De la pluridisciplinarité pour des ingénieurs généralistes vers une interdisciplinarité à la mesure d'ingénieurs éco-citoyens / From pluridisciplinarity for general engineers toward interdisciplinarity as for ecocitizen engineers

Numerous declarations speak in favor of interdisciplinary educational and research programs to help the future decision makers to improve the quality of their decision within complex environment and improve their capacity to integrate economic, environmental and social components among their decisional criteria. However, educational and research programs for engineers are still rare in France and are in search of methods to transform this will of interdisciplinarity into effective practices. The 30 years of experience of the interdisciplinary «Energy and Resources Group» of UC Berkeley can be used to formalize the «tricks of the trade» of such interdisciplinary programs.