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Fundamentals of Transition Engineering

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Why Choose Us

The Sustainability, Energy and Change training course enables engineers to understand changing engineering practice and address sustainability and unsustainability within their organisations. It develops ways of thinking that help identify organisational risks and the engineering changes needed to strengthen resilience. Participants consider how constrained resources may reshape energy systems and affect almost every aspect of life. They also examine how climate change requires different approaches to engineered systems and long-term continuity.

The course places sustainability, unsustainability and energy systems in historical context before considering key challenges, risks and future scenarios. Participants learn the fundamentals of Transition Engineering and use its tools and processes for organisations or activities. They assess unsustainable activities, external trends, and the costs and benefits associated with transition products and services. Strategic analysis then supports the development of business opportunities that can contribute to prosperity, stability and security.

This Sustainability, Energy and Change training course will highlight:

  • Examining the historical context of sustainability, unsustainability and energy systems
  • Assessing organisational sustainability challenges, risks and future scenarios
  • Understanding constrained resources and changing energy systems
  • Applying Transition Engineering processes and engineering tools
  • Identifying risks arising from unsustainable activities and external trends
  • Evaluating transition products, services and sustainability-related business opportunities
Why Choose Sustainability, Energy and Change

Who is this Training Course for?

This Sustainability, Energy and Change training course is designed for:

  • Sustainability Managers
  • Energy Managers
  • Environmental Managers
  • Climate Change Managers
  • ESG Managers
  • Corporate Responsibility Managers
  • Energy Transition Specialists
  • Change Management Professionals
  • Policy and Strategy Advisers
  • Operations Managers

The Course Content

Introduction and historical background of Sustainability and Unsustainability

  • Sustainability; the capacity for continuity into the long term future
  • Safe operating spaces and “unsustainability”
  • The importance of energy in human systems
  • Historical background to current global challenges
  • Historical responses to un-sustainability
  • Overview of global problems of unsustainability

Future Scenarios and Introduction to Transition Engineering

  • EX The unsustainability challenges facing my organisation.
  • Examples and use of future scenarios
  • The challenge of energy return on energy invested (EROI)
  • The problem of exponential growth
  • The relative usefulness of existing future scenarios for my organisation
  • Introduction to the Transition Engineering approach

Engineering, Change, and thinking differently

  • The role and responsibility of engineers in the change process
  • Path break concepts; envisioning a sustainable future
  • Sustainable models for economic activity and capital
  • Achieving resilience to external change
  • Examples of organisations that have made path-break changes for sustainability
  • Back-casting – working out how to get to where you want to be

Making it happen - planning a program of change

  • System thinking for change towards sustainability
  • The survival spectrum
  • Sustainability Principles - The Natural Step
  • Value Analysis
  • Creating a  vision of future success
  • Trigger Events – external and internal events that help avoid undesirable inertia

Tools for analysis and Action Planning, Assessment

  • Core and non-core activities and how to treat them
  • From “More newer faster bigger” to “better”
  • Stakeholder analysis and engagement in change
  • Strategic analysis of unsustainability risks
  • Energy auditing – using the ISO 50001 model to assess vulnerability
  • Assessment; multiple choice test
Recognition

Certificate

  • • Wallstreet Development Academy Certificate of Completion for delegates who attend and complete the training course.

Frequently Asked Questions

You will learn the fundamentals of transition engineering in the context of sustainability, energy and change. The course provides a foundational perspective on these connected subjects. Specific topics or learning objectives are not included in the available course description.
The main focus is an introduction to transition engineering. Sustainability, energy and change form the central context for that introduction. The course is presented as foundational rather than as a specialised advanced programme.
The course is relevant to people seeking a foundational understanding of transition engineering and its connection to sustainability, energy and change. No specific professional roles, industries or participant groups are identified in the available information. Prospective participants should therefore assess its relevance based on these stated themes.
This course is positioned as foundational because its subtitle is Fundamentals of Transition Engineering. It is therefore focused on core understanding rather than explicitly described advanced or specialist content. No formal course level is provided.
The course covers the foundational concepts of transition engineering. Its title places these fundamentals within the broader themes of sustainability, energy and change. The available course information does not specify individual modules or technical topics.
The course approaches sustainability and energy through the fundamentals of transition engineering. Change is also identified as a core part of the course context. The supplied description does not provide further detail about the specific relationships, methods or examples explored.
No prerequisite knowledge is stated in the available course information. The subtitle, Fundamentals of Transition Engineering, indicates a foundational treatment of the subject. However, the course description does not confirm specific entry requirements.
The course can help build a foundational understanding of transition engineering within the themes of sustainability, energy and change. It may support a clearer conceptual view of how these subjects are considered together. No specific practical skills, tools or assessed competencies are listed in the supplied course information.