Enhancing sustainable engineering education with codesign and script concordance: a work in progress

This paper introduces a new approach to engineering education that integrates script concordance and codesign principles in a sustainable production course. The engineer's role constantly evolves amid the uncertainty of dynamic challenges, necessitating the development of reasoning skills during their education. Script concordance assesses clinical reasoning skills under uncertainty, while codesign is a participatory method involving stakeholders in the design process. A collaborative team of students (bachelor and master), lecturers, professors, and pedagogical experts to design script concordance scenarios in a sustainable development context. We conducted several workshops to co-create and validate the scenarios, which covered topics such as multidisciplinary, multi-criteria analysis, multidimensional reasoning, and ontology. The desired results are for students to be able to describe their reasoning plausibly and to justify it in problems where no precise answers enable causal relationships. This will bridge the gap between theory and practice that employers may observe in the field of engineering.