Smart Sustainable Development Approach and its Implementation in Engineering Organizations

Abstract:

This paper explores the concept of sustainability in engineering systems and proposes a smart conceptual framework for engineering organization development. Sustainability is a critically complex goal for enterprise activity and development. Sustainability in the engineering area requires a comprehensive and continue approach because, a) engineering activities are ubiquitous in society, b) of the high importance of engineering applications in the development of the companies and of the world, and c) technological support becomes imminent in a dynamic economic environment and sustained in large part by technological advances. This paper aims to provide to the engineering environment a smart conceptual framework that establishes links between engineering processes and the concept of sustainable development. The smart conceptual framework combines basic principles of sustainability with the requirements of engineering systems.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 631-632)
• Pages: 1287-1290
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.631-632.1287
• Online since: September 2014
• Authors: Larisa Ivascu*, Monica Izvercian, Sabina Potra, Lucian Ionel Cioca
• Keywords: Engineering, Engineering Sustainable Development, Smart Sustainable, Sustainability, Sustainability Principles

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