Resources

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. Read More

“Sustaining Our Planet: A Toolkit for Entrepreneurs” was developed in 2018 by VentureWell, NESsT, and Presidio Graduate School, with the support of The Lemelson Foundation, to develop a set of resources to help inventor entrepreneurs develop products that are environmentally and socially sustainable.

This 2022 video presentation from VentureWell summarizes findings from the literature review report on sustainability in engineering education.

This 2022 report from VentureWell synthesizes key findings from a literature review focused on identifying systemic barriers, strategies, success factors, and models relevant to integrating sustainability throughout engineering education.

This 2022 video presentation from VentureWell presents learnings on curricular change from EOP’s Pilot Grantees.

The 2022 EOP Scaling for Impact Workshop produced an action agenda and will generate a 5-year roadmap to transform the national engineering curriculum across the US.

This 2020 op-ed on the EOP initiative by ABET’s Michael Milligan and The Lemelson Foundation’s Cindy Cooper introduce the EOP initiative.

This video presentation from the 2021 VentureWell OPEN conference features The Lemelson Foundation’s Senior Program Officer Cindy Cooper introducing the EOP initiative.

This 2021 article interviews three rising engineers and student advisors to EOP who exemplify the student demand for transforming engineering through sustainability.

This 2021 op-ed on the EOP initiative by ABET’s Executive Director, Michael Milligan, and The Lemelson Foundation’s Cindy Cooper discusses the opportunity for sustainability in engineering to respond to climate change and rebuild ecosystems.

Creating a new generation of engineers skilled in sustainability is an investment in the health of people and the planet.

This 2019 document collects a preliminary cross-section of resources — including publications, texts, frameworks, tools, assets, and organizations — recommended by participants in the roundtable “Principles of Environmentally Responsible Engineering: Creating a Roadmap for Change.”

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.

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.

This 2019 document was produced as the culmination of a two-day roundtable co-hosted by The Lemelson Foundation and VentureWell, convening leaders from across higher education, nonprofit, business, and government to create a roadmap for defining and developing a framework for “environmentally responsible engineering.” This convening was instrumental in catalyzing Engineering for One Planet. Download the PDF