Access a curated collection of free teaching materials and real-world case studies designed to help educators and students explore the social dimensions of engineering and design.

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Bring real-world context into the classroom with a framework designed for infrastructure education. Envision helps students explore how engineering decisions shape outcomes for communities, the environment, and the economy.

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This 2025 document explores how sustainability can serve as both an ethical responsibility and a strategic investment—helping colleges and universities improve outcomes, reduce costs and risks, attract funding and talent, strengthen partnerships, and build long-term resilience.

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VentureWell and The Lemelson Foundation partnered to catalyze the EOP initiative, and collaborated with hundreds of stakeholders to produce the Framework.

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This 2023 journal article, Sustainability in the Future of Design Education, includes recommendations for integrating sustainability in design education, including the Engineering for One Planet tools.

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Watch the video at the time codes below to hear presentations from each faculty member.

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This site developed by VentureWell with content from Autodesk and sustainability experts is a resource for faculty, designers, inventors, and startup founders seeking practical advice and hands-on methodologies for incorporating sustainability in their work.

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Check out the high-level take-aways from the EOP Pilot Grant program in this brief report.

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A set of resources to help inventor entrepreneurs develop products that are environmentally and socially sustainable.

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This 2018 report published by The Lemelson Foundation identifies best practices and constraints to integrating environmental responsibility and sustainability principles in a range of higher education invention and innovation offerings.

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This 2019 report published by VentureWell and The Lemelson Foundation synthesizes learnings from stakeholder engagement and provides the rationale and an initial theory of change for the EOP initiative, as well as high-level next steps for implementing it.

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This 2019 document was produced as the culmination of a two-day roundtable co-hosted by The Lemelson Foundation and VentureWell,

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