Teaching The Loop: Co-Designing Constructively Aligned Circular Economy Courses for Engineering Students

The role of education in the transition towards circular production systems is crucial, with future engineers playing a key role for enabling a sustainable future. However, the integration of CE into higher education curricula remains fragmented, and literature is limited on the connection between CE competencies and teaching and learning approaches. To address this, this workshop introduces a set of CE-specific competencies relevant to engineering education, which serve as a foundation for participants to co-design a course using constructive alignment principles. The proposed workshop offers a space for collaborative course development across diverse engineering contexts, supporting participants in translating CE principles into pedagogically sound and context-sensitive course structures. The significance of this workshop lies in its contribution to developing more targeted approaches to CE education, resulting in insights that can serve as a foundation for refining CE teaching practices and informing the development of adaptable course design tools or guidelines.