Cindy Anderson
Engineering for One Planet Co-founder & Strategy Consultant
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Cindy Anderson (she/her) is the co-founder of the Engineering for One Planet (EOP) initiative and EOP strategy consultant with The Lemelson Foundation. As a sustainability consultant with Alula Consulting, Cindy specializes in innovative sustainability-focused research and curriculum projects for academic institutions, non-profits, government and industry. Cindy has taught thousands of people through courses and workshops, around the world and online, in the fields of biology, sustainability and biomimicry. Cindy’s prior work includes launching the world’s first online interdisciplinary MA in Sustainable Design, founding the The Biomimicry Institute’s higher education program, and conducting climate change impact research on seabirds in the Antarctic and Arctic.
Vetted Teaching Activities for a Thriving Future in a Changing Climate
Join Cindy Anderson, Engineering for One Planet (EOP) co-founder and strategy consultant with The Lemelson Foundation, to learn about the launch of a free teaching tool for integrating climate education into STEM courses, "Engineering for One Planet Framework: Vetted Teaching Activities for a Thriving Future in a Changing Climate." You’ll learn about this new offering and other free, open source teaching resources that are bridging the gap in sustainability and climate education for STEM educators.
During this session, attendees will:
-Be among the first to learn about EOP’s new climate-focused teaching guide
-Learn about free, online EOP resources —all updated in 2026— focused on sustainability and climate education
-Understand how EOP resources align to all ABET student outcomes, UN SDGs, and Bloom's Taxonomy
-Discover how to take immediate action and get involved with EOP
Integrative Strategies in Curricular Innovation, Systems Thinking, Assessment, and Quality Assurance
This field report describes how innovative educational partnerships—when intentionally articulated around sustainability learning, faculty development, outcomes assessment, and quality assurance—build meaningful professional competencies critical to our shared future.
This collaboration is based upon the perspectives and expertise of five complementary efforts to advance sustainability: Engineering for One Planet, the dynamic movement behind the EOP Framework, a proven tool for integrating sustainability across engineering courses, programs, and institutions; Howard University’s Department of Chemical Engineering course on Process Design and Villanova University’s Sustainable Enterprise Executive Education & Development (SEED) program (both of which are piloting the use of TASK and TASK data); Sulitest Impact, the social enterprise behind the creation of TASK—The Assessment of Sustainability Knowledge; and ABET, the premier accreditation agency in the applied and natural sciences, computing, engineering and engineering technology. As such, speakers from each organization describe their discrete roles in, and processes for, building sustainability literacy among students across higher education.
For institutions seeking to develop a holistic approach to sustainability strategy, what emerges from this field report is the importance of engaging multiple, complementary, and diverse actors; embedding multiple layers of collegial nudging; and ensuring that impact is measured via assessment-based and data driven tools.
What you learn during this session from the engineering discipline perspective is immediately applicable to other disciplines and whole-institution approaches to sustainability. Protecting our one planet takes more than a village—it takes a global community of complementary and synergistic villages.
Cindy Anderson
Engineering for One Planet Co-founder & Strategy Consultant
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