you learned in the only course in the future? Motivate!
  • How does the material relate to what you learn at KTH? Does KTH do enough to prepare you for working with sustainability? Motivate!
• Upload the reflection in the EL2220/1 HT14 bilda event https://bilda.kth.se/courseId/11625/content.do?id=23137105

Before the seminar

Read all the reflecting documents of your group mates. Mark the sentences that you find particularly interesting or important. Make some notes. 

During the seminar

Bring your notes! Take active part in the discussions! 

If you cannot attend the seminar

Read the reflections from the people in your group and write a reflection on these and upload to BILDA before the deadline.