The sustainability report of the Engineering Final Year Project

The preparation of the sustainability report of an engineering project is, nowadays, a common practice in all important companies in the ICT sector. The engineers that we form today in the universities should, definitely, include sustainability reports in their projects throughout their professional life. Teaching how to prepare a good sustainability report for a Final Degree Project is no longer an option, it is a must if we want to train high-quality engineers. Unfortunately, not all teachers have the necessary knowledge to be able to guide students in the preparation of a sustainability report of a project. For this reason, often, the students find themselves lost in the elaboration of this report, and end up doing it without making any deep reflection about the sustainability of their project. In order to guide the students in the assessment of the sustainability of their Final Degree Project, in the Facultat de Informatica de Barcelona, we have designed a guide for the preparation of the sustainability report of a Final Degree Project. In this article, we present this tool in detail. The guide for preparing the sustainability report is not only useful for the students, but it is also a reference for the directors and members of the board of the Final Degree Projects.