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This trend will accelerate as demand for goods and services grows, straining resources and requiring ingenuity to replace boundless supply in meeting the needs of a more crowded, more prosperous world. Industrial engineers are uniquely positioned to incorporate sustainability concepts into this work; their focus is on systems, and in observing these systems at a high level, they can most effectively choose which parts of the systems to modify to produce desired results.  \nIn this paper, we explore using the vehicle of education to introduce sustainability concepts into industrial engineers’ training. We first survey the current state of sustainability education in industrial engineering programs. We then discuss a curricular modification program in which sustainability was introduced into several courses through use of content-focused modules. We conclude with our recommendations on how such a structure can be used to expand sustainability education in industrial engineering programs at all levels.  \nKey Words: Sustainability, Industrial Engineering, Curriculum  \nSUMMER 2015 1  \nADVANCES IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION  \nIntroduction of Sustainability Concepts into Industrial Engineering Education: a Modular Approach  \nINTRODUCTION  \nThe Earth has a finite amount of resources available for human use. Within the span of recent decades, the pace at which these resources are used – in many cases, consumed – has increased dramatically. At present, the totality of human civilization is putting a greater burden on the planet than its regenerative capabilities can sustain. Allowed to continue unchecked, this process will necessarily deplete finite resources to the detriment of both the global ecosystem and humanity.  \nAs such, the concept of sustainability – organizing processes in ways that reduce their consumption of resources and negative impacts on society and the environment – grows more and more significant as humanity’s collective processes increase in number and complexity. Incorporating sustainability into these processes reduces resource consumption, and each instance in which sustainability reduces this consumption lessens the burden on the Earth. Widespread adoption of sustainability, though, is difficult for a number of reasons. Most fundamentally, sustainability requires consideration of multiple objectives – reductions in consumption, minimization of negative externalities, lessening burdens on future generations – that can seem at odds with an immediate-term economic profit motive. A narrow-minded focus on this single objective will only continue to exacerbate the current dilemma; by broadening objectives to include the concept of sustainability, processes can be reformed to improve their utility to different parties over different spans of time.  \nThese ‘processes’, generally, encompass the activities by which human civilization sustains and advances itself. They include everything from resource extraction and transformation into finished consumer goods, to transportation of people and materials, to the generation of electric power, heat, and light; in short, all consequential human activity contributes in one way or another to a process, and is suitable for consideration in light of sustainability. Industrial engineers have the unique task of organizing and optimizing these processes. 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