Energy Transition

Details The future will not be like the past.
Unsustainable systems often present wicked problems. Transition Engineering creates surprising opportunities and innovative perspectives by taking on wicked problems.

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Engineering Practice for Social Responsibility

Details Prevent what is preventable.
Safety Engineering was the first evolution of engineering for prevention. Transition Engineering projects have a primary requirement of preventing catastrophic climate change.Tags InTIME

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The Problem is Un-Sustainability

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How do you define sustainability? Transition Engineering involves a shift of perspective from adding more sustainable options to shifting unsustainable energy and material production.Tags Wicked Problem

Wicked Problems

Materials and Products Transition

Details An unsustainable trend will not continue.
Materials and products have commercial value, convenience and retail benefits, and unsustainable lifecycles.Tags Product Transition Materials Transition

Shift Projects

The MythBusting

Details One of the projects GATE is taking on in 2019 is to prepare technology probability or "MythBusting" briefs. There is no more time to wait for technologies to come along if the probability is small that they will work, will be viable, or will actually solve a problem if they did work.

There is power in numbers

Transition Engineering is now covered in four textbooks, 51 journal papers, and courses in UK, Germany, France and New Zealand. Transition Engineering has already produced innovative and surprising new directions for cities, organisations and companies. Transition Engineers design and carry out the projects of change. We work from a systems perspective to strategically plan changes to today's engineered systems so they fit into the future we want. Transition involves the whole of society, economy, law, ecology, infrastructure, and energy and material supply chains. We use the Interdisciplinary Transition, Innovation, Management and Engineering (InTIME) methodology to generate new opportunities through disruptive ideas. These new ideas are developed into shift projects with the mission of long-term engineering and management of the 80% fossil fuel production decline required to realize global warming mitigation targets. Transition Engineering achieves the COP21 Targets and Sustainable Development Goals, one project at a time.

Let's Act InTIME

Join us! We need help on this campaign. We have the foundations to launch the transition. The world is calling out for change, but who can actually do what needs to be done? We, as engineers have the responsibility to change the systems that are right now the business-as-usual. We are the only ones who can.

About Transition Engineering

Details The next big challenge for all engineering fields is handling wicked problems. Wicked problems are successful and profitable engineered systems that are also unsustainable. Our energy and material systems provide huge benefits and conveniences, and they make money. But they also are unsustainable, incur unacceptable external costs, and pose environmental and social risks. Transition Engineering is emerging to deal with wicked problems. The 7-step approach results in innovative transition shift projects. Explore the Knowledge and Training resources where GATE members share experience with innovating, engineering and managing transition shift projects.

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Member - Engineers in any discipline with work experience in shift projects can create an account, engage in activities, gain access to training and lodge an application for MGATE standing

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GATE Organization

Details We are inspired by history - 100 years ago 62 engineers in New York got together and started what would become Safety Engineering, and that action has changed the world. Now, we will change the future - by changing existing systems - one engineering project at a time. GATE is a peer-to-peer organization set up to facilitate the agile learning needed for the emergence of a new discipline - Transition Engineering.

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