Engineering for One Planet at UTA
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UTA’s Engineering for One Planet (EOP) program helps faculty in any discipline weave sustainability into the courses they already teach, while still meeting each course’s core goals. It is funded by The Lemelson Foundation with ASEE, led by Dr. Erick C. Jones Jr. of the SEAR Lab, and runs through February 2027.
How it works
Sustainability High Impact Practices bootcamp
A two-day bootcamp where faculty redesign a course they already teach: new sustainability learning outcomes, hands-on activities and assessments.
Sustainability Professional Learning Community
A two-semester community in which small groups of faculty meet every two weeks to plan, teach and refine sustainability content together.
Pilot year, 2024–2025
30+
faculty participants
100+
classes taught
about 2,000
students reached
The shorter bootcamp drew more faculty, so Year 2 (2025–2026) centered on it and opened it to all disciplines. The team also built a brief 15-item student survey that measures sustainability learning across very different courses.
What it builds on
The EOP framework
The Lemelson Foundation’s list of sustainability learning outcomes every engineering student should gain. How UTA uses it · engineeringforoneplanet.org
The UN SDGs
The 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, which the EOP outcomes map to. The SDGs at UTA · sdgs.un.org
UTA now offers more than 100 courses designated as sustainability courses. UTA Office of Sustainability
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Publications
Jones et al. (2025). Teaching teachers to integrate sustainability into engineering education: Lessons learned from UTA’s EOP Institutionalization Program. ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Montréal. Paper
Jones et al. (2026). Piloting a brief, cross-disciplinary survey instrument for measuring sustainability learning outcomes: Year 2 results from UTA’s EOP Institutionalization Program. ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. Paper
Team
Led by Dr. Erick C. Jones Jr. (PI) with co-PIs Dr. Ann Cavallo, Dr. Andrew Clark, Dr. Kendra Wallis and Dr. Monica Zhan, and Dr. Na-Li Kim of UTA Faculty Success. Meet the team
Get involved
UTA faculty in any discipline can join a bootcamp or the learning community. Email Dr. Jones at erick.jones@uta.edu. More about the program: project page.