Course Overview

The Canadian Engineering Grand Challenges (CEGC) capture the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in a way that is uniquely contextualized to Canada. This “grand challenge” approach is intended to focus and inspire the engineering profession, and to provide a context for Canadian engineering educators to prepare engineering students with the necessary leadership and sociotechnical skills to address and solve these large complex challenges and facilitate impactful change. This course creates learning modules to enable engineering educators to efficiently and effectively teach the CEGC. The modules are designed for engineering educators to supplement courses, workshops, and other teaching delivery methods, and complement teaching material for their learners. The modules are scaffolded by introducing a summary of each of the Canadian Engineering Grand Challenges, presenting examples of the challenges from the Ontario context in cities and Indigenous communities, and creating structured learning activities with guided lesson plans to develop leadership skills. Embedded within this approach are frameworks to build capacity for sustainability and engineering leadership. All sections and materials are developed in both English and French by sourcing material in the two Canadian official languages.