The environmental problems are a reality in the Colombian context and its effects are associated with high costs invested to solve health problems and the damage of ecosystems. Higher education promotes a change of values, behaviors, skills, knowledge that could help humanity to be closer to sustainable development. This is the case of the Eco-design class, part of the environmental management emphasis of the Industrial Engineering program of El Bosque University in Colombia. In this class, pedagogical projects are developed in which students apply and present the gained knowledge during semester in an institutional event every semester. In this paper, is analysed the scope of the projects in accordance with levels of ecodesign application and levels of the evolution of design for sustainability, finding that the class has advanced in the last years generating innovative projects focus on the development of sustainable product-service systems. Moreover, is reviewed how from the class are promoted key sustainable development competences.

Authors: Carolina Montoya-Rodríguez