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Stimulating engineering students to experience how to leverage technology for a sustainable world should form a key element of today’s engineering education. Therefore, GROUP T - International University College Leuven offers its Master students the opportunity to participate in a so called “Entrepreneurial Engineering Experience”. An example is the CQS Group T Racing Team, where students developed both an electric and bio-fuelled race vehicle based on the chassis of a Citroën 2CV. The achievements of this team will be highlighted in this paper to illustrate how the program stimulates the self-development of engineering skills and entrepreneurship within a sustainability mindset.
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Dekeyser, N., Swolfs, S., Waeyenbergh, G., Dewulf, W. (2012). Stimulating Students to Experience Sustainable Engineering: The CQS Group T Racing Team. In: Dornfeld, D., Linke, B. (eds) Leveraging Technology for a Sustainable World. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29069-5_18
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