Our colleague Prof. Christian Karcher participated in the 17th Annual Engineering Pedagogy Conference(IPW 2023), which took place over three days at the TU Dresden. In his lecture, he used the example of technical thermodynamics to present concepts for teaching sustainability in academic teaching and research, analyzed reasons for the declining interest of young people in taking up engineering studies, and showed measures to counteract this trend. The technical excursion took the participants to the "Gläserne Manufaktur", where the VW Group manufactures battery-powered cars and informs interested visitors about the topic of electromobility.