Towards Improving Green Technologies Education: The Role of the ACM/IEEE/AAAI Model Curricula

In Spring 2021, the joint work of the ACM, IEEE Computer Society, and AAAI started the effort to revise undergraduate Computer Science curricular guidelines issued once every ten years, currently referred to as CS2023. Significant updates to the new version of the CS curricula have been proposed, particularly the infusion of Society, Ethics, and Professionalism (SEP) into all the 18 knowledge areas (KA) of the curricular recommendation. Additionally, due to new and rapidly emerging computing areas, the number of platforms has increased considerably in Mobile, Web, Game Computing, and Embedded and Industrial Robotics. The Specialized Platform Development (SPD) KA proposes a shift from "elective" to "core" knowledge units. Because of the rapid research development in Green Technologies (GT), we recognize that the pedagogical and the SEP components shall be infused in the design and development of such technologies to foster technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. In this paper, we recognized several KAs that can influence computing curricula, particularly the ones that reference industrial and GT. Additionally, the authors of this paper recommend the SEP considerations in the development of technologies that will influence the next decade of research and industry implementations.