Circular Economy Model - Tool for Sustainable Integration of Future Engineers in Industrial Activity

Abstract:

According to the EU, Circular economy represents a development strategy that entails economic growth without increasing consumption of resources, deeply transform production chains and consumption habits and redesign industrial systems at the system level. The decisive economic branch in ensuring circularity is industry. Thus, the engineer becomes the key to success, but for this he must be trained in order to support the sustainability of production. Through the curricula of the Department of Engineering and Management of Technological Systems (IMST), students are trained in fields such as engineering and management, environmental engineering and marine engineering and navigation. The sustainable integration of future engineers in industrial activity is an older concern that, in the current context, must be supplemented with notions and applications regarding the circular economy. The paper presents the authors' proposals for the completion of some syllabuses that develop specific competences and abilities for the circular economy.

• Periodical: Advances in Science and Technology (Volume 163)
• Pages: 149-154
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/p-BHq1BB
• Online since: May 2025
• Authors: Olimpia Ghermec*, Christian Ghermec, Mariana Ciobanu, Ionela Gabriela Bucşe
• Keywords: Circular Economy, Curriculum, Sustainability, Syllabus

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