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Sustainable and responsible design from a christian worldview

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Many aspects of design require engineers to make choices based on non-quantifiable personal perspectives. These decisions touch issues in aesthetics, ethics, social impact, and responsibility and sustainability. Part of Baylor University’s mission is to provide a learning community in which Christian life values and worldviews might be integrated into academic disciplines. In view of this institutional commitment, members of the Engineering faculty are investigating how Christian worldviews might interact with elements of engineering design in such a way as to produce uniquely Christian insights and inform the non-quantifiable aspects of the engineering process.

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  1. Baylor University, Bear Place One #97356, 76798-7356, Waco, Texas, USA

    Steven R. Eisenbarth & Kenneth W. Van Treuren

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Eisenbarth, S.R., Van Treuren, K.W. Sustainable and responsible design from a christian worldview. SCI ENG ETHICS 10, 423–429 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-004-0039-z

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