Evaluation of awareness, attitude and action of Amirkabir University of Technology students on general aspects of environment

Subject Areas : environmental management

Mohammad Reza Alavi Moghadam ¹ (استادیار دانشکده مهندسی عمران و محیط زیست، دانشگاه صنعتی امیرکبیر*(مسئول مکاتبات).)
Reza Maknoon ² (استادیار دانشکده مهندسی عمران و محیط زیست، دانشگاه صنعتی امیرکبیر)
Ata Babazadeh naseri ³ (دانشجوی کارشناسی مهندسی عمران دانشگاه صنعتی امیرکبیر)
Mohammad Reza Khanmohammadi Hzeveh ⁴ (دانشجوی کارشناسی مهندسی عمران دانشگاه صنعتی امیرکبیر)
Yunos Eftekhari Yegane ⁵ (دانشجوی کارشناسی مهندسی عمران دانشگاه صنعتی امیرکبیر)

Received: 2008-05-09 Accepted : 2009-02-05 Published : 2012-12-21

Keywords: Amirkabir University of Techno, Environmental education, Environmental awareness,

Abstract :

The aim of this study was to evaluate awareness, attitude and action of Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT) students on general aspects of environment. A questionnaire was designed and 75 students were asked to fill it. The results of this research showed that environmental issues are the last option of the students in compared with the other issues. The obtained results also showed that knowledge of the mechanical engineering department students on general aspects of environment were relatively higher. It is nessecary to improve level of general environmental knowledge of university students in Iran. For example, a course of “environmental science and technology” is suggested to be set as a part of every academic curriculum.